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Eric Alterman

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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.


— Eric Alterman


#american children #children #five #living #number

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.


— Eric Alterman


#appears #beneath #career #during #feet

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.


— Eric Alterman


#conservatives #hear #lower #lowered #more

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.


— Eric Alterman


#basket #certainly #court #decision #eggs

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.


— Eric Alterman


#barack obama #been #born #carter #could

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.


— Eric Alterman


#double #economist #english #english language #forward

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.


— Eric Alterman


#cannot #conservatives #control #debate #empowers

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.


— Eric Alterman


#cleaning #his #income #lady #pays

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.


— Eric Alterman


#media #obsessed #personality #simultaneously #technology

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.


— Eric Alterman


#disagrees #easy #impatience #inspiration #movement






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Major Works
Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992 1993 2000) ISBN 978-0-8014-8639-5
Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (1998) ISBN 978-0-8014-3574-4
It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999 2001)
What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003 2004) ISBN 978-0-465-00177-4
The Book on Bush: How George W. Alterman has also been a contributing editor to ELLE and a regular columnist for Worth and the London Sunday Express. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.

January 14 1960) is an American English teacher historian journalist author media critic blogger and educator. com from 2002 until 2006 moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008 and is now hosted by The Nation. Eric Alterman (b.

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