The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff Blogger McCan'tWrite is giving "perky" Katie the cold shoulder. She's not vindictive at all. I guess she was worried that Couric would ask her what she watches on Tee Vee: Sources tell Hotline OnCall that Katie Couric's producer sent two requests to Sarah Palin's publisher for interviews during the Going Rogue book tour, and so far, Couric has been denied. "It's not surprising...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
As Sarah Palin once again finds herself in the national limelight, largely due to the publicity surrounding the release this week of her bestselling book Going Rogue: an American Life, many of us have been reviewing the events of last fall’s campaign as well as contrasting her record to the biased media coverage of that [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Oprah only announced her impending retirement on Friday, and speculation on who will replace her has already begun. The Times pegs Ellen and Dr. Oz as the front runners, partially because their deals come up for renewal at the same time that Oprah plans to step down. Martha Stewart, Tyra and Bonnie Hunt could also reap some rewards from a talk-show landscape that doesn't include Oprah. But the darkest...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sources tell Hotline OnCall that Katie Couric's producer sent two requests to Sarah Palin's publisher for interviews during the Going Rogue book tour, and so far, Couric has been denied. "It's not surprising -- Palin has not agreed to sit down with more than a small handful of mainstream media interviewers -- but the move looks to be part of a larger Palin blackout from CBS News and Entertainment."...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff Barry Blitt Frank Rich: Those who wishfully think [Palin's] 15 minutes are up are deluding themselves . The book’s biggest surprise is Palin’s wide-eyed infatuation with show-business celebrities . [...] Equally revealing is the one boldfaced name conspicuously left unmentioned in the book: Levi Johnston, the father of Palin’s grandchild. Though Palin and McCain milked...
LA Moms Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's all Katie Couric's fault. I'm a full-time out-of-the-home working mother. I have two little boys under 5. I have an often demanding job and a total of 1.5 hours of commute time daily. I have a giant mountain of...
Peoria Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
I had a hard time deciding which paragraph from this excellent Matt Taibbi column to use to illustrate his point, that Sarah Palin is the perfect candidate for the her times. There are so many good paragraphs. But in the end, I chose this one: She is the country’s first WWE politician — a cartoon combatant [...]
Neamhspleach (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
“In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” -Anthony J. D'Angelo I mentioned that I was going to start doing a piece on " Click Throughs " about all the exciting things you learn when you lose yourself in Wikipedia for hours. I know it was supposed to be up last Friday, but, as we know, I'm not perfect. I've learned a number of interesting things...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In contending America already has health care rationing, ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson, a universal coverage advocate, on Friday night's World News asserted “we have a lot of rationing, based on income, the kind of insurance you have, the way you can navigate the health system” and “a recent Harvard study estimated that 45,000 people died each year in this country because of lack of health...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Despite Sarah Palin's success as a wife, a mother, politician, opinion leader and now author, large numbers of black people just are not feeling her.
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The reason that the McCain campaign did NOT do The Factor is because, number one, McCain is not a fan of O'Reilly, and number two, adding Sarah Palin meant that they did not need to pander to the simpletons that watch his show. The mouth breathing knuckle draggers flocked to their ticket just for the chance to look up her skirt. I find it sort of bizarre that on the one hand Palin bitches about Katie...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
David Letterman: Sarah Palin says that she felt ambushed when Katie Couric asked her what newspaper she read. This coming from a woman who shoots wolves from a helicopter! That's not a joke, it's an x-ray of the conservative soul: Implicit double-standard view of the world? Check! Implicit sense of entitlement? Check! Casual violence? Check! Casual violence towards those helpless to fight back? Check!...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
It was all too predictable. From the moment Sarah Palin was airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her part in scuttling McCain's already foundering campaign, she added to her list of personal persecutors the same...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Long before the 2008 presidential campaign, I found CBS News Anchor Tracy Flick Katie Couric annoying. Like Reese Witherspoon’s character in the 1999 flick Election, Couric comes across as smug and self-righteous. It seems she believes that her prominence means she knows better than the rest of us. That’s one reason I didn’t watch [...]
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow. Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her criticisms of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Maddow told viewers of her MSNBC show Tuesday that John McCain held a conference call Nov. 13 and asked...
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