David Sirota is a political journalist, bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and The Colbert Report (video clips here). His blog is syndicated at Working for Change. Email: lists [at] davidsirota.com. RSS feed, Sirota's MySpace site and Facebook page. Download Sirota's Al Franken Show theme song.
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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:
"Centrists" Running the Asylum
(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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Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi is apparently starting a local Colorado branch of the national Republican Party’s new “Blame the Left First Crowd” - a group of people who would like America to believe the Iraq War has been a disaster not because of President Bush or neoconservatives in Washington, but because progressive bloggers have documented how all the lies, propaganda and rosy predictions have proven to be factually inaccurate. See what I’m talking about here.
posted 7/31/2007 by David Sirota @ 4:23 pm | Permalink
David Sirota's new book is "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington." Due out on May 27th, 2008, the book is a work of investigative journalism. It is a firsthand narrative account inside America's new populist movement, from the streets of New York City to the halls of Microsoft to the deserts at the Mexican border. Go to The Uprising's official website to see a schedule of Sirota's book tour. The book is now available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Tattered Cover, Powell's, or through your local independent bookstore. The Uprising will also be available as an audiobook, which you can pre-order here. For a high-resolution media-ready photo of the book's cover, click here. Stay tuned to this site for Sirota's book tour schedule and media appearances.
David Sirota is a full-time political journalist, best-selling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver, Colorado. He blogs for Working Assets and the Denver Post's PoliticsWest website. He is a Senior Editor at In These Times magazine, which in 2006 received the Utne Independent Press Award for political coverage. His 2006 book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller, and is now out in paperback. He has been a guest on, among others, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and NPR. His writing, which draws on his extensive experience as a progressive political strategist, has appeared in, among others, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Nation magazine, the Washington Monthly and the American Prospect. Sirota was a twice-a-week guest on the Al Franken Show. He currently serves in a volunteer capacity as the co-chairperson of the Progressive States Network - a 501c3 nonpartisan organization.
In the years before becoming a full-time writer, Sirota worked as the press secretary for Vermont Independent Congressman Bernard Sanders, the chief spokesman for Democrats on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, the Director of Strategic Communications for the Center for American Progress, a campaign consultant for Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and a media strategist for Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont. He also previously contributed writing to the website of the California Democratic Party. For more on Sirota, see these profiles of him in Newsweek or the Rocky Mountain News. Feel free to email him at lists [at] davidsirota.com Note: this online publication represents Sirota's personal views, and not the official views of the organizations he works with.
Sirota on Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN) – 5/14/07
Sirota debates Ann Coulter (CNBC) – 8/11/06
Sirota debates John Stossel (CNBC) – 6/16/06
More Clips:
7/28/07 - Sirota on Bulls & Bears (Fox News)
6/23/07 - Sirota on Cashing In, Part 1 (Fox News)
6/23/07 - Sirota on Cashing In, Part 2 (Fox News)
4/19/07 - Sirota at PSN Gala (C-SPAN)
6/22/06 - Sirota at Atticus Books w/ Ned Lamont
6/16/06 - Sirota on PBS Now
6/14/06 - Sirota on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
6/11/06 - Sirota at YearlyKos (LinkTV)
5/8/06 - Sirota at American Progress (C-SPAN)
2/22/06 - Sirota on Countdown (MSNBC)
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