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Phil Bronstein

How Is Obama Like Israel? It's All in the Expectations...

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

What Obama should take from the fighting in Gaza and missiles in southern Israel is that high expectations, including your own, can eat you alive.

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Bush and Cheney Mosey Off Into the Sunset, Cowboys Till the End

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

For all the frat boy smirking and righteous indignation about policies that even he now admits could have used a little more work, George Bush is not someone unmarked by his own presidency.

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Thrills! Laughs! It's the Barack Obama Variety Hour! Already?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media

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Phil Bronstein

Remember all those analyses a few months ago wondering whether we'd ever be able to make fun of a president again in an Obama world? How fast the curtain goes up on the political stand-up stage.

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Newspapers Thinking They're Above the Web Will Be Sorry

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

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Phil Bronstein

The notion that we old media institutions are still the big boys, so much more important and heftier than these pesky digital newcomers sounds familiar: we thought the same thing about CraigsList.

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Al Franken's a Senator Now -- But is He a Bigger Laugh than Burris?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

Compared to Burris, Mr. Franken's declared victory in the seemingly endless Minnesota senate battle has generated some cheering, for sure, but surprisingly little laughing or hilarity. And what a shame that is.

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Will Foreign Policy Get Even Sexier in 2009?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

The line between punishment and reward can be confusing in any culture. Particularly when it comes to sex.

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Is it Good for the Jews? Whatever You Do, Don't Blame Oprah

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media

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First Bernie Madoff, now the Holocaust memoir scandal. The sweat-o-meter at the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League has to be in the red zone.

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Exclusive with Quincy Jones: "You've Been My Brother a Long Time. It's Not Like We Were Church People Together."

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.22.2009 | Entertainment

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"We Are the World," Quincy said, was "a kamikaze mission." He's thinking about taking on another one: the Obama inaugural show.

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Why Is Anyone Surprised Obama Picked Warren?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

This choice illustrates the downside of inspirational figures and the accompanying bad habit of investing in Obama your own ideas, values, priorities and views just because he moves you.

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The News Industry Won't Die -- Bad Judgment Is Great for Business

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media

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Phil Bronstein

In hard times, it's good to know that we can always count on irrational and unpredictable behavior. And that you'll be able to read about it endlessly no matter how much death-of-news angst is free floating out there.

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The True Cost of the "Day Without a Gay" Flameout

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

At the end of the day, with or without gays, the stock market closed up almost 100 points and the Prop 8 fallout continues.

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Nice work, Gov. Blagojevich. Really.

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

You have to hand it to the governor: there's something to be said for brazen self-destruction -- a "teachable moment" in the Gavin Newsom meaning -- in a culture always looking for new heights of chutzpah.

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Forget Naughty and Nice, This Year Santa's Got a Political Agenda

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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Did you think political partisanship had been momentarily stun-gunned by Obama's outstretched arms? Not when there are still plenty of opportunities to kick Bush right in the Christmas tree on his way out the door.

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Newsom's YouTube-athon: A One-Man Show, Hold Your Applause

Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

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Newsom has now sealed himself an a multi-hour air pocket, using technology to remove himself further from the actual public square of politics that allows residents to mix it up with their elected officials.

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Focus on the Family Saves Christmas -- Thank God!

Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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Warning to anxious retailers -- make sure you don't shy away from the using word "Christmas" in your crass annual attempt to pander to all those secular customers.

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Obamas Bring Red Carpet to White House

Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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How are regular people supposed to get their Brangelooney fix in all those celebrity-obsessed magazines when everything -- from OK! to Us to People -- has become Baramoids.

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Prop. 8: Witch Hunt and Holy War Make Way for New Beginning?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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A friend of mine who supports same sex marriage said some anti-8 protesters were "a well-intentioned mob," and the phrase "witch-hunt" has been used more than once.

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Bush: Breaking Racial Barriers

Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

Mr. Bush appointed not one but two African-American Secretaries of State and the first African-American as Secretary of Education. He also named the first Mexican-American as Attorney General.

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Judge: Sharon Stone Wanted To Botox Her Son

TMZ | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment

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TMZ has new details in the judgment that denied Sharon Stone's request to move her son Roan, 8, from San Francisco (where he lives with ex-husband Phi...

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Sharon Stone Loses Physical Custody Of Eldest Son

ET | Posted 10.24.2008 | Entertainment

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ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT has obtained a court minute order confirming Sharon Stone has lost physical custody of her child Roan, despite her court pleas t...

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Sean Penn: San Francisco Chronicle An "Increasingly Lamebrain Paper"

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Actor Sean Penn's days of writing for the San Francisco Chronicle may be over: The actor now calls the publication an "increasingly lamebrain paper." ...

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