Sidney Blumenthal

The Strange Death of Republican America

Sidney Blumenthal | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

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The underlying story of this presidential campaign remains the Bush presidency and how it brought about the end of the long era of Republican political dominance that began in 1968.

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Is Obama Following Gore and Kerry and Keeping His Distance from Bill Clinton?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Stanley Sheinbaum, Ferocious Protector of the Clintons, Brooke Shearer, Bill Clinton, Want to Keep Bill Off Center Stage?, Like Gore and Kerry, Derek Shearer, Bring the Clintons Out of the Cold?, Strobe Talbott, Does Obama, Sidney Blumenthal, Politics News

His ties are so intimate that it strikes me that Derek Shearer is not simply speaking his own mind in his Huffington post, but the Clintons' minds as well.

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The New Karl Rove: Sidney Blumenthal (And Hillary Is in Bed with Both of Them)

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Sidney Blumenthal, Politics News

Public manipulation at any cost to her party and to her country, and, yes, to her sex -- as long as it gives her a leg up to win the presidency. That's what seems to define Clinton ethics.

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Coffeecups and Gutterballs: A Precision Media Hit On Obama, A Pass For Clinton

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media

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We know that the right-wing learned how to spin and manipulate the news using outlets like Drudge and Fox. And rather than fight this system, Clinton campaign advisers like Sid Blumenthal decided to exploit it for their own ends.

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Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

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The self-professed liberal operative regularly circulates to an influential list of opinion shapers a staggering number of anti-Obama attacks from highly ideological and militant right-wing sources.

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America's Heart of Darkness: Comments on Taxi to the Dark Side

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics

Watch this five-minute YouTube clip with FBI Special Agent and interrogator and Damien Corsetti talking about torture and going over the line.

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Does the Clinton Campaign Think Idealism is for Suckers?

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Sean Wilentz, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Sidney Blumenthal, Politics News

Every presidential candidate in the last 100 years has treated the idealism of the voters as a resource to be cherished, not a character defect to be mocked or derided.

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Things I Wish I Didn't Know

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 11.30.2007 | Home

Read More: Joe Eszterhas, Underage Sex, Hillary, Vince Vaughn, Yves Montand, Extramarital Affair, Bush, Republican, Sidney Blumenthal, Home News

What price wisdom? Some things I've learned recently, I wish I hadn't. In increasing order of import (maybe not): About Joe Eszterhas That son of...

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