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. >> have things changed at aol and end gadget since "huffington post" came on and arianna took over e media side of the business? >> it's been liberating. we haven't had direct interactions with arianna or the huffington group. >> is that a good thing? >> absolutely. when i took over, i had meetings with arianna and laid out a plan what i wanted to do with end gadget and arianna said yeah, of course, you do. that's it. since then we've been sailing our own ship and manning our own team and things have been great. things are good. >> so there's no worry of end gadget becoming huff po tech? >> "huffington post" has their own tech site, absolutely not. end gadget stands on its own. our voice is different than the way "huffington post" is. we haven't had a pressure to fit the way they do things, which is good, because i don't think it would work for us, frankly. their site is successful, ours is as well. no pressure to do anything like that. >> readers would smell it in a second. >> absolutely, our readers are incredibly smart. the most important thing is our ethics and voice and maintai
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he said in front of this rotary club meeting and i quote it had on "huffington post," he said i can't do modern politics, meaning that there's something about the way a big national industrialized presidential campaign works that he just never filligured out, and if he ever does figure it out it will be too late. that's what's happening to him here. >> who is the african-american guy in mythic history, the piledriver. >> john henry. >> and he would pound the piles in until he finally had to run against the machine and he beat it and then beat mat sheen and died. >> that's how newt views himself, a self-serving analysis saying i'm the honest guy who wanted a positive campaign. >> i won the debates. >> won the debates, talked about the issues, running like i was a member on the floor of the house, not this weird thing that is presidential politics. of course, he's playing the system. >> a republican running against industrialization, there's a strange development. susan, your thoughts about what looks to be the decline to almost infinitely little size of newt gingrich today. >> i think
he said in front of this rotary club meeting and i quote it had on "huffington post," he said i can't do modern politics, meaning that there's something about the way a big national industrialized presidential campaign works that he just never filligured out, and if he ever does figure it out it will be too late. that's what's happening to him here. >> who is the african-american guy in mythic history, the piledriver. >> john henry. >> and he would pound the piles in...
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to advertisers well they've created a business model out of it now other industries want the huffington post reported that ally financial a major bank now wants to know where their customers are and not everyone is totally cool with that they're requesting to track customers locations when they go to allies find a.t.m. page on the internet so far the first major bank to do so makes america chase citibank and of those banks have made the move yet now it seems harmless enough for now but privacy advocates are not exactly thrilled amber you a spokesperson for privacy rights clearinghouse told the huffington post quote one day it's collected locations for the nearest a.t.m. but tomorrow it might be selling that location data to a third party advertiser for profit of course. denies any such intentions and says they're just trying to help customers to find a.t.m.'s more easily but the most troubling part of the story is not that one bank has decided to track you when you log on to their website but that the move from companies to collect as much personal data as possible about consumers is not jus
to advertisers well they've created a business model out of it now other industries want the huffington post reported that ally financial a major bank now wants to know where their customers are and not everyone is totally cool with that they're requesting to track customers locations when they go to allies find a.t.m. page on the internet so far the first major bank to do so makes america chase citibank and of those banks have made the move yet now it seems harmless enough for now but privacy...
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and mike saks, "the huffington post's" supreme court correspondent.et to this point where the idea that corporations have political rights have come from, and how is it that we made it years past citizens united on the first -- on free speech with corporations, and yet we haven't reconciled the downside of being a person, if you will. >> good to be here, dylan. there's a 1798 statute that opened up the federal nationals issuing torts under international law. and foreign nationals can come into federal courts and say, hey, this so-and-so did this bad thing to me and i want them to pay up. now, that law doesn't specify who the defendant could be. in in a supreme court, in a 2004 case left open the question whether or not an individual or a corporation or both can be held liable under international law. >> john, let's talk about this. "the d.r. show" crack production team, and they are crack, i will say, discovered a footnote in a brief filed related to the case we're talking about in the lead. and the footnote makes following point. it says, if a corpor
and mike saks, "the huffington post's" supreme court correspondent.et to this point where the idea that corporations have political rights have come from, and how is it that we made it years past citizens united on the first -- on free speech with corporations, and yet we haven't reconciled the downside of being a person, if you will. >> good to be here, dylan. there's a 1798 statute that opened up the federal nationals issuing torts under international law. and foreign...
