Catering to Obama Haters
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Lunatic right-wing "birthers" have gotten a toehold on CNN and Fox News, and even the McCain campaign investigated their claims. Paul Campos on why the media kowtows to the far-right fringe.
The Obama Haters' Next Move
John P. Avlon writes a column for The Daily Beast and is author of the forthcoming Attack of the Wingnuts, to be published in January by Beast Books. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Crackpot anti-Obama conspiracy theorists now include congressmen, a former GOP presidential candidate and an Army major. John Avlon on the "Birthers" attempts to pass federal legislation, and their new claims 170 soldiers will refuse to serve the president.
Obama's Catholic Conversion
John Hendren was named ABC News correspondent based in the Washington, D.C., bureau in 2006. Before joining ABC News, he was the Pentagon correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio; the Washington, D.C., correspondent at the Seattle Times and a national writer and investigative reporter for The Associated Press.
With his Notre Dame speech, the president can no longer avoid the abortion debate-a debate, John Hendren reports, that he's increasingly winning among America's divided Catholics.
Keyes: Obama a 'Radical Communist'
Alan Keyes tells a Nebraska news station the president is a 'radical communist' who may not actually be president. He also tells his interviewer to stop laughing.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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