Jon Stewart and the Kool Kids dilemma
I think I've finally figured out the Media Whores thing - why do they do it, and what do they want?
View ArticleTriumph on undecided voters - tonight on Conan O'Brien
If you liked (or missed) the segment on Conan O'Brien where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog smacked down the spinmeisters after the last presidential debate, there was a brief but funny coda on the Conan...
View ArticleHoward Kurtz gets chided
CableNewser takes Howie to the woodshed today. Apparently all the he-said he-said election excitement, the constant checking of What Andrew Sullivan Thinks, the piles of talking-point faxes from the...
View ArticleThe "moral values" thing
I've already heard it on Fox and NBC - it seems apparent that the media are going to seize on "moral values" as the tipping point for this election. (Dunno how it morphed from "family values" to "moral...
View ArticleHow Michael Savage celebrated
And this stuff continues to move closer and closer to the center of public acceptance, coming into the light for all to see... How Michael Savage celebratedSupporters of President Bush gathered at...
View ArticleCNN's low point so far...
Right now (3/31, 11:15 am EST), Daryn Kagan is interviewing Tim LaHaye (author of the Left Behind series), while showing a split screen of religious protesters praying and the coroner's van heading up...
View ArticleGov. Blanco (D-LA) endorses Draconian abortion bill
We in Louisiana knew she was incompetent before Katrina, and certainly after. We knew she was a DINO, lickspittling up to both the Catholic bloc in South Louisiana and the fundamentalist Baptist corps...
View ArticleFile your FCC complaint over the word "shit": It's for the children
By now you've probably seen the clip of an American television personality using profanity at the G8 summit (and you can't spell "smut" without "summit"). If you're as appalled as I am that American...
View ArticleCoulter dropped by arch-conservative paper
The Augusta Chronicle is one of America's most arch-conservative dailies. So this is no small loss for Ann Coulter:We didn't think twice about adding nationally syndicated columnist Ann Coulter to our...
View ArticleMel Gibson's arrest gets uglier: "Fucking Jews"
Wonder what the religious right...not to mention Michael Medved and the other Jewish defenders of The Passion of the Christ ...will say about this?The deputy quickly subdued Gibson, cuffed him and put...
View ArticleMichael Medved melting down defending Mel Gibson
EDITED TO ADD: Gibson's publicist says that the actor has checked into a rehab facility as of Monday afternoon. I had to tune into The Michael Medved Show today to see what Medved was saying about Mel...
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In Defense of Gen-X (a tribute to One Pissed Off Liberal)
One Pissed Off Liberal's recent diary, In Defense of Hippies, brought up an old meme: What happened to hippie spirit? And why has hippie become a bad word among some people who were too young to be...
View ArticleThe Hollywood Reporter decimates PT 9/11
Ray Richmond, the longtime entertainment/media columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, was sent a screening copy of The Path to 9/11, and his blogcolumn on the miniseries, Five Years Later, 9/11 Is...
View ArticleEveryone Knows It's Lynndie: The Jailhouse Interview
So Lynndie England has finally given her first jailhouse interview, not to Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters or Katie Couric, but to...Marie Claire magazine. (Quite a coup for Marie Claire and writer...
View ArticleEd Schultz Cuts & Runs From AAR
I never signed up for Ed Schultz' email list, but it seems I'm on there. Today I got an email from Ed Schultz' producer, James Holm:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2006 Fargo, ND ... Ed Schultz, host...
View ArticleA little Santorumfreude
I know there are a fair number of folks who disapprove of the whole idea of Schadenfreude (we're a big tent!), but I can't help it: I'm seduced by Santorumfreude, the German term for "taking joy in the...
View ArticleRuth Brown, champion of artists' rights, dies at 78
Ruth Brown, 78, a Queen of Rhythm and Blues, Dies She was a legend, a star, and an R&B queen of the 1950s who was reduced to working as a maid a decade later. Twenty years after that, she won a...
View ArticleThe surreal life: 5 weeks in New Orleans
"Do you like my cowboy hat?"The woman at Louis Armstrong Airport was heading back to Oregon, but right now she was beaming, holding out her camera to me. "I was just inside, admiring it on some guy,...
View ArticleNational Press Club now teaching blogging classes (really)
As you may know, the very august and superswanky National Press Club held an event on Feb. 20 where they agreed that bloggers are very, very bad people:David Gregory: Because it- it's the Internet, and...
