First there was teabagging, then there was 2M4M, now there's guy-fawking. Someone has latent sexual desires and Stephen Colbert is completely elated b...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
Rush Limbaugh's 30-minute screed against President Obama on "Fox News Sunday" delivered host Chris Wallace a huge ratings boost. On FOX broadcast, th...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I think as people continue to see so much of politics as usual in this town -- partisan bickering and big money buying votes -- they are increasingly likely to vote against whatever represents the old politics for them.
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.07.2009 | Home
Palin's mention of Alaska "personalities" Bob & Mark for her upcoming book tour conjures up a truly shameless moment from Palin's past.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What you won't hear the spinners crowing about is the shocking punch to the gut the GOP took in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, where a Democrat won for the first time in over 100 years.
New York Times | MAUREEN DOWD | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
At our long-ago dinner, Limbaugh credited his success with being "one-dimensional." "I'm totally concerned with me," he said. And that was way before...
Chris Kelly | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
Doug Hoffman lost his election last night in NY-23. He was supported by a plurality of talk radio entertainers, and a majority of former half-term governors of Alaska -- just not voters who actually live there.
Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
While Rush Limbaugh was out proclaiming former GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava "guilty of widespread bestiality," Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoff...
B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.
Huff TV | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Arianna joined Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, on The Joy Behar Show tonight to discuss Rush Limbaugh slamming President Ob...
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
Truth be told, Fox News is as fair and balanced as water is dry. But it's great entertainment. I believe that when clowns do funny things, you should laugh.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
While many in the Republican party worry that the ousting of Dierdre Scozzafava signals to moderates that they are no longer welcome in the GOP, Rush ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
Democrats proclaimed on Sunday, that the GOP had become the party of Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and the ideological fringe after news broke that con...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
The Obama White House has, for the past few weeks, waged an informal war on Fox News, lashing out against the network for its conservative bias and bl...
Eric Alterman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Rush Limbaugh felt certain he had the next big Obama story in his lap. He -- or somebody on his staff -- thought they had discovered a portion of Obama's Columbia undergraduate thesis.
Rob Diamond | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
We are witnessing today an unmistakable emergence of deep fissures within the Republican Party. It begs the question, are we watching the beginning of the end -- the long, slow death of the GOP?
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Here's an interesting confrontation at a hearing on the Hill today between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. King said he'd...
Katie Halper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
Wear a fancy suit with a top hat and a cane. Stuff yourself with pillow so you look as bloated as possible. Wear a dollar sign around your neck (you can make it out of tin foil.) You're... Too big to fail.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Lieberman's announcement that he will vote against cloture for a health care bill that includes the public option should surprise nobody. His ideological home is no longer in the Democratic Party.
Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Rush Limbaugh continued to use his very heated rhetoric when criticizing President Obama. During a rant in which he Limbaugh accused senior White Hou...
Bill Mann | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
The indignant, GOP, all-government-is-bad know-nothings have swallowed the Kool-Aid. And Ronald Reagan was the guy who dressed up as a giant pitcher and convinced them do it.
Bill Shireman | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
This past weekend, people in 181 countries came together for what may have been the "most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history." But you wouldn't have known it here in the U.S.
Will Durst | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Obama needs to keep in mind the advice my father regularly spouted after his third six pack: never get in a fight with an ugly person, he's got nothing to lose. You know. Like a Republican.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Some Democrats recognize that Obama's making a cardinal blunder in propping up Fox through the backdoor with his attacks. Fox, of course, giddily loves every swipe that he takes at it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Okay, let's get you up to speed on the incredibly true story about how a bunch of right-wingers got taken in by some satiric blog post on Barack Obama...
Posted 11.06.2009 | Comedy