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ABC Names Ian Cameron Executive Producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Felix Gillette — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:06:32 -0400

ABC News announced today that Ian Cameron, formerly a producer for World News with Charles Gibson, will be the new executive producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Mr. Cameron replaces Kathy O'Hearn. In July, ABC announced that Ms. O'Hearn would be leaving the show to become a producer on the network's special events political team.

The move comes at a critical time for This Week. With the future of NBC's Meet the Press, still somewhat up in the air, This Week now has an opportunity to try and recapture its long lost status as the top-rated Sunday morning public affairs show.

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Raising Money Off Gibson and Stephanopoulos

Katharine Jose — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:31:44 -0400

The Obama campaign just sent supporters the following email:

Did you see the debate last night?

If you did, you saw more gotcha politics and distractions than questions about the pressing issues affecting our country.

In fact, it took more than 45 minutes before Barack was asked about the economy, health care, or foreign policy. read more »

Huckabee Hearts Rudy: Baptist Minister Backs Up Mayor on 'Judygate'

Steve Kornacki — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:08:17 -0500

Mike Huckabee's value to Rudy Giuliani has been well-documented. But the relationship is a two-way street - something Mr. Huckabee made clear on national television on Sunday.

Toward the end of a 20-minute interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week," Mr. Huckabee was essentially given a free shot at Mr. Giuliani, asked to assess the Rudy's claim that the accounting procedures that resulted in security expenses for trips with his then-paramour being billed to the city of New York while he was mayor had been "perfectly appropriate."

Mr. Huckabee could easily have piled on, either overtly or with subtlety, but instead he offered a rather rousing defense of Mr. Giuliani, framing the story as the product of overzealous, context-ignorant reporting.

"I thought it was a cheap-shot at Rudy," Mr. Huckabee declared. "There's no point in trying to dig through what his security detail did, unless they can specifically say that he personally ordered something. read more »

Thwarted Over Iraq, Pelosi Makes a Stand on Iran

Steve Kornacki — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:53:58 -0400

It can often to seem to rank-and-file Democrats as if the Republicans are still in charge of Congress: Nearly a year after their party picked up 31 House and six Senate seats, the war in Iraq still rages, with tens of thousands of more troops deployed now than then. This failure to force even a beginning to the end of the war accounts for the painfully poor poll standing of the Democratic-led Congress, with the party faithful even more restless and frustrated than independent voters. read more »

Altitude Drop For Lieberman the Hawk

Steve Kornacki — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:21:35 -0400

If Mr. Lieberman were to flip to the Senate G.O.P. now, he’d probably still be surrounded by colleagues intent on ending the war. read more »

Greta's Grabbo

Max Abelson — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Fox News anchoress Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, have traded in their fancy Essex read more »

Greta’s Grabbo

Max Abelson — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Fox News anchoress Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, have traded in their fancy Essex read more »

A Song for Monica

Observer Staff — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:50:00 -0400

The Clinton administration's grave comedy of manners has been rehashed so many times now, and tossed off so many strange offspring, that any remaining, would-be Clintonian chroniclers are left staring at (ahem! Ed Klein) the bottom of the literary barrel.

There's no way left to swing it, so a troupe of eager musical theater folk have determined...to sing it. Monica! The Musical first appeared last spring. Now, a refined (errr, make that "updated") version, which premiered last night, has already sold out four of six shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. As your devoted Politicker slave, I went to see for myself.

The cast tromps all over the beaten path, from the tasteless to the clever, with an emphasis on the former. There's lots of physical comedy: Hillary is an amusingly spastic dancer, frugging her heart out, while Bill has a languid, frat-boy lope that makes him look more Animal House than White House. During a press conference, a frenzied George Stephanopoulos tries to mow down Ken Starr with a presidential podium on wheels.

Set against the slapstick backdrop, Monica dreams of someday being "Monica Rodham Clinton." "Now don't cry," Bill tells her, off in a corner at the inaugural ball."You're breaking my heart. And you're being very loud."

What else? Hillary dreams of taking over and...Well, there's that cameo by Tom Jones. He sings away sexual scruples ("Forget it! Forget it! Forgetitforgetit!") while introducing Bill, the young Rhodes scholar, to British prostitutes with lousy teeth. Leaving the theater, this is what I was thinking: A) There's a reason I'm not a theater critic; and B) In light of the present administration, it doesn't take a musical to create nostalgia for the mildness of Clinton's missteps.

'Splain It, Ali!

George Gurley — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:00:00 -0500

The morning show Living It Up! read more »

Imus Unloads

Gabriel Sherman and Blair Golson — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:00:00 -0500

Morning-radio czar Don Imus has just put his eight-room duplex penthouse co-op at 75 Central Park We read more »