Excerpts from my interview with “Giuliani Time” documentary producer Williams Cole

Filed at 8:53 pm, Saturday March 10th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

I’m working on another freelance piece for Truthout.org (a nonprofit online magazine with about 250,000 subscribers) about Rudy Giuliani. As part of the research for it, I had sort of an interview with Williams Cole, who was the producer of a 2005 documentary “Giuliani Time.” The piece I’m writing isn’t ready yet, but I thought […]

Why is Newsweek censoring its George Clooney interview from Americans?

Filed at 6:53 pm, Sunday February 04th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Let’s say a major US-based international news magazine lands an exclusive interview with one of the biggest stars and Americans pop icons of the current day. Just hypothetically speaking of course. And since he’s also a person who’s known for getting political, they interview him about American politics (”I like Obama”), and even ask him […]

Exclusive- Political references in new film “Children of Men” examined (illustrated)

Filed at 9:30 am, Sunday December 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa

2006 has been a good year for politically-charged films- both fiction and non. So when I got my hands on an advance screening copy of Children of Men (from Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment; wide theatrical release in opened December 29th in the USA), I wasn’t surprised to find it had strong political overtones as […]

Exclusive: Documents, vintage local articles expose Republican Presidential-hopeful Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy

Filed at 8:30 am, Friday December 22nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa

A series of documents and vintage election coverage from local papers obtained by The Daily Background exposes Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy on two key issues, both of which serve as a litmus test to many social conservatives. Arlen Parsa explains, in this exclusive report…
In 1994, Mitt Romney ran for US Senate, in Massachusetts, seeking to unseat […]

Exclusive Brief: President Bush to meet with Hastert tomorrow

Filed at 5:30 pm, Wednesday October 11th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

A knowledgeable source tells TheDailyBackground that the President plans to meet with House Speaker Dennis Hastert tomorrow at the one of Hastert’s regional offices in Illinois’ 14th district. Hastert has three regional offices and it was not immediately clear which he planned to meet with the President at.
The source was unaware if Hastert and President […]

Exclusive: Purged Website, Interviews Reveal Pages Wary of Foley, Others in 2004

Filed at 8:54 pm, Tuesday October 03rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Republican pages gossiped, Demoratic pages unaware of rumors
Congressional pages discussed rumors about former Republican Representative Mark Foley as early as April 2004, new evidence indicates. According to information recently purged from an online community designed for teenagers involved in the House page program, some teenage pages working for Republican Congressmen had heard rumors about former […]



Asides


 # Rachel Maddow gets her own MSNBC show, starting September 8th.

 # Al Gore will speak at the final night of the DNC Convention.

 # Since when does McCain consider John Lewis an adviser?

 # Bob Woodward's 4th Bush Administration tome, titled "The War Within," will be released on September 6th

 # Did McCain cheat at Rick Warren's Saddleback Civics Forum?