ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The Nation, The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.

Blog Entries by ZP Heller

Only One Day Left to Tell Your Senators "Lieberman Must Go!"

Posted November 17, 2008 | 03:20 PM (EST)


Our Lieberman Must Go campaign is gaining Joe-mentum! Over 1,600 people have already made a call to their Democratic Senators, requesting they take away Lieberman's plum Homeland Security Committee chairmanship this Tuesday, when Dems will gather behind closed doors to determine Lieberman's fate.

The press is also taking notice....

Read Post

Lieberman Must Go Once and for All

14 Comments | Posted November 7, 2008 | 06:22 PM (EST)


Democrats are on the verge of heeding our calls to boot Joe Lieberman from the caucus.  Soon after the Democrats' landslide victory, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) confronted the Connecticut Democrat-turned-Independent-turned-McCain cheerleader about his vicious attacks against Obama during the past year.  According to The Huffington Post,...

Read Post

FOX Goes Nuts Over ACORN

26 Comments | Posted November 3, 2008 | 05:27 PM (EST)


FOX News never met a community organizer they didn't hate.  Desperate to exacerbate the GOP's recent attacks on ACORN, FOX is fueling the fire of misinformation about the nation's largest grassroots community organizing group.  They attacked ACORN's Chief Organizer Bertha Lewis last Thursday for endorsing Barack Obama in...

Read Post

Obama Campaign Takes the Fight to FOX

27 Comments | Posted October 28, 2008 | 05:16 PM (EST)


FOX News is in the desperate throes of backing a losing party.  Despite what Megyn "Obama's Baby Mama" Kelly would have you believe, FOX has been the GOP's mouthpiece throughout this election, viciously maligning Barack Obama while pushing the party's conservative agenda. (For proof of just how much slander...

Read Post

McCain "Categorically" Proud of Hateful Rally Attendees

9 Comments | Posted October 16, 2008 | 02:52 PM (EST)


"Traitor!"  "A terrorist!"  "Off with his head!"  "Bomb Obama!"

Those are just some of the hateful, bigoted, xenophobic, cries that have been spewed at McCain-Palin rallies in recent weeks.  We can hear these cries loud and clear, and so can McCain, even though he chooses to ignore them.  Until...

Read Post

Cancer Expert Discusses Dangers of McCain's Health Record Secrecy

Posted October 4, 2008 | 05:26 PM (EST)


"If there's limitation to the transparency of anybody's medical records, it always raises the suspicion, 'What are they hiding?'..."  Those were the words of Dr. Richard Sagebiel, co-director of the UCSF Melanoma Clinic and Friday's special guest on Meet the Bloggers.  Dr. Sagebiel is one of over 2,750 doctors...

Read Post

Why is the Corporate Press Censoring Attempts to Discuss McCain's Health Records?

6 Comments | Posted September 29, 2008 | 03:51 PM (EST)


When over 2,500 doctors come forward, urging John McCain to provide full public disclosure of his medical records, it warrants national discussion.  McCain severely limited access to his medical records back in May (20 reporters had only 3 hours to review 1,173 pages without any cameras, cell phones,...

Read Post

Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Need a Timeout to Fix the Economy

15 Comments | Posted September 25, 2008 | 04:01 PM (EST)


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's appearance on a special Meet the Bloggers yesterday proved two things: not only can politicians work together to fix one of the worst economic crises in our nation's history, but they can do this while continuing to speak to the American people, keeping us informed...

Read Post

The Relentless Activism of Tom Morello

Posted September 17, 2008 | 04:54 PM (EST)


The St. Paul police should have known better than to try to stop Tom Morello. When the activist guitarist showed up at the Minnesota State Capitol building with the recently reunited Rage Against the Machine to protest the Republican National Convention on September 2, police hastily took action. Clearly...

Read Post

The "P" in "POW" Does Not Stand for "President"

Posted September 5, 2008 | 05:16 PM (EST)


If the Republican National Convention revealed anything it’s that John McCain is hellbent on overplaying his POW card to the bitter end.  In the last few months alone we’ve seen the McCain campaign overuse McCain’s POW story to justify everything from his healthcare policy to forgetting how many houses he...

