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'My support among young people will grow,' she says. 'It is really picking up a lot of energy and steam.' Hillary Clinton pulled out a shocking win at the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, but amid all the pandemonium at her victory shindig, she made sure to give thanks to a key demographic: people like you. Not long after her upset — and firing up supporters with a victory speech at the Southern New Hampshire University gymnasium in Manchester — Clinton chatted with us about the role young people played in her win and their involvement with politics,...

The celebrities will be on risers along the side of the hall, while the main floor, emptied of seats, will be given over to fans, to roam and hoot and jeer as they please. Which raises the question: What if some wild fan abandons his network-designated station and rushes toward the beautiful people? “He should be encouraged at all points to storm the stage and to create a television moment that people will talk about at the water cooler the next day,” said Hamish Hamilton, one of the producers. “Or even better, that people will download and put on...

Red, white and blue colors cover the screen on MTV's website as the words appear, "The last election was decided by 500,000 votes nationwide. In some states it was decided by 50,000 or 5,000 or 500. In the last election, 18 million young people voted. What if that were 20 million? Who's swing voting now?" The same network that has given us "The Osbournes," "Punk'd," and "Total Request Live" also contributes to the seriousness of politics by delivering "Choose or Lose," the current MTV campaign to mobilize 20 million young voters in November. "Choose or Lose," launched in 1992, brought...

Rock The Vote, a movement begun by the late Patrick Lippert, will honor The Dixie Chicks for "their enduring commitment to preserving and protecting freedom of expression" this February 7th in Hollywood. Following the controversy that surrounded them last March, the Dixie Chicks partnered with Rock the Vote in July 2003 and launched Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote, an initiative to engage and empower young women to become active in the political process by voting. Sheryl Crow will join N*E*R*D and the Black Eyed Peas as performers at the show, which will be held at the world famous Hollywood Palladium. Rock...

"A Scout is trustworthy … loyal … helpful … friendly … courteous … kind …" I'm watching my 12-year-old son Joshua and two dozen other Boy Scouts together recite the Scout Law at their weekly troop meeting. It's a refreshingly hopeful and manly vignette in an era of wall-to-wall teen confusion. As I stand in rapt attention – my eyes exploring the boys' uniforms, searching out all the badges, patches, insignias and other colorful signs of their allegiance to Scouting's high ideals – my mind wanders back a few years to a time when my son wanted to wear a...

What's New We post our latest site additions on this page. It's regularly updated as Dan Rather gives his updates. For older update information, see our Previous News section. In Hunt for Suitable Subjects, CBS Rejects BlacksEmail Reveals Collusion with Liberal Thinktank2003-07-30 04:19:34 ET An electronic message from a spokeswoman at a liberal thinktank obtained by RatherBiased.com has provided new evidence of backdoor contacts between CBS News and left-leaning organizations. The document also indicates Joan Golder is the perfect type of person CBS producers were seeking. She was featured on a July 28 segment entitled "Seniors Sour Over Prime...

An elderly political activist, repeatedly portrayed by CBS News as a typical victim of the high cost of prescription drugs, now admits the network "probably" should have disclosed her lobbying interests. Viola Quirion, who favors the Medicare changes that would provide elderly Americans such as herself with a taxpayer-subsidized prescription drug plan, might not be considered a typical senior citizen to many people - given her extensive political lobbying background, which includes advocating on behalf of Alliance for Retired Persons. But that's the way she was portrayed by CBS News on at least three occasions since 1999, most recently in...

Hillary is coming to red square (technically it's Harvard square) this monday. she will be at the Charles Park Hotel, across from Wordsworth bookstore on Brattle street. Her Heiness will be there at 12:00pm (noon), so i suggest getting there around 11:15/11:30am. I know many of us have to work but if the lefties can make it, we can too. when you get there i'll be the 16 year old, flag bearing, sign holding, politically motivated t-shirt wearing, republican with a big smile on my face. PLEASE TRY TO MAKE IT p.s. - i put New Hampshire as a topic...

Forgive the Vanity, is anyone else disappointed that the Boston Pops has gone to CBS and there show has been cut from 2 1/2 hours to one. Will A&E did a pretty good job with the NSO, even if they had a few cliches at the start. I also did mis the 105's during the 1812 overture.

If it's allowed to stand, an FCC ruling will feed media merger mania BY BILL CLINTON "It's your money," says President Bush when he promotes tax cuts. I disagree with his tax policy but admire his spin. The same argument applies with greater force to whether big media conglomerates should be allowed to control more television and radio stations: "It's your airwaves." The American people own the bandwidth that broadcast media companies use to deliver programs to our TV and radio sets. Because the space on that bandwidth is limited, the Federal Communications Commission regulates who has access to our...

Every punk and metal band screams in rage and anguish. Los Angeles bruisers S.T.U.N. don't just scream, they Scream Towards the Uprising of Nonconformity. It's what the letters in their name stand for, and it's clearly the type of motivational political stuff they represent. Sometimes, when a band wants to show just how gosh darned dedicated it is to such an ambitious goal, the tariff must be paid in blood. S.T.U.N. made such a gesture at a Dallas show in May when, during the second to last song in the set, vocalist Christane J. climbed the bass drum, then leapt...

America's number one talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, whose 1993 book "See, I Told You So" holds the record for the best selling nonfiction book in publishing history, is challenging claims by Simon & Schuster that Hillary Clinton's book "Living History" is now the fastest selling nonfiction work ever. "My book printed 2 million original copies, [which was] the first time in nonfiction it had ever been done - it has not been done since," Limbaugh told his listeners on Wednesday. "And those 2 million books sold in eight weeks." He noted that the first printing run for Mrs. Clinton's...

This took a while to compose and put up on FR, but it’s been a busy week or so. PART 1 – MANHATTAN MELODRAMA The intent to FReep of the Manhattan opening of Rodham Hussein’s book tour was circulated amongst the members of the Tri-State Chapter so as to preserve the element of surprise. Apologies to anyone in the area that was not notified and would have attended. Please FReep mail firebrand if you want in on future Tri-State events. We received tactical air support from Curtis Sliwa of WABC radio (770 AM) in NYC and Dom Giordano of WPHT...

The 'Real Deal' on MTVJoe Scarborough (archive) June 16, 2003 | Print | SendNow, when first launched, MTV revolutionized the music industry. Video didn’t kill the radio star, it super-sized it.        But over the past few years, MTV’s done a little more than shock its predominantly preteen and teen audiences. With breast enhanced Britney Spears writhing across the stage in see-through lingerie, with sex-soaked soap operas, and on a new show where teenage girls talk about losing their virginity, and by a constant bombardment of videos promoting a singularly single message that teen sex is good.       Now listen, as a guy who...

Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:05 a.m. EDTMonica's TV Audience Dwarfed Hillary's The number of television viewers who tuned in to see Monica Lewinsky's 1999 interview with Barbara Walters was more than three times as large as the number of viewers garnered by Hillary Clinton in her much-ballyhooed sitdown with Walters on Sunday. Despite publishing industry hype suggesting that Mrs. Clinton's book debut is one of the biggest media events of all time, only 13.5 million viewers tuned in to see her comment for the first time at any length on her husband's relationship with Lewinsky. By contrast, a whopping...