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2 By Steve Huff 2/10 12:06am

Campaign 2012

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Peter Smith’s Attempted ‘Glitter Bomb’ Of Mitt Romney Could Net 6 Months in Jail (Video)

Peter Smith, a 20-year-old student at the University of Colorado, could face 6 months in prison for attempting to throw a glitter "missile" at presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Mr. Smith, who told Reuters he was protesting Romney's "general political philosophy" as much as the candidate's position on gay marriage, has been charged with several misdemeanors. They include creating a disturbance, committing an "unlawful act" on school property and in legal terms, throwing a missile. Read More

5 By Steve Huff 2/08 12:58am
Mr. Romney moments after glitter impact

Secret Service Saves Mitt Romney From Glitter Bomb (Video)

A glitter-wielding activist fell afoul of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's new Secret Service protection detail in Denver on Tuesday. As the former Massachusetts governor worked the crowds after a speech, someone attempted to throw glitter on Mr. Romney, but he was quickly hustled aside by Secret Service agents. The glitter-throwing activist was removed from the event. Read More

4 By Kat Stoeffel 1/28 6:19pm

Mitt Romney Makes Tom Brokaw ‘Extremely Uncomfortable’

NBC and Tom Brokaw have criticized Mitt Romney's campaign for using NBC Nightly News footage from 1997 in a Newt Gingrich attack ad.

"The NBC Legal Department has written a letter to the campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads," NBC News said in a statement to Politico, adding that a similar note had gone out to all other campaigns that had used NBC materials. Read More

By Drew Grant 1/26 12:05pm

Comedy

Justin Long in "Mitt Romney's Office"

Justin Long Begins Election Year Tradition of Unfunny Political Videos

In addition to creating a viral movement based on Hope and targeted to younger voters, the 2008 elections also began a horrible trend: comedians and celebrities making "edgy" political comedy videos. Previously regulated to the cold openings on Saturday Night Live, suddenly everyone and their mother had a Sarah Palin impression. Sometimes it worked. Most of the time it didn't.

Now Justin Long is reminding us just why election season is so unfunny with a parody mash-up of Mitt Romney and The Office. It's way less funny than either of those things separately...and that's saying a lot.
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By The Editors 1/24 7:27pm

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Old friends at their umpteenth reunion these past few months.

SOPA, Santorum and Seal

If you’re feeling withdrawal symptoms from reduced doses of Occupy Wall Street rabble-rousing (we hear they’re just hibernating), the success of last week’s SOPA blackout ought to cheer you up. Read More

By The Editors 1/10 7:48pm

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Seven Days of Social Networking

How can you tell 2012 has begun with a bang? Just log onto Twitter: the hot topics since Jan. 1 are a Venn diagram of American life—from pop culture to politics, to sports and even race relations. It’s beginning to feel an awful lot like looking into a microcosm not too dissimilar to those sea monkey kits we cried enough about to have Mom and Dad buy one, only to have it sitting in garage next to whatever Santa had brought us the year before. In fact, Twitter has morphed into This American Life. Well, again, for sea monkeys. At least there’s a community spirit in the barrage of 140-character thought bubblettes: it’s one of the few times that you’ll find New Yorkers venturing outside their insular world and joining in the national dialogue ­… even if it’s only online and it turns out that our sea monkeys are just brine shrimp with great marketing.

So here was your week on Twitter. Read More

By The Editors 10/05/11 9:49am

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For New Yorkers, a Week of Big Surprises

Sometimes we like to imagine what life would be like if everything had turned out differently—if everything we’d wished for this week had actually come true.  We like to imagine, for instance, that we’d be in line for the new iPhone 5 and that it would be so shiny and magical that it wouldn’t matter that we still get no reception anywhere in Manhattan where you’d actually need to make a phone call.  We like to imagine that Chris Christie is running for President because we like outsized… personalities.  (We’ve sprained all of our extraocular muscles rolling our eyes at Michelle Bachmann but she seems to have more staying power than Mitt Romney’s hair gel.) We like to imagine Derek Jeter hammering some of Justin Verlander’s 100 mph fastballs into the nosebleed seats at Comerica Park. We like to imagine that Girl Scout Council employees are paragons of public service and would never, ever embezzle $310,000 of organizational cookie money for cosmetic laser procedures and cruises.

But, alas, none of it’s true. Read More

7 By Daniel D'Addario 8/18/11 11:17am

Politics

Christine O’Donnell Wonders Aloud About Obama’s Libido, Proximity to Interns

Last night, after her Piers Morgan walk-out, Christine O'Donnell spoke briefly at the Women’s National Republican Club about her memoir, Troublemaker, and about the virtue of pulling together and showing cohesiveness as a party going into the 2012 elections. "I told it in a way that some political advisors have said was a little too honest," Ms. O'Donnell said, "and I probably shouldn't have admitted some things." Read More

3 By Kat Stoeffel 8/11/11 7:51pm

Fitness & Health

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Mitt Romney’s Iowa Diet

While schmoozing around the Iowa State Fair today, Mitt Romney did more conspicuous eating-for-the-cameras than Calista Flockhart at a Yankees game. Food is a great prop, right? Hand-held fair food is basically the opposite of

A corn dog.

A hot dog.

He was, sadly, Read More
By Reid Pillifant 3/23/11 1:44am

From the Paper

Rudy’s Last Gasp

On Friday evening, after a cup of broccoli soup, a plate of chicken and a few sips of red wine, Rudy Giuliani took to the stage in the ballroom of the Executive Court banquet hall and prepared to let loose.

With Mitt Romney leading the primary polls by a mile in New Hampshire, and Barack Read More