Read Post

Anti-War Protesters Have Every Reason to Yell "Fuck FOX News!"

Posted August 25, 2008 | 06:06 PM (EST)


The DNC is barely under way in Denver, but protesters are already making themselves heard.  Their message: "Fuck corporate media!" and "Fuck FOX News!" 

That's the response FOX's Griff Jenkins receives when he throws himself into a...

Read Post

McCain's Too Out of Touch to Realize He's Out of Touch

Posted August 20, 2008 | 02:38 PM (EST)


Leave it to Republicans to stick to their misguided talking points at all costs—a hobgoblin of little-minded spokesmen.  Yesterday, Brave New Films released McCain's Mansions, a short video juxtaposing John McCain's many multi-million dollar homes with the plight of Eileen Gillis, a systems engineer forced to take a second...

Read Post

Tell the FEC to Investigate Wal-Mart for Electioneering

Posted August 13, 2008 | 04:46 PM (EST)


American Rights at Work is demanding the Federal Election Commission investigate Wal-Mart for electioneering.  This comes on the heels of The Wall Street Journal's report that exposed Wal-Mart for telling its employees not to vote for Barack Obama and other pro-worker candidates who support the Employee Free...

Read Post

Meet the Bloggers: Darcy Burner Can End the Iraq War Responsibly

Posted August 9, 2008 | 10:26 AM (EST)


When it comes to the Iraq war, the question is no longer whether the U.S. should end it, but how.  On yesterday's Meet the Bloggers, special guest Darcy Burner made the case for A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which she co-authored earlier this...

Read Post

Wal-Mart's Desperate War Against Unionization

Posted August 2, 2008 | 09:43 AM (EST)


The nation's biggest private employer is also its most notorious union-hater.  The Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart has been swaying workers from voting Democrat this November, fearing that the Democrats' proposed Employee Free Choice Act would make unionizing possible in Wal-Mart stores.

In an act that reeks of...

Read Post

Helping Put Rove in Contempt

Posted July 30, 2008 | 05:15 PM (EST)


The campaign to Send Karl Rove to Jail just won a major victory this morning. The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Rove in contempt by a 20-14 vote, and it was your efforts that made this a reality!

Just 12 days ago, we were pointing out Rove's arrogance...

Read Post

Harry Reid Knows How to End the Energy Crisis

Posted July 28, 2008 | 04:50 PM (EST)


Last week's Meet the Bloggers was practically dripping in oil.  It's an issue affecting all of us, from the exorbitant price of gas to the war in Iraq, from the billions in subsidies for oil companies to the catastrophic environmental destruction brought on by Big Oil.  Senate Majority Leader...

Read Post

"Partisan" Does Not Mean What Joe Lieberman Thinks It Means

Posted July 15, 2008 | 05:47 PM (EST)


On Sunday, Joe Lieberman was asked about Brave New Films' Lieberman Must Go campaign when he appeared on Connecticut talk show "Beyond the Headlines," which airs on a local FOX affiliate. After Lieberman first attempted to deflect host Sherry Sindland's question with a trademark shrug and an awkward joke...

Read Post

A Grassroots Victory: Lieberman Must Go!

Posted July 11, 2008 | 04:30 PM (EST)


This week's delivery of our Lieberman Must Go petition was a smashing success! Our own Communications Associate Eddie Kurtz flew to Washington to deliver the 43,000 signature petition, which demands that the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee strip Joe Lieberman of his committee chairmanship and rank within...

Read Post

See the Proof That Joe Lieberman Is a Terrorist

Posted July 3, 2008 | 01:49 PM (EST)


Did that headline grab your attention? It's exactly the kind of slimy trick FOX News played when anchor E.D. Hill began her show America's Pulse with the teaser: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."

Well, by FOX's own...

Read Post

Bloggers Index›