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Keith Olbermann's Departure From MSNBC: What It Might Mean
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIt's unclear why Keith Olbermann quit MSNBC Friday night, but it could spell larger changes for cable news. Regardless of the immediate reasons for his departure, I think it is clear the ethos that fueled Olbermann's meteoric rise has come and gone. This happens to musicians (think Warrant in the time of Nirvana) and actors (think Reagan in the era of Brando). I think it can happen to talkers, too. Times change and audiences are fickle. Shelf-life is probably shorter now than it has ever been. Liberal talker Bill Press notes this phenomenon in his book, "Toxic Talk." As Press notes, Rush ...
More Conservatives Are Questioning the Afghanistan War
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe list of conservatives who are questioning our involvement in Afghanistan is growing. As Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy magazine reported: "Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist said he wants to build a center-right coalition to advocate for considering pulling out of Afghanistan in order to save the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent there." One of the first prominent conservatives to sound the alarm on Afghanistan was Tony Blankley, a columnist and press secretary for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Blankley has written several columns on the topic ...
Advice to President Obama: Avoid Politics in Tucson Speech
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWalter Shapiro makes an astute point this morning regarding President Obama's speech Wednesday in Tucson: "Somehow believing that Obama has to reach a Clintonian standard of empathy or to achieve transcendent eloquence misreads the nature of the occasion," he writes. I concur. Obama isn't Bill Clinton. He shouldn't try to be Bill Clinton, nor should the public expect him to be. Having said that, there is something Obama could do that would go a long way, and that is to scrub his speech of anything that could be construed as attempting to score political points or to in any way gain ...
The 112th Congress Kicks Off With Prayers and Parties
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIt took the ever-weepy John Boehner exactly three minutes to cry after entering the House chamber Wednesday, before he'd even taken the oath as speaker. Just steps from the well, he whipped out his trademark white hankie, wiped his eyes and ascended to the dais. He teared up once again on the platform where Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered her own farewell with trembling hands, and then executed the transfer of power from Democrats to Republicans by handing Boehner her outsize wooden gavel. After a thunderous ovation, he managed to deliver a dry-eyed speech before being sworn in by Rep. John ...
Bernie Goldberg: The Media and Obama's 2010 Fall From Grace
By Bernie Goldberg - AOL NewsTwo years ago, during the presidential campaign, the so-called mainstream media threw out all pretenses of objectivity and slobbered all over the candidate they wanted to win, Barack Obama. This year the bill came due for their corruption. And President Obama got stuck with it. It wasn't just Chris Matthews' embarrassing admission that he "felt this thrill going up my leg" when he heard candidate Obama speak. Chris is entitled to comment. He's a commentator, after all. But this wasn't political commentary. This was a man crush. And it wasn't just David Gergen's observation on CNN that Mr. ...
'Morning Joe' and Eliot Spitzer Know How to Keep Women Quiet
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyIn her book "All Things at Once," Mika Brzezinski recalls fondly that getting her gig on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was like being "back at the Brzezinski family dinner table, fighting to make myself heard." We all know families where everyone must fight to have their voice register above the mealtime din. While news talk shows aren't the on-air equivalent of that family dinner table, two high-profile newswomen may as well be kids eating meals in their parents' homes again, because they're having a hard time getting a word in edgewise as they co-host shows. On "Morning Joe," the show's namesake, ...
Mike Huckabee: Don't Be Afraid to Call It Christmas
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is talked about as a potential presidential contender in 2012. He currently hosts his own talk show on the Fox News Channel. And he's just out with a brand new Christmas book for kids: "Can't Wait Till Christmas." We caught up with Huckabee to get his take on the "war on Christmas" and a few other topics. Mike Wintroath, AP Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is a potential 2012 presidential candidate. You're out with a new Christmas book for kids. Every year at this time, we hear about the "war on Christmas." Do you really think Christmas ...
'No Labels' Speaker David Gergen in NYC: 'The Country Is on the Edge'
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – More than a thousand Democrats, Republicans and independents converged on New York City on Monday to launch a national political organization to bring together Americans and put an end to damaging partisanship and divisive labels. Aptly, it's called "No Labels. Not Left. Not Right. Forward." From as far as Oregon and Colorado, Arkansas and Michigan, No Labels enthusiasts descended on New York City and filled a large hall at Columbia University to hear No Labels' founding leaders and guest speakers summon Americans to form a grassroots movement to unify the nation and support ...
Opinion: Ignore Scarborough, Leave Sarah Palin Alone
By Bob Maistros - AOL News
(Dec. 1) -- One of the first things my mom taught me was that a gentleman should never, under any circumstances, hit a girl. That admonition kept me out of my fair share of trouble on the playground. And it remains a solid piece of advice for Republicans considering whether to heed MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough's call this week in Politico for them to "man up" and take on Sarah Palin. Morning Joe, you see, insists that Ms. Sarah is a "problem" for Republicans. It seems that among "the former half-governor's" efforts to "juggle her new reality show, follow her eldest daughter's dancing ...
On Joe Scarborough's Takedown of Sarah Palin
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI hope Joe Scarborough likes getting e-mails, because his Politico column on Sarah Palin is sure to provoke some angry ones. Here are a few immediate thoughts on the controversial column: - Scarborough refers to Palin as "a reality show star," but is she really? Now that we have all seen her TLC program, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," I'm not so sure that is a fair classification for it. When people hear the term "reality show," they likely think of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" or "The Osbournes." Calling "SPA" a reality show is not entirely inappropriate, but I would argue that it is also a ...
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