Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Barack Obama's trip to Iraq was so presidential that at moments, he sounded like our current White House resident. When Karen Tumulty of Time asked Obama what he'd learned on his trip, he said, "It confirmed a lot of my beliefs." Lara Logan of CBS asked him if he was ever in doubt when it came to foreign-policy issues, and he answered, "Never." [ more ... ]
MountainRunner (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Who engages and informs the American public about foreign affairs. It isn’t the media. This proves Lara Logan’s lament about television’s cutback is a reality in print. Read the New York Times article, the Pew Research Center website, and...
Wikinomics.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In the age of always on technology, which “allows” us to be connected to the office 24/7, it is getting harder and harder to determine when a personal and private activity is actually just as it’s described - personal and private. Just ask Colin Wrightman, Lara Logan, Max Mosley or Larry Craig, each mentioned in a thought-provoking article in [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Barack Obama sat down with CBS’ Lara Logan Sunday morning for a long interview about his meeting with President Karzai and his vision for American foreign policy. Calling the security situation in Afghanistan “precarious and urgent,” the presumptive Democratic nominee stressed that that country is the real “central front in the war on terror,” and [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Dan Balz Washington Post AMMAN -- Toward the end of his interview on CBS's "Face The Nation" on Sunday, Barack Obama was asked by correspondent Lara Logan how much his foreign trip is aimed at allaying doubts about his readiness "to lead a country at war as commander in chief from day one." The candidate quickly brushed aside the question. The foreign policy experts and U.S. soldiers he had encountered...
The Hot Joints (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Lara Logan let her liberal bias hang free in this interview. The way she framed some of her questions was so damn obvious. “Token progress wouldn’t you say'” Nice try Lara. Related PostsVideo: New Film Called ‘Hype” Paints Obama as Liberal DividerVideo: More Global Warming Hypocrisy From Al GoreVideo: Harold Ford Heckled For Praising Fox News [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A day after CBS's Lara Logan got an interview with Barack Obama in Afghanistan, ABC's Terry Moran gets the sit-down interview with Obama in Baghdad. It will be Obama's only television interview from Iraq. Portions will air on World News with the entire interview on Nightline. Moran also got the first sit-down with Obama (pictured) in March after the candidate's race relations speech. And if you're...
Famecrawler (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Emmy winner and ex-CNN correspondent Lara Logan was recently promoted to CBS' chief foreign affairs correspondent. Her career seems pretty solid. Her love life is more like a soap. She is in the process of a divorce from her estranged husband Jason Siemon. She broke-up with CNN correspondent Michael Ware in November and started dating a married federal contractor named Joseph Burkett she met in Iraq....
To the People (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It would be nice to see Obama occasionally called on these verbal missteps. You know, like the media and pundits did with Bush. Jack Tapper at ABC : Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki...
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jake Tapper explains how after winning the election by campaigning in all 57 states, Barack Obama plans to be ready to govern for 8 to 10 years. Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that “the objective of this trip was to have substantive [...]
Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
TV Newser told us yesterday about CBS News’ Lara Logan’s interview with Barack Obama. CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan, who just relocated to Washington DC, was the first correspondent to interview Barack Obama during his just-begun, but much talked-about overseas trip. The discussion happened today in Afghanistan and aired this morning on Face [...]
Right Wing News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
First he said he'd visited 57 states. Now he's talking about conducting diplomacy for 8-10 years as Jake Tapper notes. Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the...
Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Spotted at Instapundit: OBAMA TO BE PRESIDENT FOR THE NEXT “EIGHT TO TEN YEARS'” Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that “the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others [...]
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Face the Nation - Interviews Obama In Afghanistan 20 July 2008 Barack Obama's Butterfly Effect abc news CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the objective of this trip...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It led with the report that Lara Logan had scored the first overseas sit-down with Barack Obama , but here's the most interesting nugget from yesterday's Mike Allen piece about the trip: Forty journalists, including such leading correspondents as Dan Balz of The Washington Post, will be aboard his plane for next week's swing through Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England. The campaign received...
