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Fox News
(12/24/08)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
(12/16/08)
Fox News
(12/15/08)
CNBC
(11/25/08)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
(11/10/08)
Grit TV
(10/31/08)
Fox News
(10/29/08)
CNN's Larry King Live
(10/27/08)
CNBC
(10/23/08)
Democracy Now
(10/21/08)
CNN's American Morning
(10/20/08)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
(10/14/08)
CNN Newswroom
(10/1/08)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
(9/26/08)
Fox News
(9/22/08)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
(9/16/08)
Grit TV
(9/15/08)
CNN's American Morning
(9/11/08)
Fox News
(9/11/08)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
(9/9/08)
Fox Business
(9/1/08)
CNN's American Morning
(8/25/08)
Fox & Friends
(8/23/08)
Meet the Bloggers
(8/22/08)
GritTV
(8/22/08)
GritTV
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Minnesota Public Radio
(8/12/08)
Hannity & Colmes
(8/11/08)
Fox News
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Fox News
(7/16/08)
Fox News
(7/10/08)
Lou Dobbs Tonight
(7/9/08)
NPR's Diane Rehm Show
(7/9/08)
Fox Business
(6/20/08)
Fox News
(6/15/08)
PBS Now
(6/6/08)
CNN Newsroom
(6/1/08)
The Colbert Report
(5/29/08)
Articles by David Sirota:
Viva Las Vegas?
(Creators Syndicate)
We Told You So
(Creators Syndicate)
Those Other Elections
(Creators Syndicate)
Our Dear Leader
(Creators Syndicate)
Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
(Creators Syndicate)
Knowing When to Walk Away
(Creators Syndicate)
The Better Way Is the Only Way
(Creators Syndicate)
Mandate '08: Reagan vs. FDR
(Creators Syndicate)
Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces
(Creators Syndicate)
Signs of an Earthquake in Oregon
(Creators Syndicate)
Remembering Those Other American Dreams
(In These Times)
Crony Communist or Businessman?
(Creators Syndicate)
No Deal to this New Deal
(Creators Syndicate)
Back in the USSR
(Creators Syndicate)
$700 Billion Questions
(In These Times)
No Time for a Minimalist
(Creators Syndicate)
"Country First"
(Creators Syndicate)
Making Goliath Walk
(Creators Syndicate)
An Unconventional Convention
(Creators Syndicate)
The Conquest of Presidentialism
(Creators Syndicate)
Will Obama Wave Bayh Bye to the White House?
(Creators Syndicate)
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Denver...
(Creators Syndicate)
Sanity From the Silver Screen
(Creators Syndicate)
Six Little Words
(Creators Syndicate)
"Centrists" Running the Asylum
(Creators Syndicate)
Anywhere Becomes Everywhere
(Creators Syndicate)
This Summer's Trilogy of Truth
(Creators Syndicate)
Countering Race with Class
(Creators Syndicate)
An Anti-Clinton for VP
(Creators Syndicate)
The Populist Uprising
(Creators Syndicate)
The Lamont Lesson
(Creators Syndicate)
Drilling for Defeat?
(New York Times)
A Different Kind of Democracy
(Creators Syndicate)
Toward a New Washington Consensus
(Creators Syndicate)
Acknowledging the Race Chasm
(Creators Syndicate)
The Plague of Potomac Fever
(Creators Syndicate)
Matthews vs. McNulty
(Creators Syndicate)
The Ludlow Legacy, Part II: Colorado
(Creators Syndicate)
The Ludlow Legacy, Part I: Colombia
(Creators Syndicate)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
(Creators Syndicate)
Presidential Politics & the Race Chasm
(The Oregonian)
The Race Chasm and '08
(Denver Post)
The Clinton Firewall & the Race Chasm
(In These Times)
Is Wright Right About Racism?
(Creators Syndicate)
The Upside of Nationalism
(In These Times)
New Crisis, Old Isms
(Creators Syndicate)
Remembering What Nixon Learned
(Creators Syndicate)
Hope In the Time of NAFTA
(Creators Syndicate)
The New Permament Campaign
(Creators Syndicate)
A Trade Transformation
(Creators Syndicate)
The Candidate of the Permanent Will
(Creators Syndicate)
It's Also the Congress, Stupid
(In These Times)
The Democrats' Class War
(Creators Syndicate)
Rocky Mountain Realities
(Creators Syndicate)
The Stimulus Swindle
(Creators Syndicate)
Digging In the Right Place
(Creators Syndicte)
Stay Classy, Mike Huckabee
(Creators Syndicate)
The Path to a National Popular Vote
(Creators Syndicate)
Fear, Loathing & the Crisis of Confidence
(Creators Syndicate)
When Barbarians Take Hostages
(Creators Syndicate)
The Last Row of the Plane
(Creators Syndicate)
Conservative, Or Just Plain Corrupt?
