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Obama's SOTU Riles Rightbloggers Less Than Jokes About Thirsty Marco Rubio

Last Tuesday was the State of the Union address, in which the President laid out a bunch of plans and Republicans denounced them. Rightbloggers got into this with the aplomb you'd expect. But when rising GOP star Marco Rubio had a comical moment in his official Republican response, and people had ... More >>

Carson Kressley Joins NEWSical! He'll Pay Homage To Rachel Maddow!

Emmy-winning Carson Kressley joins the cast of off Broadway's topical revue NEWSical The Musical for four weeks only, from February 6th - March 3rd. The popular (and highly fashionable) TV personality just gave me a queer eyeful--and earful--of what's in store. Hi, Carson. Congrats! Is this your f ... More >>

Incredible Pizza Delivery Via Balloons to Rooftop Protesters

By now you've heard about the student protests at 153-year-old, privately-funded Cooper Union, where 12 members of Students for a Free Cooper Union have barricaded themselves in the clock-tower demanding the resignation of school president Jamshed Bharucha, along with a public statement from the sch ... More >>

Rightbloggers Anticipate Romney Landslide, Denounce Nate Silver, Katy Perry

The election's Tuesday, and the whole political blogosphere is one endless screaming rah-rah for one candidate or another. We advise against all direct contact with it from now till next weekend. The preemptive victory dances of the left blogosphere are, as we never tire of paraphrasing Jed Leland, ... More >>

Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?

In the battle over gay rights, dissent during wartime isn't always tolerated

MADDOW FOR PRESIDENT

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Vi Simpson: The Woman Who Punked The Radical Republicans in the Indiana State Senate and Their Creationist Bill

After interviewing Vi Simpson, the Indiana State Senate Minority Leader, I'm wondering why the hell I haven't already seen this woman on national television or in the mainstream press. I hope you see what I mean after you hear what she had to say about the way she crippled the latest Creationism-in ... More >>

Newt Gingrich's Gay Half-Sister Will Vote for Barack Obama

Last night, Candace Gingrich-Jones, the gay half-sister of Newt Gingrich, appeared on the Rachel Maddow show to talk about politics, gay rights, and Gingrich himself, whom she's (not surprisingly) clashed with over the years, though they've always been "mutually respectful," she says. "The catch is ... More >>

Does Marriage Make The Gays Boring?

I want to get married like I want to join the military

Homophobic Preacher Sues Rachel Maddow for $50 Million, Claims She Overstated His Homophobia

Bradlee Dean, at right in his usual outfit, and his lawyer Larry Klayman​Michele Bachmann's favorite preacher, Bradlee Dean, is suing Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, and NBC universal for $50 million, alleging that Maddow defamed him on her TV show. Dean claims Maddow injured his reputation and fundrai ... More >>

Can Dr. Drew Cure Cable News' Addiction?

Dr. Drew​Now that the Casey Anthony case is over -- not guilty on all murder counts, guilty only of four misdemeanors -- will cable news be able to give it up? More specifically, will Dr. Drew? This case has become cable news' hillbilly heroin and it'll be hard for them to kick. The six-week ... More >>

Sarah Palin Getting the Silent Treatment For February

​By one man at least: Dana Milbank of the Washington Post used his column space at the end of last week as an opportunity for mild self-flagellation, admitting that since the 2008 election, he has written about Sarah Palin in 42 column and in "dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radi ... More >>

Dan Choi Off To The White House at 2PM: Handcuffs Needed? [UPDATED]

​Judging by a recent tweet, it would appear that Dan Choi is speaking to Harry Reid's office again, despite the fallout they may have had over certain comments he made about the Majority Leader in certain publications. As the 111th Congress convenes today for possibly the last time, Choi twee ... More >>

Was Keith Olbermann Only Suspended After He Refused to Apologize On-Air?

​Keith Olbermann was only suspended because he refused to apologize on-camera for making political donations without first seeking approval, according to Politico, specifically Mike Allen's anonymous network sources. MSNBC was prepared to let Olbermann keep hosting Countdown if he addressed th ... More >>

Rachel Maddow on Keith Olbermann Suspension: At Least MSNBC Isn't Fox News

Rachel Maddow dedicated her final segment on Friday night's show to the Keith Olbermann flap, in which the Countdown host was suspended for making political donations, and said she understands the punishment Olbermann received. "I understand what it means to break this rule," Maddow said. "I believ ... More >>

Bad Lieutenant, Dan Choi

What the networks don't ask the poster boy of the movement against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," he's happy to tell.

