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TV Tonight: Paris, Je, Like, T'aime

Britney, Shmitney: the real stars of MTV are returning to your TV tonight, as The Hills comes back, and we discover that Lauren’s voyage to Paris is not all baguettes and pamplemousse: The best part of that clip, as in most Hills episodes, is not the action (Lauren hearing that Brody is catting around) but [...]

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Saving HIMYM By Saving Britney

First Britney Spears was the subject of a surprisingly (if grotesquely) sympathetic South Park episode last week. Now tonight she takes a much-hyped role on How I Met Your Mother. Ideally, the appearance gives Britney some flattering screen time, on a show that’s not speculating as to what substances she’s ingesting or how she’s raising [...]

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Fox News' Obama Problem

I’ve been watching an inordinate amount of Fox News lately for an upcoming column, and Friday there was a bizarre incident in the saga of The Great Fox Jeremiah Wright Pile-On of 2008. Fox and Friends had Fox Sunday host Chris Wallace on as a guest, and Wallace began his segment by giving the hosts [...]

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The Morning After: Supply and Demand

Regular readers of Tuned In know that I am not a big follower of sports, but I am given to understand that it is the NCAA basketball tournament, which means that fans across the nation are dropping everything to watch as talented young men in short pants hurl the basketball at the basketball ring. I [...]