The Kicker

One more “wonder cover” worth noting: the current issue of The New Yorker, courtesy of Michelle-and-Barack-in-the-Oval-Office satirist Barry Blitt:

It’s unfortunate that the nominations for Magazine Cover of the Year have already been set. Because, were they still in play, Entertainment Weekly‘s current cover–Stewart and Colbert recreating the infamous New Yorker tableau, or, satirists-mocking-the-satirists-mocking-the-satirists–should certainly get a nod. Meta-tastic. P.S. The article inside–in which EW interviews Stew-bert about the role of satire in the […]

Megan is working on a piece for Campaign Desk for later today about post-debate coverage/analysis. How much of it do you think looked something like that Gary Markstein political cartoon in yesterday’s New York Times “Week in Review?” (I can’t find the cartoon online to link, so:) Man watching debate: “Are you scoring the candidates […]

If you get your bailout news via other people’s papers on the New York City subway, this morning you saw (along with the crying young Mets fan in the orange wig) a range of emotions and points of emphasis: Excitement! The rescue is ready! “IT’S A DEAL! $700b Wall Street rescue ready for House ok […]

And you thought CNN’s convention graphics were distracting? Did you (could you?) see Friday night’s debate? The tri-lined reaction meter (Dems, Repubs, Indies) and those six (I think) circles of hell/insta-punditry? From James Poniewozick debate live-blog at Time: 10:02: NBC wins for least distracting bottom-of-screen chyrons. After staring at that terrifying CNN screen, it’s like […]

Saturday Night Live keeps outdoing itself. The latest proof of that? Its brilliant send-up of the already-infamous Palin/Couric interview:

The narrative of the night on MSNBC seems to be that Obama didn’t capitalize on the economy section of the debate. Will that thought last through the night?

Well. I await to see how the post games manage to tell us that that was sharp or engaging. Am I wrong here?