The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Analysis Of Lefty Reaction To Sarah On Leno

by Smitty Dan Riehl has Stewart’s analysis. Riehl on Stewart, emphasis mine: Any grand conclusions are silly at this point. But as for the Palin versus Romney match up on TV he looks at, he’s spot on. These types of match ups just don’t work well for Romney. Unfortunately, that’s as much about Romney’s trouble […]

Letterman Successfully Continues To Avoid Success

by Smitty The Recovering Liberal has a good read up about David Letterman still spiraling downward as he eats his ratings out, watching Leno clean up with Sarah Palin on in the first week back. Is there a pattern of commitment to self-destruction afoot? Letterman seems to resemble the POTUS in the negative glide slope […]

Getting Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano May Have Gone to Mickey Kaus’s Head

He’s running against Barbara Boxer in the Democratic primary: Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he’ll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat. He said he took out filed papers at with the Los Angeles […]

Carly Simon Still Teasing Us

A British paper claimed last week to have identified David Geffen as the mystery man mocked by Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” and our blog friend Nicholas accepted this as refutation of the long-popular Warren Beatty theory (my favorite). Now, however, Simon has denied that speculation, calling it a “funny mistake.”  By the way, I’ve never bought […]

European Envoy Seeks Cease-Fire as Peace Talks Fail to End ‘Cleavage Wars’

BRUSSELS — In a desperate bid to end the Cleavage Wars that have devastated the blogging community for the past week, representatives of the European Union dispatched “Matrix Reloaded” star Monica Bellucci as a special peace envoy. “This senseless waste of cleavage cannot be allowed to continue,” said the 45-year-old Italian actress. “In the name […]

Marie Osmond’s Son Commits Suicide

Jumped out of a building at age 18: ET has obtained new details about the investigation into the suicide death of Marie Osmond‘s 18-year-old son Michael Blosil. Blosil jumped to his death from his Los Angeles apartment on Friday night around 9 p.m. The Los Angeles Fire Department tells us they received a 911 call […]

Good-Bye, Meg Stapleton

And good riddance! Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s senior adviser and spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, has resigned, POLITICO has learned. Stapleton has been a Palin confidante since December 2006 and one of the governor’s most trusted aides since she was vaulted onto the national political scene by being picked as GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s running […]

CPAC 2010: Bloggerazzi Photopalooza!

“It’s all a blur,” Andrew Breitbart said to me in a phone conversation Monday, as we discussed events at CPAC 2010 — the biggest ever and, most attendees agreed, the best. The “blur” effect that Breitbart described is much like the experience of campaign coverage — you go, go, go day after day, with maybe […]

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