Open thread for documenting your Friday night cable news hackery and sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing. Tonight! The last Bill Maher of the year. Boooo!
Author - Bob Cesca
Speaking of Drama…
I bet attention-whore Joe Lieberman is loving this extra time in the spotlight. I am Lieberman! I'm very important! Everyone is fighting over little old me!? Ehhhhxcellent! Seriously, if there's...
Shades of Lincoln
The Nico: President-elect Barack Obama offered Sen. Hillary Clinton the position of Secretary of State during their meeting Thursday in Chicago, according to two senior Democratic officials. She...
Fancy Pageant Walkin'
I just rewatched highlights (by Jed below) from Palin's whatever-the-hell-that-was yesterday. It's so obvious that she believes the hype. She seriously thinks she can get to the White House by...
Afternoon Awesome
Crazy Talk
An e-mail response to my Huffington Post column this week: If you will, a quick anecdote that proves your point about the Far Right behavior. Some 20 years ago I was going through Chaplaincy training...
Nixonland
During the primaries, Chuck Todd observed that in states with higher black populations, white voter support for then-Senator Obama was significantly lower. And this turned out to be accurate in the...
Yep. It's Clinton.
This all but confirms it: "I'm not going to speculate or address anything about the president-elect's incoming administration, and I'm going to respect his process," she said. But I wonder where the...
Keep On Drivin' In The Free World
by Lee Stranahan On a happier note, I want to highlight a very smart and tech savvy piece by one of my favorite artists, Neil Young - How To Save A Major Automobile Company is worth it to see the...
Give Me Something To Break
We're all scraping by just to keep up with our monthly bills, and AIG is doing this with our bailout cash: American International Group plans to pay out $503 million in deferred compensation to some...
The Weekly Presidential YouTube Address
New internet traditions to be aware of: Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes...
Don't Ever Change, Keith
In the whole vast hacktastical world of cable news there are approximately two liberal shows. Keith's show and Rachel's show. While the new wave of Keith parodies have been hilarious ("double meat...
The Bush Doctrine
A conversation between Putin and Sarkozy: With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia, Mr Levitte...
Morning Mika
Mika Brzezinski's hero worship of Sarah Palin is just weird now. Maybe it's because Mika always seems really sad and defeated -- sitting there with her Palin hairdo like a face-painted football fan...
Morning Awesome
Election Night with REM "I Believe"
The Emanuel Brothers
by Lee Stranahan I'm going to an Obama victory party tomorrow night co-hosted by superagent Ari Emanuel, brother of Obama's chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel and Director of the Clinical Bioethics...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?
Wow. That'd be pretty wild.
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery also. Tonight! Go off on Lieberman for a while. He deserves it.
Position Flexible!
Tell me if you can make heads or tails of this: BLITZER: Does that mean you want to come up with a new Sarah Palin initiative that you want to release right now. PALIN: Gah! Nothing specific right...
The Boogie Man
I finally had a chance to watch the Frontline special about Lee Atwater last night. I totally forgot how psychotic and creepy he was. If the Republicans want to know what's wrong with their party...