Thank You for (Not) Running for President
In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.
In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Pat Buchanan, who was a close confidant of Nixon, recently scoffed at the idea that the Obama White House is comparable to Nixon, calling it "idiotic," because, duh, Nixon was a historically unlovable bastard-creature, who left trails of foul-smelling ichor all over the Oval Office, like a slug. And no one liked Nixon, except for the "Perotistas, and what you might call the tea-party folk" who loved him immensely. Irony!
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
If recent polling is any indication, people don't want to be associated with the party that elevates the self-satirical wackaloons. Especially when they refuse to be honest about who they are.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Pat Buchanan has a post up today on WorldnetDaily, about the "Oath Keepers," the latest strain of extremist nimrods who have lost their minds over the...
Dave Zirin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
It was almost jarring to hear Rush whine about "tyranny" on the left, when it was his compadres on the right who just said no, and rejected Limbaugh's bid to buy the St. Louis Rams.
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
For months now, Roger Ailes has been putting the finishing touches on his first monster, Fox News Channel, just as its bride, Fox Business Network, is showing signs of life.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Condé Nast, which sells its advertising based on the size and demographics of its subscribers, decided to go with mass instead of class, and closed Gourmet down.
Leonard Zeskind | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Palin's anti-elite style embodied a particular form of nationalism that abjured both elites and the "undeserving" poor. It is precisely this nationalism that animates Tea Partiers today.
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
I've been following the Republican descent into the realms of the bizarre for some time now, and I'm convinced that if they retook Congress the Republicans might try to impeach the president.
Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
World conquest was a pipe dream for Hitler, but Buchanan's whitewashing is an unconscionable distortion of the truth. Why did Hitler invade Poland? Easy. Because it was there.
Tony Sachs | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
Last year, for my dad's birthday, I trawled through his hundreds of comments on HuffPosts ranging from Sarah Palin to baseball. With that in mind, here's the sequel to "My Dad's Greatest Hits."
Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
Professor Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration, and Pat Buchanan had a rare moment of agreement this morning when they w...
The Daily Beast | Mark McKinnon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party--and he's donating $1,00...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
Yesterday, the world was appalled anew by Pat Buchanan, as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland by offering up one of h...
Aaron Keyak | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
You might think that Buchanan would have stopped using this sort of unrepentant rhetoric as his career moved from a Republican firebrand to a to cable news commentator -- but you'd be wrong.
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.
Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
In the tradition of merging the media beat with whatever pop culture sensation has captured the Zeitgeist, I thought it would be fun to cast the Mad Morning Men (and Women) of Morning Joe. Hey, what else are you gonna do until next Sunday at 10?
Leonard Zeskind | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Progressives have badly underestimated the strength and resilience of their opposition. Republicans and conservatives retain the ability to stop the drive forward -- like scabs on a union workplace strike.
Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
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.
Posted 09.03.2009 | Comedy
Michael and Andrew Gregory, brothers who have an affinity for R&B, politicians and Sunday talk shows, are back with their SEVENTH installment of "Auto...
Terrance Heath | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
From the moment Sotomayor's nomination was announced, it's become evident that varied shades of white have blended into a much paler, but more uniform, color.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
Rachel Maddow took some time last night to revisit last week's segment with Pat Buchanan, in which they argued over affirmative action policy in the c...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Several days ago, Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan had a heated debate about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and the fairness and...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy
Stephen Colbert eviscerated Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh last night for claiming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racist and t...
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media