(Creators Syndicate)
Was Ross Perot Right?
(Creators Syndicate)
The Immigration Con Artists
(Creators Syndicate)
The Huey Longs of Iowa
(Creators Syndicate)
Halloween & The Lead Monster
(Creators Syndicate)
Captive-Industry Populism
(Creators Syndicate)
The Invisible Culture of Corruption
(Creators Syndicate)
Confronting the Hollow Men
(Creators Syndicate)
Immoral, Not Inept
(Creators Syndicate)
Tyranny of the Tiny Minority
(Creators Syndicate)
Over the Dead Bodies...Again
(Creators Syndicate)
The Lesson of the DMV
(Creators Syndicate)
Get Busy Living, Or Get Busy Dying
(The Nation)
New Ways of Thinking On Election Reform
(The Oregonian)
When the Class War Goes Local
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Welcome to the Republican Asylum
(Radar Magazine)
Obama Struggles to Find His Line
(Radar Magazine)
Chicken Soup for the Outsourced Soul
(Radar Magazine)
Windows Into Populism's Rise
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Protesting & Legislating to End the War
(Baltimore Sun)
Pro-Union Hillary Harbors Labor Foes
(Radar Magazine)
The Marriage of Hypocrisy & Corruption
(Denver Post)
Democracy Haters
(In These Times)
Fast Track Hurts Montana Farmers, Workers
(Billings Gazette)
'Good Cop, Bad Cop' Needed
(San Francisco Chronicle)
What They Said, And When They Said It
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Flattening the Great Education Myth
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Embracing Populism
(In These Times)
A Majority Leader, Not a Follower
(Baltimore Sun)
Pinstriped Populist
(New York Times)
Learning from Lamont
(In These Times)
The War on Workers
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Big Money vs. Grassroots
(Washington Spectator)
Where Economics Meets Religious Fundamentalism
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Addressing America's Health Care Taboo
(Washington Examiner)
Who Must Really Answer for 9/11?
(Washington Examiner)
Legislating Under the Influence
(In These Times)
Who's Lieberman Represent? Not You.
(Hartford Courant)
Trivializing Corruption
(PBS Now)
Find Your True Center
(Washington Post)
Mr. Obama Goes to Washington
(The Nation)
Money Plus Secrecy Equals Trouble
(Baltimore Sun)
The Hostile Takeover of American Democracy
(Chicago Sun-Times)
Rick Santorum's Hostile Takeover
(Philadelphia Daily News)
Fighting the Hostile Takeover
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Supply-and-Demand Solutions
(San Francisco Chronicle)
The Seinfeld Strategy
(In These Times)
A Primary Concern
(In These Times)
Undermining the Ownership Society
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Workers On the Slag Heap of History
(Philadelphia Daily News)
The New Battle for States' Rights
(Tom Paine)
Fusion's Third-Party Path to the Center
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Free-Trading Away America's Security
(San Francisco Chronicle)
The Battle for the States
(In These Times)
It's Time for a Windfall Profits Tax
(Costco Connection)
Newt's New Con
(The Nation)
The Corruption Eruption Continues
(Washington Spectator)
A Health Care Solution
(Baltimore Sun)
Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Just Do It
(Washington Spectator)
On the Verge of Political Reform
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Why Not Get Warrants?
(Memphis Flyer)
Will the Dems Step Up In the New Year?
(In These Times)
This Is The Race
(In These Times)
Partisan War Syndrome
(In These Times)
Divvying Up Ohio
(American Prospect)
Hurricanes Rain on Bush's Tax Cut Parade
(In These Times)
The Deafening & Dangerous Silence on Taxes
(San Francisco Chronicle)
The Resurgence of Movement Politics
(The Nation)
Watergate's Lost Legacy
(American Prospect)
Fear, Loathing & the GOP
(In These Times)
Sending a Message on Trade
(Alternet)
Conversions on the Road to Reality
(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Edwards' Own Trade Spotlight
(Charlotte Observer)
Debunking Centrism
(The Nation)
Green + Red = Blue
(In These Times)
The Democrats' Da Vinci Code
(American Prospect)
Top Billings
(Washington Monthly)
Vote for Bush or Die
(The Nation)
You Call This a Democracy?
