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*MSNBC has tapped Karen Finney as the host for a new afternoon program airing weekends from 4-5 p.m, the network announced. Finney, who served as the first African-American spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, has been an MSNBC political analyst and guest host on the network since 2009. “Karen’s rich background in both education policy [...]
*Do we even want to compare the Democratic National Convention to its Republican counterpart? It didn’t end up being much of a contest at all. One was full of substance, spectacle, stirring speeches and some truly impassioned moments; the other turned out to be a low-rated (it got beat by that abhorrent Honey Boo Boo [...]
*Naomi Campbell made a surprise return to New York’s Fashion Week on Sunday when she hit the runway for Zac Posen’s spring/summer 2013 show. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The supermodel, 42, was joined by other special guests including Crystal Renn, Erin O’Connor and Coco Rocha as they turned out to model the designer’s latest [...]
*Delegates at the Democratic National Convention were treated to two songs by Mary J. Blige on Thursday, while actress Kerry Washington was part of a “young Hollywood” coalition touting support for the reelection of President Obama. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Blige got the crowd on their feet at the Time Warner Cable Arena in [...]
*Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was in her usual form last night, firing off several tweets directed at Democratic National Convention speaker Sandra Fluke and Presidents Clinton and Obama that have been roundly criticized as racist and sexist. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Fluke, the Georgetown law student called a “slut” and a “prostitute” by Rush [...]
*The Democratic National Convention is on fire! Bill Clinton showed all of his political finesses and swag (you gotta admit it) to move the crowd and drive voters into the booth in November. He really got people out of their seats, but once the Commander-in-Chief hit the stage and Clinton bowed before him…it was a [...]
*Twitter was on fire last night for day one of the Democratic National Convention – and most of the flames were sparked by First Lady Michelle Obama. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Overall, Twitter estimates the first night generated more than 3 million tweets, putting on a pace far ahead of the Republican National Convention, [...]
*MTV announced that it will move the start time of its “Video Music Awards” on Sept. 6 in Los Angeles so it won’t conflict with President Obama’s acceptance speech the same night at the Democratic National Convention. “We will be airing the “VMAs” on Thursday, September 6th from 8-10 p.m. as opposed to our traditional [...]
*President Barack Obama wrapped up a two-day fundraising swing through Southern California Thursday, having collected $4 million during a trio of events designed to strengthen his reelection campaign’s ties with younger voters and the area’s business and legal communities, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Democratic National Committee’s Southern California finance chairman, John Emerson and [...]
*Donna Brazile, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and Al Gore, will fill in as interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee until Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida can be officially elected to the post. Brazile, the committee’s vice chairwoman and a CNN contributor, will take over for the next two weeks, filling [...]
*President Barack Obama’s approval rating has plunged to all-time lows in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Half of the registered voters surveyed think that the president does not deserve a second term in office, while 41 percent say he does. In another Quinnipiac poll released just four weeks ago, 45 percent said the president [...]
*The Democratic National Committee has released a new television ad on Thursday aimed directly at both young and minority voters, and scheduled to air on outlets targeting those particular demographics. The committee is putting out its second national spot in as many weeks, this one incorporating footage of the President’s recent rallies in Madison, Wisconsin [...]
*President Obama addressed a Democratic National Committee youth rally in Washington last night to remind young supporters to get out to the polls this November. “I’m back here today just in case you’ve forgotten what it feels like to change the country,” Obama said to the sold-out crowd of 3,000 at DAR Constitution Hall. “It [...]
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