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...Martin Eisenstadt, a former McCain campaign adviser, television talking head, and senior fellow at the neoconservative Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, is the bedrock upon which our illustrious nation rests—if he does say so himself. “Pundits have been essential to American democracy since the birth of our great country,” he says. “If George Washington was the first American president, then it could be said that Ben Franklin was the first American pundit. And guess whose face is on a higher denomination bill? I rest my case...
...original text of this story included tweets from Marty Eisenstadt, whose claims to be a former McCain advisor are at best fictional and whose Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy does not really exist...
...movie sketches the four decades of this vigilante group in a brilliant opening-credits sequence, set to Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin'. 1945: In the Times Square revelry on V.J. Day, a nurse is kissed by the slinky superheroine Silhouette in the style of Alfred Eisenstadt's famous photo. 1961: President Kennedy greets Dr. Manhattan at the White House. 1963: JFK is gunned down by the splenetic, cigar-chomping Comedian. 1969: A U.S. astronaut walks on the moon, and finds Dr. Manhattan waiting for him. 1971: President Nixon sends Manhattan and The Comedian to Vietnam...
...Eisenstadt, Martin •credit is claimed for revealing Palin's unawareness of Africa's continentness despite nonexistence...
...familiar pink packet has become emblematic of America's diet obsession. Sweet'N Low, the low-cal sugar substitute, was invented by Brooklynite Benjamin Eisenstadt, who also created sugar packets, Butter Buds and Nu-Salt. His creativity may be genetic: his grandson is the gifted pop-culture historian Rich Cohen. In his new book, Sweet and Low, Cohen tells the rollicking saga of Grandpa Ben's business, "taken over and stripmined by hooligans." The battle over this vast family fortune leads to feuds between siblings, corruption, lawsuits and the ultimate disintegration of the clan. It is Cohen's good fortune...