Welcome to Meaningless Election Day 2009, the day the media will read far too much into the portentous local elections around the country. What will the storylines be? The Rise of the Republicans? Comeuppance for Obama? The Country under Conservative control? Despite all this fascinating stuff to deal with, we...

Now that it's been a week or two, how's the Obama administration's freeze out of Fox News going? It's gangbusters for Fox, as the network has used the odd White House strategy of identifying the news organization as "partisan" as a rallying cry for its viewers and supporters. Did...

Just because the issue hasn't been in the public eye for the last couple of months, that doesn't mean that the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretapping aren't still cause for concern to a lot of people on both sides of the aisle. Today, Jon Pincus, CEO of...

Today, we talk the politics of culture (or is it cultural politics?), starting off with our president. How much should Obama be seen and heard as he runs the country? After Bush kept to himself most of the time, we've got a president who hits all these talk shows on...

It's "awkward public outbursts by public figures" week! Woo-hoo! We can start with Michael Moore, who always has had a penchant for public stunts and the embarrassment of his foes, and his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is no exception. (Watch the trailer here.) Ted gives us...

In today's Wilshire & Washington, we talk Government 2.0 with special guest Dr. Mark Drapeau, an Associate Research Fellow at the National Defense University and Co-Chair of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase and the Gov 2.0 Expo in May 2010. The Gov 2.0 Summit (#gov20s), currently being held...

In today's show, we continue on our Twitter kick. Last week, we had David All, a conservative new media strategist, on to discuss how conservatives are winning the Twitter war and why it's essential that they do. Today, we've got Jim Gilliam, co-founder of Brave New Films and...

With Ted away, the Tweeters -- @maegancarberry and @tetesagehen -- come out to play... Maegan and Teresa devote pretty much the entire show to Twitter, and have David All (@davidall), whom Wired magazine once called "an unusual animal" and is a conservative new media adviser, along for...

On today's "Wilshire & Washington," we are joined by Rick Klein (@thenote), senior political reporter at ABC News and author of "The Note," a political blog and tipsheet published every weekday at ABCNews.com. The main topic of the day, without fail, is health care, and how President Obama...

Is health care a generational issue? We see a lot of older people in power and at these town halls, pushing the debate, but why aren't the young people showing up? Maegan has a great essay today on the generational battle in politics and its role of health care,...

With Netroots Nation coming up next week, we have joining us DailyKos General Manager Will Rockafellow for today's Wilshire & Washington. We talk the future of the netroots and, now that President Obama has been in office for six months, how tactics will change online. The Republicans are...

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad media world, and we're just players, right? We don't even have Walter Cronkite to tell us how it is anymore. The latest to the fray is Mediaite.com, and on today's Wilshire & Washington, we have Rachel Sklar, the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite and...

A serious question for all those watching the Sonia Sotomayor hearings: Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D'oh! A wise Latina might let us, but we all know how the Republicans feel about them.

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In today's Wilshire & Washington, we can't help but weigh in on the Sarah Palin epic disaster movie. It's a fantastic train wreck of a story, and we can't look away. What is Palin's future hold? She used to want to be a journalist, so maybe she'll start her own...

On today's Wilshire & Washington, we have a very special guest: Adam Kokesh, a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and a veteran of the Iraq War. He's also running for Congress in New Mexico. At only 27, he has an understanding of the war in Iraq better...

It's been a crazy week, and it's only Wednesday! Since their election on Friday, Iranians have been burning up the Twittersphere, drumming up support abroad and organizing protests internally. Why has Twitter suddenly gone political? Finally appreciating the service, Ted exposes his luddite roots, and Teresa helpfully explains why Twitter...

When two American journalists are sent to prison in a foreign country, shouldn't the news organization at least support them and assuage public outrage by acknowledging and covering the situation on its own site? That's the question confronting Al Gore's Current TV network, faced with the sentencing of reporters Laura...

As the SCOTUS nomination of Sonia Sotomayor continues to dominate the news cycle, CNN's Leslie Sanchez joins us to get right to the heart of the matter: what's up with Newt Gingrich withdrawing his "she's racist" comments? Can't the guy just stand up for what he believes? But seriously,...

Yesterday was a big day in the battle over gay marriage. The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, but also unanimously agreed to keep in place the 18,000 marriages that took place before the November election. Protestors gathered all across the state to condemn the decision, and we've got audio...

As the recently released film, "The Soloist," has focused the country's attention on the hidden beauty in Los Angeles' Skid Row, music photographer Scott Schultz has taken things a step further by embedding himself within the community, where he discovered a thriving scene of artists - songbirds and warblers...