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. >> a political reporter for the "huffington post" and joins us now.let's focus on the two big names. how secure is the lead and how does rick santorum get the aspect romney conservatives to his campaign? >> romney is doing very well in the polls. he got very good numbers in the polls yesterday from cnn and time. he does have a good lead although ron paul is with him. santorum is really catching up though. his poll numbers are much higher. the reason is that he is committed in all 99 counties. that is something that matters from a lot of conservatives. let's listen to a piece of that interview. >> they are tied. what if you have ron paul win? at that point i think you should shake their head and go to the next topic. >> newt gingrich is saying it's not a big deal. he previously had a bigç spike and was doing well, but a lot of islands were saying you can't trust him. a lot of people were saying he spent too much time in washington and too much of an insider. a lot of people seem to be picking up on these ads that it's mitt romney is putting out. gingr
. >> a political reporter for the "huffington post" and joins us now.let's focus on the two big names. how secure is the lead and how does rick santorum get the aspect romney conservatives to his campaign? >> romney is doing very well in the polls. he got very good numbers in the polls yesterday from cnn and time. he does have a good lead although ron paul is with him. santorum is really catching up though. his poll numbers are much higher. the reason is that he is...
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it is from the huffington post. they range from being inappropriate to crazy. look at this one. black baby doll with a monkey t is little monkey. and a pole dancing doll. >>> and don't you hate when your lettuce turns brown and tomatoes are soft? there is a product. right here. claiming to make your produce last three times longer t is fridge balls t is a seen on tv. and we put it to the test, does it work. >> i love the bottle toppers. >> if you have seen it, it is debby has tried it at home. >> and the gadget queen. she did not think about putting a fresh balls to the west. if you buy a lot of truth fruits and vegetables it doesn't last morning. >> and lettuce is the test, that's the worse to keep fresh. >> we left them with debby our gadget queen notices things and the balls were no exception. >> the biggest draw back with the products they do not have detailed instructions. >> what does this say. >> put in your produce storage. >> we rá checked back. i left everything you know in its, i was not sure. there were not corrections -- directions it is still brown. >> the lettuce
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it's ne off he most annoying christmas songssout there.but if you ask -3 the huffington post... ranns as the most annoying holiday songss starting wwth tis... 3 springsteen nnts nats 3 -bruue springsteen... "santa claus is coming to town" 3 3 woof woof woof natts-&pnats 3 -jingleedogs-lyriis don't ggt any impler than this! 3 elttn john nats nats 3 -elton jjon step into chhistmas --973 3 band aid nats nats-banddaid... ""o they know - it'sschrrstmas time"-1985 3 --e're goinn to reveal the 3 list... durinn good day balttmore. 3 tte ids t mckinleyyhigh are -3 takinggon this holliay classic... that was used tt & raiie mmney for hunger rrlief --3& in africa in the eighties..- eighties.glee song nats naasin tonight's all new epiiode of "glee'... "new direetions" puts their own spin on "do they knoo it's christmas.".back n 1984... a who's who of singerr... including sting and bono.. too -3 record it. it. the single sold more than a miilion copiis in its irst week and raised millions for famine relief n ethiipia... like the eighties lassicc.. the proceeds ffom "glee's" version will go to
it's ne off he most annoying christmas songssout there.but if you ask -3 the huffington post... ranns as the most annoying holiday songss starting wwth tis... 3 springsteen nnts nats 3 -bruue springsteen... "santa claus is coming to town" 3 3 woof woof woof natts-&pnats 3 -jingleedogs-lyriis don't ggt any impler than this! 3 elttn john nats nats 3 -elton jjon step into chhistmas --973 3 band aid nats nats-banddaid... ""o they know - it'sschrrstmas time"-1985 3...
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her online publication, the huffington post, was acquired by aol yielding her a cool $350 million payday. capitalist of the year. we'll be right back with person of the year. the droid razr by motorola. the droid that wirelessly pulls files, music and movies, all at 4g lte speeds. and introducing the droid xyboard. with an 8 inch hd screen and adaptive surround sound, a home theater for your hands. powered by verizon 4g lte, buy a droid razr and getwerful $100 off a droid xyboard.ands. >>> okay. here it is. person of the year. pat? >> recep erdogan of turkey. he has brought his country up in the entire middle east. he is turning his back on europe. people accuse him of neo- ottomanism. the turks have a fast economic growth. but turkey is a real force in the world. >> eleanor? >> i give it to steve jobs, who died earlier this year. in his death he will have continued influence over our society. more influence than any of the politicians alive today who we have discussed in this program. he was a truly original thinker and a person who has left us with a life that we could only have dreame
her online publication, the huffington post, was acquired by aol yielding her a cool $350 million payday. capitalist of the year. we'll be right back with person of the year. the droid razr by motorola. the droid that wirelessly pulls files, music and movies, all at 4g lte speeds. and introducing the droid xyboard. with an 8 inch hd screen and adaptive surround sound, a home theater for your hands. powered by verizon 4g lte, buy a droid razr and getwerful $100 off a droid xyboard.ands....
