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“He treated people awfully.” – Ellis Henican After weeks of taunting the media, Anthony Weiner has finally resigned. On the O’Reilly Factor, Ellis explained that Weiner had noone to defend him because “he was a jerk.” E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
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Republicans want him to resign. Even Democrats are calling for him to step down. What is Congressman Anthony Weiner thinking? “Should I Stay or Should I Go” - The Clash Should I stay or should I go now? Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble and if I stay [...]
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The news was about a NY Congressman – but the song we were all singing was “I wish I were an…”. Here’s a look back at the the original song and the story behind it. Before Twitter… “I Wish I were An Oscar Mayer Weiner” “Oh, I’m glad I’m not an Oscar Mayer wiener. [...]
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“There’s no delete button on the internet”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 5, 2011 We keep teaching this lesson to the children, then refusing to learn it ourselves. You know the lesson I mean: The Internet is everywhere and forever. We say, kiddies, keep those Spring Break photos off of Facebook. We say no bong [...]
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“Early reports on SEAL raid also incorrect”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,May 8, 2011 The Fog of War, the Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz famously called it. And that was a pretty good term. The idea was that, in the heat of battle, the details of what just happened could get awfully confused. Who shot [...]
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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 November 27, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk began with a look at the media’s hyped coverage [...]
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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 September 4, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk began with the media’s coverage of Barack Obama’s speech to the [...]
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“If swimmers take risks, whose fault is it”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 27, 2010 It’s the old nanny-state question, dragged onto the beach this time. How far should government go in protecting us from ourselves? The official in the hot seat this time is Charles Theofan of Long Beach, a city manager with a thorny [...]
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“140-Character World Changers,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 19, 2009, page 4 Why should Iranian election protesters have all the Twitter fun? Can’t other world events be hijacked, one 140-character outburst at a time? Sure, they can. And soon they will be. Every day, it gets a little bit harder to tell the social-networking [...]
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