Saturday Night Live–the latest outlet, it seems, to fall victim to the blink-and-you-miss-it speed of the contemporary political news cycle–has initiated Update Thursday, a chance to move beyond its worst-timing-possible-for-news-relevance late-Saturday time slot to mid-week. The show premiered last night, and will broadcast next Thursday and on October 23. Yesterday’s show featured its send-up of […]

From the “alas, ’twas always thus” department: PEJ turns in a brief but interesting study of the long history of politicians mocking, disparaging, and otherwise hating on the press. “The more overtly partisan and ideological nature of the criticism—that the press is liberal—is relatively new,” the report notes. The modern critique by conservatives that the […]

Barack Obama, having apparently decided that all the glowing press reports about The Imminence of His Victory and everything won’t be quite enough to put him over the edge with voters, is using a portion of his campaign’s I-don’t-need-your-stupid-public-financing fund to buy up thirty-minute chunks of network airtime on the evening of October 29, exactly […]

The Daily Show lampoons Fox News’s unique take on The Great Panic of 2008. That panic is not economic:

How should the press be covering the resurgence of Bill Ayers?

Noam Scheiber has done it again. This time, the Palin-phernalia he’s dredged up in his reporting about the political history of the Alaska governor isn’t just a doodle, but a full, two-page, handwritten letter, addressed “Dear Friends,” that details Palin’s reasons for running for mayor of Wasilla and for wanting to put Moderately-Sized-Bedroom-Community First: For […]

Today’s papers put the ‘icky’ in ‘Mavericky’

From the "it’s not too much to ask" department: truth-squadding during the nets’ debate specials

On yesterday’s post-debate episode of Hannity and Colmes–Live From The Spin Room!–Sean and Alan hosted Obama communications director Robert Gibbs. And, since the subject came up, you know, so many times during the evening’s debate, Hannity apparently decided that the Gibbs-as-guest situation justified him asking about–mmm-hmm–William Ayers. “How can you fight terrorism,” Hannity asked Obama-by-way-of-Gibbs, […]

…and other absolutely shocking revelations