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sam stein is with the "huffington post," and dana milbank is a political columnist with "the washington post." sam, this gradual seepage now of commentary from people who knew newt in his earlier incarnation, in the first chapter of his leadership, seems to be a little edgy and uncertain. it's like people don't want to bellow their anger at the guy, but they sort of want it to be known. >> yeah. and i'm not sure how bad that is for newt that they are somewhat against his candidacy. newt, obviously, is a creature of washington. he's been here for three decades. but if you're going to try to posture as an anti-washington politician, what better way than to have members of your own party who are lawmakers in d.c. bash your candidacy? so i think newt doesn't exactly -- he's sort of welcoming this in some respects. but if you look at any of these books, look at tom coburn's book. what he writes about gingrich is hardly flattering. in fact, it's exactly the portrayal that everyone else gets, which is that this is someone who's really in it for himself and he lacks principles. >> let's take a
sam stein is with the "huffington post," and dana milbank is a political columnist with "the washington post." sam, this gradual seepage now of commentary from people who knew newt in his earlier incarnation, in the first chapter of his leadership, seems to be a little edgy and uncertain. it's like people don't want to bellow their anger at the guy, but they sort of want it to be known. >> yeah. and i'm not sure how bad that is for newt that they are somewhat against...
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lauren ashburn, former managing editor of "usa today" and a contributor to the "huffington post." and fred frances, former nbc correspondent who now consults with clients dealing with the media in times of crisis. lauren ashburn, we had dominic strauss-kahn accused of groping a maid, anthony weiner aar, acc of sending pictures of his private parts. why is this so much in the media? >> it was like a train wreck. we were here listening to the tape shaking our heads saying, how can these people just go out and deny and deny and deny? you know, it's the entertainment value of it. i've always said it's the peoplization of the media. we all love to see people fail. >> not to say these aren't serious allegations that should be covered. >> no, no, not at all. i'm not saying that. i'm telling you why the media covers what's going to get ratings. what's going to have interest, and these kind of stories have a lot of interest. >> there's also a loss of privacy that's been experienced with the explosion of new media and ways to get information out. it's just simply not possible to keep things
lauren ashburn, former managing editor of "usa today" and a contributor to the "huffington post." and fred frances, former nbc correspondent who now consults with clients dealing with the media in times of crisis. lauren ashburn, we had dominic strauss-kahn accused of groping a maid, anthony weiner aar, acc of sending pictures of his private parts. why is this so much in the media? >> it was like a train wreck. we were here listening to the tape shaking our heads...
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do you know there is a blogger on huffington post who was watching this segment a couple of weeks agou made a remark. we were talking about women's fertility, the fertility math. you said to women, trust me, you should have a baby on your own if you want to have a baby and, in fact, men will find you more attractive. let me tell you, melanie was watching, a blogger for the huffington post, and has something to say about it and joins us on the phone. good morning. donny is his lening. >> good morning, melanie. >> donny deutsch, what is the big idea telling women they should have a baby on their own voluntarily? do you understand the amount of financial backup you need with that, the type of family you need behind that to help you do it? and then really, honestly, so many of us just dream of falling in love and have a baby with that man. >> that's it. >> okay. >> therein lies the problem. >> that's what donny -- let donny respond. >> first of all, ideally obviously with a man doing it with a partner is the way to go. there is just no question about that. what i'm saying though is that f
do you know there is a blogger on huffington post who was watching this segment a couple of weeks agou made a remark. we were talking about women's fertility, the fertility math. you said to women, trust me, you should have a baby on your own if you want to have a baby and, in fact, men will find you more attractive. let me tell you, melanie was watching, a blogger for the huffington post, and has something to say about it and joins us on the phone. good morning. donny is his lening. >>...
