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<title><![CDATA[Jim Rutenberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14609.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jim Rutenberg]]></description><category domain="14609">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[RT, Sputnik and Russia's New Theory of War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/magazine/rt-sputnik-and-russias-new-theory-of-war.html?smid=tw-share&amp;referer=https://t.co/WPncijc8dz?amp=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century &#195;&#162;?? and why it may be impossible to stop.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Watergate, One Set of Facts. In Trump Era, Take Your Pick.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/business/media/comey-trump-watergate.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a question that has hung out there throughout our hyper-driven, hyper-divided media era: What would Watergate look like if it were to happen now? We no longer have to wonder. Forget Deep Throat, the anonymous senior F.B.I. official whom history so fondly remembers for guiding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Massacre That Wasn't: A &quot;Fake News&quot; Turning Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/business/the-massacre-that-wasnt-and-a-turning-point-for-fake-news.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were so many instant internet spoofs making fun of Kellyanne Conway&rsquo;s now-famous &ldquo;Bowling Green Massacre&rdquo; that it&rsquo;s hard to pick a favorite. Gun to my head, I&rsquo;d say mine was the Twitter meme that showed a brass plaque dedicated to the names of the poor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Alternative Facts&quot; &amp; the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Donald J. Trump swore the presidential oath on Friday, he assumed responsibility not only for the levers of government but also for one of the United States&rsquo; most valuable assets, battered though it may be: its credibility. The country&rsquo;s sentimental reverence for truth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Maher on the Incoming President and Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/business/media/bill-maher-trump.html?mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=EB404A9BD76C8B3CE71A7FDB5851832F&amp;gwt=pay</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;And boy did I miss it,&rdquo; he joked with me last week. &ldquo;What an idiot all those years &mdash; drinking&rsquo;s fun. You hear that, kids? Drinking&rsquo;s fun!&rdquo; Actually, that&rsquo;s not why he did it, he said during a marathon session of talking and drinking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Megyn Kelly's Jump to NBC Will Test Her, and the Networks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/business/media/megyn-kelly-nbc-fox-news.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Megyn Kelly, the shift from Fox News to NBC &mdash; where she will host a daily daytime show and a Sunday newsmagazine program &mdash; will be a test of whether she can connect with a broader audience in a different format and reach another level of television stardom. But her move,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From 2016 for News Media, as the Ground Shifts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/business/news-media-presidential-race-trump.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Starting a weekly column about the nexus between media, technology, culture and politics in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign was like parachuting into a hail of machine-gun crossfire. Dense smoke was everywhere as the candidates and their supporters unloaded on one another...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Balance, Fairness &amp; a Proudly Provocative Candidate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/business/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation&rsquo;s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ailes, a TV Titan at the Peak of His Power, Hits End of His Path]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/business/media/roger-ailes-a-tv-titan-at-the-peak-of-his-power-hits-the-end-of-his-path.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump&rsquo;s coronation as the Republican nominee for president Tuesday night was a signal accomplishment not only for the candidate, but also for the man who commands the most important control room in American politics: the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Mr. Trump&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facebook's Troubling One-Way Mirror]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/business/facebooks-troubling-one-way-mirror.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you bothered to read the fine print when you created your Facebookaccount, you would have noticed just how much of yourself you were giving over to Mark Zuckerberg and his $340 billion social network. In exchange for an admittedly magical level of connectivity, you were giving them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Voting Rights Act, Undone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/magazine/voting-rights-act-dream-undone.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Best Reason to Take Rand Paul Seriously]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/magazine/the-best-reason-to-take-rand-paul-seriously-has-nothing-to-do-with-his-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although Rand Paul &mdash; who declared his bid for the presidency on Tuesday &mdash; has spent several years now inching toward the Republican mainstream, there is still a tendency among the political classes to view him as a sideshow candidate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ben Carson?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/magazine/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-ben-carson.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bass seemed momentarily speechless, and not just because no one had warned her that a New York Times reporter would be sitting in on her job interview. Though she knew Williams &mdash; a jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur who owns several television stations and a public-affairs business...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Megyn Kelly Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/magazine/the-megyn-kelly-moment.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a gray Wednesday in November, the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and four producers gathered around a conference table on the 17th floor of the News Corporation building in Manhattan. They were there to plan the 281st episode of &ldquo;The Kelly File,&rdquo; which would be shown live in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jay Carney: &quot;A Little Perspective Is Useful&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/magazine/jay-carney.