Eric Alterman arrested in spin room

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[jern]

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN ) – Columnist and author Eric Alterman was arrested Sunday night inside the debate spin room and charged with criminal trespass after police say he refused repeated orders to leave.

[tje]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy...

[CaptainK]

I hope it was a Democrat who had him arrested.

[Petronski]

Columnist and author Eric Alterman was arrested Sunday night inside the debate spin room and charged with criminal trespass after police say he refused repeated orders to leave.

He's been ignoring such orders from civilized society for years.

[Cicero]

Couldn’t have happened to a more suitable guy.

Sounds like the New Hampshire we used to know.

[L.N. Smithee]

Let’s see Media Matters spin THAT!

[BurbankKarl]

Never heard of him....seriously!

[tioga]

Ohhhhhhhh, drama.

[CaptainK]

Think James Carville with hair but without the charm.

[Robwin]

Nor have I, though this bit from the article tells me all I need to know about him:”Alterman writes a column for “The Nation”...”

[doug from upland]

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF FOUR YEARS AGO --

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DFU SONG: Cabaret (giving Eric Alterman the respect he richly deserves)
DFU SONG PARODIES | 3-2003 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland

Posted on 03/18/2003 7:58:26 PM PST by doug from upland

MIDI - CABARET

He has been snippy and all out of sorts…at Bush he's really p*ssed
Poor Eric Alterman needs a new gynecologist

He has had migraines and he has had cramps…oh, why must these pains persist
Poor Eric Alterman needs a new gynecologist

Out of control…he's an a-hole
He writes his B.S. in the Nation…Eric needs new medication

Down on his kneepads when Clinton would call…he'd say "If you insist"
Poor Eric Alterman needs a new gynecologist

Out of control…he's an a-hole
He writes his B.S. in the Nation…Eric needs new medication

Girly man Eric warns FReepers they'll get…a slap with his limp wrist
Poor Eric Alterman needs a…he's desperate and needs right away
A new gynecologist

[cripplecreek]

Police say he was asked by an executive at the party if he was invited to the private area and was asked to leave.

Get back under the porch boy. LOL

[csvset]

I said, "Who?"

Bio
Termed "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today” in the National Catholic Reporter, and author of “the smartest and funniest political journal out there,” in the San Francisco Chronicle, Eric Alterman is Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, media columnist for The Nation, senior fellow and “Altercation” weblogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com), senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he writes and edits the “Think Again” column, and a history consultant to HBO Films.

Alterman is the author of the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003,2004), and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, 2004,2005). His most recent book is When Presidents Lie: A History of Deception and its Consequences, (2004,2006. His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. Alterman is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998).

A frequent lecturer and contributor to virtually every significant national publication in the US and many in Europe, in recent years, he has also been a columnist for: Worth, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Sunday Express (London). A senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, and former Adjunct Professor of Journalism at NYU and Columbia, Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in US History from Stanford. He lives with his family in Manhattan where he is at work on a history of postwar American liberalism.

 

[don-o]

Hell of an archive you have, doug!

[hometoroost]

Is there anyone on the left who is not possessed by permanent PMS?? I guess denying reality and being wrong about everything wears on the soul.

[dighton]

The item seems to have disappeared.

[don-o]

I had trouble with a link I made to cnn tonight as well

[cammie]

He’s an idiot, and my favorite TV moment was several years ago on the Dennis Miller show when Dennis Miller couldn’t even be bothered to do his research on Alterman. He just threw his notecards in the air and told Alterman to say whatever the eff he wanted. People got on Miller’s case for it, but I thought it was just about the level of respect Alterman deserved.

[kcvl]

Alterman was hired by MSNBC in 1995, and appeared as a commentator on the cable channel and wrote a column. In 2002 MSNBC directed him to create the daily Altercation blog, which was the first blog run by a mainstream news outlet.[1] In September 2006, Alterman and MSNBC parted ways, after a ten year association. Media Matters for America then hired Alterman as a Senior Fellow and agreed to host Altercation, effective September 18, 2006.

Alterman argues that the press is biased against liberals rather than in their favor.

Alterman was and remains a critic of Ralph Nader for his actions in 2000 US Presidental Election claiming he is partially to blame for the election of George W. Bush because of vote splitting [2]. He has called Nader “Bush’s Useful Idiot” [3], myopic [4], and a deluded megalomaniac [5].

“The man needs to go away. I think he needs to live in a different country. He’s done enough damage to this one. Let him damage somebody else’s now.”[6]

Alterman on Ronald Reagan:

...”Ronald Reagan was many things, but most undeniably he was a pathological liar.”

“I got a call one day from a Republican Party functionary telling me that Hillary Clinton supported a Palestinian state and took money from groups that supported terrorist organizations “like the one that just blew up the USS Cole.” I told the sorry sonofabitch that like Israel’s Prime Minister, I, too, support a Palestinian state. And, if there was any justice in the world, Hillary’s “terrorist” friends would blow up Republican headquarters while we were still on the phone, so I could enjoy hearing the explosion.”

[Lawgvr1955]

I’d bet a c-note no charges are pressed and nada comes of this.