Rubbernecking's Top Ten Pop Culture Moments of 2009
Tom DeLay on Dancing With The Stars. This is one of those moments that's so grotesque you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Tom DeLay on Dancing With The Stars. This is one of those moments that's so grotesque you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Ronald Earle | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics
For sixteen years in Texas we've had one party rule and it's hard to imagine how anyone could say with a straight face that the officials currently in power have made things better for ordinary hard-working Texans.
Liz Glover | Posted 12.14.2009 | Entertainment
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Vicki Strauss Kennedy | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics
Alan Khazei represents a rare opportunity to elect a bridge builder with a proven ability to work inside Washington, while also galvanizing outside pressure to effectively pass meaningful legislation.
Lisa Baron | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
In politics, if your boss crosses the line then it's ultimately your career that suffers. It's called being "Abramoff'd", and it's what happened to me while working for Ralph Reed, despite that my hands are clean.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
Of all things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving -- I'm thankful that challenging the government's course and trying to put better ideas on the table are unabashedly patriotic again.
Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Last month, before he could be voted off the show, former Republican Congressman Tom Delay dropped out of ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" due to double...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment
Reality television is a stain on our society and an insult to culture. It's dumbed-down television at its worst, lowest common-denominator.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
What were the producers thinking when they cast DeLay in the first place? Did they believe that after seeing him do a samba, America would forget what a repulsive human being he is and embrace him in its collective bosom?
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Tom DeLay has left ABC's Dancing with the Stars due to stress fractures in both his feet. The man known as "the hammer" tried to tough it out, indeed...
Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Tom DeLay's brief reality television career is coming to an end. Citing stress fractures in both feet, the former House Majority Leader will announce ...
Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Tom "The Hammer" DeLay got is groove on tonight in another episode of Dancing with the Stars. Despite being diagnosed with stress fractures in both f...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
The cover of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book Going Rogue was made public today. In honor of the inspirational photograph of the ex-governor, here are ...
Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Tom DeLay and partner Cheryl Burke made their second appearance on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," this time dancing the tango. Watch DeLay tango...
Dickipedia/HuffPost Comedy | Posted 11.28.2009 | Comedy
Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8, 1947) is a disgraced former U.S. Congressman and one-time Majority Leader of the House of Representatives who resurfa...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
This was not a good week for public figures with notable heads of hair. The boyishly coiffed Tom DeLay caused jaws to drop all across America with his rump-shaking cha-cha to "Wild Thing" on Dancing With the Stars. Breck Girl-turned-Cad John Edwards saw his already-tarnished reputation further sullied by the release of details of his affair with Rielle Hunter, including a promised post-Elizabeth rooftop wedding featuring the Dave Matthews Band. And the idiosyncratically maned Donald Trump made headlines by allowing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to pitch a tent on his Bedford, New York estate. But it was follicly-challenged columnist David Broder who took the prize for the week's most ludicrous act: criticizing President Obama for "his determination to rely on rational analysis, rather than narrow decisions." God forbid. It was enough to make your hair stand on end.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
Could Letterman be reaching for some of Jon Stewart's magic? And do stunt documentaries really change anything? Like the Ferrell video, are they only for the converted?
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Comedy
DeLay's smart enough to realize he has zero chance of winning this season's competition, and has taken control of the situation by gerrymandering the judges' table.
Politics Daily | Emily Miller | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Walking out of a restaurant in Los Angeles last week, the former House Majority Leader was stopped by a stranger. [...] Starting with the biggest iss...
Bill Mann | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
It's Toxic Tom DeLay, aka The Exterminator, the unctuous little weasel now making a fool of himself (again) on ABC's dismal enterprise called Dancing With The Stars.
Posted 11.22.2009 | Media
CNN's Jack Cafferty is very disturbed by the idea of Tom DeLay doing the cha cha on "Dancing with the Stars." When Wolf Blitzer told him that it "tak...
Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Tom Delay made his debut tonight with partner Cheryl Burke on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and it was a jarring sight, to say the least, to see the ...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
In comparison to all the good ACORN does, the House's action Thursday, specifically the role played by the Democratic majority, is shameful. It's truly incredible that Democrats aided in this travesty.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
We need rope, lots of it, to let the right wing shark-osphere hang themselves in their xenophobic obsessions. Because what won't deter them is shame. There is no shame to these hacks.
Holly Cara Price | Posted 12.31.2009 | Entertainment