Jon Stewart sure picked the wrong week to take a vacation! The Daily Show host returned to the airwaves last night armed with week-old jokes about health care reform, which would have been a problem if they weren't so funny. Particularly of note is the debate that happens between Mr. Stewart and Daily Show correspondents Read More
On the back cover of Karl Rove's new book--Courage and Consequence--there's a picture of him whispering into President Bush's ear, which is basically what he spent seven years doing.
Mr. Rove told the Daily Caller he didn't have anything to do with choosing the photo, and that it doesn't really reinforce the ridiculous idea Read More
Within hours after the House of Representatives approved health care reform by a narrow margin, Republicans predicted retribution at the polls next fall. They promised to make every Democrat regret that historic vote as the first step toward the reversal of power in Washington. And as the current debate has proved, they aren’t going to Read More
In January 2006, we now know from a memo released Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee, the name of Christopher J. Christie—then the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and now the Republican nominee for governor—appeared on a list of potential targets for removal by the Bush Justice Department.
Eight months later, Read More
It's perfectly understandable why Barack Obama's conservative critics would latch on to this week's Pew Research Center report that stated that the president "has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades."
It sounds damning and it offers the right a chance to claim the high Read More
On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) blogentrification, and described it as follows:
It starts with the Read More
Ana Marie Cox, former Washington Editor of Radar, conducted a long interview with CBS News political analyst-turned-McCain-Palin campaign advisor Nicolle Wallace for Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Web site, The Daily Beast. (The Observer's Felix Gillette spoke with Ms. Wallace earlier this month.)
Early on, Ms. Wallace jokes that she walks her dog, Read More
CNN is reporting that a protestor attempted to handcuff Karl Rove during a panel discussion in California. The woman tried to arrest the former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff-turned-Wall Street Journal and Newsweek columnist for treason. In the accompanying video, Mr. Rove does not look the least bit amused.
The cable network's Read More
For anyone who followed the story of how and why Sarah Palin fired her state’s public safety commissioner, last week’s release of a legislative investigation that found she had violated state ethics statutes was anticlimatic. After all, everyone knows that she and her husband Todd tried to push Walt Monegan, then Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Read More
On Saturday, The New York Times' Mark Leibovich filed a piece about the legacy of Karl Rove, George Bush's former senior advisor known to detractors as "Bush's brain" and to friends as "Turd Blossom."
After noting Mr. Rove's columns for The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, his gig as a Fox News Read More
Even Karl Rove had to admit yesterday that the McCain campaign's lies and negative attacks have gone "too far."
John McCain is running the most negative and dishonest campaign in modern presidential history. He has demonstrated that he'd rather lose his integrity than lose Read More
It’s doubtful that this revelation will end up hurting the G.O.P. ticket in the fall—Ms. Palin’s statement made it clear that her daughter Read More
My old friend Sidney Blumenthal, whose Republican friends sometimes tell him more than they should, has an intriguing ] post up at Arianna's place. Sid says Mc Cain's choice of Palin was motivated largely by continued feuding with Karl Rove. Which speaks well of McCain, I suppose, but is still a poor way to Read More
Karl Rove apparently phoned Joe Lieberman last week and demanded that he withdraw his name from consideration as John McCain’s running mate, a request that the Connecticut senator ignored. (For what it’s worth, Rove – as is his wont – denies this.) This prompts the question: If McCain Read More
On Tuesday evening, inside the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Media Mob had a moment of clumsiness, involving Karl Rove's laptop computer.
It was a few short hours before Hillary Clinton was to address the delegates. The green room of the Fox News sky box inside the arena was buzzing with activity. Energy was high. Read More
