Blogger Who Bashed Palin for Employing Ghostwriter Employs 'Ghostblogg

December 17th, 2009 12:39 PM
Remember all those blog posts from the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan bashing Sarah Palin for employing a ghostwriter? Well, it turns out many of those posts may have been written by...a ghostblogger! Apparently Sullivan's busy schedule prevented him from writing everything on his site, so, without informing his readers, he employed a few ghostbloggers to write in his name.Daily Dish readers were…

Gibson's Reminiscing Humanizes Obama & Biden as He Re-Runs Whacks at R

December 14th, 2009 11:13 PM
Beginning his last week as anchor of ABC's World News before retiring on Friday, Charles Gibson ended his final Monday newscast by reminiscing about the political stories he's covered over his career. But he displayed distinct favoritism toward liberals over conservatives. Gibson hailed Jimmy Carter as “always gracious in an interview” and humanized Barack Obama and Joe Biden by commiserating…

MSNBCer: Gore Should Debate Palin and All Climate Change Deniers

December 12th, 2009 12:19 PM
Nobel Laureate Al Gore should debate former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and all those who don't believe man is responsible for global warming.So said MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe Friday in an appearance on "Countdown." This was in response to substitute anchor Lawrence O'Donnell bringing up Palin's answer to conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham's question concerning the former…

Sarah Palin Mocks 'Beatnik' William Shatner On 'Tonight Show

December 12th, 2009 10:26 AM
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continued her historic climb into the hearts of Americans Friday by appearing on NBC's "Tonight Show" in a small cameo role.Host Conan O'Brien first brought out William Shatner to do a beatnik style reading of Palin's "Going Rogue" complete with music and bongos. When he was done, Palin surprisingly walked on stage to do her own reading from Shatner's…

Roseanne Barr: Palin is 'Slave to Right-Wing Men,' 'Against All Other

December 12th, 2009 12:43 AM
Friday's Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News showed a pre-recorded interview with Roseanne Barr in which Barr opined that, although Sarah Palin is "likable," the "stuff she says is half nuts," and she's "half crazy and out of her mind." Barr -- who herself has a recent history of doing such bizarre things as appearing in Heeb magazine dressed as Adolf Hitler removing Jewish gingerbread cookies…

Sarah Palin Says Critics Of Her WaPo Op-ed 'Got All Wee-Weed Up

December 10th, 2009 4:55 PM
Showing the sense of humor millions of Americans fell in love with last year, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Thursday that critics of her previous day's op-ed in the Washington Post "kind of got all wee-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers."Palin, chatting with conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham, was obviously poking fun at something President Obama said…

Olbermann Rips Palin: From Birther to Climate Change Denier

December 10th, 2009 12:12 PM
"Having given her sleight of hand stamp of approval to the birthers, Sarah Palin is now moving on to an almost equally popular far right mythology, climate change denial."So began MSNBC's Keith Olbermann in his number one story on Wednesday's "Countdown.""Getting her facts wrong and misrepresenting her record as governor of Alaska, again, not enough for Palin`s latest foray into opinion piece,…

Matthews Calls Palin A 'Troglodyte' For Not Buying Global Warming

December 10th, 2009 10:03 AM
Did you know that if you don't believe man is responsible for global warming you're a prehistoric cavedweller completely unaware of what's going on in the world?So said MSNBC's Chris Matthews during a discussion on Wednesday's "Hardball" when he referred to Sarah Palin and everybody else that doesn't agree with Nobel Laureate Al Gore's view of climate change as "troglodytes.""She`s got to be…

Fallon Jokes to Maddow: ‘Awful’ That Palin Not Hit By Tomato

December 9th, 2009 5:51 PM
On Tuesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, during an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, when Maddow recounted a recent incident in which a man unsuccessfully threw a tomato at Sarah Palin at a public event at a mall, Fallon joked that it was "awful" because the thrower "didn’t come close" to hitting Palin. Fallon: "Didn’t hit her at all? Didn’t come close? Awful."Below is a…

Al Gore Calls Sarah Palin A 'Global Warming Denier

December 9th, 2009 3:56 PM
Nobel Laureate Al Gore Wednesday called former Alaska governor Sarah Palin a "global warming denier."Speaking with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gore also repeated his false claim about ClimateGate e-mail messages obtained from Britain's Climatic Research Unit: "the most recent one is like ten years ago."As Andrew Bolt reported Wednesday at Australia's Herald Sun, the most recent e-mail message…

Prominent Lefties Tina Brown, Joe Klein in Uproar Over Palin Anti-Cope

December 9th, 2009 3:43 PM
Sarah Palin isn't getting much of a break these days from anyone on the left end of the political spectrum. In the Dec. 9 Washington Post, an op-ed appeared by the former Alaska governor, in which she called on President Barack Obama to boycott the current Copenhagen climate summit in the wake of the "Climategate" e-mail leak. "Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans…

Readers Shocked That NYT Would Dare Lend Credence to 'Going Rogue

December 8th, 2009 1:36 PM
New York Times readers were treated to a rare dose of sympathy for Sarah Palin and her new book yesterday. Columnist Stanley Fish reviewed "Going Rogue", and cast it in a generally appealing light, while dispelling some of the most trumpeted criticisms of the former Alaska Governor's autobiography.Fish introduces his review with a humorous anecdote poking fun at some of the more deranged Palin-…

Joy Behar and Andrew Sullivan Attack Sarah Palin: Is Trig Her Son

December 8th, 2009 9:55 AM
Palin Derangement Syndrome was on full display Monday evening when HLN's Joy Behar invited the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan on to trash the former Governor of Alaska.At issue fully fifteen months after Sarah Palin was thrust into the limelight as John McCain's running mate was whether or not Trig is actually her son.Behar began the segment: "Sarah Palin may have been coy on the Oprah Show about a…

Genesis of a Political Joke: 'Going Rogaine

December 7th, 2009 8:06 PM
It is the joke told by Sarah Palin on Saturday at the Gridiron Club that has spread far and wide. It was featured by many websites and news outlets including Politico and U.S. News & World Report. Here is how the Associated Press reported the joke:Palin targeted her hosts, Democrats and Sen. John McCain's campaign staff, as well as herself.If the election had turned out differently, she said…