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Entries by Marty Kaplan from 12/2007

Time Warner: Brown Is The New Gay

| Posted 12.01.2007 | Media

CNN thinks Mexicans Gone Wild is a sexier topic for our country to fight about in 2007 and 2008 than health care, education, the environment, energy, and all the other issues that got shockingly short shrift at the YouTubaganza.

President Giuliani. President Romney. President Huckabee. President Just-Shoot-Me.

| Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics
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This is not the genius of American democracy. This is the pathology of a terrible systemic illness.

Romney Says Nothing; Other Candidates Demand Equal Time

| Posted 12.06.2007 | Media

In the wake of Romney's highly-anticipated and widely-covered speech, the campaigns of several other White House hopefuls immediately demanded equal time from the networks.

Oprah Is to Iraq as Cronkite Was to Vietnam

| Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics

As I watched Oprah introduce Obama in Iowa, the two-by-four that hit me on the head wasn't: Oprah is for Obama. It was: Oprah is against the war.

Is Huckabee the Antichrist?

| Posted 12.16.2007 | Politics

A flyer was found on windshields in several church parking lots in Iowa on Sunday, asking: is Mike Huckabee the Anti-Christ? The major GOP campaigns have all denied authorship.

Makin' a List, Checkin' It Twice

| Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics
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If, as we now know, J. Edgar Hoover had a secret "plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty," why not Dick Cheney?

Three Reasons to Kill Yourself

| Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

When the Romney people see the Huckabee pheasant-hunting footage, they contact every political reporter they know: Look how fat Huckabee looks in that get-up! Look at those jowls! Look at that goofy unpresidential hat! What a blunder!

I Know Who's Going to Win

| Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

It should come as no surprise that much modern media coverage of politics turns out to be a "scientifically" souped-up version of the voodoo that runs from the Delphic Oracle and the Cumaean Sibyl to the Amazing Kreskin and Bazooka Joe.