Barack Obama

  • Poitier Awarded Medal of Freedom

    15 others honored, including Ted Kennedy, Desmond Tutu, Harvey Milk, Sandra Day O’Connor, Stephen Hawking.

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Obama to Recognize Poitier

    Actor Sidney Poitier and actress, singer and dancer Chita Rivera will be among the 16 recipients of President Obama’s first Medal of Freedom Awards as president next month, the White House said Thursday. They will be part of a group that includes physicist Stephen Hawking, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Billie Jean King, former Supreme Court Justice…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • DC Doldrums and Obama’s Bully Pulpit

    Hard to tell if it’s a sign of the times that the life-sized Obama stand-ups at Dulles airport have been dropped in price from $40 to $9.99. Then again, it does seem that after six months in office, the president has hit a patch that might be described as the doldrums. For the man with…

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  • Hee-Haw, It’s the White House

    Who knew that Barack Obama would have a country music night so early in his presidency. Well it’s happening Tuesday night at the White House. Country music stars Alison Kraus, Brad Paisley and Charlie Pride are heading to 1600 Pennsylvania as part of a White House Music Series that will be broadcast live on the…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • An Essay: There’s Something Familiar About ‘Half-Blood Prince’

    Modern politics as a template for the dark arts that consume JK Rowling’s aspiring magicians

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    Desson Thomson
    An Essay: There’s Something Familiar About ‘Half-Blood Prince’

  • Obama Is Potter, Biden Is Ron Weasley …

    Maybe it was the “Voldemort Votes Republican” bumper sticker I saw a few months ago. But as I watched the familiar cavalcade of wizards, Muggles and otherworldly beings in the enjoyably gothic and cloak-and-daggerish “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” I couldn’t help noticing an amusing political allegory. After all, what’s the difference between modern…

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    Desson Thomson

  • Obama Gets Disneyized

    Someday your dream will come.    For Disney’s Magic Kingdom Theme Park in Orlando, the dream of having an audio animatronic President Obama comes true on the Fourth of July.   The White House today posted a video on its website of the President in March taping an introduction that his image will deliver at…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Genachowski Outlines Bold Broadband Policy

    Says broadband infrastructure will be the platform for growth in the 21st century.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Obama Wins at Cannes

    OK, your ads helped do the seemingly impossible in electing Barack Obama as President of the United States.   Then on top of it you find out that in a pretty usual forum for examining political ads — the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival — you win the top prize for ads worldwide last year…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • The Ben Silverman-Barack Obama Show

    It’s a White House visit for Ben Silverman, co-chair of NBC Entertainment and Universal Studios.   In Washington for Wednesday night’s premiere of “The Philanthropist” that was co-sponsored by the Creative Coalition and Microsoft’s Bing search engine,  Silverman was due Thursday to join the star of the program, James Purefoy, and others involved in the…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Obama to First-Pitch the All-Star Game

    It only seems logical, really.   President Obama, a longtime Chicago White Sox fan who sometimes would show up on the campaign trail wearing a Sox hat, is returning the tradition of the president throwing out the first ball at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.   Major League Baseball said Tuesday that Obama would…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Are ABC’s Obama Plans Blurring the Lines?

    Network is embedding its news telecasts with the White House on June 24.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Obama Orders Colbert: Get a Haircut

    If Stephen Colbert wants to be one of the troops …

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    The Colbert Report

  • Obama Urges Digital TV Compliance

    President urges unprepared viewers to get ready…because it’s coming.

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Jolie Tops Forbes 100 List

    Actress ranks as top celebrity; Obama first president to make the cut.

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    Lucas Shaw