I'll put on my Hollywood hat just for a moment so I can lead a chorus of righteous laughter at the colossal failure of the persecuted Hollywood conservatives behind An American Carol.

Here's how the movie fared over the weekend, when stacked up against Bill Maher's Religulous:

Sarah Palin proved last night she's more qualified to host a game show than be Vice President of the United States.

She looked directly into the camera and delivered one canned line after another with nary an "um"...

Joe Lieberman is being vetted as a Vice Presidential running mate for John McCain, and it seems to be an option that McCain is seriously considering.

Noted Duran Duran scholar Kathryn Jean Lopez says that Rush Limbaugh no likey:

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I never quite understood the fascination with the British royalty. They always seemed a sad piece of atavism, caught somewhere between tourist attraction and fodder for bodice-ripping novels by women named Collins.

But people seem to have very strong opinions about...

Our Elite Media seem to be up in arms over Mayhill Fowler's failure to identify herself as a journalist when she stood there with a tape recorder in a very crowded reception line and asked a question of Bill Clinton. Now as wacky as it is...

There have been numerous postmortems about "what Clinton did wrong," but I don't think that can really be analyzed outside of "what Obama did right."

Much of it was laid out in a fascinating article in the Atlantic by Joshua...

It was inevitable -- somebody had to lose.

Typically, identity politics is a tactic that Democrats employ against Republicans. This time, it was the blueprint for a battle fought within the Democratic party. An extremely emotional...

The Huffington Post has Hillary Clinton on tape disparaging Barack Obama and his support from MoveOn, saying that the organization "didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan.

I've tried to stay out of the pie fights of late, but as a long-term defender of MoveOn and other...

As many all know by now, John McCain applied for -- and was accepted into -- the public financing system for the primary. With that acceptance came certain requirements, one of those being that he can't spend more than $56,757,500 million during the primary.

I think there are a few lingering questions regarding Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama. This is what he said on CNN on February 25 regarding the role of superdelegates:

BLITZER: All right. So you say you will...

I think most people this side of Brit Hume winced uncomfortably when Tim Russert tried to make Barack Obama responsible for everything Louis Farrakhan had ever said in last week's debate.

I'd forgotten (until Jamison Foser reminded me) that this was standard operating...

Tim Russert, in front of millions of Americans on Tuesday night, was quick to force Barack Obama to denounce Louis Farrakahn repeatedly until he worded it to Russert's satisfaction (evidently "unacceptable...

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Fred Wertheimer clarifies his earlier statement on John McCain and renders himself completely irrelevant in the process:

Democracy 21 did not say that Senator John McCain cannot withdraw...

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Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 gives a statement to Marc Ambinder blasting the position John McCain is taking with regard to opting out of the public financing system:

The...

Earlier this year, Fred Werthiemer of Democracy 21 was shaking his finger at Barack Obama for breaking what he perceived to be a promise to use the public financing system should Obama be the Democratic nominee.

"I'm concerned with the position the Obama campaign is taking," Mr. Wertheimer...

On a conference call today, Howard Wolfson of the Clinton campaign has said that Hillary Clinton will appear in a Fox News debate on February 11 in Washington, DC.

After Roger Ailes made a joke comparing Barack Obama...

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I was watching MSNBC this morning and wondering how much the media thrall surrounding Barack Obama has been worth to his campaign.

Having seen Obama mania up close and personal the media didn't make it up, but the way they...

This exchange between Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann the other night was troubling:

MATTHEWS: I noticed that we're picking up some advertising from the various candidates here on MS. I've noticed some of the ads running on our network. And I think the more they go nationwide, the...

Eric Boehlert has a fantastic, carefully researched piece up at Media Matters documenting how a comment made by Rachel Maddow on the night of the New Hampshire primary made its way through the blogosphere and ended with Chris Matthews apologizing for...

We're at the mercy of a narcissistic and irresponsible press. Matt Bai's blog post in the New York Times being "Exhibit A":

No one expects Mrs. Clinton to stand down and let Mr. Obama make his...