“Steve Levy gives up the ghost” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 1, 2010 Steve Levy is lucky he has such high self-esteem. Otherwise, he’d be feeling pretty bummed this weekend. Nothing is turning out like the Suffolk County executive planned. State Republican leaders were certain to pick him as their inside candidate for governor. Only they [...]
“Bams ‘View’ Really Matters” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 30, 2010 He knows Lindsay Lohan’s a jailbird. He’s chagrined at Mel Gibson’s anger mismanagement. So how could Barack Obama be so embarrassingly clueless about a national figure as important as Snooki? Appearing on “The View,” the pop-savvy president drew an uncharacteristic blank at the mention [...]
“School closure better prompt plain talk in Huntington Station” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 25, 2010 No one is saying the Jack Abrams School wasn’t educating its students. No one is claiming the teaching was shoddy, the building was crumbling or the discipline was lax. The Huntington School Board voted 4-3 on Monday to shut down [...]
”Slippery Blogger has No Rules” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 16, 2010 Here in the Believable Media, we don’t have very many rules. No sleeping with the sources. No taking money from the politicians and flacks. And no twisting peoples’ words around when you edit their quotes. I can’t comment on Andrew Breitbart’s funding practices [...]
Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories. (Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel) On the July 17, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the panel discussed the media’s coverage of White House Press Secretary [...]
“Are we still the ‘burbs if our lawns are brown?” – Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 18, 2010 Will the suburbs still be the suburbs if the people can’t water their lawns? That question is suddenly impossible to ignore as Suffolk County officials announced that water consumption surged to an all-time record on Friday. Robo-calls are urging [...]
Ellis explained to Monica Crowley (hosting the O’Reilly Factor) why the NAACP was absolutely right to call for its Tea Party Resolution E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
What can Justine Mulhall possibly say? “I’m sorry”? “I didn’t mean to”? “Forgive me, please”? Would it be better to say nothing at all? It’s a question that comes up whenever an accident turns truly tragic, when the unintentional actions of one person lead to devastating pain for others. Two highly charged values immediately collide. [...]
”Post-Racial? Not Really ” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, July 16, 2010 The NAACP says the Tea Party crowd needs to expel its not-so-hidden racists. The New Black Panther Party is suddenly Outrage Number One on talking-head TV. And with the fresh controversy in Arizona, the debate over illegal immigration is turning personal again, focused on [...]
Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories. (Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel) On the July 10, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the panel discussed the media’s coverage of the Department of Justice decision [...]
ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist at Newsday and a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series “Sealab 2021.”