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. >> her online publication, the huffington post, was acquired by aol yielding her a cool the >> >>> okay. best photo op. >> the photograph from the european summit last week, where nicolas sarkozy refused to shake the hand the david cameron and moved right by him. >> the photo taken in the situation room when president obama and the national security team waited for 38 minutes to watch the mission to capture and kill osama bin laden unfold. hillary clinton is like this and the president is staring quite terrified because things could have gone awry. >> l wedding clearly the most picturesque event of the year. kate and her sister looked amazing. >> to me the best photo on was of osama bin laden sitting wrapped in a blanket watching tv with a remote control in utter loneliness in the last days of his life. >> vice president joe biden sound asleep while president obama was unveiling his plan to cut the nation's $15 billion debt. the best photo on. honorable mention, pat? >> i am going to borrow from rich. i take seal team six. magnificent job. risked their lives. the went in and did th
. >> her online publication, the huffington post, was acquired by aol yielding her a cool the >> >>> okay. best photo op. >> the photograph from the european summit last week, where nicolas sarkozy refused to shake the hand the david cameron and moved right by him. >> the photo taken in the situation room when president obama and the national security team waited for 38 minutes to watch the mission to capture and kill osama bin laden unfold. hillary clinton is...
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howard fineman is "the huffington post" media group editorial director and david korn is an msnbc political analyst. earlier today, trump was asked whether the obsession with the president's birth certificate would take over the debate he's about to "moderate." let's listen. >> i think there are some campaigns, and i've talked to them about this, that are concerned that you're going to use this to push, for instance, your obsession about the president's birth certificate. are you going to do that at this debate? >> no, i'm not. >> you're going to keep it out of the debate? >> look, the most important issue is jobs. whether or not he was born here, you know, to me, it means something, but i guess it doesn't mean a lot to a lot of people. but to me, it happens to mean something. the fact that they can't find any records in the hospital, that his mother was ever in the hospital, that to me means something, but a lot of people don't care. >> well, on april 27th, the white house released the president's birth certificate, just to clear up this mess that he has left behind, trump, just to clear i
howard fineman is "the huffington post" media group editorial director and david korn is an msnbc political analyst. earlier today, trump was asked whether the obsession with the president's birth certificate would take over the debate he's about to "moderate." let's listen. >> i think there are some campaigns, and i've talked to them about this, that are concerned that you're going to use this to push, for instance, your obsession about the president's birth...
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howard's, of course, msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director and david yepsen, with we had to have him on. he's political columnist and director of the paul simon public policy institute at southern illinois university. who is the reigning monarch of journalistic intelligence out here. i want to start with you, the local guy, because as tip o'neill once said, all politics is local. >> i read that somewhere. >> yeah. iowa, is it following the country this timeç and saying, we're not going to be stuck picking somebody out in the crazy bin. we're going to pick a president. we're not going to send a message, we're going to send the country a president. are they lining themselves up with the thinking outside iowa tonight? >> i think so, chris. i think, you know, it takes a while to get there, but you've got to remember, the people who are showing up at these caucuses are activists. they're people who care about their party and they vet candidates and go through all their little rituals. but at the end of the day, the purpose of the exercise is to w
howard's, of course, msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director and david yepsen, with we had to have him on. he's political columnist and director of the paul simon public policy institute at southern illinois university. who is the reigning monarch of journalistic intelligence out here. i want to start with you, the local guy, because as tip o'neill once said, all politics is local. >> i read that somewhere. >> yeah. iowa, is it...
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amanda reports on this from the "huffington post." me. >> when we say it's getting ugly, we mean it. people are getting physical in wisconsin. never with you tempers were flaring and the tension with this, incredible. there are national implications in what can happen with scott walker. >> symbolically, one of the biggest races of the year. there were massive protests in february when thousands of people turned out to the capitol and protested. it started a national discussion about the role of unions. so tempers are very, very high on both sides. >> what are some of the thing happening there? >> well, recall organizers say at one point, a man tried to back his truck up into a bunch of volunteers. signs have been ripped up. petitions have been defaced. and some of this may seem small. it may seem silly but some of that is a femme. you can get up to a 10,000 fine or three and a half years in prison. >> in someone situation, someone collected petitions only to destroy them on that you recall. so like trekky going on here. >> some people
amanda reports on this from the "huffington post." me. >> when we say it's getting ugly, we mean it. people are getting physical in wisconsin. never with you tempers were flaring and the tension with this, incredible. there are national implications in what can happen with scott walker. >> symbolically, one of the biggest races of the year. there were massive protests in february when thousands of people turned out to the capitol and protested. it started a national...
