Here’s Dr. Dennis Hurwitz, clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, providing some much-buzzed-about “proof” of the National Enquirer‘s claim that Frances Quinn Hunter, Daughter of Rielle, is the self-same child awkwardly held by John Edwards in The Blurry Photo Seen ‘Round the World: “I have studied babies’ head and […]

So looks like the Maddow Love is now officially sanctioned. TV Decoder’s reporting that Rachel Maddow, MSNBC pundette loved by, apparently, everyone, will soon find the holy grail of televised commentary: her own show. The as-yet-unnamed program will replace Dan Abrams’s Verdict (he’ll be staying on with the network in various other anchoring/reporting capacities) starting […]

On a night that found the world’s top gymnasts flipping, stretching, and straining for gold in individual apparatus events in Beijing, Keith Olbermann sat in a studio in New York City, his back to Rockefeller Center’s skating rink, doing some gymanastics of his own. Of the rhetorical variety, that is. And directed, unsurprisingly, at John […]

Bloggers will get their own Big Tent at the conventions

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, apparently. The Times reports today that Politico–and all the other outlets declaring this to be, indeed, Obama’s Week of Veep–were correct in their “predictions.” And Nagourney/Zeleny go one (tentative) step further than their veep-sheepish counterparts: they pick a day for the Big Announcement. And it’s…tomorrow! Senator Barack Obama has all […]

That’s the number of times the term “cone of silence” has been used in television coverage since Saturday’s Saddleback interviews, per the transcript database TVEyes. For those of you who’ve missed out on the story that introduces this delightfully moronic term into our political vernacular, “cone of silence” refers to the Twenty One-esque isolation chamber […]

The press needs to press the candidates more on “merit pay”

That Barack Obama is so coy. We’ve been waiting for months for the Democrats’ Intended to reveal his choice of (running) mate to the watching-and-waiting American public. And so far, you know, zilch. As we’ve been collectively plodding through one of the most drawn-out public courtships in Nominee Bachelor history (the awkward group dates! the […]

Keep critical theory out of campaign coverage

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