Oct
6
2010
Anthony Scaramucci, the hedge fund manager of SkyBridge Capital, made headlines last month when he asked President Obama on television when he was going to “stop whacking Wall Street like a piñata.” Since then, Mr. Scaramucci has become the piñata, taking hits in the media for his apparent naiveté from the comedian Jon Stewart and [...]
no comments | tags: "Beyond, 'Piñata', hedge fund manager, Main Category, Manager, Managers, message, pita | posted in financial
Sep
16
2010
While the primary season has ended with many upsets involving candidates supported by Tea Party activists, the question now is whether the movement will have anywhere near the same impact on the general electorate beyond whether the candidates they supported do well or not on Election Day. A CBS News/New York Times poll conducted Sept. [...]
no comments | tags: "Beyond, Impact, Main Category, new york times poll, Party, party activists, Primaries; | posted in Politics
Jul
24
2010
NEW YORK — Sarah Palin has made the Ground Zero mosque famous in “red America” with her tweets to New Yorkers, asking them to stop its construction near the site where some 3,000 victims died horribly on 9/11 at the hands of Islamic terrorists. But here in the city where it happened we’ve been wrestling [...]
no comments | tags: "Beyond, battle, Ground, islamic terrorists, Main Category, Mosque, Palin:, sarah palin | posted in Politics
Jul
10
2010
Five Politics Daily staffers — Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady — are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, “Beyond the Killing Fields.” Here is Schanberg’s response [...]
no comments | tags: "Beyond, Chaos', Fields", Journalism, Killing, Main Category, melinda henneberger, State, sydney schanberg | posted in Politics