Arianna Huffington at Brave New Films

Meet the Bloggers: Baratunde Thurston to Make a Citizen's Arrest on Rove

2008-07-25T02:41:03Z

Baratunde Thurston called Karl Rove a supervillain Friday on the Meet The Bloggers premiere, and said he might have to make a citizen's arrest if Congress won't hold Rove in contempt.

Check out Baratunde's blog here.

Meet the Bloggers airs Fridays at 1PM ET. In the meantime, pressure the House Judiciary Committee to Send Rove to Jail.

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Meet the Bloggers: Liliana Segura Talks Impeachment and Sending Karl Rove to Jail

2008-07-25T02:41:03Z

On the premiere of Meet the Bloggers, Liliana Segura discussed whether Karl Rove should be sent to jail. She said, "The very people who are supposed to be supporting the law are instead protecting the Bush administration."

For more, check out Liliana's post over at AlterNet.

Meet the Bloggers airs Fridays at 1PM ET. In the meantime, pressure the House Judiciary Committee to Send Rove to Jail.

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Meet The Bloggers: Arianna Huffington on the Secret to HuffPo's Success

2008-07-25T02:41:04Z

Arianna Huffington talks about the truth in journalism.

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Meet the Bloggers: Arianna Huffington on Bringing Rove to Justice

2008-07-25T02:41:03Z

Arianna Huffington said today on the premiere of Meet the Bloggers that it's up to us to pressure the House Judiciary Committee to hold Rove in contempt.

We couldn't agree more: Send Karl Rove to Jail!

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Meet The Bloggers: Marcy Wheeler Shreds Rove's Immunity Claims

2008-07-25T02:41:03Z

On the premiere of Meet the Bloggers, Marcy Wheeler explained why Karl Rove cannot claim absolute immunity as an aide to the president.

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Meet The Bloggers: Arianna Huffington on the Importance of Blogging

2008-07-25T02:41:04Z

With Meet the Bloggers, Brave New Foundation has created a new live show that features some of the best unconventional minds on the internet today. So they would have been remiss not to have media luminary Arianna Huffington as their first featured guest on today's premiere.

Huffington sat down with Meet the Bloggers host Cenk Uygur and Brave New Films Founder Robert Greenwald to discuss the bourgeoning role of online journalistic outlets like The Huffington Post. According to Huffington, her site fuses the traditional journalism's talent for "ferreting out the truth" with what the new media does best, following up on stories with an almost obsessive-compulsive energy. Greenwald points out that what also matters is the need for these online outlets to "connect the dots," creating a larger picture of how issues are interconnected. There is also the growing concern that the new media must think outside the netroots (h/t Jim Gilliam), just as it's crucial for the mainstream media not to succumb to a beltway mentality.

Catch the full episode of Meet the Bloggers at meetthebloggers.org. And be sure to tune in every Friday at 1PM ET. Next week's guest will be Sen. Harry Reid, so get you questions ready!

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Today on Air America 7-17-08

2008-07-25T02:35:59Z

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Watch the Premiere of Our First LIVE show: Meet the Bloggers

2008-07-25T03:29:08Z

You know how we're always attempting to make an impact with our films?

We helped spread the word about hard-hitting documentaries like Outfoxed, Wal-Mart, and Iraq for Sale. Brave New Films, then started making its own short videos like The REAL McCain and our FOX Attacks series, and you saw the chance to reach even more people by spreading them all over the web. Well, with a great deal of excitement (and just a wee bit of nervousness!), we bring you the next way for you to get involved.

Presenting our newest weekly series: Meet the Bloggers.

Beginning July 18, Meet the Bloggers will be a daring new show broadcast LIVE over the internet each Friday at 1PM ET. And the best part is this show is all yours. You will be part of creating the show, telling us what questions we should ask our high-profile guests; what issues we should be talking about; and what actions should be taken. You can also interact with other audience members using a live blog and instant polls.

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Citizentube Interview: Roy Sekoff of The Huffington Post

2008-07-12T21:21:27Z

Founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post has grown from a small collective of bloggers to a massive operation of reporters, celebrity commentators, and citizen journalists—and like its conservative counterpart the Drudge Report, it has become a go-to Internet source for news and opinion. In recognition of its achievement, the Huffington Post received the 2006 and 2007 Webby Awards for Best Politics Blog.

One of the people responsible for the site's success is Roy Sekoff, Founding Editor of the Huffington Post and a frequent political contributor to MSNBC. Sekoff recently took time to answer some questions for CitizenTube about the Huffington Post's beginnings, their citizen journalist project "Off the Bus," and the ethics of journalism in the YouTube age.

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Arianna Huffington: Who is the real Barack Obama?

2008-07-07T08:39:30Z

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For the online media there is no room for equivocation when it comes to Obama's policy on Iraq.

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At The Webbys!

2008-07-25T02:43:56Z

Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday? spoke to his fellow Webby nominees and notables on the red carpet in New York City about what is hot in politics online.

For more: http://whytuesday.org

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Huffington Breaks Down the Media

2008-07-03T08:40:15Z

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Arianna Huffington on her book Right is Wrong.

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O’Reilly Says Media "Raped the President Verbally"

2008-07-25T03:48:27Z

Can anyone tell me what the hell a “verbal rape” is?

For some reason, that’s what Bill O’Reilly thinks the media is doing to George W. Bush in the wake of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. This is how BOR described it during his interview with McClellan:

MCCLELLAN: I'm trying to take my partisan hat off and look at the real problems we've got in this country and D.C. And how do we fix those? That's what I did. It's much larger than the president or Karl Rove or any one person. This is about something bigger. And that's the message that has been getting lost while people try to turn this book into a gotcha points. It's not about that. It's about sharing my experiences so we can learn from it.

