You know, one of the great things about passing an economic stimulus package near Valentine's Day is that every wonk in town had at least one good pickup line this weekend.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media
I hope you are ready for a stimulating conversation, by which I mean a conversation about stimulating. By which I mean the stimulus package. And whether it stimulates the economy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.04.2009 | Media
Michael Steele is up for a return to the "Contract With America," though he does not LITERALLY want to travel back in time to 1994.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media
Hey! It's John McCain! He looks happy. He did Obama a solid in helping to push the Clinton nomination along. But what's his role?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.18.2009 | Media
Today marks the final Sunday of the Bush administration! Does that fill you with nostaglic waxings? It does for me, but they are, in all honesty, mainly of the warm bed I just got out of.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media
Last week was a good week for This Week, which ended up eking out a win over NBC rival Meet The Press in Total Viewers, and landing as the "top-rated ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.11.2009 | Media
It's been a long time since we checked in with the nerd Chris Matthews, so let's see how he's handling these last two weeks before Obama is sworn in and he loses it completely.
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.04.2009 | Media
Do the producers of the Sunday political shows think it's presumptuous to submit high officials to the kind of grilling they brag about when senators or other lesser beings undergo it?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.04.2009 | Media
Steny Hoyer and George H. W. Bush? I hadn't prepared for all this animal charisma and sexual heat! Lucky for me, I'll have Brit Hume and Mara Liasson back on the panel today, as bonerkillers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Media
It's go time on a super new war in the Middle East. Wow! Has "democracy" taken root up in that piece or what?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.21.2009 | Media
"Dick Cheney Unplugged" and other highlights of the Sunday news shows.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.14.2009 | Media
Facing Fox News Sunday in a raw state of of semi-sleepiness, innocent dreams from the night before still half-remembered? This is going to hurt.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Media
We knew that Obama was going to inherit some major problems, but we'll pretend that we've actually been blindsided by them because, let's face it, it's sporting to sometimes allow Meet The Press to feel like it's the superior institution.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.31.2008 | Media
Oh, boy. Battle of the Surrogates, 2008 style today as Lindsey "Jowly Dave Foley" Graham does battle with Claire McCaskill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.24.2008 | Media
Ahh, Fox News Sunday. Your refusal to upgrade from the mid 1980s where graphics and music are concerned truly inspires.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.17.2008 | Media
Yes, rumors are flying and most of them are extremely unsound, but because a few of them are not, speculation remains the hard currency of the realm where the political media are concerned.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media
So, last week? Pretty momentous, right? And historical, as well. So historical that we say it was "an" historical week, even when we say those word...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2008 | Media
Today's theme is: "What's Going To Happen In The Election?" And next week, "Wow, Now That The Election Is Over, What Are We Going To Talk About?"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media
Tim Kaine, Tom Ridge, Karl Rove, and the Fox Panel talking about...media bias! Oh, sweet monkey Christ, that's going to be great.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
When Nancy Pfotenhauer goes around saying that I'm not a real Virginian...well, it riles me up a little, because I'm as real a Virginian as you are going to get.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
Well, let it not be said that John McCain can't keep a promise! He said that he was going to take his campaign in a new, negative direction, and, wow. Just...wow.
Todd Gitlin | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media
Brokaw's bland evasiveness on Meet the Press does not bode well for what we can expect from his turn as moderator at this Tuesday's debate.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
We jump right into the New Negativity and Palin "pallin' around with terrorists." Lieberman says: "It is fair game!"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
As vice presidential contender Sarah Palin made her way to the end of her first and only debate of this campaign season, you got the sense that she wa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media
Last Friday, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer rendered his verdict on McCain's chances to win the election - he hadn't any. Obama has ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2009 | Media