View ArticleOlbermannWatch: "Goodbye, cruel world"
The site OlbermannWatch -- the personal effort by blogger Robert A. Cox to document the atrocities of Keith Olbermann, has been shuttered.We had held out hope that MSNBC would allow Olbermann's...
View ArticleTony Soprano & GWB: Compare & contrast
The UK newspaper The Independent recently ran a commentary by Rupert Cornwell contrasting the last days of the Bush administration to the end of the Sopranos. Like the Bush administration, The Sopranos...
View ArticlePhelps swears to picket Falwell's funeral
I made a joke in another thread about the Rev. Fred Phelps and his kkkrewe showing up to picket Falwell's funeral. (No, I'm not linking to Phelps' site here.) But, as Lily Tomlin once said, "No matter...
View ArticleSchadenfreudy goodness: Wingnuts ditch Bush on immigration
Well, somebody had to go over to The Steaming Pits of Hell and see what they were saying about the Holy Leader's blessing of the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill.And it shocked even me. I was expecting...
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Dr. Laura takes a call from Dr. Laura
"...And now we go to "Laura" in California. Hello, Laura."Hi, Dr. Laura."What can I do for you today?"Well...I'm worried about my son. He's a soldier in Afghanistan, and it seems that he created a very...
View ArticleNYT: Edwards' anti-poverty funds scrutinized
Leading this morning on the New York Times website:In Aiding Poor, Edwards Built Bridge to 2008John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a...
View ArticleNew Orleans gets its own toilet toe-tapper
Move over, Larry Craig. Gangway, David Vitter.Joey DiFatta - a St. Bernard Parish councilman and (until today) a candidate for the Louisiana State Senate - has been caught tappin' toes in a mall...
View ArticleThere's Something About Larry: Craig to do interview with Matt Lauer
He's resigning! He's not resigning!He's leaving! He's not leaving! And now...Larry and Suzanne Craig agree to primetime interviewSen. Larry Craig will sit down with Matt Lauer of NBC News for what is...
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The Gulf Coast is so excited that Gustav may ruin the GOP convention
Hi from those of us on the Gulf Coast. We're really looking forward to the arrival of Hurricane Gustav, 'cause he's gonna make John McCain and company look really bad during the GOP...
View ArticleAnother Alaska Republican, another petit scandal (with bonus Palin!)
Today it's Rep. Lesil McGuire, thrown off an Alaska Airlines flight and questioned by police for being (allegedly) tipsy, (allegedly) not complying with crew members' instructions, and (allegedly)...
View ArticleMedved: Why Biden is unfit for veep
We interrupt your midnight buffet of economy-cratering, McCain-flailing, and Palin-bumbling for a look at a neglected member of the presidential race, Sen. Joe Biden, and the reason he is unfit to hold...
View ArticleSarah: Before the Bubble Popped, Just 1 Month Ago
I like to read some of the blogs at Townhall. What can I say -- they're more pompous, and pompously entertaining, than Malkin/Coulter/Lucianne et al. If there's a funnier human being than Hugh Hewitt,...
View ArticleThe National Review on what Palin SHOULD say
The National Review's Mark Goldblatt is offering Sarah Palin some advice on how to handle that snippy Gwen Ifill at the upcoming VP debate. His essay begins this way:Thank you for the question, Ms....
View Article"An American Carol": reviews are in. Light a match.
An American Carol, the David Zucker comedy lampooning a lefty filmmaker named Michael Moor...I mean, Malone, opened last night in 1639 theaters (about 1/2 the number of screens allotted to the...
View ArticleObama 2007 videotape and the Stafford Act
It seems that one of the big outrages in Encyclopedia Drudge's "bombshell" tape of President Barack Obama's 2007 appearance before a largely black audience has to do with the Stafford Act and how it...
View ArticleRock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame nominee denied hotel lodging because he's black
Those damn Southerners!Oh. Wait.A local venue owner says that last night a manager at the San Francisco Travelodge on Market Street refused to accept the credit cards of three members of the Meters...
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Chuck Thompson's asinine anti-South book: a post-election look back
For two Sundays in a row last month, Kossacks were treated to a front-paged review of this book and a subsequent front-paged interview with the author, who said things like this:"Are all Southerners...
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