Howard Fineman
Howard Fineman
Howard David Fineman is an American journalist who is global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. Prior to his move to Huffington Post in October 2010, he was Newsweek's Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Editor and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 November 1949
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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The party that had nominated Clinton in 1992 eventually impeached him, thanks in good part to information supplied by GOP investigators.
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By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
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If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
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As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.
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I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.
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I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.
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The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn't be surprising.
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If you told me in 2004 that Howard Dean would end up running the Democratic Party months after losing the nomination to John Kerry, I'd have said you were crazy. I think he took the job because he wants to understand the forces that defeated him.
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To get elected as a Democrat, it`s hard to be from the city. It`s hard to be a graduate of Duke University.
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I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.
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The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
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The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
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A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.
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If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.