Zbigniew Brzezinski to Scarborough: "Stunningly Superficial"
Zbigniew Brzezinski debates with Joe Scarborough on MSNBC's Morning Joe, December 30, 2008
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TPMtv: Campaign Finance Deformed
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: John McCain: straight shootin' maverick and courageous champion of campaign finance reform. So then why is he currently doing his best to defy the FECand make his own set of campaign finance rules? We puzzle it all out in today's episode of TPMtv.
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TPMtv: Dazed and Confused
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: To us, the presidential race reached a turning point last week when John McCain opted for a campaign of denigration employing racial stereotypes, sexualized talking points for surrogates (Obama as "Internet date") and copious ridicule. It's made the curve that much of the media still uses to grade McCain's more obvious shortcomings all the more conspicuous and troubling.
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TPMtv: The Untouchable
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In a tour de force midday press conference in Chicago, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (yes, that Patrick Fitzgerald), who has been pursuing public corruption cases in Illinois for more than seven years, laid out the stunning new charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff. Everything, it seems, had a price, including Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. "If [Illinois] isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor," the lead FBI agent on the case declared.
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TPMtv: A Talk With Simon Johnson
Your daily politics video blog: Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson, who now teaches at MIT, brings a slightly different perspective to the US banking crisis, that of someone who has studied and been involved with resolving financial crises in developing nations. From that perspective, a key step in permanently resolving the crisis involves wresting control of the banking system from the elites who were at the helm when the crisis occurred, a step, Johnson argues, that neither the US nor any other western nation has yet been willing to take.
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Obama Strikes Back At Green Energy Critics
more at msnbc.com
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TPMtv: Terrymania!
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In recent weeks Terry McAuliffe has managed to turn projectile nonsense into something approaching the sublime. In today's episode of TPMtv we bring you some of Terry's greatest recent moments.
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Obama Opens Speech With Hot Mic Joke
more at c-span.org
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TPMtv: Release the Hounds!
Politics Video Blog: Scott McClellan's surprisingly critical memoir of his time as White House Press Secretary put the White House in full-on damage control mode. McClellan's book may have been off-message, but the White House and its surrogates were conspicuously "on" in their response.
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TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: The Palin Factor
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: People certainly are incredibly jazzed about Sarah Palin. That tour de force ABC interview, the prolific earmark record, and of course all those "Bridge to Nowhere" lies. The Palin Factor rolls on!
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TPMtv: McCain's Absolute Disgrace
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Fresh from the airwaves, we hit the video vault to find out just why John McCain believes Social Security is an "absolute disgrace" (including special new debamboozling video to help you not be spun by the McCain camp's damage control).
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Flashback '08 McCain, Clinton Slam Obama For Saying He'd Go Get Bin Laden In Pakistan
more at talkingpointsmemo.com May 3, 2011
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TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you were awful enough to delight in John McCain's prebuttal speech trainwreck last night, feast your eyes on the Fox News commentators trying to decide if it was just bad or downright terrible.
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TPMtv: McCain's Social Security Bamboozle
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: One of the most entertaining things about the 2008 campaign has been watching John McCain embrace all of President Bush's policies and word game flimflams. And there's no better example than Social Security where McCain has not only adopted President Bush's proposal to phase out Social Security and replace it with private investment accounts he's even adopted Bush's word game bamboozlement to try to trick voters into thinking he doesn't support the policy he actually does support. Those of us who are about to talk straight, Salute You!
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TPMtv: A Talk with Joseph Stiglitz
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We interviewed Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on Friday about the bank bailout. And I focused on two key questions. What's wrong with the idea of buying the 'toxic assets' from the banks? And just what happens if we let these banks go bankrupt instead of continuing to prop them up with continuing bailouts?
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TPMtv: When Russerts Attack
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The standout performance of last night was Tim Russert's repeated tirades at the candidates for not answering his clownish questions. So we thought we'd string all of Tim's gonzo moments into one tight reel. Let's all repeat together, "I'm rough enough, I'm tough enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
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TPMtv: John McCain vs. The Video Tape
2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) went on Meet the Press Sunday to debate the war in Iraq with Senator John Kerry (D-MA). And what a show it was. With McCain's deluge of devastating points and dizzying rhetorical takedowns, Kerry was clearly no match. But the real contest was the debate between McCain and videographic evidence of statements made previously in the week. We match the two toe-to-toe, and let the viewer decide the ultimate debate champion.
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Al Franken Weeps On Senate Floor While Discussing 'Violence Against Women Act'
more at c-span.org
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TPMtv: Bridge of Lies
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin continues to repeat the claim that she told Congress "Thanks, but no thanks," for the notorious "Bridge to Nowhere" project. Apparently Sarah didn't get the memo: her claim has been thoroughly debunked by the media.
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TPMtv: Watch the Cookie Crumble
As in the courtroom, there aren't many real Perry Mason moments in congressional investigations. But Henry Waxman had one yesterday when he was trying to get to the bottom of why the State Department's chief private contractor watchdog (the Inspector General) was running interference for Blackwater and Dyncorp rather than the taxpayers. We bring you the key moments in today's episode of TPMtv.