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Were you surprised at times how tense things could get with your former colleagues? Sure. It can be surreal at the podium when you go down that front row and you have an exchange with one of the reporters in which there&rsquo;s very emotional &mdash; maybe even theatrical &mdash;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Digital Masterminds Cash In]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, senior members of President Barack Obama&rsquo;s campaign team took a trip to Las Vegas. Nevada holds a special place in Obama-wonk lore as the place where his monthslong strategy of defeating Hillary Clinton by slowly and surely amassing delegates emerged. But the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Keeps Opponents and Donors Frozen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/us/politics/a-hillary-clinton-in-transition-has-rivals-and-donors-frozen-in-place.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton left the State Department nearly two months ago, but she still needs a staff to keep up with the considerable business of being Hillary Clinton. A half-dozen people now work for the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate in a tiny corporate space...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;The Neocons Worst Nightmare&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/us/old-foes-lead-charge-against-chuck-hagel.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the bitter debate that led up to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said that some of his fellow Republicans, in their zest for war, lacked the perspective of veterans like him, who have &ldquo;sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Divided Nation Votes to Give Obama More Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/us/politics/obama-romney-presidential-election-2012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give him more time.In defeating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Campaign Endgame: Grunt Works and Cold Math]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/us/politics/for-obama-aides-endgame-takes-grunt-work-and-math.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama cast his early ballot Thursday in Chicago. 
CHICAGO &mdash; This is what &ldquo;grinding it out&rdquo; looks like at President Obama&rsquo;s election headquarters: scores of young staff members intently clicking away at computer keyboards as they crunch gigabytes of data...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Fears Hurting Obama, Poll Shows]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/us/politics/poll-shows-economic-fears-undercutting-obama-support.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Declining confidence in the nation&rsquo;s economic prospects appears to be the most powerful force influencing voters as the presidential election gears up, undercutting key areas of support for President Obama and helping give his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, an advantage on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Surprising Setback for Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/us/politics/south-carolina-republican-primary.html?hp&amp;gwh=1AFC814B65000DFA74C4D811EE273393</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Surprising his rivals and upending the highly unpredictable Republican race for the presidency, Newt Gingrich won the pivotal South Carolina primary Saturday, just 10 days after a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire left the impression his candidacy was all but dead.Mr. Gingrich rode to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Huntsman Faces His Moment in N.H.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/politics/ready-or-not-huntsman-faces-his-moment-in-new-hampshire.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEWPORT, N.H. &mdash; Jon M. Huntsman Jr. was in jeopardy of arriving late to his own rally here the other night. But his wife&rsquo;s desperate need for caffeine forced them to stop for gas-station blend at the Bradford Market, where an admiring clerk added to their delay.        A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Team Obama Gears Up for 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/sunday-review/Team-Obama-Gears-Up-for-2012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AS North Carolina Republicans tell it, the Obama for America volunteers stole in under cover of night and stayed, undetected &mdash; noticed belatedly only because of election results across the state.&ldquo;It was very scary,&rdquo; said Chris Sinclair, a strategist for Billie Redmond,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Huntsman Enters Race Against Ex-Boss Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/huntsman-announces-candidacy-for-president/?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, officially announced he was running for president on Tuesday,  telling an audience of supporters and reporters gathered at a park  facing the Statue of Liberty that he would be a better leader than President Obama, for whom he served as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Huntsman Set to Run as Outsider on the Inside]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/politics/20huntsman.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As guests including Barbra Streisand and Yo Yo Ma mingled in three resplendent rooms in the White House in January to honor President Hu Jintao of China, David Axelrod, President Obama&rsquo;s senior strategist, needed to take care of some political housekeeping.The president&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries to Rebuild Political Machinery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/us/politics/05obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO &mdash; Saddled with a faltering economic recovery, President Obama is rebuilding the campaign machinery that vaulted him into office, hoping it can overcome the challenges of persistently high unemployment and a fractured coalition of supporters.Under the cover of an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Groups Form to Aid Dems With Anonymous Money]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/us/politics/30donate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A group including former White House officials, union leaders and one of Hollywood&rsquo;s biggest producers have joined forces to start an outside effort to help President Obama and Congressional Democrats in 2012 by using the very sort of anonymous, unlimited donations from moneyed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the White House's Press Fight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm  steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret t&#195;&#170;te-&#195;&#160;-t&#195;&#170;te.Roger Ailes reached out to David Axelrod to address...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Closing Argument to the Everyman]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/us/politics/29obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Rutenberg</author>
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