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Dear Harvey Weinstein: I Accept Your Invitation

During the screening for his latest film at the Toronto Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein extended an invitation to tea partiers: … prior to the start of the screening, the sexy actress Olivia Wilde, who plays a supporting role in the

Wednesday Roundup

– ATTACKWAAATCH! [youtube -XYKRokgX00 nolink] “Obama 2012. Because you still hate George Bush, right?” Video magic by Big J contributor Ezra Dulis and CnservativePunk of MisfitPolitics. – CNN #1 on debate night. – No, WaPo, no one cares enough about

The Jackie Kennedy Tapes and the Media's Double Standard

The day before the release of Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, the Washington Post’s “Reliable Source” column ran a few of the juicier tidbits from Mrs. Kennedy’s taped interviews. Among those tidbits: “She calls [Martin

WaPo Spins to Play Off NY09 Win

The Washington Post was eager to plan spinmeister for the DNC tonight in reporting how the historically blue NY09 — Anthony Weiner’s old seat — went red, to a GOP novice named Bob Turner. Desperate to avoid the results viewed

New Presidential Watch Site Collects "Smears and Spin"

The President’s new site aimed at fighting that with which they disagree collects anything negative written of the President — what it terms “smears.” Obama for America national field director Jeremy Bird said the site offers “new resources to fight

CNN Shows MSNBC How a Debate is Done

I’ve never been shy about my opinions regardless my relationship with any entity, and I’m not about to start now. I was proud to have been associated with last night’s debate, proud because it felt to me truly representative of,

CNN/Tea Party Debate Open Thread

Tonight Wolf Blitzer moderates the CNN/Tea Party debate. What are you looking for? Do you anticipate the questions will be formed with the tea party in mind? Do you have reservations about Blitzer’s ability to moderate a debate where grassroots

Live From Tampa

Day two of the CNN/Tea Party Express debate from muggy, sunny Tampa. I arrived on site early this morning for a 6am hit with “American Morning.” All was (mostly) quiet. By the time I left to grab a sandwich, candidates

The Shame of Paul Krugman

As America passed with solemn tribute the murder of 3000 citizens 10 years after September 11th, 2001, social media networks, like Facebook, were filled with tributes, thanks, passages from the bible, and pleas. Amongst those pleas, that we spend no

Media Mum on Big Business, SEIU Profiting From Workers' Bill

California nears passage of a law whose effect, if not actual intent, will decimate the private nanny/caregiver industry in California. Not coincidentally, it will simultaneously benefit unions and the powerful institutional nursing/caregiver lobby. Cynically titled the “Domestic Workers’ Bill of

Programming Note: Monday Night Debate

I’m Tampa with CNN for the CNN / Tea Party Express debate tomorrow night at 8 p.m. eastern. I’ll be off and on with Don Lemon tonight beginning around 6 p.m. Tune in.

September 11th Roundup

– Party hostess Sally Quinn: However, I will pray this Sunday. I will pray that we as Americans, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics and others can come together to end prejudice, discrimination and hatred. Violence is not more a

Ten Years Later: Remembering 9/11

Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a

The New Yorker's Pessimistic 9/11 Retrospective

The most memorable article in the New Yorker issue devoted to 9/11, “Ten Years Later,” is Paul Goldberger’s review of the new World Trade Center. Goldberg dislikes the new buildings going up around Ground Zero, particularly the Freedom Tower, which

All Hail Salon, the 9/11 Tribute Police

Many of you sent me a video of Herman Cain’s 9/11 tribute. Many individuals have made such tributes; they’re all over Youtube and making the rounds via email. There is no shame in honoring what we lost as a country