Liberal Talk Radio

Several sources are reporting that the GOP frontrunners are bailing on the YouTube debate format. Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews tracked down the GOP candidates in order to ask for their rationale. In case you missed it, Rudy was saying “9/11! 9/11!” Sort of fits with the theme, doesn’t it?

Here’s an idea I wish I’d thought of: asking the government of Cameroon for exclusive rights to the .cm domain name, so that everyone who types “google.cm” or whatever by accident gets directed to you crappy page full of advertisements. Maybe it’s because I’m left-handed, but I never type “.cm”. I’m more likely to enter [...]

I think we all know where this one is headed. A “senior administration official” leaks to the press that Rove was knee-deep in the U.S. Attorney firings scandal. How long before the right-wing talking point on this becomes, “the ability to fire Attorneys was created by the Patriot Act. So clearly, the leaker needs to [...]

I’m sure that Drudge, Limbaugh, and the other right-wingers who attacked Al Gore’s “hypocritical” power consumption at his Tennessee home will rally to his side now that it’s been revealed that onerous local regulations prevented him from installing solar panels on his roof. It’s clear that the city of Nashville hates freedom, and wants to [...]

You know what’s funny? Robots falling down stairs.

Republicans everywhere wake up this morning asking why this couldn’t have happened, say, last week: Republican officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. Word comes a day after the Democratic gains in the election, in which Rumsfeld was a focus of much of the criticism of the Iraq war.

Roy Blount starts measuring the drapes in the Speaker’s office: Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, third-ranking leader, pointedly told reporters he would have handled the matter differently than the speaker, had he known of it. “I think I could have given some good advice here, which is, You have to be curious, you have to [...]

If the Post is to be believed, after a week on the talk-show circuit, ex-New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey may still get his comeuppance — in front of a grand jury: Jim McGreevey may have blabbed too much in his tell-all autobiography — and not just about his sex life. It’s “not inconceivable” that the [...]

I don’t know if it’s a truism in public relations but it should be — you only get one chance to spin the story: As a politician, former Gov. James E. McGreevey of New Jersey was a master of message discipline, a candidate with an uncanny ability to restrict his public statements to preordained talking [...]

The “callous,” “totally relaxed” people depicted in the Thomas Hoepker photo email Slate to say that Frank Rich should suck it: I am also a professional photographer and did not touch a camera that day. Why? For many reasons including a now-obvious one: This somewhat cynical expression of an assumed reality printed in the New [...]