Back in February, the MTV news team spoke with Sarah Palin about her thoughts about the Republican primary contest way back on Super Tuesday. Here’s what she said about Ron Paul: “He’s cool. He’s a good guy. He’s so independent. He’s independent of the party machine. I’m like, ‘Right on, so am I.’ ” And, […]

What the folks at PBS gain in quality of coverage, they lose in stylish headgear. Poor Judy Woodruff has been roaming the DNC and RNC convention floors in DJ-style headphones with a huge foamy microphone in front of her face, and (I think) a small antenna perched in her hair. Meanwhile, the CNN folks wore […]

What we didn’t learn about Sarah Palin last night

Remember when Slate made that video, Hillary’s Inner Tracy Flick? Well, it seems that the Flick-ering torch has been passed tonight. The first call comes from Andrew Sullivan live-blogging the speech. 10:47 pm: She has this weird tick of scrunching up her face to make a forceful point. Kinda Tracy Flicky. And then, at around […]

Because of hurricane Gustav, or perhaps because of an intentional compressed schedule, the RNC broadcast schedule has very few breaks between speakers. I have to fess up that I’m experiencing a bit of a Goldilocks phenomenon: Last week I complained that the DNC allowed too much time for the likes of Matthews and Olbermann to […]

As Gustav roared through the Gulf Coast, the networks trotted out their best and brightest correspondents to bring dispatches from the soggy states. As the Washington Post points out this is frequently an exercise in cliches. Is it really a hurricane, or even just a “tropical depression,” unless a TV reporter in a hooded windbreaker […]

Today, the Internet has been abuzz with the saga of Campbell Brown’s interview with McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, and the campaign’s revenge on CNN. It seems that after the tense exchange between Brown and Bounds about Sarah Palin’s foreign policy experience, the McCain campaign decided to cancel Palin’s appearance on Larry King Live. In a […]

While addressing the RNC, Joe Lieberman attempted to inject some levity into his speech by referring to his travels with McCain and others in the GOP posse. My friends, I have had the privilege and I’d say the pleasure of traveling the world with John McCain, even with Lindsey Graham it was a pleasure. The […]

While describing the formation of several weather systems in the Caribbean and the threat they pose to the southern states, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith referred to a hurricane-to-maybe-be as follows: “Her name is Josephine, but we cannot even start worrying about her yet, because there are two others lining up at the United States, […]