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  • Manuel Miranda: Covered in Glory and Spreading Democracy

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 29 2007 03:10 PM | PERMALINK

    This week’s New Yorker added some interest to my humdrum morning commute to Manhattan.  There was Hendrik Hertzberg praising Mike Huckabee’s authenticity in the “Talk of the Town,” yet another sign that the former Arkansas governor is working some kind of voodoo magick over all agents of the national press.

    And then I turn to this entry by Jeffery Toobin on the magick resurrection of Manuel Miranda, the former lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee and counsel to Bill Frist.  The one who got...

  • NYC Gay Org Releases Giuliani Files

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 28 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

    They say it’s tough going for a senator on the presidential campaign trail, but nothing beats a former New York City Mayor trying to pass himself off as a social conservative.

    For Rudy Giuliani, it’s just another form of drag. And for my money, he’s a lot more convincing in a dress.

    I’ve been saying this for so long that even I’m sick of it, so thank god for my fellow New York City gays at the Empire State Pride Agenda for setting up this clearing house for all things Giuliani’s Gay New...

  • "Dixie Chicks of Bridge" Face Smackdown After Bush Comment

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 23 2007 12:59 PM | PERMALINK



    Here’s a cautionary tale of what can happen when some bridge ladies try to fill the vacuum in this country’s foreign relations program.  I guess some people feel like Karen Hughes was doing a good enough job after all. . . . 

  • As Huckabee Rises in Iowa, So Do Questions About His Record

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 22 2007 12:00 AM | PERMALINK



    Mike Huckabee is now running close to even with frontrunner Mitt Romney in Iowa, having surpassed Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

    If Romney and the others don’t look too worried, it’s for good reason.

    Huckabee’s gotten this far because he’s got the God cred the other’s lack (nothing against Mormons, Mitt!) and a knack for one-line zingers that some mistake for down home charm.  But now that he’s running with the big boys, he’s got...

  • Attorney General Levin Gets Waterboarded

    POSTED BY BEN FISHER, NOVEMBER 06 2007 06:15 PM | PERMALINK

    Former Assistant A.G. Daniel Levin was last night's hot topic on Keith Olbermann, and the muse for one of the finer rants I have seen performed by Keith's curmudgeon T.V. personality. For those of you who aren't familiar, a quick recap. Levin, while acting as Assistant Attorney General(that's one below the top spot), was so convinced that the practice known as "waterboarding" was illegal that he ordered for himself to be "waterboarded" at a military base. Levin's conclusion: "waterboarding is torture."...

  • Dodd Announces He Will Delay Vote on FISA Until Immunity for Telecoms is Removed.

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, OCTOBER 23 2007 08:52 PM | PERMALINK

    Senator Chris Dodd discusses his opposition to telecom immunity on October 20, 2007

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    Senator Chris Dodd announced today that he will place a hold on a bill to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) if the Senate Judiciary Committee does not remove language granting retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies who turned over customer records to the Bush administration without a court order.
     
    Speaking to the press in Iowa, Dodd called the Bush...

  • FCC At It Again, Working to Change Media Ownership Rules

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, OCTOBER 20 2007 09:07 AM | PERMALINK

    FCC Chair, Kevin Martin

     

    Most of us tend to think of the Federal Communications Commission as a bunch of puritanical dorks obsessed with protecting the American viewing and listening public from exploding f-bombs and flashing areolas—Think former FCC Chair Michael Powell’s outraged denouncement of  Janet Jackson after her Super Bowl Sunday titty flap in 2004.

     

     

    But as the FCC road show pulled into Chicago yesterday for the fifth of six public hearings on media ownership, news sources...

  • Friday Cartoon

    POSTED BY MIKHAELA REID, AUGUST 31 2007 01:44 PM | PERMALINK

  • TPMtv: May 29, 2007

    POSTED BY , MAY 29 2007 12:04 PM | PERMALINK

    Veracifier Demystified 

    A lot of TPMtv viewers have been wondering about those curious logos at the beginning and end of each show: Veracifier and nextnewnetworks. Today we tell you what they're all about, and do our best to explain just what exactly that made-up word "veracifier" really means.

     

  • Alive in Baghdad: Uncut - Journalists in Baghdad

    POSTED BY , MAY 25 2007 12:50 PM | PERMALINK

    In this special episode of Alive in Baghdad: Uncut, director Brian Conley provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the dangers faced by Alive in Baghdad correspondents and other journalists in Iraq.

    Watch more Alive in Baghdad Uncut on Veracifier. 

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