Posts Tagged ‘ABC News’
Democratic Convention Organizers say a Stolen MacBook costs $75,537
Democratic Convention Organizers Inflate Prices of Lost Electronics, Claim $500K The Democratic National Convention may be long over, but its organizers have not forgotten the almost half a million dollars worth of electronics they seem to have lost. Organizers of the Charlotte, N.C., convention have filed a police report for lost and stolen electronics, some of which they have valued at as much as 62 times the listed market prices. A reportedly stolen 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop? $75,537. The price listed on the Apple website is $1,199. A lost iPhone? $30,503. A lost Blackberry? $54,250. Other items reported to have gone missing at the convention included two iPads worth around $15,000 each, laptops listed at $40,000, $34,000 and $25,000 each, and other miscellaneous items worth [...]
Sequester And The Shameful Fear Mongering Campaign
If the heads of 20 federal agencies are to be believed, disastrous consequences await if President Obama and Congress fail to reach a budget deal, triggering the automatic, across-the-board cuts known as "sequestration." Image Credit: David McNew/Getty Images By Edmund Jenks - West Coast Editor For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed that I am a citizen of a country that is led by the political and media forces that exist today. The political leadership and the media that supports them think that WE ARE STUPID and lack the capability to resist FEAR MONGERING. EXAMPLE: The country, if the Sequester is allowed to go forward, ... the Federal Government will only be allowed to spend fifteen billion dollars MORE that it did last year ($15, 000,000,000). This means that they [...]
People You Should Know – Bob Wheelock, Al Jazeera Americas
“People You Should Know” is a series of interviews with emerging players and creative talents who will help determine where American Politics, Media, Entertainment and Entrepreneurism heads in our future. After journeying for nearly eight years producing and distributing the politically themed documentary FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN, I will be starting with some great, smart folks whom I have met along the way By Kevin Williams Bob Wheelock is the Executive Producer for Al Jazeera Americas. He has won four Emmy’s, a Dupont, and two Peabody Awards over the course of his career including for coverage of the September 11 attacks on the United States. Most recently, prior to joining Al Jazeera, Bob was the Coordinating Producer for ABC News’ coverage of the Royal Wedding of [...]
Transcript Vice-Presidential Debate Joe Biden and Paul Ryan
MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I'm Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honored to moderate this debate between two men who have dedicated much of their lives to public service. Media Credit: Fox News Tonight's debate is divided between domestic and foreign policy issues. And I'm going to move back and forth between foreign and domestic since that is what a vice president or president would have to do. We will have nine different segments. At the beginning of each segment, I will ask both candidates a question, and they will each have two minutes to answer. Then I will encourage a discussion between the candidates with follow-up questions. By coin toss, it [...]
Watch the VP Debate Live – Joe Biden v. Paul Ryan – Live stream, iPhone, Android #Debates
By Albert N. Milliron, Managing Editor, Iron Mill Interactive Media. Tonight Vice-President Joe Biden and Republican congressman Paul Ryan will face off in the first and only VP debate in the 2012 election season in Danville, Kentucky . Nearly 70 million people watched the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin in 2008. The debate will be moderated by ABC News senior foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz. Many folks will be unable to watch the debate live on the television. This article will provide multiple alternatives to watch the debate through live stream, smart phones, and satellite transmissions. Vice Presidential Debate 2012 Live Stream from ABC News and Yahoo News: The Candidates Debate Here is our guide to viewing the VP debate live [...]
Vice-Presidential Debate – Joe Biden v. Paul Ryan – Debate Live Twitter Stream – #Debates
Vice-Presidential Debate - Joe Biden v. Paul Ryan - Debate Live Twitter Stream Tonight Vice President Joe Biden and Governor Mitt Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, will take the stage in Danville, Kentucky for their first and only debate. It starts at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, and is expected to cover a wide range of issues. The election conversation has been going strong on Twitter since last week in Denver. Since that debate, in fact, there have been about 4 million campaign- and debate-related Tweets sent. As they prep for tonight, Vice President Biden and Rep. Ryan are sharing behind-the-scenes photos and tweeting out messages to rally their followers. And tonight’s debate moderator, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz has been sharing her sojourn to the stage [...]
What can I send you? Chris Horton, ‘I need a new president’
Jane Horton began crying on the other end of the phone when she learned that Mitt Romney had been using the story of her husband, Chris Horton, who was killed in Afghanistan, as a part of his stump speech… “To be honest, I’ve been through a lot and I’m not a super emotional person but it brings me to tears,” Horton said in an interview with ABC News, after being informed of her husband’s newfound spot on the national stage. “Not that he’s telling my story, but that he’s telling my husband’s story, it means the world to me. “One of the last things my husband said to me before he was killed, when I would ask him, ‘Chris, what do you need over there? What can I send you?’ he said, ‘I need a new president,’” Horton recalled. Read the Article via “e [...]
Watch the Democratic Convention Online – Live Stream, Smart Phones, Satellite, iPhone
There will be multiple ways to view the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina Live. This post provides links to other non embedded services and smartphone applications. Our guide to following the DNC online The Democratic National Committee partnered with YouTube to provide an official live stream of the convention on its YouTube page. Politico.com is going to stream more than 70 hours of live coverage from Charlotte, NC. The Wall Street Journal is providing live video of the convention both on YouTube (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) as well as through its WSJ Live apps on the iPad, on Android devices and various Smart TV platforms. ABC News will provide a live stream of the convention on YouTube as well. And the ABC News iPad app promises three [...]
President Obama’s Speech Gets A Thumbs Down From Political Press Corps
Prior to President Barack Obama’s marathon 54 minute speech in Ohio today, the Obama campaign sent our several statements promising the speech would be a major address framing the campaign going forward. Despite the hype, the speech was mainly a rehash of themes and ideas from the president’s recent stump speeches and his remarks were widely panned as overly long by the political press corps. In the speech, President Obama outlined his view that this election is a choice between “two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take.” He characterized Mitt Romney’s vision as being the same as the “policies of the last decade,” specifically deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy while he described his own “vision for America” as boiling down to [...]
Jake Tapper takes Obama to Task on Kill List
Nixon had his 'enemies list' and Obama has his "Kill List" ABC News Jake Tapper takes the President to Task ABC's Jake Tapper pressed White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday about President Obama's expansive definition of who counts as a "militant" in the drone strikes he orders. One of the more startling revelations in Tuesday's blockbuster New York Times story about the president's so-called "kill list" of terrorism suspects was that Obama has defined a "militant" as, in the Times' words, "all military-age males in a strike zone," whether or not there is any hard evidence to prove it. The paper reported that there is concern the White House and CIA are using this definition as a way of undercounting the civilian casualties from the drone strikes. Tapper, always one of [...]
