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Eric Alterman: Who Ya Gonna Call?When you need your right-wing talking points accepted wholesale, who you gonna call? I'd call ABC's Charlie Gibson. From an interview with Barack Obama yesterday: OBAMA: Well, look, there is no doubt that the amount of money that we've raised in this campaign has been extraordinary and surprised... |
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Eric Alterman: McCain's attacks on Obama and Rashid Khalidi is modern-day McCarthyismEric Alterman: Is Barack Obama's appearance at a dinner with scholar Rashid Khalidi evidence he pals around with terrorists? Hardly ... |
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Eric Alterman: Eric Alterman, cub reporter, goes to the Hamptons Film FestivalSo every year, I close my house for the weekend of the Hamptons Film Festival, and this year I managed to catch eight films, of which I stayed for all of six, which is a much higher percentage than usual, given that movies seen over a single day tend to offer diminishing marginal returns. Usually... |
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Eric Alterman: The New York Times does its readers a disserviceEric Alterman: When serious media outlets treat the presidential election as theatre, they reduce politics to the level of reality TV shows ... |
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Eric Alterman: Remembering Paul NewmanI hesitate to call myself a friend of Paul Newman's, but he was certainly a friend to me. I can't say we hung out together, but we talked on those occasions we found ourselves in the same place thanks either to good friends or good occasions, owing primarily to Paul's generosity to The Nation, wh... |
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Who Said It? Olbermann Not Really Liberal, Just Anti-BushEric Alterman's book What Liberal Media? really set off a competition on the loony left to see who could more energetically deny obvious reality. Check this out: I'll just add, for the hundredth time, that Keith Olbermann's expressed "liberalism" is almost entirely limited to a dislike... |
