Rachel Maddow's pursuit has led her to develop a new and improved pina colada, which we're dubbing "The Maddow Colada."
Other than the "news" moniker, Fox News is fine. They're for their side, compelling to their side and benefiting their side. Plus, they give the people what they want: entertainment. So what is wrong with liberals doing the same thing?
MSNBC is a news operation that features a well-defined block of advocacy and opinion; Fox is a non-stop engine of advocacy and opinion that occasionally sprinkles in some actual news. There is a damn huge difference.
Is it possible to defend Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity at the same time? Yes, but only if they can admit there is at least one principle on which they can find common ground.
If history is any guide, the Comcast-NBC merger poses an even bigger threat to the future of MSNBC personalities like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow than the recent dustup that temporarily sidelined the former.
Keith Olbemann is not a fraud, and no one is objective. From "gotcha" questions to softball ones, from editing to news prioritization, humans are bias in nature. Reporters should never pretend otherwise.
The word that begins with "W" and ends with "E," has been tossed around in this past unlamented campaign, as if prostitution was no longer one of the...
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"Let no man sleep at his post. Remember, the office holders are desperate, wakeful and urgent."-Anne Royall, Paul Pry, 1836 She would have skewered t...
It's clear the majority of voters want the Democrats, but the prediction is the Republicans will win today because Democratic voters are going to stay home. This is a problem that admits a simple solution: everyone go vote.
You can't have a Barack Obama without a Sarah Palin. Rachel Maddow, meet the ubiquitous Bill O'Reilly. They're all the spawn of the same dynamic, an expanding new reality where anything is possible and nothing is predictable.
To listen to the rhetoric that has stained so much of the 2010 campaign season, you'd think the biggest problems facing our nation are excessive gover...
You'll be drunk before 8:03 ET if we make this too easy, so we're trying for some next-level stuff&nonsense.
Watching President Obama on Jon Stewart's Daily Show last night reminded me of why I think so highly of him. In no particular order, my incomplete lis...
When Miller got caught doing something wrong -- using his colleagues' computers to advance his own political interests -- he lied about it repeatedly, records released under court order show.