Phil Bronstein

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I'll See Your 183 Waterboardings and Raise You an Iron Maiden...

Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Waterboarding, Torture, Phil Bronstein, Torture Memos, Barack Obama, Politics News

While so many people seemed entirely shocked at what Americans were up to in interrogations the last few years, I, on the other end, was surprised that there were any limits at all.

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Obama's Measured Pirate Reaction -- Just Like a Democrat?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Pirates, Democrats, Phil Bronstein, Barack Obama, Politics, Somali Pirates, World News

Maybe it's style. After all, this president is the antithesis so far of the "hah! Take that! whether-you-like-it-or-not!" arrogance.

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Where's the Web 2.0 Freedom of Information (and Al Gore) for the Journalists Captured in North Korea?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Current TV, Al Gore, Phil Bronstein, Journalism, North Korea, Media, Lisa Ling's Sister, American Journalists North Korea, Laura Ling North Korea, Laura Ling, Euna Lee, Enua Lee North Korea, Us Journalists North Korea, Media News

Where is Mr. Gore, Nobel Prize winner and formerly the second most powerful person in the world in all this? How about a public expression of concern?

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The G-20 Summit: The New Macho Comes Out Swinging

Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Phil Bronstein, Barack Obama, Politics, G-20, Nicolas Sarkozy, Economy, G-20-Leaders, World News

It's the rough-and-tough, no nonsense swagger of John Wayne/Ronald Reagan that seems to be bathing world leader contestants in its orange sunset Western macho glow. What happened to the Sensitive Man?

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A True Measure of Economic Woes? The Geithner (Forehead) Index

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Phil Bronstein, Economy, Politics, Business News

If you watch Geithner in interviews and at hearings with the sound off, he still gives off an economic indicator as reliable as the Homeland Security color-coded advisory warnings. It's his forehead.

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Obama and Clinton on Drugs: Just Say No. . . Sometimes?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drugs, Politics, Medical Marijuana, Mexico, Hillary Clinton, Phil Bronstein, Mexico Drug Wars, Barack Obama, Economy, Drug War, Obama Administration, Obama Drug Policy, Politics News

Hey government dudes! (male and female). Give the bong back to Michael Phelps and make up your mind. The left hand seems to have forgotten what the right hand is doing.

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Obama "Takes Responsibility" for AIG? Getting Mad Is Not Getting Even...

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Phil Bronstein, Aig Bonuses, Economy, Barack Obama, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Financial Crisis, Aig Federal Bailouts, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Recession, AIG Scandal, Politics News

It's good to hear Obama take responsibility, but after the previous "I screwed up" and a few more "buck stops here," the value of that buck's worth might soon diminish.

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Everyone Goes to Washington but Gavin "Waldo" Newsom -- Here's What He Missed...

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Economic Stimulus Package, Gavin Newsom, Phil Bronstein, San Francisco, Politics News

Where was Waldo? Campaigning for governor in Oakland and applying for an upgrade on his high profile tech credentials by visiting Twitter. Stuff like that.

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Is Amazon Author David Grann the Least Likely Explorer?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: David Grann, The Lost City of Z, Phil Bronstein, Books, Media, Lost Amazon Tribe, Amazon Tribe, Lost Amazon Tribe Hoax, World News

Aside from being a little overweight, out of shape and with a degenerative eye condition that causes him to get lost on the subway, the New Yorker writer just doesn't have that mad-hatter ego.

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Is Obama-Love Holding the Economic Pitchforks & Torches at Bay?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Phil Bronstein, Politics, Barack Obama, Economy, 100 Days, Obama First 100 Days, Politics News

There's something the president is doing effectively, charged rhetoric and gauntlet-throwing policies notwithstanding: he's doing a hell of a job keeping the lid on things.

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Is There a Posse Big Enough to Enforce Sheriff Obama's Will?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bailout, Securities and Exchange Commission, Budget, Phil Bronstein, Barack Obama, Politics, Economy, Politics News

President Obama has essentially called for a new moral order. With the economic panic going on, getting a vice grip on our calamity and its perpetrators really is an issue of national security.

