With Friends Like Rand Paul, Who Needs Enemies?
Rand Paul may be the vanguard of a new Tea Party politician, which should cause one party to get down on its knees and give thanks: The Democrats.
Rand Paul may be the vanguard of a new Tea Party politician, which should cause one party to get down on its knees and give thanks: The Democrats.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.12.2010 | Media
Here's video of CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who celebrated his twenty years of service at CNN in the company of Paul Begala and the Washington Wizards mascot: an anthropomorphic sack of blue WTF known as "Gee Whiz."
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.01.2010 | Media
Each year we're subjected to the spectacle of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner where the elite Washington press corps rubs our noses in the fact that we live in a plutocracy.
Lauren DeLisa Coleman | Posted 05.26.2010 | Media
The tension in our country after the passing of the health care bill seems to be at an all-time high. Harsh words, equally now with bullets, have flo...
Michael Russnow | Posted 05.22.2010 | Politics
Why is it that Americans only see Republicans' true colors when their results are catastrophic, as in the case of the unending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial crises of the last couple of years?
Michael Moore | Posted 05.17.2010 | Business
Wall Street owns "our" Congress lock, stock and big barrel o' campaign cash. What we call the "democratic process" is mostly a sham, pretty words that get repeated in the hopes we will all still fall for it.
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.05.2010 | Media
Conservatives have been attacking President Obama and the Department of Justice for employing lawyers who previously represented terrorism suspects, even though George Bush did the same thing.
Posted 05.05.2010 | Media
CNN's Wolf Blitzer has apologized for using chyron text that seemed to question the loyalties of the Department of Justice. On Thursday, CNN broadca...
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.30.2010 | Media
Media types are there to keep themselves and their hefty paychecks forthcoming, egged on by the networks' need to create controversy. How else will they get the viewers to watch, and thus generate valuable ad revenue?
Politico | MICHAEL CALDERONE | | Posted 03.28.2010 | Media
Blitzer has a loyal following in the Washington bureau, which, according to one CNN staffer, "tends to be more traditional in its approach to news." S...
Jane Isay | Posted 03.23.2010 | Books
The news is on my nerves. I'm feeling sad for the world, and for my country. By now the sights that emerge around the clock from Haiti don't teach me anything more than I already know about the suffering.
David Quigg | Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy
MEMORANDUM FROM: Rudy Giuliani, NYC mayor on 9/11/01 TO: Revisionist & Sons Publishing Co.
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy
Since I wrote a sketch about Yemen 4 years ago, I consider myself a bona fide soothsayer. Therefore, better late than on time, here are 10 '10 Predictions.
Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
On Tuesday on CNN, in the moments leading up to President Obama's remarks on terrorism and airline safety, someone waiting for the president to speak ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
Earlier, I offered up the Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media in 2009. You know what's coming now! The stuff in 2009 that straight up sucked canal water! Let's hit it and quit it.
Huffington Post | Dan Abramson, Jason Linkins, And Alex Leo | Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy
It's New Year's Eve--a time to look ahead before passing out in a pool of your own vomit and waking up in a new year. What will 2010 hold for us? Only...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy
Earlier this week, I asked for your ideas on what gifts we should give to some of our favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures. You dusted of...
Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
Mike Barnacle, filling in for Willie Geist on MSNBC, catches Wolf Blitzer in some pretty awkward moments during his interview with Shakira. Blitzer c...
Whitney Cummings | Posted 03.18.2010 | Los Angeles
I'm not saying we shouldn't be interested in naked people. That's a biological impulse over which we have no control. Boobs are what kept us alive for the first couple years of our lives.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.
Jackson Williams | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
It goes without saying that when the available facts accrue and weigh so heavily against a defendant, like the alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, o...
Brian Ross | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."
Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
Things got a little personal for CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Jessica Yellin during a report about Congressman Barney Frank partner's bust for possess...
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
New Jersey state police appear to be contradicting CNN Host Lou Dobbs' account of a gunfire incident near his Sussex County, New Jersey, house.
Brian Ross | Posted 05.22.2010 | Politics