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Obama's Berlin Speech: A Star, and Stripes

The flags were the first thing that jumped out: American flags, all over the crowd thronging in front of Berlin’s Victory Column. If the Obama campaign handed them out, it was a good idea; if Berliners brought them on their own, it was good for him. This was what you wanted to see if you [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Any Others Questions?

A bit of housekeeping: I’ll probably wind down LDG, like last year, by the end of the summer–maybe even a bit sooner because (unlike last year) the season 4 finale didn’t set up any game-changer that made for a season’s worth of speculation. Hopefully, ComicCon—which my L.A. colleague Rebecca Winters Keegan will be reporting from [...]

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Anchors Away, pt. 2: Stuck in the Middle

ABC’s Charles Gibson got stuck with the hammock slot in the Obama-tour sweepstakes, interviewing the candidate between Katie Couric’s first sitdown Wednesday and Brian Williams’ Q&A, scheduled to run after Obama’s much-touted Hoffnungundanderngespiele in Berlin today. Maybe for that reason—or just because hurricanes trump everything—ABC led with Dolly last night. Gibson’s interview itself wasn’t especially [...]

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Norm Coleman Offensive to Bowlers

In my most recent column, I cited Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who’s running against former SNL satirist Al Franken, as one of the prime examples of Campaign 2008′s campaign tactic: humorlessness as a political strategy. Coleman and his surrogates have steadily been using Franken’s history of edgy/offensive jokes (including one positing Andy Rooney as a [...]

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The Morning After: What You Want, Natalie?

Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke Spoilers for last night’s Project Runway coming up after the jump: