Leno Causes Seismic Shift in Delicate Balance Between Husbands and Wives Across America

Ray Hanania, 11.15.2009

Chicagoland political columnist, consultant, author, standup comedian and radio talkshow host

For all the pre-publicity, the Jay Leno Show is still the same Jay Leno Show. It just has a different name.

Real results from Donorschoose.org

Craig Newmark, 11.14.2009

Founder of Craigslist

Hey, DonorsChoose.org is about helping out teachers trying to fund classroom projects. It's like microfinance, where p...

South Carolinians Gone Wild: Wilson's Only the Latest ...

Dan Manatt, 11.11.2009

Dan Manatt is a producer and media consultant

Remember Fort Sumter? Yes, Joe Wilson's ancestors literally started the Civil War.

Jimmy Fallon's Valued Online Audience Returns Little Value

Danny Groner, 11.09.2009

Video Editor/Online Assistant Editor at TheWeek.com

In the past few months since Fallon debuted, he's led regular and occasional features targeting, among others, an online audience that doesn't stay up for Fallon.

Stephen Colbert to Play The Riddler? The Momentum Builds!

2morrowknight, 10.19.2009

Author, blogger, internet strategist

Deep in your heart, you know Colbert's got the complete package of comic timing, creativity, audacity, and that indefinable "it" to pull off a portrayal of such a multi-layered villain.

Kennedy's Legacy: A Movement That Can Multitask

Melissa Bradley, 10.19.2009

Chair of the Board, Tides

What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.

Riddle Me This: Why Not Let Stephen Colbert Play the Riddler?

2morrowknight, 10.17.2009

Author, blogger, internet strategist

The Riddler is intellectually curious, wickedly funny, and relentlessly creative -- all of the things I would associate with Stephen Colbert. Add in the usual debauchery, mischief and shenanigans and Colbert could really pull it off.

Letterman's Running Gag About Crashing Obama/Oprah Dinner on Martha's Vineyard: Hasn't Dave Heard Teddy Kennedy Died?

Michael Russnow, 09.27.2009

Screenwriter, former Member Writers Guild West Board of Directors

David Letterman continued joking about not being invited to dinner with Oprah and Obama in Martha's Vineyard even after he knew the president was delivering a eulogy for Ted Kennedy on Saturday.

Kumbaya, Not Kevorkian, Will Kill Grandma

Marty Kaplan, 09.24.2009

Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School

I don't know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times' failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama's failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar.

Life Imitates The Daily Show: WorldNetDaily Wants You To Think Obama Is the Antichrist

Terry Krepel, 09.20.2009

ConWebWatch.com founder and editor, Media Matters senior editor

But just because WND has found a new way to smear Obama doesn't mean it has abandoned the old ones. Its writers have continued to repeatedly liken Obama to Nazis.

Jon Stewart Exposes Fox News as the New Liberals (VIDEO)

Mike McCready, 09.20.2009

CEO Platinum Blue / Music Xray

If you grew up during the cold war like I did, you probably remember being told how lucky we were to not live in the Soviet Union because their media misled the population. I'm just sayin'...

Comedy Central Saves America with Intelligent Satire

Michael B. Laskoff, 09.15.2009

"...content against obedience..." W.S.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert pass themselves off as comedians, but they are really the most influential satirists of the day: they inform and illuminate through ridicule.

Holbrooke's Projects Long Occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistan

Tom Hayden, 09.14.2009

Former state senator and leader of Sixties peace, justice and environmental movements

The conference on Afghanistan with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, sponsored by the Center for American Progress on August 12 turned into a disappointing press conference

O'Reilly, Beck, Olbermann and Maddow: Venomous Snakes?

Charles Warner, 09.12.2009

Charles Warner is an active blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com and teaches at The New School

No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

If Obama Were Funnier, He'd Be a Lousy President

Stanton Peele, 09.05.2009

addiction expert, psychologist, raconteur

Comedians detach themselves form their surroundings, observing their social settings critically. In doing so, they put themselves outside the fray. People don't want their elected officials outside the fray.

John Bolton's Nuclear Fantasy

Joe Cirincione, 08.30.2009

President of Ploughshares Fund

John Bolton told Jon Stewart he wanted America to be the only nation with nuclear weapons. Stewart is the comedian, but this policy is the joke.

Arianna Faces Off Against Stephen Colbert (VIDEO)

Huff TV, 08.29.2009

Arianna appeared on "The Colbert Report" last night to discuss the re-issue of her book "Pigs at the Trough." Unfortunately, she had to call Stephen out on his premature exaltation.

Pro-Nuclear Pundits Debunked

Frida Berrigan, 08.28.2009

Senior Program Associate at The New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative

Obama's efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons have also drawn harsh criticism from a chorus of nuclear war theorists intent on scaring the public into opposing the president's disarmament agenda.

Reading the Pictures: As if This Puts Birthers to Bed

Michael Shaw, 08.23.2009

Publisher of the visual politics blog, BAGnewsNotes

Seeing is believing?

If Lewis Black Can't Get Proper Health Insurance, Can You? (VIDEO)

Blaise Zerega, 08.23.2009

CEO of FORA.tv

Stephen Colbert in Death Match with Black Barbie

Bertha Lewis, 08.21.2009

CEO and Chief Organizer of ACORN

A few weeks ago, Stephen Colbert had me on his show. It got to the point where I took out a black Barbie doll, he took out a transformer and we just started dueling. Guess who won that fight?