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• WaPo Gushes, PBS Host Tavis Smiley Emcees Bill Clinton Book Launch Event

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:46 am

  Tags: Campaigns Elections, Poverty, Bill Clinton, Tavis Smiley, Pbs, Washington Post

  Harlem for Clinton hosted by Tavis Smiley, the nightly PBS chat-show host. The headline on the front of the style section was "Bill Clinton's Got What It Takes for 'Giving.'" Segal can't get over how Clinton consistently sounds like a genius, and how it makes him long for the glory days: He still has this way of presenting his ideas for

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• Dept. Of Race-based Debates: Tavis Smiley To Debate Ron Paul

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: 2008, Debates, Dept Of Race Based Debates, Fred Thompson, Gop, Republicans, Tavis Smiley, Teevee, Walnuts

  Have you heard about the presidential candidate debates? There have been more than a hundred debates so far, with hundreds more to come. One such debate will be held at the “historically black...

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• Dept. Of Race-based Debates: Tavis Smiley To Debate Ron Paul

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: 2008, Debates, Dept Of Race Based Debates, Fred Thompson, Gop, Republicans, Tavis Smiley, Teevee, Walnuts

  for showing up,” Smiley told the Huffington Post. He added cryptically, “The beat goes on.” Who are these “other five” candidates running for the GOP nominee? Are there really still five of these people who aren’t Mitt or Rudy or Walnuts or Hollywood Fred? And how is showing up at a debate to promote

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• WashPost Plays Down Democrat Loss on Iraq, Plays Up GOP Racism Charges

  Published: September 19, 2007, 8:13 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Elections, Iraq, Race Issues, Tavis Smiley, Pbs, Washington Post

  Urban League, which [Tavis] Smiley said suggests a pattern of ignoring minority voters. He said debate organizers will set up lecterns showing the names of the absent candidates." So PBS is going to use taxpayer funds to let Smiley make a national issue out of GOP candidates' failure to embrace his liberal agenda. Smiley's complaints

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• Behar Suggests Republicans Too Busy at 'Klan Meeting' to Attend Minority Debates

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Race Issues, Republicans, Joy Behar, Tavis Smiley, Pbs, The View

  University organized by Tavis Smiley and to be broadcast on PBS. That's when Behar offered her pearl of wisdom. JOY BEHAR: Scheduling conflict? What, were they at a Klan meeting at the same time? H/t Diego and Jim Pinkerton.

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• "Republicans don't talk to minority groups"

  Published: September 20, 2007, 2:14 pm

  Tags: 2008, Newt Gingrich, Jack Kemp, Tavis Smiley, Rudy Giuliani

  have decided to skip the Tavis Smiley-organized debate originally planned for next week at the historically black Morgan State University, and all the major candidates other than John McCain (and does he even count as major anymore?) declined to participate in the Univision Spanish-language debate, it's finally occurring to a couple of

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• ABC Wonders Why Republicans Are Snubbing Minority Events'

  Published: September 25, 2007, 12:44 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns, Race Issues, Racism, Diane Sawyer, Jake Tapper, Tavis Smiley, Abc, Good Morning America, Pbs

  minority issues, hosted by Tavis Smiley." Tavis Smiley: "What does it say when you don't think that black issues and brown issues and issues for red and yellow people, what does did it say when you don't think that all of us are valuable in this process?" Tapper: "African-Americans are the most reliably Democratic voters

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• Is GOP Missing an Opportunity by Skipping Debate?

  Published: September 25, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Race Issues, Fred Thompson, John Mccain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Tavis Smiley, Pbsgop

  with liberal commentator Tavis Smiley. For various reasons, the top four GOP candidates have all decided to skip it. In doing so, they are making a big mistake, my friend Bob Cox argues in today's DC Examiner. Here's an excerpt. My comments are below the fold:One by one, the four leading candidates for the Republican nomination for president

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• Media and Law Roundup: The DAILYNESS of it All!

  Published: September 25, 2007, 7:51 pm

  Tags: Law, Media Journalism, Politics News, Race Ethnicity Culture, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Pres Bush, Tavis Smiley

  community. Finally, about Tavis Smiley's Forum Pres. Bush did say he thought his administration's domestic initiatives, such as No Child Left Behind, and his faith-based initiatives, and his promotion of home ownership, were among the reasons that he felt Republican candidates should feel comfortable reaching out to people of color. But the

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• Fair Moderator for PBS? Tavis Smiley Called Bush a 'Serial Killer'

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Tavis Smiley, Bet, Pbs

  public-radio talk show host Tavis Smiley. Newt Gingrich assured ABC viewers the other morning that "Tavis Smiley is a very responsible, very clear-cut commentator and analyst. He's going to run a very fair debate." But have these critical voices ever really looked at Smiley's actual record when it comes to Republicans? Start with

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• Dept. Of Black Republicans: Tonight: Live-Blogging The Greatest GOP Debate Ever

  Published: September 27, 2007, 4:18 pm

  Tags: 2008, Debate, Debates, Dept Of Black Republicans, Gop, Pbs, Republicans, Ron Paul, Tavis Smiley, Teevee

  It will basically be Tavis Smiley and Ron Paul politely calling each other racists while a hostile all-black crowd watches, with hostility. Oh yeah, and we also get a special appearance by Alan Keyes, who will boldly stand up for Tom Tancredo and call everybody else racists. So, what can you expect tonight beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern

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• Black Republican Response and Tavis' Debate

  Published: September 21, 2007, 2:16 pm

  Tags: 2008 Republican Primary, All American Presidential Forum, Tavis Smiley

  GOP Leading Candidates Snub Tavis' Forum at Morgan State, I pointed out that Rudy, Flipping Mitt and Straight Talk Express had all bagged on attending Tavis Smiley's All American Presidential Forum in Baltimore at Morgan State University. Since then Law & Order Man has dropped out too.I wondered where were the responses from the Black

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• Dept. Of Black Republicans: Tonight: Live-Blogging The Greatest GOP Debate Ever

  Published: September 27, 2007, 4:18 pm

  Tags: 2008, Debate, Debates, Dept Of Black Republicans, Gop, Pbs, Republicans, Ron Paul, Tavis Smiley, Teevee

  And what will make tonight’s debate so awesome? No Rudy Giuliani! No Walnuts McCain! No Mitt Romney! And of course, like always, no Hollywood Fred Thompson. It will basically be Tavis Smiley...

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• Why Doesn't Carlson Dare Name Dem Consultants Who Call Republicans Racist?

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:25 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaign Elections, Racial Issues, Racism, Peter Fenn, Tavis Smiley, Tom Andrews, Tucker Carlson, Msnbc, Video

  in the debate moderated by Tavis Smiley, billed as addressing issues of concern to black Americans. On the one hand, Carlson criticized the Republicans' reticence. On the other, he flashed anger at the way Dems play the race card. He concluded with a particularly tantalizing comment. View video here. TUCKER CARLSON: I do think the Democrats

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• Tavis Smiley - Today's Best Person in the World

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Republicans, Tavis Smiley, Debate, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John Mccain

  Candidates debate hosted by Tavis Smiley at Morgan State University in Baltimore. As you may recall this is the debate, taking place at an historically black school, where the top four candidates choose to not show up because of “scheduling conflicts.” The absence of the front-runners from a debate at a historically black college

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