Nation’s Fascination With First Couple Reality Show Worth Seven Figures
There is still money to be made in book publishing, apparently. Sort of. Last year we saw the temporary effect the Obamas had on the print world when one or both of them graced practically every...
View ArticlePanel Nerds: The Year Of The Herminator And The Weird, Wild 2012 Election
Who: Richard Just, Jodi Kantor, Ryan Lizza, moderated by Franklin Foer What: “The Year of the Herminator: A Panel of Reporters Explain the Weirdest Republican Primary Ever” Where: New America NYC When:...
View ArticlePanel Nerds: 2011’s Best Panels and Quotes
Over the course of 2011, we covered an array of politicians, authors, entertainers, media mavens, and others as they discussed their crafts and their industries. (Here’s last year’s list.) We enjoyed...
View ArticleMatt Lauer Grills Controversial Obama Book Author Over White House Pushback
Today’s Matt Lauer put author Jodi Kantor on the heat seat Monday morning over her controversial new book, The Obamas, which claims — among other things — that there are tensions between White House...
View ArticleJay Carney Responds To ‘Secret’ Johnny Depp Halloween Party Scandal
One of the revelations from the new book The Obamas by The New York Times‘ Jodi Kantor that’s getting some unexpected heat (especially on right-wing blogs) is the supposedly “secret” 2009 Halloween...
View ArticleEven Eric Bolling Is Unimpressed With The Obama ‘Secret Party’ Scandal: ‘I...
There’s been quite a bit of hubbub lately about The Obamas, a controversial book by The New York Times‘ Jodi Kantor, which promises all sorts of juicy details from the White House. Well, one of those...
View ArticleFox News’ Andrea Tantaros Calls White House Press Corps ‘Lazy And Liberal’
On Thursday morning’s Fox and Friends, Eric Bolling asked why bombshell revelations from the Jodi Kantor book The Obamas, like supposed tension between the East and West Wing and the Secret Halloween...
View ArticleSoledad O’Brien Hammers Jodi Kantor Over Her Controversial Book On The Obamas
Soledad O’Brien welcomed The Obamas author Jodi Kantor on Starting Point Friday morning, and things got a little heated as O’Brien continuously tried to ask Kantor to defend her methodology in...
View ArticleTense: Karen Hunter Questions Jodi Kantor’s Motivation For Writing...
On Saturday mornings’s Up with Chris Hayes, journalist and MSNBC contributor Karen Hunter challenged The New York Times‘ Jodi Kantor over her motivation for writing the buzzed-about tome The Obamas....
View ArticleDouglas Brinkley Catches Heat For Calling Jodi Kantor’s Book ‘Chick Nonfiction’
As if! In a recent New York Times review of Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas, Douglas Brinkley cattily referred to the book as “chick nonfiction.” “This book,” Brinley wrote, “is not about politics, it’s about...
View ArticleMSNBC Panel And Pro-Obama PAC Attacks Mitt Romney As ‘Cruel,’‘Insensitive’ Bully
MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner had a panel discussion about Mitt Romney’s bullying episode as revealed in the Washington Post on Friday. They said that Romney appears callous and cruel in his discussion...
View ArticleL.A. Times Resurrects Attacks On Ann Romney With Expose On Dressage...
A massive expose in the L.A. Times on Tuesday resurrects the political attack on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s wife Ann Romney and her expensive hobby of keeping and riding dressage horses....
View ArticleRevolt: Liberal Columnist Battles NY Times Reporter Over ‘Thin, Silly’ Piece...
Ari Melber, columnist for The Nation magazine, took a swipe at the New York Times report in the Home & Garden section on Mitt Romney’s San Diego home which he said was a thinly veiled attack on the...
View ArticleNY Times Piece Details How President Obama Is Great At Everything (Except...
An illuminating piece in the New York Times on President Barack Obama informs its readers that he has taken to touting his skills on a variety of activities on the campaign trail; from cooking “a...
View ArticleChris Matthews Panel Questions Petraeus’ Motive Behind Unraveling Decorated...
On Sunday, Chris Matthews‘ panel took a deeper look into former CIA Director David Petraeus‘ motivations behind the affair that led to his resignation. Deciphering how the decorated veteran could undo...
View ArticleCBS Political Director Responds To Fox By Quoting Friend: Obama Should...
CBS News’ political director John Dickerson came under fire from the hosts of Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends this week after he published a column in Slate magazine where he suggested President...
View ArticleDonny Deutsch Slams ‘Monarch’ Michelle Obama’s Oscars ‘Intrusion’ On Piers...
Piers Morgan continued a discussion tonight that had been brewing all day Monday about the implications of First Lady Michelle Obama‘s surprise appearance at the Oscars. Morgan’s guest Donny Deutsch,...
View ArticleRothman: NY Times Ready to Cover Chris Christie Exactly How They Covered Mitt...
If you thought the political press was taking stock of its 2012 election year coverage of Mitt Romney’s campaign and was preparing to make some course corrections in order to ensure fairer coverage of...
View ArticleNYT’s Jodi Kantor: Stunning That Our Weinstein Report and Ronan Farrow’s Had...
New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey were behind that first big Harvey Weinstein exposé just over a week ago that broke open one of the biggest Hollywood scandals in history. Kantor...
View ArticleLisa Bloom Offered to Help Discredit Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers, Bombshell...
A new book from New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey reveals new information showing victim rights attorney Lisa Bloom directly offered to discredit Harvey Weinstein’s accusers. The...
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