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TPMtv: Unforgettable
It's over, it's... all over. Alberto Gonzales resigned as Attorney General yesterday. As Americans we cheer, but as muckrakers we shed a tear for the man who over the past 6 months taught us new things about how mendacious, incompetent, and ridiculous an attorney general could be. Today we take one final fond look back at the Top 10 moments from the now-resigned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Thanks for the (hazy) memories Al.
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June 27th 2011: The Day In 100 Seconds
Day in 100 seconds for June 27 2011
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Blagojevich Yesterday: "Tape My Conversations"
Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) one day before arrest on corruption charges: "If anybody wants to tape my conversations go right ahead." December 8, 2008
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TPMtv: The First Dude Abides
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Fox News's Greta Van Susteren conducted the first interview of Todd Palin since his wife Sarah was named the Republican vice presidential nominee. She grilled Todd on everything from the story behind the name "First Dude" to how he feels about the name "First Dude."
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TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Stimulus Post-Mortem
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The economic stimulus package has been passed by both houses of Congress and is set to be signed by the President on Tuesday. But while the voting is complete the debate rages on. And what about the next item on the president's early agenda - the banking crisis and the question of nationalization? All that and more in today's Sunday Show Roundup.
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TPMtv: McCain Teeth Grit-A-Thon
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We though McCain was steamed when he wouldn't make eye contact with Barack Obama. But he almost blew a fuse when he got some real questions from the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. In today's episode of TPMtv, we analyze the tapes (with a little help from the DSM-IV).
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TPMtv: Just a Matter of History
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In the past week John McCain and his surrogates have done their best to focus the entire McCain-Obama debate on the question of which candidate was right about the troop surge in Iraq. So it was a little surprising to see McCain on the CBS Evening News last night get a basic historical fact about the surge so plainly wrong.
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TPMtv: A Chat with Matt Yglesias
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Matt Yglesias, former TPM Associate Editor and all-around blog star, has a new foreign policy book out, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. We caught up with him last week at The Strand bookstore here in lower Manhattan and asked him whether he thinks Democrats are ever going to get out of the fetal position when it comes to taking the fight to Republicans on their catastrophic foreign policy record.
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TPMtv: A Chat with Juan Cole
Recently TPMtv connected with Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan, and writer of the blog Informed Comment and the new book Napoleon's Egypt. We asked Juan about what's really going on in al Anbar province (which the administration persistently cites as a glimmering example of the success of the surge), whether the Sunnis are ready to concede national reconciliation, and what might happen if and when we ever leave Iraq.
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TPMtv: Alberto Gonzales: Lying Liar Edition
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was back in a familiar place Tuesday, on Capitol Hill testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the US Attorney firings. Past Gonzales hearings have been ugly, but none have compared with the ugliness of the latest round.
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TPMtv: The Best Of... 2008 Presidential Primaries
Your Daily Video Blog: Remember the primaries? When it was all Mittens and varmints, Kucinich and UFOs, and Terry McAuliffe with a bottle of rum on Morning Joe? Oh, those were the days. Join TPMtv for a special stroll down memory lane.
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Blago To FBI: "Is This A Joke?"
An FBI agent just said at a press conference that when Blagojevich was woken by a phone call from the FBI this morning, informing him that agents were coming to arrest him, he asked: "Is this a joke?"
TPMtv: Stupidest Guy on Earth Speaks Out
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The President bears the greatest responsibility for the catastrophe of the Iraq war. He was the key decision maker at every point. And he's fundamentally accountable. But if you look into the innards of the process that led to war there is probably no one who was either responsible for or involved with more of the bad decisions, more of the conscious decisions or horrible ideas than Doug Feith. You'd think someone like that would be keeping a low profile. But in fact he's got a new book out explaining how Iraq was a great idea, how nothing was his fault and sticking it to his enemies. Trainwreck is an overused term, but in today's episode of TPMtv we look at some choice moments from Feith's book release media tour where he explains how you've got the whole thing all wrong.
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TPMtv: GOP Bathroom Etiquette Breakdown!
It has been a difficult summer for Republican politicians staying within the law in their use of public bathrooms. Today we take a look at the cases of State Representative Bob Allen (R) of Florida and Idaho Senator Larry Craig (R).
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TPMtv Highlight Reel: Grayson on Health Care and Republicans
TPMtv Highlight Reel of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives, CNN's The Situation Room, and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, September 29-30, 2009
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TPMtv: Racing For the Exit
Trent Lott may not have been good for America. But he was pretty good for TPM. So in honor of his announced resignation from Congress, in today's episode of TPMtv, we take a walk down memory lane to remember some of Trent's best moments.
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TPMtv: I'm Rudy Giuliani and I Approve This Message
You've probably heard the news that Rudy Giuliani is finally hitting the airwaves with his first TV ad. Well, we've got it. And we're actually premiering it here at TPM. Even we were a bit surprised, though, at just how 9/11-focused it is. But you take a look and make your own call ...
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TPMtv: Vitter Va-Va-Voom!
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has fessed up to his "very serious sin" after his name was found on the contact list of the DC Madam. We just couldn't resist taking a little look at some of his past campaign ads and Senate speeches to see how his words stacked up with his actions.
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