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irate for the left-wing blogs like the "huffington post" you can find my work regularly. when you read the comments and the articles, it is a fiery confrontation taking place from both sides and the idea and a polite to middle ground or loreal opposition is out the window. here is the third element i told you to remind me of. somebody did and they are just looking at me. [laughter] in the book "sex, mom & god" i talk about my mother. why? it is easy to play the game of demonizing see other. >> you would think there was sit-in's cousin in a way they never seem to read. they do nasty things which is okay, because you don't need friends from the fact is when will see a story of edith schaeffer in sit you believe it would be a litmus test. >> about scripture and theology but if your action reit. >> bereday man who has hitch a ride to his way across europe now looking for a place to examine a spiritual issues without sensing that people were judging him or her or an african student going to the university of sofia in bulgaria at the time africans were shipped by the carload to
irate for the left-wing blogs like the "huffington post" you can find my work regularly. when you read the comments and the articles, it is a fiery confrontation taking place from both sides and the idea and a polite to middle ground or loreal opposition is out the window. here is the third element i told you to remind me of. somebody did and they are just looking at me. [laughter] in the book "sex, mom & god" i talk about my mother. why? it is easy to play the game of...
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howard fineman is "the huffington post" media group editorial director and chris cillizza is managing editor of postpolitics.com. both are msnbc political analysts. gentleman, earlier this afternoon, herman cain said he was going to make this big announcement tomorrow. let's all listen. >> i am reassessing because of all of this media firestorm stuff. why, because my wife and family comes first. i got to take that into consideration. tomorrow in atlanta, i will be making an announcement, but nobody's going to get me to make that prematurely. that's all there is to that. so tomorrow we're going to be opening our headquarters in northwest georgia, where we will also clarify, there's that word again, clarify, exactly what the next steps are. >> chris cillizza, do you schedule a big announcement to say, hey, guess what, i'm staying in this race? >> no, michael, not usually. but i'll harken back to earlier this week, where his campaign, herman cain's campaign said he was going to clarify in dayton, ohio, in a speech in dayton, ohio, he was going to clarify what reassessing his candidacy me
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would default collapse blah blah blah this is another prediction for this year huffington post predicts u.s. defaults on debt because they claim the danger of an accident caused by self destructive partisan politics in the run up to the two thousand and twelve presidential elections is very very small however it is very real look the u.s. is not going to default on its debt the u.s. to print lots of money but what will happen because the federal reserve has already expanded their balance sheet from eight hundred billion to almost four trillion going from tarp forward is we will see greater reliance on the i.m.f. and the use of special drawing rights so all of these central banks will kick the can down the road by rolling up all this toxic debt that they took from the toxic banks into toxic special drawing rights collateralized bonds and notes and they'll be a whole new generation of ponzi scheme ing on top of this as the penultimate move by the central planners before they ultimately figure out that they have to go back to a gold standard yes but max don't you think however that you see
would default collapse blah blah blah this is another prediction for this year huffington post predicts u.s. defaults on debt because they claim the danger of an accident caused by self destructive partisan politics in the run up to the two thousand and twelve presidential elections is very very small however it is very real look the u.s. is not going to default on its debt the u.s. to print lots of money but what will happen because the federal reserve has already expanded their balance sheet...
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will not be seeking a third term next year now so he's behind quite a legacy as the to quote the huffington post human impediment to progress. he held president obama's health reform bill hostage until he could extract some special deals just for his home state he joined republicans to block benefits for unemployed people he stood in the way of meaningful wall street reform he helped the republicans kill foreclosure assistance legislation for struggling families he blocked energy reform legislation and even blocked democrats and voted against confirming supreme court justice alina kagan to the high court trends like these. so needless to say i'm not the only one who isn't too upset to see ben nelson need to leave he himself even saw the writing on the wall republicans were dumping huge amounts of money into nebraska to unseat him and democrats were only grudgingly offering their support to help him they really didn't want to he really had no friends on either side left except maybe joe lieberman it lends truth to harry to harry truman's advice to democrats nine hundred fifty two when he said the
will not be seeking a third term next year now so he's behind quite a legacy as the to quote the huffington post human impediment to progress. he held president obama's health reform bill hostage until he could extract some special deals just for his home state he joined republicans to block benefits for unemployed people he stood in the way of meaningful wall street reform he helped the republicans kill foreclosure assistance legislation for struggling families he blocked energy reform...