O'REILLY: Then why didn't you lecture the far-left guys who did turn it into gotcha points? Why didn't you tell that to them?

MCCLELLAN: I think I did say that same message that people have been trying to turn this into gotcha points. And we need to focus on the larger message.

O'REILLY: You sat there while these people at NBC and some at CNN just raped the president verbally. Just killed him. And you sat there and you did not defend him. You didn't do it.

MCCLELLAN: I said he's a good man. I still have personal affection for him.

O'REILLY: You said that, but you allowed them to do that in your presence.

“Raped the president verbally”? Seriously, what the fuck does that mean?

How do you “verbally rape” someone? Does BOR actually think that discussing the lies, failures, and broken promises of the Bush administration as discussed in a book is somehow the equivalent of the media violently forcing Bush to have sex with them? What kind of perverted bizarro world is that? Exactly how was Bush violated? Did BOR defend Bill Clinton as the victim of verbal rape during the coverage of the Monica Lewinsky trial? If I receive a bad job evaluation because I am genuinely bad ay my job, have I been verbally raped?

Arianna Huffington On Barack's Speech

2008-06-14T21:31:28Z

Direct from her yoga class

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Arianna Huffington: The Problem with Polling

2008-06-19T16:39:40Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Huffington Post Editor-In-Chief Arianna Huffington criticizes the American news media and government alike for developing what she views as an over-reliance on polling data to evaluate decisions.

Huffington's latest book is Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked American, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe.

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Authors@Google: Arianna Huffington

2008-06-23T16:38:33Z

The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome back Arianna Huffington, this time to Google's NYC office to discuss her new book "Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe".

With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year's presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country. Huffington describes herself as a "former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist". She is the founder of The Huffington Post, a liberal online news and commentary website and aggregated blog.

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Arianna Huffington on John McCain

2008-06-15T09:31:37Z

Blogger, author, and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington revealed this week that Senator John McCain had told her eight years ago that he did not vote for President Bush in the 2000 election. McCain has angrily denied the claim. Huffington joins us to talk about her disillusionment with McCain, whom she says has abandoned his principles in his quest for the Republican nomination.

Huffington is author of the new book, Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe—and What you Need to Know to End the Madness.

Watch part 2 of the interview here.

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Arianna Huffington on John McCain (Part 2)

2008-06-15T09:31:35Z

Huffington is author of the new book, Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe—and What you Need to Know to End the Madness.

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Riz Khan - US media - 05 May 08 - Part 1

2008-06-15T03:30:55Z

The Riz Khan Show talks to Arianna Huffington, the author of Right is Wrong, and Paul Starr, a Pulitzer-prize winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, about the state of the American media.

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Riz Khan - US media - 05 May 08 - Part 2

2008-06-15T03:30:55Z

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Arianna Huffington

2008-06-17T22:36:14Z

Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, tells us why she prefers Bush over Cheney.

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Charlie Rose - Arianna Huffington

2008-07-25T02:42:16Z

Arianna Huffington discusses her new book - "The Right is Wrong" - and how she sees the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Mighty Tim Russert Wields His Clout

2008-07-25T03:48:17Z

It seems that Arianna Huffington has run up against the impenetrable wall that is Tim Russert's ego. Huffington, who is currently on tour for her new book Right Is Wrong: How The Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded The Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe, will be appearing on CNN, ABC, and CBS. She had been booked on Morning Joe and Countdown with Keith Olbermann as well, but those bookings were suddenly and inexplicably cancelled.

NBC confirmed that Huffington wouldn't be booked on any NBC-affiliated show to promote her book, but refused to explain why. Huffington's people say that this is Tim Russert's doing, that Russert is out for revenge because Huffington called him a "conventional wisdom zombie" in her book and devoted seven pages to faulting Russert for allowing his Meet the Press guests to go unchallenged (not to mention HuffPo's RussertWatch).

If Huffington's claim is true and Russert has been pulling rank with NBC, then this whole affair smacks of immature middle-school antics. Is Russert really that sensitive that he can't take criticism from Huffington? And if he truly thinks his show hasn't become an outlet for Bush administration figures to push their message uncontested (as Huffington suggests), then shouldn't he bring Huffington on and challenge her assertions? Or, at the very least, allow Huffington to go on another NBC show?

Probably not, since that would mean Russert would have to ask tough questions for a change.

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Arianna Huffington Speaks at Brave New Films

2008-07-25T02:44:25Z

Yesterday more than a hundred activists, celebrities and other visitors crowded into the courtyard of Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films in Culver City to hear political pundit and Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington speak about politics and her new book “Right is Wrong.”

Politically activated media makers like Phil Donahue and Laurie David listened as Arianna described a major shift in politics whereby traditionally progressive ideas are fast becoming mainstream thinking. She minced no words in her description of John McCain’s Faustian bargain with the extreme right wing and the mainstream media’s ongoing journey away from principles of truth and integrity. You can see highlights from the talk in the clip, but to get the full story you’ll just have to buy her book.

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Arianna Huffington's Immigration Story

2008-06-07T15:32:58Z

From the Courage Campaign:

Arianna Huffington speaks on her immigrant story, the history of immigration in the United States, and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Arianna will be in the Brave New Films courtyard in Culver City on Wednesday at 5pm to discuss her new book, Right is Wrong. You're welcome to come, the address is at the bottom of the page.

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