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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘The HUffington Post’

Maybe Mad Boris Isn’t Crazy After All

By Denis Campbell • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics
 
 
Even David Cameron finds London Mayor Boris Johnson ‘eclectic.’ But there it was in the headlines yesterday: London’s Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson Endorses Obama. That’s a bit like former mayor, Labour’s Ken LIvingston supporting George W. Bush. Or Tony Blair running a campaign rally for Putin.
 
We know that Cameron and his group have been studying the [...]


Right is Wrong

By Denis Campbell • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Book Reviews
by Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post
I’m a Huffington fan. I read the Huffington Post daily, find her commentators on the cutting edge. She and they are articulate and asking the right questions. Most did not give her much of a chance three years ago and thanks to her, Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and Air America [...]


The GOP Barracuda Theme Song

By Denis Campbell • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Features
Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]


Jon Stewart Rips Television News

By Denis Campbell • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Innovators
Yesterday at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart ripped the 24-hour cable news beast for the current campaign craziness. We’ve often chastised the media here for the 600 word newsfeed rip, place two opposing quotes, add an expert opinion and presto! News.
Jon has a history of trying to get news outlets to do their job [...]


Please Make it Stop!

By Denis Campbell • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Features
Citizens of Indiana and North Carolina, please help stop the madness”. Only you can give us our lives back and stop the death spiral of the Democratic Party. You’ve had your 15-minutes, please find a way to stop the insanity. Until tomorrow, or June, or September we feel obligated to present “He Said, She Said” the [...]