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This morning the White House crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, took their fame-n-shame tour to the Today show, where they told Matt Lauer that they were in fact invited guests at last month’s state dinner and revealed that… um, that someday they would reveal something. But man, when …
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If you didn’t like Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, she has a message for you: it was really the McCain campaign PR staff that you didn’t like. The real Sarah, you like just fine! Sitting down with Oprah Winfrey, Palin took up much of her interview blaming her performance in 2008 on–besides the media, of course–her campaign’s …
While George W. Bush's new memoir Decision Points doesn't hit bookshelves until Nov. 9, it has already managed to make waves. TIME takes a look at other memorable political autobiographies
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As we get ready for Sarah Palin’s interview with Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m. here in NYC), Oprah.com has posted some outtakes from the interviews. It includes her thoughts on Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live’s treatment of her; the McCain campaign, she says, resisted letting her go on SNL, for fear the appearance would be “atrocious.” But …
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Well, “should” rarely enters into the decision, I realize. But among the theories propounded by Dobbs’ resignation from CNN—and prompted by his vague reference to seeking “options” in the public sphere—is that he’s considering running for office. Salon’s Joe Conason thinks he may be thinking of running for The Big One.
So when I say …
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The great Sarah Palin Rollout has arrived. The former V.P. candidate’s book Going Rogue comes out on Tuesday, she appears on the Oprah Winfrey show on Monday, and CBS News is teasing the interview with a clip that just happens to implicitly flatter its own anchor:
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On last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart busted Fox News’ Sean Hannity for doctoring coverage of a rally against the congressional health-care-reform bill, by intercutting it with footage from Glenn Beck’s much bigger 9/12 rally two months ago:
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My column in this week’s print TIME expands on a bullet point from my post a week ago, on the Pew Research poll that asked TV viewers whether they believed the networks they watched had a liberal or conservative bias. The problem with this dichotomy, used not just by Pew but media critics all over, is that it overlooks what is the …
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I suppose I could just put up a post with “Oprah” and “Palin” in the headline and let the Google searches do the rest, but here’s a little more detail. The Mighty O will have The Mighty P on her show Nov. 16, in connection with the release of Palin’s book, Going Rogue.
You will recall that there was a controversy, or rather …
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Lately the Obama Administration has—in TIME and other outlets—been actively going on the attack against Fox News. The Administration, and Obama himself, have had run-ins with Fox before, but this time the message is different: they’re characterizing the cable channel as not just a conservative outlet, but as a political organization, …
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After getting to my desk and seeing word that Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I turned on cable news to see the reaction. In particular, Fox News, the #1 cable news network and recent White House bete noire, whose reaction and coverage you might think would be interesting.
It was, mainly because—in the 9:00 ET …
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To usher in Sesame Street’s 40th year on air starting Nov. 10, First Lady Michelle Obama will be appearing on the show to continue to spread her radical/Marxist/fascist message about planting gardens and eating vegetables.
Having successfully turned an American city trying to get the …
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If you haven’t yet seen it, Glenn Beck received a tribute greater than the cover of TIME magazine last night: a Saturday Night Live (in this case Weekend Update Thursday) parody. I have to think there is far more you could do with a Beck opening monologue than this snippet. (Think Ben …
