The Kicker

Leave it to the New York Post to find some dark humor in the increasingly brutal Democratic nominating contest. Today, via The New York Times‘s Friday Happy Hour, I was introduced to the tabloid’s “2008 Democratic Fight Night” game, which brings visual verve to all those boxing analogies we were subjected to courtesy of the […]

Let’s press the candidates about early education

Humidity is rising… Barometer’s getting low According to our sources… Your TV’s the place to go Cause tonight, for the first time At just about half-past ten Right there on your TV set It’s gonna start raining men…! The London Daily Telegraph has just released its list of the fifty most influential pundits in the […]

The Indy paper makes its endorsement

The phrase “under the bus”—as in, to throw someone under the bus, or betray them—has long been a favorite on Top Chef and other reality-competition shows. (“Marcel totally threw me under the bus at Judges’ Table. He should be the one going home this week—did you taste his lobster foam?!”) But this week, thanks to […]

In response to the moderator-less debate to which Hillary Clinton challenged Barack Obama last week, Fox & Friends aired a segment that mentioned, appropriately, the Lincoln-Douglas debates. In the course of the segment, Clayton Morris joked about asking one of the show’s interns to find videotape of those debates.* “And he looked at me and […]

When partisan lines get crossed

O’Reilly’s Clinton factor

Yesterday afternoon, a new writer trotted into The Atlantic’s impressive stable of bloggers: Jeffrey Goldberg rolled out the magazine’s latest eponymous blog. “This is almost certainly a mistake,” The Atlantic’s national correspondent declares by way of introducing his first post, following that up with a detailed—and self-deprecating—list of his reservations about donning the proverbial Blogger’s […]

During his appearance on The Daily Show last night, former president Jimmy Carter told Jon Stewart that…he couldn’t have become president in the current media climate: President Carter also discussed the controversial meetings he conducted with Hamas leaders earlier this month. “There’s no way in the world that you can have peace between the Israelis […]

The New York Times’s Andrea Elliot, who won a Pulitzer last year for a series profiling a Brooklyn mosque, turned in a heartbreaking article this morning detailing how a local educator was drummed out of her chance to be the principal of a new New York City public school that offers Arabic classes as a […]

The health care advocate offers an ironic take on campaign coverage