When Rand Paul Rules the World

Mr. Lunch Counter​Rand Paul, son of Ron and now the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, was taken to task yesterday for the purity of his libertarian views. His creed of anti-government liberty is so unalloyed by silly notions of fairness or anti-racisim, Paul was taken to task by li ... More >>

2010 Commencement Speeches: the Good, the Bad, the Hideously Ugly, and Lisa Kudrow

​Graduation is upon us, which means ... commencement speeches will soon commence (indeed, some already have). The question on the minds of everyone who hasn't yet graduated: If you have a shitty speaker, does that mean you'll have a shitty post-graduate life? As someone who can't remember much ... More >>

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

In Good Spirits at the Bell House

Keith WagstaffRevelers enjoy the Farm on Adderly's pork, beef, and lamb-blend meatballs.​The Manhattan Cocktail Classic is but a week away, but don't think that would stop me from pouring artisanal alcohol down my throat in the meantime. Thank god for Edible Brooklyn's Good Spirits event at th ... More >>

Rachel Maddow Commencement Speech Announced, Smith Ladies React: Video

Julie Bolcer tells us that Rachel Maddow has been named this year's commencement speaker for Smith College, the Seven Sisters college to which Lisa Simpson was once encouraged in a dream to come and "experiment." The Smith senior class' reaction to the news, recorded in this video, is delightful. ... More >>

CPAC Conservative "Woodstock" Kicks Off With Jokes About Ugly Liberal Women, Etc.

​"Tea Partiers could crash CPAC's party," said UPI this morning (sourcing RedState's Eric Erickson, who demanded "a purging of the movement" -- he's big on purges), but there doesn't seem much at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which kicked off today in D.C., that TP people would ... More >>

The 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2009

Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

Lunch With Jawbox

Jimmy Fallon boasts a bizarre but wonderful D.C. punk reunion

Gay Marriage Revoked in Maine

​Yahoos displeased by the results in NY-23 may take comfort that Maine appears to have rejected the marriage equality bill that was passed by its state legislature in May. For example, National Review's Thomas Peters: "My favorite part of last night's election coverage was watching Rachel Mad ... More >>

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Rightwing Site Uses the Voice, Dirty Jokes to Beg for Money

Our Rightbloggers columns frequently get "thanks for the link" messages from its victims, and we are only too happy to have obliged. Mockery's like manure -- it's no good unless you spread it around. But today we learn that World Net Daily, the Obama "birther" site known affectionately around the ... More >>

The Queer Issue: A Conversation with Rachel Maddow, Reluctant Sex Symbol

The Queer Issue: Rachel Maddow, the New Sexy

The Butch is back, with a poster girl

This Week in the Voice

Twitpic by aturkel. Hurrah, the Queer Issue! So what's the new thing? "The lipstick lesbian has given way to a new butch..." Double hurrah! The "power lesbian" paradigm has apparently shifted toward the model of Rachel Maddow, whose "androgynous sensuality," some guy from a fashion magazine says, ... More >>

Barrett: Morning Joe Finally Breaks His Silence About Defending Abortion-Doc Killer

After nearly a week of silence -- 13 hours of television -- Joe Scarborough finally addressed the assassination of George Tiller on Morning Joe at 7 a.m. today. The Voice has blogged twice this week about Scarborough's sustained and awkward silence, a stark contrast to every other show on MSNBC, whi ... More >>

Barrett: Hey, Morning Joe, Why Don't You Speak Up?

It's been a long day of silence from the Morning Joe team.  Every other major MSNBC show has devoted major segments to the killing of abortion doctor George Tiller. Keith Olbermann devoted most of an hour to it on Monday, and then returned to it for extended, moving coverage on Tuesday. Rachel ... More >>

Barrett: Why Don't MSNBCers Question "Morning Joe" About Abortion Doc Killings?

George TillerKeith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow devoted much of their MSNBC shows last night to the assassination of George Tiller. Maddow actually led with a headshot of Michael Griffin, the first abortion-doctor murderer, who killed Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida in 1993. She then moved on to ... More >>

Tribeca Film Festival Snubs Heidi and Spencer for Jury

The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival just announced its juries, and although they've included almost everyone you've ever heard of (Andre Leon Talley! Mary-Kate Olsen! Rachel Maddow!) from every corner of the entertainment industry (daytime television WHAT UP!), founder Robert De Niro has made a possibly ... More >>

Rachel Maddow

Subway Hero/Actor Honored by City Council

Chad Lindsey, the actor who pulled a man off the subway tracks last week and received for his heroism a story in the Times, a feature in Playbill, teasing from Gawker and New York, a spot on Rachel Maddow, and plaudits from the folks back home, will be honored today on the floor of the city council ... More >>

Obama's Last Licks: Throw Wingnuts From the Plane

Tidbits: Lindsay Lohan's Morgue Duty and More

Air America's Green Revolution

New York City's most famous gadfly tries to rescue the liberal radio network