(In These Times)
Debate School
(American Prospect)
The Greed Factor
(American Prospect)
Tricky Dick
(American Prospect)
Late, Great Middle Class
(Los Angeles Times)
Follow the Money
(Washington Monthly)
The Big Squeeze
(American Prospect)
They Knew
(In These Times)
When Left is Right
(In These Times)
These Dogs Don't Hunt
(American Prospect)
When Ignorance Isn't Bliss
(In These Times)
The $700 Million Question
(American Prospect)
Being Dick Cheney
(In These Times)
It's the Stupidity, Stupid
(In These Times)
The Fox of War
(Salon.com)
Clarke's Vindication
(Salon.com)
Bad Rerun, Worse Consequences
(Popmatters)
On Second Thought
(Ft. Worth Weekly)
Married Gay Martians on Steroids
(Popmatters)
The Failure of Populism?
(TomPaine.com)
G. Walker Bush, Texas Ranger
(Popmatters)
Will America Follow?
(Popmatters)
Bring On the Truth
(Popmatters)
The Motives of Intimigate
(Popmatters)
Profit America
(Popmatters)
The CEO-In-Chief
(Popmatters)
No Question, the Media Is Right
(Popmatters)
Use Trade as a Tool
(Baltimore Sun)
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12/24/08: David Sirota appeared on Fox News to discuss Barack Obama's imminent economic recovery legislation. Watch the clip here.
12/16/08: David Sirota appaered on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show to discuss his recent column looking at three government reports on the Wall Street bailout. Watch the clip here:
By David Sirota, 12/26/08
For most of us, Benjamin Franklin's words in 1789 still apply: "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." However, millionaires, by definition, are not most of us. While they can't stave off the grim reaper, they can convince lawmakers to shield them from the taxman and balance budgets on the backs of everyone else.
Read the rest of Sirota's newest nationally syndicated column here...
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL EDITOR: If you would like to see Sirota's weekly column in your local newspaper, just go here to find the contact info for your local newspaper editor and send them a message with the request (remember - be polite and respectful!).
David Sirota is a political journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado. As one of the only national columnists living and reporting outside of Washington, D.C., he is widely known for his coverage of political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
BIOGRAPHY: See Sirota's full biography here.
ARTICLES: See all of Sirota's writings in the lefthand column of this website.
MEDIA APPEARANCES: See Sirota's recent newspaper television appearances here.
CONTACT: Email David Sirota at lists [at] davidsirota.com. You can also contact Sirota through his MySpace site and Facebook page.
PHOTO: Download a high-res press photo of Sirota here.
THEME SONG: Download Sirota's Al Franken Show theme song.
PROFILES: Read profiles of Sirota in Newsweek, the Rocky Mountain News and The New Republic.
David Sirota is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Hostile Takeover (2006) and The Uprising (2008). Order Hostile Takeover at its official website here. Order The Uprising at its official website here.
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11/12/08 - Hofstra University: David Sirota will speak at Hofstra University. Details are here.
Sirota has published stand-alone articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, The Hartford Courant, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Nation, The Washington Monthly, In These Times and The American Prospect. His weekly, nationally syndicated newspaper column appears in publications with a combined daily readership of 1.6 million. Here is a list of publications that run his column weekly and/or regularly:
The Aiken Standard
Alternet
The Bennington Banner
The Billings Gazette
The Cookeville Herald-Citizen
Credo Action
The Daily Iberian
The Denver Post
The Everett Herald
The Florida Times-Union
The Ft. Collins Coloradoan
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
The Grand Haven Tribune
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
The Green Valley News & Sun
The Idaho Post Register
The Idaho Statesman
In These Times
The Jackson Hole Daily News
The Lancaster Eagle Gazette
The Lewiston Sun-Journal
The McAllen Monitor
The Ocala Star-Banner
The Panama City News Herald
The Pawtucket Times
The Progressive Populist
Salon.com
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Seattle Times
The Statesville Record & Landmark
The Sterling Journal-Advocate
The Troy Record
TruthDig
The Vail Daily
The Woonsocket Call
