May 17, 2008
In what some Democratic Party insiders are calling a particularly ominous sign for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, former president Bill Clinton today became the latest superdelegate to switch from Sen. Clinton to her rival, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).
Sources close to the former president said that Mr. Clinton had been...
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Chris Kelly | Posted March 24, 2008 | Media
The Huffington Post has learned that Bill O'Reilly -- who claims to love America -- spent Sunday at a "church" run by a former Hitler Youth named Joseph Alois Ratzinger. Ratzinger has gone to elaborate ends to hide this connection, including taking on the absurd pseudonym "Pope Benedict XVI." Which,...
Max and the Marginalized | Posted March 20, 2008 | Politics
It has been exactly one month since the New York Times broke the John McCain/Vicki Iseman scandal, and since then the press has gone after Iseman with all the veracity and acumen of a dead hippo. What gives?
Don't get me wrong -- I think that if John McCain had...
Nathaniel Bach | Posted March 18, 2008 | Off The Bus
It's become increasingly obvious that no matter what Senator Clinton does, she can neither overtake Senator Obama's pledged delegate advantage nor his popular vote lead. The Clinton plan, as her camp has admitted, essentially boils down to convincing the superdelegates that Clinton is the better candidate and that Obama is...
Chris Kelly | Posted March 17, 2008 | Politics
Iceman: You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air you're unsafe.
Maverick: That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous! -- Top Gun
Wait a minute. John McCain's a navy aviator... and a maverick! And isn't his vanishing lobbyist gal pal named Vicki Iseman?...
David Wallechinsky | Posted March 17, 2008 | Politics
Remember the excitement about the February 21, 2008, New York Times article that implied that John McCain may have been romantically involved with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist 30 years his junior? There was a lot of righteous indignation about this invasion of McCain's privacy...and then the story faded away, soon...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | March 6, 2008 02:08 PM
Chris Kelly | Posted March 3, 2008 | Politics
Jimmy Breslin says there are only two headlines that sell newspapers: WAR and BIG GUY DIES. (Here at Huffington, the two headlines are OBAMA and SOMEONE'S NOT PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION TO OBAMA.) In cable news, the only stories anyone cares about involve missing white women, the blonder the better.
Elizabeth...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | February 28, 2008 10:23 AM
Robert Scheer | Posted February 27, 2008 | Politics
As Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain twisted briefly in the wind kicked up by that New York Times story suggesting he had swapped political favors for the personal favors of an attractive lobbyist for the telecommunications industry, I kept waiting for the public policy punch line.
Surely the Times...
Sean Carman | Posted February 26, 2008 | Politics
The New York Times has taken some flack for a story documenting that, despite his speeches against corruption in Washington, John McCain has not been careful to separate his relationships with lobbyists from his responsibilities as a senator.
The leading example of McCain blurring the lines involved a...
Ari Melber | Posted February 26, 2008 | Media
Since the New York Times endorsed John McCain, the newspaper was obviously not biased in reporting on his conflicts of interest.
That's one view you won't hear much in the raging debate over the Times article about McCain. Media insiders don't say it, since they believe in a "wall"...
Jay Rosen | Posted February 25, 2008 | Off The Bus
This weekend Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times, told the Times what Ben Bradlee tells Woodward and Bernstein in one memorable scene from All the President's Men. "You haven't got it," the boss says about a draft of their story. The reporters try to argue back,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | February 25, 2008 04:34 PM
Dylan Loewe | Posted February 25, 2008 | Politics
Last Wednesday evening, The New York Times posted a now infamous story on its website, claiming that John McCain may have done favors for a lobbyist with whom he was romantically involved. The article, built on an unstable framework of unnamed sources, quickly became the top political headline. But rather...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted February 24, 2008 | Politics
The lobbying business is thriving -- and not just on John McCain's bus.
My old friends at The Hill report that lobbying revenues were up across the board in 2007, despite the ethics and lobbying overhauls the Democrats instituted with much fanfare.
Maybe the money saved on not...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Andy Borowitz | Posted May 9, 2008 | Politics