Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-la) is less than a month away from a run-off election that will decide just how big the Republicans' new majority in the Senate really is. Part of Landrieu's strategy to win over Louisiana's more conservative voters appears to be a full-scale embrace of the Keystone Xl pipeline. But as Rachel Maddow put it on MSNBC last night, this plan "will win Democrats nothing, at great cost.”...
- 11/13/2014
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Over the past 24 hours, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-la) has been hammered by the right for telling NBC's Chuck Todd that "the South has not always been the friendliest place to African-Americans" and that that is one reason why President Barack Obama has had trouble gaining acceptance there. Now, in a new statement, the senator is attempting to clarify her remarks without walking them back.
- 10/31/2014
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
On Wednesday morning’s Fox & Friends, the hosts went after Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-la) who, like President Barack Obama, recently admonished Fox News Channel for spreading what she characterized as disinformation. New Fox News Channel contributor and former House Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-oh) appeared on Fox & Friends where he was asked to defend Landrieu’s attack on his new employer.
- 1/30/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
The last time a major hurricane hit U.S. shores, it made a star out of Anderson Cooper. Video: Hurricane Sandy: David Letterman Performs Eerie Monologue to Empty Studio The TV personality headed to New Orleans in 2005 to cover Hurricane Katrina, where he famously interrupted his interview with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) as she was giving the government props for its response to the disaster. Replied Cooper: "For the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. ... I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are
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- 10/30/2012
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Democrats didn't expect to win a vote to end subsidies to oil companies. But as Michael Tomasky explains, the loss exposes how vulnerable they are to Republican budget psychosis.
Last night the Senate refused to end $2 billion worth of subsidies to oil companies. These companies are poised, according to the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey, to make $144 billion in profits this year. It was never a bill that had a chance of getting the 60 votes needed to cut off debate (it fell eight votes short). Aside from that, the House of Representatives never would have passed it. And aside from that, it was likely unconstitutional because bills that raise revenue must originate in the House.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Is Paul Ryan Delusional?
The vote took place largely so the Democrats could make campaign ads saying that Republicans voted to protect the oil industry.
Last night the Senate refused to end $2 billion worth of subsidies to oil companies. These companies are poised, according to the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey, to make $144 billion in profits this year. It was never a bill that had a chance of getting the 60 votes needed to cut off debate (it fell eight votes short). Aside from that, the House of Representatives never would have passed it. And aside from that, it was likely unconstitutional because bills that raise revenue must originate in the House.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Is Paul Ryan Delusional?
The vote took place largely so the Democrats could make campaign ads saying that Republicans voted to protect the oil industry.
- 5/18/2011
- by Michael Tomasky
- The Daily Beast
A year after the Bp debacle, are we doing enough to prevent the next one? The man standing between us and the next disaster tells Daniel Stone he needs more than just a bigger budget.
A year to the day since the explosion that caused the country's biggest oil spill, the pervasive question is, what's changed?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Neocons at Play: Making Liberals Squirm
It depends who you ask. Environmentalists have fiercely questioned the government's ability to compel offshore drillers to take new safety precautions. And queries about whether regulators have plugged all the holes that caused last year's disaster are met with answers akin to "it's complicated."
But over at the agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service (rebranded after the spill as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or Boemre), director Michael Bromwich is hitting back. Overhauling an agency takes a long time,...
A year to the day since the explosion that caused the country's biggest oil spill, the pervasive question is, what's changed?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Neocons at Play: Making Liberals Squirm
It depends who you ask. Environmentalists have fiercely questioned the government's ability to compel offshore drillers to take new safety precautions. And queries about whether regulators have plugged all the holes that caused last year's disaster are met with answers akin to "it's complicated."
But over at the agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service (rebranded after the spill as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or Boemre), director Michael Bromwich is hitting back. Overhauling an agency takes a long time,...
- 4/20/2011
- by Daniel Stone
- The Daily Beast
NPR's federal funding is at risk and CEO Vivian Schiller is out after conservative activist James O'Keefe caught an NPR executive on camera railing against the Tea Party-but O'Keefe tells Howard Kurtz he's not pursuing a right-wing agenda.
On Monday, Vivian Schiller took the podium at the National Press Club to passionately defend the mission of National Public Radio, even as she acknowledged her own management mistakes.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Maine's Tea Party Governor Paul LePage to NAACP: 'Kiss My Butt'
By Wednesday morning, she had been forced out, courtesy of James O'Keefe, the man who famously dressed up as a pimp in an undercover sting against Acorn. The conservative activist had faded from the news, nine months after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for entering Sen. Mary Landrieu's office under false pretenses.
Most of the coverage has ignored the deception involved in O'Keefe's latest scheme,...
