Entertainment mogul David Geffen gets the “This Is Your Life” treatment this week courtesy of PBS. PBS’ “American Masters: Inventing David Geffen” covers Geffen’s rise to the top of the Hollywood heap. The documentary also reveals why Geffen, who is
It has been said that Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and Bill Clinton’s lies about his affair with Monica Lewinsky respectively started and accelerated the distrust Americans have for both political parties, elected officials, its institutions, and the federal government. But
As though it was a natural part of his name, CNN’s Carol Costello just referred to former-CIA Chief David Petraeus as “disgraced David Petraeus.” No one’s excusing the fact that Petraeus betrayed his wife, but isn’t that a little harsh?
In response to revelations of the extramarital affair that now former CIA Chief David Petraeus admitted to over the weekend, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin scoffed at the idea of holding highly placed public figures to account for their personal behavior.
When the Swift Boat scandal first emerged in 2004, Bill Clinton reportedly called John Kerry, telling him that he better figure out a way to make it disappear. “If you are the issue in a campaign,” Clinton told Kerry, “you’ll
The Romney landslide I predicted back on May 30th, and in the media virtually every day since then, is materializing. The signs are everywhere that Obama is enjoying his farewell tour. These are the last days of his political career.
When your opening act is an accused rapist and molester of women, a man who lied to a grand jury and was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, a man who actually stood in the Rose Garden of the
The 2012 Presidential campaign will be decided in the tree-lined cul-de-sacs that dominate the American landscape. Rural voters are reliably Republican and urban voters are reliably Democrat. But, suburban voters are the swingy-est of voters. In many states, they decide
Romney/Ryan momentum is alive and well in the state of Iowa, and it might be carrying outspoken Republican congressman Steve King along to another term fighting the good fight in Washington D.C. CBS News noticed Wednesday: The Romney campaign believes that
Over the past several days, my colleague Joel Pollak and I have noted that the ground seemed to be shifting in deep blue Minnesota. Although no Republican presidential candidate has won the state since 1972, there were signs that the
How worried is the Obama campaign about Minnesota, one of the bluest of blue states? This worried: they’re sending Bill Clinton there for a visit tomorrow. Clinton is taking his show around the country to states where Obama’s firewall is
Leading Obama campaign strategists addressed reporters gruffly on a hastily convened conference call this morning, attempting to spin drifting poll numbers into a coherent message. “We’re winning this race,” senior political strategist David Axelrod insisted, citing early voting data. He
Former President Bill Clinton went to Waterbury, Connecticut on Sunday to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy (D-WFP), as well as Elizabeth Esty (D-WFP), who is running for the state’s 5th congressional district seat. Esty is the wife of
Based on his economic election model, Yale University economist Ray Fair predicts that GOP nominee Mitt Romney will pull out a sparse victory in November. Fair’s model accounts for the winners of every election but two since 1916. The two–the
Looks like Larry O’Connor won the office pool guessing when the CorruptMedia would manufacture a Narrative that said Romney peaked too soon in the polls. I assumed the media would wait until Monday, but already it’s bubbling up — even
Less than a week after Sec. of State Hillary Clinton fell on the sword for Obama over Benghazi, her husband Bill Clinton has sided with Mitt Romney’s charge that Obama hasn’t fixed economy. Soon after arriving in Peru earlier in
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly accepting blame for the security failures in Libya the night before a hugely important presidential debate might be nothing more than a fabricated set-up to allow President Obama to dig himself out of a
Following yesterday’s pre-debate claim of “responsibility” by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the death of four Americans during an apparent 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama campaign sent a well-timed fundraising email out
The Obama administration’s decision to block oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) is the latest symbol of an energy policy that could be described as “none of the above.” It is an even worse decision when
Bruce Springsteen vowed earlier this year not to sing for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Then the Boss saw those polling trends. Now, the New Jersey rocker is hitting the road on behalf of the beleaguered president. On Thursday, Bruce
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, lost in a primary this year, despite being endorsed by both Obama and Bill Clinton. However, the House Committee on Ethics is not through with him, opting to extend an on going investigation until
By ANDREW MIGAAssociated PressWASHINGTONTwelve years after leaving the White House, Bill Clinton is campaigning as if he’s in the political race of his life. In some ways, he is. Clinton is endorsing President Barack Obama and Democrats in tight races
A nasty rift has opened up between President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the fallout from the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens. This feud
The Huffington Post, ever eager to curry favor with anti-American pundits and racists posing as free-thinkers, has published a screed by Marc Lamont Hill, who is a black professor at Columbia University, titled “The 15 Most Overrated White People.” Keep
Mitt Romney bested President Barack Obama, by nearly every measure, in last week’s debate, and a new Gallup poll found Romney’s victory was the most lopsided presidential debate win in history. According to Gallup, two in three Americans watched debate,
This year’s Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the peace prize could go to Egypt’s Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo’s poor, Afghan burka opponent Sima Samar or US scholar Gene Sharp. The first Nobel to be announced
The Hollywood Reporter: President Barack Obama arrived Sunday in Los Angeles and went directly to the Beverly Hills home of DreamWorks Animation Chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, where he joined former President Bill Clinton in a private meeting with 12 deep-pocketed Democratic donors…. The Obama campaign said
Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and liberal think tanks have claimed Mitt Romney’s plan to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent is bad arithmetic, but a Princeton economics professor, Harvey Rosen, examined Romney’s proposals in a paper and concluded Romney’s
President Barack Obama’s supporters, incredulous at their candidate’s defeat in last night’s debate, and worried about the September jobs report, are reaching for phony economic arguments across the networks and social media today. Some are familiar arguments from Obama’s own
Good catch at Newsbusters: But more undecided voters will be swayed by the media’s post-debate spin about who won and who lost than by any pre-debate expectations. Reviewing the last several campaigns, MRC analysts have found a clear trend of
It remains unclear whether President Barack Obama’s lies about attacks on U.S. embassies will cost him re-election. One thing is certain, however: whatever ambitions Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once held to run for president in 2016 have been damaged
Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative and joked about getting a bump in his poll numbers after an introduction from former President Bill Clinton.
We receive many tips and comments like this one, every day, but with Obama debasing his office at the UN today, this comment seemed particularly timely–and inspiring: During halftime of the Arizona Cardinals football game, I witnessed the most shocking turn
(AP) Romney: Benghazi a ‘terrorist attack’NEW YORKRepublican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the attack on the American consulate in Libya was an act of terrorism and says the United States must use foreign aid to bring about lasting change in
(AP) Former President Clinton urges religious toleranceWASHINGTONFormer President Bill Clinton says the followers of Islam shouldn’t resort to violence when they hear their faith challenged in an increasingly diverse and Internet-connected world. Clinton tells CBS “you cannot live in a
President Barack Obama is sounding more like Bill Clinton every day. Now he’s testing the waters for a possible run for the presidency by his wife by disingenuously saying she’ll never run: She definitely could be the president, but she’ll
Bill Clinton on CNN September 23, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, the recently elected president of Egypt, will be a featured participant at the eighth annual meeting of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative in New York next week. Morsi is a prominent figure in the Egyptian
The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Former President Bill Clinton on the Daily Show : “If I come to you and I say, ‘we have this terrible national debt and
