Liberal Talk Radio

This is a couple weeks old, but still interesting:
CNN, which had been sucking wind behind the blabbers of Fox News before the election, is suddenly bubbling along on huge numbers, buoyed by debates, primaries and all the dots being connected in between. Almost 3.3 million people tuned in to CNN’s prime-time election coverage last Tuesday, [...]

Bill, I really don’t need you to tell me that the leading Democratic candidates for president are hesitant to discuss the relative benefits of the troop surge in Iraq.
I seem to have read somewhere that the surge is working. That’s good! It’s important to take care of stuff in Iraq! But you know what? I [...]

Man, if only we had some TV writers around to explore the delicious irony here:
According to Nielsen’s figures, YouTube’s audience was up 18% in the two months after the strike started and Crackle doubled its audience from 1.2 million users to 2.4 million users
A BBC report quoted Nielsen analyst Alex Burmaster “that is greater [...]

. . . and it’s surprisingly weak. Does he always write like this? I want more David Brooks, less Fox News Sunday! Besides, Peggy Noonan made his same points last week, only better. First, Kristol today:
I was watching the debate at the home of a savvy, moderately conservative New Hampshire Republican. It was at [...]

Jack Shafer says quit yer bellyachin’ about Bill Kristol’s new gig as a NYT columnist:
If being wrong about the war should disqualify Kristol from the Times op-ed page, then Times op-ed veteran and war-supporter Thomas L. Friedman, who was still calling the invasion “one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad” eight [...]

Does the Daily News need help moderating the comments on their website? From a story about a horrific spate of murders Christmas Eve, these beauties:
BLACK ON BLACK CRIMES. 80% OF THE CRIMES COMITTED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IS CAUSED BY BLACK PEOPLE. MEANWHILE, WHILE THE DUMB BLACK OR LATINO ARE KILLING THEMSELVES, THE WHITE MAN IS [...]

The Professor isn’t the only member of the media elite who has to suffer on Northwest Airlines’ narrow-body 757s. The New Republic’s Frank Foer welcomes us aboard “Conventional Wisdom One”:
When I journeyed to Des Moines last night, I hopped a flight that should rebrand itself Conventional Wisdom One. It is the lone direct flight [...]

Perhaps you wondered why that fantastic unsolicited op-ed you wrote received no response from the Times opinon editors? Well, to start, is your father a New York Times bestselling author and a former Times writer & Times guest op-ed columnist? If so, then perhaps that perceptive piece about your semester abroad would fit nicely there, [...]

Michelle Obama will not cross a picket line to appear on ABC’s The View. (I know what you’re thinking — they have writers on The View?)
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton, in the process of running the best Presidential campaign ever, deftly avoided the picket line altogether and sent a note to she show’s token Republican, Elizabeth [...]

Great little “gotcha” video from the writers of The Daily Show, currently on strike:

Either content has value or it doesn’t. Viacom wants it both ways.