Power of the Moderate
Many of today’s politicians label themselves “moderate,” but the fruitless debt ceiling debates, the far-right Republican presidential field, and Obama’s inability to succeed with moderates and independents brings into question the legitimacy of the term moderate in today’s partisan political culture. Do moderates wield any power or influence in Washington? Are people discounting everything politicians [...]
Power of Palin
Sarah Palin’s rise to political stardom has been anything but smooth. Between controversies like “Troopergate” and the mainstream media stoking rumors whether she is the biological mother of her youngest son, her political career has been ridden with scandal and controversy. And though beehive wigs and moose heads may have outsold Clinton and Lewinsky masks [...]
Primetime: The Newest Political Platform?
This week’s “Fox News Sunday” featured a combative from the start interview with funny man Jon Stewart. After host Chris Wallace accused Stewart of playing hard to get, the pair provided the greatest “I know you are but what am I?” bickering since you took on your little brother at the dinner table years ago. [...]
Sassing Up the 2012 Twitter Field
It was a nascent force in 2008, but now Twitter’s ubiquity guarantees that candidates will be expected to have a more dynamic presence on the social network in Election 2012. On this week’s show, Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry and new co-host Kristen Soltis discuss their hope that candidates will use Twitter to both engage voters [...]
Getting Geeky With It: LIVE from the Gov 2.0 Summit
In today’s Wilshire & Washington, we talk Government 2.0 with special guest Dr. Mark Drapeau, an Associate Research Fellow at the National Defense University and Co-Chair of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase and the Gov 2.0 Expo in May 2010. The Gov 2.0 Summit (#gov20s), currently being held in DC, is bringing together some of [...]
Twitter Wars 2: Return of the Progressives!
In today’s show, we continue on our Twitter kick. Last week, we had David All, a conservative new media strategist, on to discuss how conservatives are winning the Twitter war and why it’s essential that they do. Today, we’ve got Jim Gilliam, co-founder of Brave New Films and Chief Technology Officer of Business.com, who recently [...]
Twitter Wars: The Convservative Empire Strikes Back!
With Ted away, the Tweeters — @maegancarberry and @tetesagehen — come out to play… Maegan and Teresa devote pretty much the entire show to Twitter, and have David All (@davidall), whom Wired magazine once called “an unusual animal” and is a conservative new media adviser, along for the ride. We first tackle the new site, [...]
Post-Health Care Politics With The Note’s Rick Klein
On today’s “Wilshire & Washington,” we are joined by Rick Klein (@thenote), senior political reporter at ABC News and author of “The Note,” a political blog and tipsheet published every weekday at ABCNews.com. The main topic of the day, without fail, is health care, and how President Obama is organizing his massive armies to help [...]
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