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Britney Spears for Governor? Is Star Power All It Takes?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Paparazzi, California, Gavin Newsom, Britney Spears, Entertainment, Phil Bronstein, California Governor's Race, Politics News

Breathless, glam-heavy MSM stories and TMZ.com just by themselves could help propel Gavin Newsom all the way into the governor's chair.

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Newspaper Disaster? It's All My Fault. I'm The One

Phil Bronstein | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle, Media, Death of Newspapers, Media News

I should have helped much more than I did to figure out how best to use that web thing to exponentially boost our role as journalists and better serve and involve our audiences.

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Groping, Wife-Beating, and Octo-Mom Porn? Maybe It Ain't the "Fairer" Sex...

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Style

Read More: Rhianna, Nadya Suleman, Living, Media, Women, Phil Bronstein, Octomom, Octuplets, United Kingdom, Style News

Gentlemen, show some respect: dump the wife-beater shirts and keep your hands off strangers. Try doing more laundry and meal planning and maybe your testosterone and her testosterone will live happily ever after.

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Republican Party Fix? An Overload of Cute, Starring Bobby Jindal

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Gop, Economic Stimulus Package, Phil Bronstein, Bobby Jindal, Republicans, Mark Sanford, Republican Governors, Haley Barbour, Republican Governors Stimulus, Politics News

Whenever our Republican representatives show up on the cable channels, they look like a 1950s high school principal who just caught you cheating. Pinched, stern, and scolding. Definitely not cute.

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Obama and the Press Play Wiffle Ball While Americans Strike Out?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Hardball, Economic Stimulus Package, Phil Bronstein, Economy, Obama Press Conference, Barack Obama, Politics, Media, Media News

One of the things we were promised by this president was straight talk, express and local. Obama's not living up to that promise or doing public service by fudging in the name of optimism.

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Media Mavens in Training? The Octuplet Mom vs. Captain Sully

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media

Read More: California Octuplets, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, Phil Bronstein, Media, Nadya Suleman Today Show, Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger Interviews, Octomom, Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger Katie Couric Interview, Suleman Octuplets, Media News

Both the steely-nerved captain and the multiple mom, for whatever reasons, chose to tell their stories in exclusive national interviews. Who came out ahead in all this whoop?

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Bond's Alleged Drug Mix -- BALCO Aside, Dude Looks Like a Lady?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Barry Bonds Steroids, Barry Bonds, Phil Bronstein, San Francisco, Balco, Media, Entertainment News

Court documents show that Barry Bonds took female fertility drug Clomid. So does that mean that Instead of potential "roid rage," any bad mood Barry moments could have simply been a serious case of PMS?

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Did Obama's Big Apology Turn the Salary Cap into a Magician's Hat?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Ceo Salary Cap, Phil Bronstein, Obama "I Screwed Up", Barack Obama, Politics, Tom Daschle, Bailout Bandits, Economic Stimulus Package, Timothy Geithner, Politics News

Salary cap spankings for execs at bailed out giants. The President of the United States confessing "I screwed up" on national TV. This is shocking. But shocking good or shocking bad?

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Obama Picking on Rush? Brilliant

Phil Bronstein | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Phil Bronstein, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Barack Obama, Media, Republicans, Media News

The whole thing Obama-Limbaugh flap suits both of them for different reasons. And that crafty President Obama may be getting the real boost.

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Obama's Latest Feat -- Bridging the Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Divide?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pro-Life, Abortion, Phil Bronstein, Pro-Choice, San Francisco, Barack Obama, Politics, Politics News

The ongoing celebration of Barack Obama's existence on earth has spawned another miracle -- he has brought together two formerly unrelenting foes: the pro-Lifers and pro-Choicers.

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You Got Your Parting Shots -- Now Leave Bush Alone

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Phil Bronstein, Inauguration, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bush Legacy, George Bush Legacy, Politics News

The bone of Bush's legacy will be gnawed over by the dogs of history and eventually there'll be a judgment. Until then, the new adminstration should just let the contrails of the plane ride to Texas dissipate.

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Obama's Inauguration Plays to Raves and Jeers in San Francisco

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Phil Bronstein, San Francisco, Politics, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News

This had to have been the first time a group of San Franciscans booed someone in a wheelchair. But when Dick Cheney first rolled onto the giant screen the people in SF's Civic Plaza hooted as one.

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