No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!
The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.
The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.
Craig Crawford | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
Not even President Obama's delightful Nobel Prize dissuades Helen Thomas from her view that he still has plenty to learn.
Craig Crawford | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
Suspicious that the White House is backing out of a public health insurance option, Helen Thomas gives Robert Gibbs yet another chance to fess up or deny.
Washington Post | Dana Milbank | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Helen Thomas is 89 years old and requires some assistance to get to and from the daily White House briefing. Yet her backbone has proved stronger than...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
Christiane Amanpour offered Kyra Phillips a history lesson when she questioned whether Helen Thomas could remain objective about President Obama after...
Huffingtion Post/AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
(AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is celebrating his own birthday by leading the White House press corps in singing Happy Birthday to vet...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
The president said that clinical trials showed that patients who are exposed to one of his pressers usually lose consciousness within three minutes.
Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
This Omega Institute conference sets out to build bridges across generations that inspire and empower women to change the world.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 08.13.2009 | Comedy
"I would suggest that detractors be more worried about E's vulnerability to Sloan," the President observed.
Robert Lanham | Posted 08.13.2009 | Comedy
Many activists contend that given the success of "Bruno," the time is now for the president to speak out in support of non-traditional films such as the ones made by Cohen.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
For the fourth time this week, the White House press briefing was dominated by questions over the president's stance -- seemingly souring -- on the id...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy
Republicans were critical of the President even though they were unaware of the specifics of what they were critical of.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
One of the more interesting dynamics of the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend in D.C. has been how eager conservatives have been t...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
During an appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show Tuesday night, Whoopi Goldberg criticized the Fox News host for calling longtime White House reporter Hel...
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 03.19.2009 | Comedy
Jimmy Kimmel was both informative and self-deprecating on Friday, telling his viewers that despite the recession condom sales are on the rise, which i...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
Bill O'Reilly's top story tonight on his Fox News show was devoted to defending remarks he made calling legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas th...
Carol Jenkins | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
We urge you to join the Women's Media Center in sending an official complaint to Fox News about Bill O'Reilly. His sexist and ageist comments about legendary reporter Helen Thomas require an apology.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
Bill O'Reilly called legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas the "wicked witch of the east" Monday night following President Obama's press confere...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
Why did Obama refuse to answer Helen Thomas' question alluding to Israeli nuclear weapons? Simple. Because if he did, the media would have reported it as a gaffe.
Kate Clinton | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
With Obama's Inauguration, help may be near, but remedy is far. Church and state are one. Democracy is capitalism. War is peace. Memory is shredder. Our national glands are fatigued from the shock of the Bush Doctrine.
Mediabistro | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media
via Mediabistro: Our thanks to our sister blog FishbowlDC for this. Helen Thomas has sat in the White House Press Corp for seven presidents. Preside...
Lily Koppel | Posted 10.26.2008 | Style
The American people should demand that Sarah Palin talk to the press. We are not watching a movie -- this is real life and it is getting increasingly scary. Who does she think she is, Garbo?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.14.2008 | Entertainment
The HBO doc about journalism legend Helen Thomas, Thank you, Mr. President, is now slated for is first airing next Monday. Joe Strupp of E&P interviewed the director, Rory Kennedy.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
The Bush White House has come up with an ingenious new way to take care not to faithfully execute the laws of the land.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Dana Perino gets points for bravery, both for going on The Daily Show and for doing so in hot pink — but otherwise last night's interview with t...
Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment