Smear Machine
Like much of America, we at the Village Voice have been bemused by Rafalca Romney, Mitt Romney's dressage horse who will be competing in the XXX Olympiad in London tomorrow. Imagine our surprise when we noticed that @RafalcaRomney was Tweeting*! We immediately emailed her, and Rafalca was more than ... More >>
It is political and comedic dogma now that Fox News is the opposite of a "fair and balanced" network. Their opinionators are stacked with conservative voices (Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck - remember him?) and any attempt they have made at portraying a leftist voice has fai ... More >>
Fox News "mole" Joe Muto claims (via-Twitter) that his apartment was raided this morning by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and several of his mole-y gadgets were confiscated. "I just got search warranted at 6:30am by a very polite crew from the DA's office. Took my iPhon ... More >>
In honor of today being 4/20every smoker's favorite day of the yearSOTC has compiled the 25 Best Rap Songs relating to weed. Though some may be more about bud than others, all are guaranteed to make your high all the more enjoyable. Be forewarned, though... this list doesn't have any h ... More >>
Gawker's "mole" at Fox News, Joe Muto, was outed less than 24 hours after first publishing a few insignificant yarns from inside the cable news network's newsroom -- and now he claims on Twitter to be in the midst of a "media firestorm."The only interview he's actually given -- which he pimps on Twi ... More >>
A few short hours after The Real George Zimmerman wowed the world with his, uh, grammatical skills and love of Old Glory, the news broke that his legal team has bailed. Sure, you could spend time listening to legal analysts weighing in on these recent developments. But, the fact is that the attorn ... More >>
And it's all thanks to remarks I made on TV in 2009 about Carrie Prejean, the bible thumping Miss California who got into a big mess with the pageant system when it turned out she'd done some not very holy photos and an alleged video. People tell me that Sean Hannity's show, for one, still uses me ... More >>
Maybe it's because of the holidays, but we're learning to stop worrying and love Newtmentum. Amazingly, the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich looks like the front-runner in the Republican Presidential race. This delights rightbloggers who enjoy Gingrich's cantankerous style. But it's not a ... More >>
HPV: Have you heard of it? You probably have, because in the last few days and weeks it's been talked about a lot -- often incorrectly -- by people like Michele Bachmann and, most recently, tweeted about by Ayelet Waldman, wife of novelist Michael Chabon. In Bachmann's case, she's using HPV v ... More >>
The Atlanta MC's Pl3dge is an exhilarating, politically charged ride
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 >>
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Sarah Palin's voice was shaky as she appeared with an ally, Sean Hannity, on Fox News Monday night to address her own prolonged victimhood, not at the hands of the Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, but everyone else not on the Fox News payroll. "Governor, I ... More >>
Olbs at the ballgameMSNBC blowhard Keith Olbermann appears not once, but twice in this weekend's New York Times Book Review, most notably assessing Jane Leavy's The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, but most interestingly in a small article about his Yankees fandom. ... More >>
Never went to J-school In the middle of the week, Vanity Fair made the massive profile, "Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury," available online. Like anything related to the ex-governor and former vice presidential candidate, the article proved to be a lightning rod for for supporters and det ... More >>
A rendering of the new lanes.• Starting in October, New York City buses will get express lanes on 1st and 2nd Avenues. The Department of Transportation and the MTA hope this will improve bus travel times by 20 percent. New bike lanes will also be added to part of the route. • Two New Jer ... More >>
Look, even your grandma was rooting for Seth Aaron to win. For all the judges' constant flurries of critique about various contestants not skewing "editorial," season 7 of Project Runway had a decidedly staunch narrative pretty established early on: Goofy daddy-o Seth Aaron was distilled down ... More >>
Fox NewsSarah Palin's celebrity and a week of free publicity over her planned use of canned interviews and her warlike political rhetoric didn't deliver enough viewers for her Fox News special to match the ratings of the Greta van Susteren show in the same timeslot. "Real American Stories" go ... More >>
Joe Stack used to play bass in the Billy Ely Band and, if you want to check out some of his pre-mad-plane-crasher work, you can. (Here are more pictures of him.) The Internet at present is more interested in Stack's ideology than his bass playing. Rightbloggers hurried unto the breach with ... More >>
Forget the spicy pirates of the Fabio days! Today's lover of paperback romances demands men of today! Men as wealthy as Warren Buffet, as jet-setting as Aristotle Onassis, and as Tea-Party wholesome as Scott Brown, whose Cosmo spread is just a cowboy hat away from making a perfect cover for H ... More >>
Unless Obama likes a sauce made of creamed babies, or perhaps a garnish of fried puppy ears, you probably feel that he should dress his burger how he pleases. But you may have heard of this insane thing called "Dijongate." To whit: Obama went to a burger shop and ordered his burger with Dijon musta ... More >>
August Martin High School in Jamaica now has a student-run restaurant on campus. The Cook's Cafe has students cooking for and serving faculty and staff, as well as planning the menu and balancing the budget. [NY Daily News] The European Commission and the US have reached an agreement that lifts th ... More >>
If Auto-Tune hit its peak as a joke delivery device last week amidst the spectacle of a weirdly robotic Katie Couric involuntarily singing an "O Superman"-reminiscent lament for melting polar ice caps, it also hit its nadir at about the same time, when a tape surfaced of an Auto-Tuned Martin Luthe ... More >>
Further canvassing of the NY-20 voting machines has put Republican Jim Tedisco up by 12 votes over Democrat Scott Murphy in the special Congressional election. Sean Hannity is spinning that the race may be "already won." Tedisco is sufficiently confident of victory that he announced he's abandoning ... More >>
Supposedly Democrat-Friendly MSNBC Has Let a Clinton-Hating Joe Maul New York's Senator
Shirley Phelps-Roper is just like her notorious father except in one crucial way.
M. Ward's recipe for political change: Let's ignore the president
Nearly 100,000 promise to see 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Going mad inside the debate bubble
Steve Earle Practices Rock and Roll Leftism for Its Own Sweet Sake
Fox News Wears Veil of Neutrality
Bipartisan Dismal Choices
After a long-awaited showdown with Hillary Clinton, an ally of Al Sharpton triggers a vicious debate about guilt by association
'Sure, We Get People Angry'
WABC Chills the Air
Was a Wrongful Arrest Committed?
There Were No Threats in the 'Criminal' Faxes
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