by Dominic Carter | Dec 29, 2011 | News, Politics, Reporting
A Super PAC attack ad is coming to a TV near you soon. If you reside in Iowa, and New Hampshire, you have already been flooded by them. It’s scary what these Super PACs are doing. It amounts to campaign spending on steroids, but it’s not officially...
by Dominic Carter | Dec 22, 2011 | Blog, News, Politics, Reporting
For nearly 20 years on television, I have interviewed political candidates, only to observe them, for whatever reason, rarely deliver on a long list of campaign promises. Watching new Governor Andrew Cuomo has been different, and dare I say refreshing. Cuomo is...
by Dominic Carter | Dec 9, 2011 | News, Politics, Reporting
President Obama is firing back at GOP presidential hopefuls who claim he runs a soft foreign policy . His response: “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top Al-Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement,” dared...
by Dominic Carter | Dec 6, 2011 | Blog, News, Politics
Op-ed in today’s NY Post from John Podhoretz on the Sudden Rise of Newt Gingrich. One of the pithiest quotes in American history may also be the dumbest: “There are no second acts in American lives.” F. Scott Fitzgerald said it and promptly died before he could...
by Dominic Carter | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog, News, Politics
Newt Gingrich has nine lives. We can laugh at his candidacy all we want too, but the joke may end up being on us. No one predicted Gingrich, with all of his baggage had any shot at winning the Republican Presidential Nomination. Let’s see. He is a polarizing figure,...
by Dominic Carter | Nov 22, 2011 | News, Politics, Reporting
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s first ad of the 2012 presidential campaign quotes President Obama out of context in what the Romney campaign is calling a deliberate attempt to show that Mr. Obama “doesn’t want to talk about the...