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Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson appears as a guest on Jon Ralston’s show, “Face to Face With Jon Ralston.”
Friday, July 13, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Politico, a Washington-based multimedia organization that covers American politics, has named Las Vegas Sun columnist and television host Jon Ralston to its “50 Politicos to Watch” list for 2012.
Ralston, who has covered politics for the Sun since 2000 and is host of the public affairs television show “Face to Face With Jon Ralston,” joins a list that includes Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and actress Sarah Jessica Parker.
The list recognizes up-and-coming political players whom the public may not have yet heard about, said Anne Cronin, deputy managing editor of Politico.
“It’s not going to be people like Barack Obama,” Cronin said. “It’s people whom you should be paying attention to if you are not already.”
Ralston, 53, is listed in the category of “Swing State Media Players” and is one of only five journalists to make the list.
Politico correspondents and editors — many of whom have referred to Ralston’s reporting, quoted him in their pieces and linked to his work — recommended him for inclusion on the list.
“There’s no doubt that this prolific political journalist is at the top of his game for anyone interested in the increasingly important — and entertaining — state of Nevada,” Politico says of Ralston.
Other honorees on the list include Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, actress Eva Longoria, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Congratulations Jon!
Makes sense. He knows what is going on and is the authoritive voice on politics in Nevada, a major swing state.
Well deserved Jon.
See kids, work hard, study hard and you can be a media phenom, even if you look and sound funny.
Congrats, Jon. Funny how a hard-working politico who has had nothing given to him supports the socialist entitlement state.
Jon has become a force to be reckoned with because of his sense of humor bordering on ghostly edges of SNL, his probing inquiries buttressed by his willingness to frame and ask the tough question, and his playfully poetic prose.
His style is reminiscent of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's "Bring the outside in and take the inside out"
His tone harkens back to beatnik Allan Ginsberg's "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."
And Ralston's legacy recalls the belly shaking insights of novelist and humorist Mark Twain's "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please!"
He's the cock of the walk, the fun in the pun, and the strut of the strip -all in one.
Congratulations and thanks for all you do for so many.
Absolutely, well deserved!!! I sometimes gets frustrated at the pace of Jon's interviews, where the subject has to get the answer out in seemingly less than 15 seconds before Jon cuts them off, but often...he's just stopping them from pivoting into talking points and presses them for a meaningful response to his question!