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13 By Rex Reed 9/28/11 11:44am

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Northern Exposure? You Betcha!

There may be worse things in life than sitting through a 90-minute movie about Sarah Palin. At the moment, I just can’t think of any.

For a shrill, obnoxious loudmouth spouting more semantic goofs in public than Mrs. Malaprop, she has mangled more facts, misquoted more people and been on the wrong side of so many things that she’s ready for a cinematic firing squad. And for a veteran documentary filmmaker with the credits of British director Nick Broomfield, I expected Sarah Palin—You Betcha! to be a hair-raising exposé. But he didn’t have to put in much overtime. All he had to do was go to Wasilla, Alaska, open his eyes and ears, and keep his cameras rolling. As her family, friends and enemies—including just about everybody she has ever worked with as mayor, governor and vice presidential nominee-—prove in every scene, Sarah Palin defines self-parody. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/22/11 7:19pm

War

Obama’s Action in Libya Raises Questions with Nadler, Weiner

"I think what he did was illegal and unconstitutional."

That was Jerry Nadler, the liberal Democratic congressman, in an interview this weekend, referring to President Obama and the military intervention in Libya.

Those concerns were also raised on a conference call Saturday, where other liberals, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, raised constitutional questions about Mr. Obama's Read More

By Rachel Morgan 11/12/10 5:32pm

McCain Household At Odds Over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFZ7qjrw5U&feature=player_embedded#!

The new anti-bullying message from the NOH8 Campaign highlights an apparent standoff between Arizona Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy McCain.

In the video message pushing for repeal of the military's long-standing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, Cindy McCain pushes for the ban to be lifted--a matter currently under consideration for repeal by Congress. Read More

By Steve Kornacki 12/07/09 1:48pm

McCain’s Balancing Act

These days, there are three John McCains.

One is the pride-driven defeated presidential candidate who hopes Americans will compare him to President Obama and realize the error of their ways. Another is a true-believer neoconservative, dedicated to using his Senate perch to push for aggressive military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And then there’s the Read More

By Steve Cohen 10/26/09 5:52pm

Cash and Carry Political Campaigns

Saturday's New York Times and much of our local media have been calling attention to the amazing amount of money that Mike Bloomberg is spending on his reelection campaign. In the end, he will spend between $100 million and $150 million on his personal stimulus program for New York's political consultant and media industry. He Read More

By Steve Kornacki 6/30/09 9:22pm

Palin Wasn’t Just Being a Diva

From Todd S. Purdum’s new Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin:

When aides went to load McCain’s concession speech into the teleprompter, they found a concession speech for Palin—written by Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, who had also been the principal drafter of her convention speech—already on the system. Schmidt and Salter told Palin that there was Read More

By Steve Cohen 6/30/09 3:23am

Another Step on the Long March to Global Climate Policy

On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives took the historic step of passing the first piece of U.S. legislation to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses.  While the bill, like all legislation, is not perfect, it is a giant step in the right direction. The most important provisions of the bill require:

•    Reductions in greenhouse Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 4/09/09 8:18pm

Meghan McCain’s Book Sold to Hyperion For High Six Figures

John McCain's 24-year-old daughter Meghan has a book deal! Sources say Hyperion has prevailed over at least three other publishers in an auction that began earlier this week, following a round of meetings during which the in-your-face young conservative and the literary agent she shares with her father, Sterling Lord Literistic president Flip Brophy, Read More


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