The CEO of General Electric does more than settle on-air feuds: In the days before President Obama’s last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top. Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, …
Archives for August 2009
I hope Loud Dobbs talks about this today
Another day, another birfer forgery. I’ll need to feel it, touch it, examine the kerning before I can made a decision, personally.
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Nice work if you can get it
Newt’s got a nice gig: Newt Gingrich’s political group quietly pulled in an impressive $8.1 million in the first half of the year, a cash haul that enabled the former speaker of the House to finance a robust political operation that includes at least 17 employees. […..] The operation, which includes a pollster and fundraisers, …
Reconciliation
Rockefeller says he’s for it if it’s the only way: “If it is a choice between getting a good health care bill and doing it in reconciliation, I will take that in a shot,” Rockefeller said. “What I don’t like is no result. And if it takes more time to get a result — even …
Every Rose has its thorn
There’s an interesting piece in the Times today about the resolution of the Olberman-O’Reily rap feud. Glenn Greenwald summarizes: In essence, the chairman of General Electric (which owns MSNBC), Jeffrey Immelt, and the chairman of News Corporation (which owns Fox News), Rupert Murdoch, were brought into a room at a “summit meeting” for CEOs in …
Sunday Night Open Thread
Blogging from the coffee shop again, since the home internet situation is still not fixed. According to one of the phone technicians, my signal is not strong enough, so they are sending someone out to check on it tomorrow night. Whatever, it has actually been kind of nice. I read some Douglas Adams, then a …
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Steelers training camp has started. The long dark period (I think some of you call it baseball season) is about to end. Thank FSM.