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ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
FONT SIZE The following is a commentary by ABC News' Sam Donaldson. to view a video version of his latest essay. ABC News' Sam Donaldson discusses the hurdles ahead for President-elect Obama.A private firm that keeps track of these things informs us we are in a recession. What? A bombshell! Why, I thought everything was going peachy keen. Didn't you? Talk about a worthless piece of information....
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
FONT SIZE The following is a commentary by ABC News' Sam Donaldson. to view a video version of his latest essay. ABC News' Donaldson to Sen. Obama: "Now comes the hard part."President-elect Barack Obama gets his first full-scale secret briefing from the U.S. intelligence community today on the state of the world – read, the state of the "tests" he'll face that Vice President-elect Joe...
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D.C. Sports Bog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
(By Lauren Victoria Burke - ABC News) Somehow I lost my mind last Friday morning and forgot to listen to the "Inside the Red Zone With Vinny Cerrato" politics extravaganza, co-hosted by Bernard Shaw (or "Bern," as Cerrato preferred) and featuring guest appearances from Wolf Blitzer, Sam Donaldson, Jack Kemp and Mel Kiper. Listen here. It was a truly amazing American moment, at least judging...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
As FNC anchor Brit Hume approaches his impending retirement , one of his former colleagues is hoping he reconsiders. "What are these young kids like Brit Hume stepping down for?" asks ABC's Sam Donaldson in a Hume profile by Politico's Michael Calderone . "I think Brit's at the height of his power." He also made a pitch to bring Hume to ABC, saying if he were president of the network, he'd...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
... and serving as the managing editor of the news division. One fun moment from the piece: ABC News' Sam Donaldson, who is 74, questions why Mr. Hume, who is 65, would be winding things down. From the article : 'What are these young kids like Brit Hume stepping down for?' asked veteran anchor Sam Donaldson, a former colleague at ABC (and nine years his senior). 'I think Brit's at the...
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South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The Drug War raging in Juarez is just the open manifestation of a low-level conflict border residents have lived with for years, said one panelist at a UTEP forum that was organized by the student newspaper "The Prospector" and the Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies earlier this week. Calling the drug underworld a "parallel reality," Ruben Olague, former assignments editor for El...
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Granby01033 (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... Cokie Roberts, the very buckle of the beltway, offers rumor and opinion as fact. Sam Donaldson, the former host of the show, who knows next to nothing makes cameos as well.More regularly-appearing pundits include Donna Brazile, a Democratic Party apparatchnik, who doesn't do much to enlighten. Katrina Vanden Heuvel of my regular read, The Nation, does her best, but she hasn't exactly mastered...
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EvolutionBlog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
GEORGE WILL: Sam, one of the ways we turned a depression into the Great Depression that didn't end until the Japanese fleet appeared off Hawaii was that there were no rules and investors went on strike because the government was completely improvising. Net investment was negative through almost all of the '30s because, again, people did not know the environment in which they were operating because...
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CQ (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
... be Madam Secretary? That and the rest of the week’s politics on our roundtable, with George Will, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts and Paul Krugman of the New York Times.And as always, the Sunday Funnies.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)UNKNOWN: met with Hillary Clinton on Friday to see if she would be interested in a role in his administration. Of course, said Hillary. I’ll take president.(END VIDEO CLIP)STEPHANOPOULOS:...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
... R. Murrow's era is gone. I'm not expecting The Voice of God anymore or the sprayed-on scalp of Sam Donaldson. But a rear shot of one anchor showed almost no hair in the back of her head. It had been separated in the middle so that each half of perfectly perfected hairs could flow over the front past her shoulders down the chest. Both sides of the shorter, layered ends met each other at the...
