Looking decidedly casual donning a pair of jeans topped with a black blazer, Sarah Palin appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night (a much-hyped appearance for the return of Leno as host of The Tonight Show).
Palin proceeds to confound and scare the crap out of her detractors with comments like the one [...]
Maybe this is a foreshadowing of a brewing, political battle to come – or maybe it’s just coincidence, but Letterman has booked Sarah Palin’s nemisis former Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
First, who are we kidding? There are no coincidences in tv. Everything (down to sneezes and awkward silences) are carefully planned. Letterman (himself very close [...]
March 1st marks the momentous return of Jay Leno (@NBCJay) as host of The Tonight Show weeks after an ugly battle between NBC, Conan O’Brien and Leno left all three bloodied and bruised and Conan without a network to call home (or a talk show for that matter).
NBC and The Tonight Show producers aren’t wasting [...]
Senator Evan Bayh has a lot of explaining to do. Walking away from seeking re-election and potentially handing Republicans another senate seat makes him as popular as the girl at the party with coldsore on her lip. Should he have quit? Is he pulling a Palin? Will his decision make it harder for the Democrats [...]
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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On Thursday, Italy pledged to cancel Haiti’s $57 million debt to the nation. France (Haiti’s original source of debt) soon followed with a call for the world to also cancel Haiti’s debt.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (@maddow) tackles the sorded mess that is Haiti’s insurmountable world debt in the face of an earthquake that has devastated the [...]
January 19, 2010 | Posted in
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FOX News talk show host heavyweights Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck in the midst of a 2010 book tour called The O’Reilly Beck Bold & Fresh Tour 2010 to promote their books ( Beck’s Arguing with Idiots – How to Stop Small Minds & Big Governments and O’Reilly’s A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity)
The tour [...]
Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has a made a career move that many people speculated was inevitable. Conservative media goliath FOX News announced today that Sarah Palin will be regular commentator for the cable news outlet.
Palin and FOX struck a multi-year deal that will have the former Vice Presidential candidate giving political analysis on FOX’s [...]
He’s back! Let’s toast to a new year and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart streaming back into our lives again. After their holiday hiatus, I want to welcome Jon Stewart and his cast back and say THANK GOD JON OH GOD WHY DID YOU LEAVE US PLEASE PLEASE HELP US MAKE SENSE OF THIS [...]
There are no easy answers to the question of how we should handle terrorism, but that doesn’t stop political pundits, politicians, journalists and just about everyone else from offering up sound-bite solutions to what is clearly the demon in our closet as a nation.
The failed terrorist attack on Christmas Day took place while MSNBC’s Morning [...]
January 4, 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Rosen (journalist, blogger at Huffington Post, and author of PressThink) wrote an insightful post this week that addresses a dirty little secret in the land of talk shows and broadcast tv:
“Look, the Sunday morning talk shows are broken. As works of journalism they don’t work. ”
The Sunday morning talk show format is, I agree, [...]