Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (VandeAllen) must have recently woke up feeling a little dirty about themselves and their chosen profession. Maybe it was due to Obama not leaving any money on the dresser this weekend. Whatever the motivation,
In the almost thirty years I’ve worked a full-time job and supported myself, never once has an employer of mine offered a President’s Day off. And why would they? It’s not a real holiday. What we have here is just
In her Sunday New York Times column, Maureen Dowd rips into “Lincoln” director Steven Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner for a historical fabrication in the Oscar-nominated “Lincoln” that shows two Connecticut legislators (Republican and Democrat) voting against the Emancipation Proclamation, when
Pro tip: If you act like lap dogs, your lover will treat you like lap dogs. Sorry, ladies and gents, but you won’t win the president’s respect being his personal pool of of sycophant stenographers who can always be counted
Apparently, the Washington Post and New York Times don’t like the idea of a non-white U.S. Senator acting all uppity. It’s fine for the lily-white Elizabeth Warren to immediately come out guns blazing, but over the past couple of days
Tony Kushner, the Israel-hating screenwriter who made his name with the wildly over-praised pail of pretentious crap known as Angels in America, is rewriting history again. This is Kushner’s specialty, after all. He rewrote the Reagan years in Angels, rewrote the
The New York Times and BuzzFeed have some kind of relationship going on, but that still doesn’t explain the long, wet French kiss the Times gave BuzzFeed Politics editor-in-chief Ben Smith yesterday. It’s just a fact that when the left-wing
In response to Lost and Fringe Come to Mind: I was less troubled by the politics of “Homeland” than John S., but the plot was ridiculous, especially season two. “SNL” captured the show’s contrivances perfectly, especially the annoying daughter
If I ever get a spare moment, I want to write a proper appreciation of Gene Wilder at Big Hollywood. Wilder turned 79 this year and retired from Hollywood over a decade ago. As a child of the 70’s, though,
Economic growth is in the negative, unemployment is on the rise, Walmart’s forecasting a disastrous February for retail sales, poverty’s up, gas prices are up, the cost of health care premiums are up, middle class incomes are falling, consumer confidence
Man alive, I use “gajillions” all the time. How could I forget? As far as the world ending, as a proud, card carrying Jesus-freak, I’m not opposed to that; just not on a Friday. Monday through Wednesday would be perfect. But
CNN just had an astronomer on who said that the incredible meteor shower of explosions that hit Russia today and the asteroid that just missed us by thismuch, was all a coincidence; that one has absolutely nothing to with the other. Now,
Though she’s not getting much credit for it, it’s just a fact that most of the important media scoops of late have been coming from Betsy Rothstein at FishbowlDC. Today marks another scoop and, better still, another moment to savor
Full disclosure, sometime yesterday afternoon I fired off a Tweet — that I have since publicly retracted — criticizing CNN for its seemingly non-stop coverage of the disabled Carnival cruise ship being towed into port. So, granted, for a time
No one has to tell me I’m being greedy; I already know that. But if I’ve learned one thing during this misspent life of mine, it’s that the worst someone can say is “no.” But this is really Erik Wemple’s
As soon as it became apparent the inept Chuck Hagel would not win a rubber stamp in the U.S. Senate today, something very odd happened… The completely objective, totally non-partisan, unbiased mainstream media got really angry. Strange, huh?
Someone needs to Gif the stages BuzzFeed Politics went through as they published the first thing they’ve ever published harmful to Obama’s agenda: 1. Those “wingers” are gonna lose the Hagel vote today. Let’s high-five Obama’s infallible awesomeness. 2. Oh,
Two days after the fact, CNN and MSNBC are still having a fine old time replaying FL. Senator Marco Rubio’s awkward sip of water. Kate Obenshain, author of “Divider-In-Chief” sees the same writing on the wall many do, including myself.
This is a little off-topic, but my favorite part of this Politico article is the last line that reads, “Kenneth P. Vogel contributed to this report.” Talk about unnecessary. About half-way though the brutally-long 1600-worder, while my mind started to
In 2008, Barack Obama won 53% of the vote and a total of over 69 million votes. In 2012, Obama didn’t break 51% and received fewer than 66 million votes. This means that Obama is the rare president whose re-election
This afternoon, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin asked a panel of four if supporters of suspected mass-murderer Christopher Dorner might “have a point.” After all, he did claim to be fighting against injustice. Marc Lamont Hill, a Columbia University professor, could hardly
Though my priest didn’t speak of it, Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement announcement was felt throughout this afternoon’s Ash Wednesday mass. Today also marked Benedict’s final public mass as our Holy Father: Starting his public farewell to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict XVI
Last night on MSNBC there was a racially-coded dogwhistle-palooza going on… — — Obviously, Chris Matthews is sending coded racial messages to the worst elements of the Democratic party who see Hispanics as subhuman, uneducated, and good for nothing more
The event that is a presidential State of the Union address was also an event last night for CNN, a troubled cable news network under new leadership and in the process of a major makeover. As Politico’s Dylan Byers points
This evening, President Obama spent a fairly large chunk of the early part of his fifth State of the Union regurgitating the same tired ideas and bromides to fix the economy that we heard in his first State of the
