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Casting Call

By James Poniewozik

So who plays Joe the Plumber on Saturday Night Live? Also: How happy are these guys right now?

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Look Who's Running Against the Media

By James Poniewozik

Last night at the debate, Barack Obama parried a charge from John McCain that he would raise taxes on people making $42,000 a year by saying, “Even Fox News disputes it, and that doesn’t happen very often when it comes to accusations about me.” Obama seemed to be trying to end on a wry note [...]

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Why The Shield Is So Awful, and Great

By James Poniewozik

Prashant Gupta / FX Because FX is generous enough to send episodes of The Shield far in advance, I have now watched through two episodes short of the finale. Through seven seasons, I’ve struggled to put my finger on just what it is that makes the show so disturbing to me. I mean, there are [...]

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The Morning After: The Other Big Vote

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for Project Runway… do not follow the jump, because I was liveblogging the debate while it was on. It’s sitting on my Tivo, but rather than make you wait, I’ll throw the thread open to your finale comments, and maybe I’ll add my own once I get to around to watching. Update: Watched it. [...]

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Debating the Final Debate

By James Poniewozik

As I write this post, CNN and CBS have just come out with their insta-polls, which gave the debate to Obama by what I believe was the biggest margin of any of the debates. I was surprised, and then I wasn’t. CBS’s poll gave the debate to Obama by a two-to-one margin. I’m an Obama [...]