... as Meet the Press).
NETWORK: NBC News
PARTNERS: NBC, Facebook, and the New Hampshire Union Leader.
MODERATOR: David Gregory.
WHERE: The Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire
PARTICIPANTS: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman.
TRANSCRIPT: When available.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR: For a preview of this debate, see debates and Facebook. As with...
... debate, sponsored by Politico and NBC News and featuring Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum. I'll replace this text with a discussion of the immigration portions of the debate after a transcript becomes available. In the meantime, see each of those links for background information, and feel free to leave comments on the debate...
... parties: a new Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll shows little support for fiscal conservative policies (link):
[The poll] shows Americans skeptical of deficit-cutting proposals laid out by the chairmen of a commission appointed by the White House. In the survey, 57% of respondents said they were uncomfortable with gradually raising the Social Security retirement age to 69 over the next 60...
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* Brian Williams of NBC News
* Katie Couric of CBS News
* Fareed Zakaria and Sanjay Gupta of CNN
* Robin Roberts of ABC News
* General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt
Unions:
* Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union
* Richard Trumka of the AFL CIO
Entertainment:
* M. Night Shyamalan
* Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen of Dreamworks
Money:
* Heiress...
The 28 members of the "President’s Commission on White House Fellowships" have been named [1] and include:
* Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's sister
* Tom Brokaw
* Wesley Clark
* Tom Daschle (he's back!)
* Deborah Harmon ("Since 2002, Ms. Harmon has served on the Board of Trustees for Sidwell Friends School (SFS) in Washington, DC, and is Chairperson of Sidwell’s Investment Committee." Sidwell is...
On yesterday's Today Show, CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla offered a highly sympathetic report on a mixed-status family: the father and children are U.S. citizens, the mother is a former illegal alien now living in Mexico. As could be expected, Quintanilla puts his ethnicity ahead of proper public policy and support for the concept of personal responsibility. The text report is entitled "Families...
This fall, a two-hour, Jon Stewart-produced show called "The Naturalized" will appear on the History Channel (link):
[It] follows eight individuals through the bureaucratic morass of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The special will also include interviews with undocumented and deported illegal immigrants... It's a look at that process that is very much in Jon's tone and manner,"...
... Zigler did with Matt Lauer of the NBC News Today show features an introductory piece by Norah ODonnell that re-uses a pre-election smear. Back in September, the Associated Press, Charlie Gibson of ABC News, and Alternet all intentionally took a Palin quote about praying that our armed forces are being sent out on a mission that's from God out of context. They omitted the first part of the quote...
... director of Latino Movement USA, and NBC News featured him as a spokesman for the Hispanic community last month. A week before then, he was a featured speaker at a public forum sponsored by the "Party for Socialism and Liberation". The flyer for that is to the right, and a description of the event is here. Note that the other featured speaker was Karina Garcia, the Political Chair of the Chicano...