On Monday, Vivian Schiller took the podium at the National Press Club to passionately defend the mission of National Public Radio, even as she acknowledged her own management mistakes.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Maine's Tea Party Governor Paul LePage to NAACP: 'Kiss My Butt'
By Wednesday morning, she had been forced out, courtesy of James O'Keefe, the man who famously dressed up as a pimp in an undercover sting against Acorn. The conservative activist had faded from the news, nine months after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for entering Sen. Mary Landrieu's office under false pretenses.
Most of the coverage has ignored the deception involved in O'Keefe's latest scheme,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
Most of the early reporting on the so-called "sting" of NPR executives by operatives of James O'Keefe's "Project Veritas" identify O'Keefe as the person behind the Acorn videos, describing him as a "conservative activist," "master of the video sting," even a scare-quoted "investigative journalist," and while some reports included references to O'Keefe's arrest for an incident at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office, all but one omitted any mention of O'Keefe's plot to strand a female reporter on a boat loaded with sex toys and hidden cameras.
- 3/8/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Shane and Sia Barbi are lending their voices to a new documentary "Saving America's Horses -- A Nation Betrayed."
The film is a riveting compilation of expert testimony, undercover footage and true life stories about horses -- depicting a country divided, but inspires great hope for the protection from cruelty of all horses and burros.
Other contributors include, JoAnne Normile, Beverly Strauss, Shelley Abrams, Dr. Nicholas Dodman, Dr. Nena Winand, Linda Gray, Senator Mary Landrieu,...
The film is a riveting compilation of expert testimony, undercover footage and true life stories about horses -- depicting a country divided, but inspires great hope for the protection from cruelty of all horses and burros.
Other contributors include, JoAnne Normile, Beverly Strauss, Shelley Abrams, Dr. Nicholas Dodman, Dr. Nena Winand, Linda Gray, Senator Mary Landrieu,...
- 10/4/2010
- Extra
Despite the rain-soaked gray Sunday morning and the somber fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Bullock managed to get a laugh out of the crowd at Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans. Flipping over an hourglass, the Oscar-winning actress joked, "This is all the time I have." Bullock, a part-time New Orleans resident, donated money to help rebuild the school and to open a student health clinic. She appeared at weekend events to pay tribute to those behind the hurricane recovery effort. "I have seen nothing but unimaginable kindness, perseverance and hope right in this room here," said Bullock.
- 8/29/2010
- by Alicia Dennis
- PEOPLE.com
I can offer some reasonable speculation about where this O’Keefe business is going. There are the perpetrators, the four young men who attempted to get access to the telephone system of Mary Landrieu, the Democratic senator from Louisiana. Then there is whomever else can be connected to them, by cell phone records, text messages, or email. These are the little fish. Somewhere, at some remove, with some level of foreknowledge—with enough deniability or not—are the big fish. The Times’ front page piece yesterday, with the thumbnails of the four perps, says little—save that O’Keefe and company were right-wing hot dogs—but is full of anticipation. The Times knows well enough that a break-in, one full of theatrical verve, is unlikely to have happened in a vacuum. Indeed, the subtext of the Times piece is all about James O’Keefe’s impressive conservative network. It’s...
- 2/1/2010
- Vanity Fair
By Ira Teinowitz
A conservative video maker who last year attempted to defame community organization Acorn was arrested Tuesday for showing up in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu and trying to tamper with her phones.
James O’Keefe, Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan all face felony charges of entering a federal property under false pretenses, according to an FBI statement.
Dai and Flanagan -- the son of the acting U.S. attorney for the We...
A conservative video maker who last year attempted to defame community organization Acorn was arrested Tuesday for showing up in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu and trying to tamper with her phones.
James O’Keefe, Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan all face felony charges of entering a federal property under false pretenses, according to an FBI statement.
Dai and Flanagan -- the son of the acting U.S. attorney for the We...
- 1/26/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Senators Sam Brownback of Kansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana co-sponsored the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009 this past July that, if passed, will make illegal genetic experiments creating new species from animal and human DNA. Don't be surprised if one of them screens the new film Lizard Boy on the Senate floor. It's their worst nightmare: a scientist mixes human and lizard DNA, the lizard boy grows up and goes on a rampage, and - worst of all - it has a black belt in lizard tail fu.
Lizard Boy is the creation of first-time writer/director Paul Della Pelle (and his co-writer Bruce Brown, who also co-stars as the sheriff). In it, a small mountain town is terrorized by a half-man, half-reptile creature when renowned geneticist Dr. Gino Conti, contracted by the Defense Sciences Office to develop a top-secret hybrid animal, pursues personal experiments in an effort to reconcile his tragic past.
Lizard Boy is the creation of first-time writer/director Paul Della Pelle (and his co-writer Bruce Brown, who also co-stars as the sheriff). In it, a small mountain town is terrorized by a half-man, half-reptile creature when renowned geneticist Dr. Gino Conti, contracted by the Defense Sciences Office to develop a top-secret hybrid animal, pursues personal experiments in an effort to reconcile his tragic past.
- 8/31/2009
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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