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            <title><![CDATA[The Scariest Health Care Ads]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Which side of the Obamacare debate is winning over voters and senators? Adam Hanft puts the ads under the microscope. Plus: Watch the best and worst commercials.
Is health care bailing out the networks? Already, more than $50 million is being spent...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's New Reverend Wright]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[He may not be as controversial as Jeremiah Wright, but Skip Gates has become Obama's latest racially polarizing friend. Adam Hanft rereads Professor Gates' analysis of the Wright controversy through the lens of the professor's arrest.
Read other takes...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Uncle Walter Was Too Old for Prime Time]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The media may be celebrating Cronkite now, but Adam Hanft says it was they who pushed the veteran anchor out in a futile quest for the new and trendy. 
Walter Cronkite retired in 1981, ironically, a few months before the launch of MTV.  His career...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Did Visa and MasterCard Get Off Scot-Free?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama and Congress, fed by populist rage, crack down on bank credit-card issuers, they've let off the two giants most responsible for plastic run amok: Visa and MasterCard.
Why are Visa and MasterCard getting off penalty-free in our national...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 May 2009 22:05:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Making the Stimulus Sexy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Team Obama gave us a stimulus. What they didn't give us was a reason to love it, to hug it, to make it our very own.
The stimulus package-pedantically and for all of history burdened as the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009"-might or...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:57:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Bankers Screwed Up Their PR]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Had the kings of Wall Street not been so oblivious, they could have taken some immediate steps to prevent the drastic cuts to their salaries.
Wall Street is walking around with its hands over its collective crotch. (Yeah, it's a guy world.)
But the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:32:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Makes Apple So Erotic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs' genius was dazzling consumers. Unfortunately, his leave of absence came at a moment when the economy is desperate for imagination-stoking products that will get out butts down to the mall.
If Steve Jobs had a business card that spoke the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:18:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[De Beers: Diamonds Are a Recession's Best Friend]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a marketing gambit more dazzling than their product, De Beers touts diamonds as the cure for evil consumerism.
Unlike Prada, Vuitton, Hermes and other luxury marketers who are hawking their wares conventionally this Christmas season, De Beers isn't...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:38:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lousy Marketing-Not Lousy Cars-Killed Detroit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Long before the CEOs of the Big Three hopped aboard their private jets, they presided over the biggest marketing failure in American history.
Many miles ago, long before Detroit started losing billions a month, it lost something even more important:...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:26:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Fact-Checking]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The best in truth-seeking from around the world. Today: godless Senate candidates, phony war heroes, and lying children.
Fact-checking appears to be the only industry in America that isn't tanking. The presidential election has produced an avalanche...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:08:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How McCain Made Grandpa Look Bad]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The untold damage the campaign has done to geezers.
Other than robocallers, personal shoppers and washed-up sixties radicals, the biggest losers during this epic spectacle of a campaign have been those with some mileage on their odometers. Whether you...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:49:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Rage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bursts of anger from around the world. This week: Cindy Adams is tweaked, Korean online rage, and what really pisses off infants.
Barack Obama and John McCain used the words "anger" or "angry" more than a dozen times during their last debate. There's...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:05:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soothsayers of Silicon Valley]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A leading venture capital firm predicts gloom and doom.
The venture capital world is something like the Vatican. It's secretive, it controls vast wealth, few people on the outside know what really goes on, and there are usually mendicants lined up...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:54:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Polls]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What does the world really think? Today: Germans on socialism, Russians on gentility, and gay men on the British royals.
You'd think that pollsters would be so wrapped up in every twitch of the American electorate that they'd have no time left for any...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:53:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Sarah Silverman Sucks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Great Schlep video makes a mockery of the world that made what Sarah Silverman does possible.
The Sarah Silverman Great Schlep video is a tasty campaign bonbon. Journalists love it because it's high-concept irony, it's willfully provocative, it's...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:45:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Website]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/616///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[I love the instant wonkage that the web makes possible. Case in point: ReadTheStimulus.org: transparency manna for every stimulus fetishist. As their site coyly puts it "$850 Billion, 1588 pages, and counting... somebody needs to read it." You can...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:01:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Product/Service]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I wonder what Lauren Bacall would make of this innovation in whistling. Ocarina is a hot new iPhone application that turns the erotic little plaything into a new kind of digital musical instrument. You blow into the microphone slot, use the keypad as a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:11:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/180///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[With all the palpable fear and panic in these parts, what's a masochist to do other than pick up Joanna Bourke's masterful Fear: A Cultural History. It's a sobering romp (that's no oxymoron) through decades of fear's grim manifestations. The chapters...]]></description>
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