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Battling for control of your immortal soul tonight: the season debut of Deadliest Catch;* yet another Democratic debate, this time on ABC; and the premiere of TV Land’s The Big 4-0, in which subjects come to terms with the emotional baggage of turning 40. Chief among which is realizing that the only channel that wants you on a reality show …
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The Democratic primary returned to SNL’s cold-open slot after a few weeks’ absence this weekend:
* The Clinton campaign released the couple’s tax returns late Friday afternoon, which means they had to throw this sketch together quickly. So I can only imagine how lousy the skit it replaced must have been. After a few weeks that …
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Hillary Clinton got the first big boost out of her appearance on the Tonight show with Jay Leno before she even opened her mouth: the in-show band played her on with the theme from Rocky, which she’s taken on as her talisman as she’s campaigned in Pennsylvania.
The video, and a few thoughts, after the jump:
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Each of the major candidates this season has his or her own pop-culture surrogates or inspirations: Hillary Clinton has Tina Fey, Barack Obama has Will.i.am. Last night, John McCain appeared on David Letterman, and it would appear that the Republican Party is about to nominate… Don Rickles.
A clip of C.P.O. Sharkey’s performance …
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If you can’t wait for the most important interview of the 2008 election—Barack Obama, tomorrow morning on The View—preview clips have been posted on abc.com. In the three snippets, he (very briefly) discusses Rev. Jeremiah Wright, how to handle campaign attacks, and his distant relation, Brad Pitt. Not much news for politics …
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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 an on-air tongue-lashing for unfairly …
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As of 9 this morning, the number-one most-watched video of the day on YouTube has been Barack Obama’s speech on race, which at that point had generated just about a million views in less than 24 hours. Let me rephrase that. Nearly a million views for a 37-minute political speech not involving a woman singing in hot pants:
You may …
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After any major event of a campaign, a speech or a debate, pundits immediately emerge to answer the question they are incapable of answering: did the candidate do what he/she “needed to do”? What the candidate needs to do in any election, after all, has only tangentially to do with impressing pundits; ultimately, it comes down to the …
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OK, I was a little hesitant to post video from SNL yet again this week, because I and the rest of the media have probably been throwing too much free publicity behind a TV show that is no longer even one of the top five funniest political commentainment programs today. (For starters, there’s The Daily Show / Colbert, South Park, Bill …
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“While we’re in repeats, ‘American Idol’ continues to be a monster. It’s a phenomenon. If somebody would kill that show, I’d really appreciate it.”
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On last night’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann weighed in–in no uncertain terms—on Ferrarogate, castigating Hillary Clinton and her campaign for not repudiating Geraldine Ferraro’s claim that Barack Obama was “lucky” to be a black candidate in this primary [Update: The embedded MSNBC video was, annoyingly, causing the Tuned In homepage to …
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I just did an appearance on KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney, about my Hillary-and-SNL column and the larger subject of pop culture and the election. I think KCRW will have a streaming link eventually KCRW has a streaming link of the audio, and I’m pretty sure To the Point is on teh podcasts, teh iTunes, and so on. Also, there were …
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Not to get too Swampland-y in here, but the political press is abuzz this morning over the resignation of Samantha Power, an Obama aide adviser (and TIME contributor) for having called Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview. (A smoke monster? A Godzilla / Cloverfield type creature? Where was the follow up?)
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