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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 >>

If Trump's Obama Doozy Is What Douglas Kass Thinks Is Trump's Obama Doozy, Then Trump Just Stole the Last 48 Hours of Our Lives

So on Monday, New York City's biggest attention whore, Donald Trump, appeared on the single worst television show of any kind in the whole fucking world Fox News' Fox & Friends and told Doocy et al that he had found "something very, very big" about President Obama, something with the power to maybe ... More >>

How to Speak Republican

Leaked document reveals the secrets of the GOP's coded language

Rightbloggers Pay Their Respects to Socialist Obamacare Shill Andy Griffith

When actor Andy Griffith passed away last week, President Obama gave a brief condolence statement ("A performer of extraordinary talent, Andy was beloved by generations of fans and revered by entertainers who followed in his footsteps"), on which Weasel Zippers commented, "JERK: President Obama Reme ... More >>

Tammy Bruce Says She's Been Told She'll Never Guest Host For O'Reilly Because She's Gay

This is from Media Matters: Tammy Bruce is a conservative radio show host who regularly appears on The O'Reilly Factor with host Bill O'Reilly. Bruce is openly gay, a fact she's noted on The O'Reilly Factor. Yes, the show does allow openly gay guests. But a host? Or even a guest host?

David Paterson Nominated For MTA Gig; Paul McCartney To Blame

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that he's nominating disastrous former Governor David Paterson to serve on the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- and we have the "cute" Beatle to blame for Patterson's return to public life.Paterson will replace former Board member Nancy Shev ... More >>

MADDOW FOR PRESIDENT

The MSNBC host takes on
the government

Rush Limbaugh: Saved by Sandra Fluke?

When Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" on his radio show Feb. 29, it sure seemed like the end of an era might be upon us. Public outcry prompted sponsors to pull support from the show, leaving many to wonder whether the conservative stalwart would ... More >>

LIVE FROM NEW YORK

Darrell Hammond can impersonate you

Mayor Bloomberg Disapproves of Low-Riding Pants, Defends Right to Wear Them

​On his weekly John Gambling radio show appearance, Mayor Bloomberg touched on the issue of young men wearing their pants hanging down, a topic near and dear to old people everywhere. A caller named Eddie called in to tell the mayor about an incident on the bus in which a young man with low- ... More >>

Glenn Beck Gets Cold Shoulder From New Yorkers in Bryant Park

​On Tuesday, American hero Glenn Beck held back tears as he recounted the way that New Yorkers in Bryant Park mistreated him and his family at an outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 39 Steps the night before. Beck's tears demonstrate the seriousness of the situation -- this is a man who ne ... More >>

Michael Bloomberg, Billionaire Mayor, Recommends Staten Island Ferry For a Date

​Our venerable mayor has an idea for an oh-so-precious date that seems to come right out of the HowAboutWe playbook (in fact, it does come from the HowAboutWe playbook!). How about we...sit on the Staten Island Ferry and gaze romantically out at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty? That's w ... More >>

Radiolab Live: Symmetry

Best Assignment Ever? Journalists Smoke Weed, Make Video of Themselves Driving, Blazed Out of Their Heads (Video)

​Being in this news business, it's not for the weak-hearted. Or weak-lunged, apparently.

MEMO TO PROSPECTIVE FREELANCERS

​Dear Prospective Village Voice Freelancers, Each and every day, you send me pitches for stories that you hope I'll bite on. Some are quite good. A few are excellent. Most, however, don't interest me in the least. I try my best to answer as many pitches as I can. If, for whatever reason, I'm ... More >>

Here's Major League Baseball's Most Guilt-Ridden Umpire, Jim Joyce, Holding a Puppy

​Maybe you've heard that last night, on the very last play of what was an otherwise perfect game for Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga, umpire Jim Joyce missed the call, thus costing Galarraga his perfect game. Everybody - whether you're a fan of the team throwing the perfect game or no ... More >>

SAY WHAT?

Marc Maron's WTF Podcast live at Comix

David Paterson Sex Story? Don't Look At Us: Times

​As Julia discussed this weekend, the New York Times suggested via a column by public editor Clark Hoyt that the "gauzy rumors" about a salacious story his paper was going to release someday about David Paterson were not the paper's fault, but that of other, less principled journalistic outlet ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Says He's an Assman; Outrage Ensues

Radio host and Miss America Pageant judge Rush Limbaugh said on the air today, "I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it." Jezebel is not amused ("Need a shot of rage to get you going?"); Think Progress' Amanda Terkel notes polling that shows "not that many women really lik ... More >>

Rightbloggers Defend Rush with an NFL Boycott; Are Beer, Buffalo Wings Next?

The National Football League has a large millionaire population which predictably contributes overwhelmingly to Republicans over Democrats. Yet this week we learned from rightbloggers that the NFL is in fact a wing of the liberal conspiracy. Early this month Rush Limbaugh and Dave Checketts coll ... More >>

News Roundup: Jay Z/Rush Limbaugh, Chris Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and New Music from Islands and Them Crooked Vultures

​ --As Bill O'Reilly did yesterday, Rush Limbaugh has responded to being name-checked in Jay-Z's new song, "Off That." (Quote: "This ain't black versus white, my nigga, we off that. Please tell Bill O'Reilly to fall back. Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls.") On his radio show yesterday, L ... More >>

News Roundup: Jay Z/Rush Limbaugh, Chris Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and New Music from Islands and Them Crooked Vultures

​ --As Bill O'Reilly did yesterday, Rush Limbaugh has responded to being name-checked in Jay-Z's new song, "Off That." (Quote: "This ain't black versus white, my nigga, we off that. Please tell Bill O'Reilly to fall back. Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls.") On his radio show yesterday, L ... More >>

The Internet Ruins Everything: Williamsburg-Hater Jay Mundy, High on Viral Video Power, Strikes Out

Jay Mundy, the conservative talk radio host who increasingly seems to be somebody's very well executed prank, took a few laps around the internet earlier in June when his hilarious tirade about a trip he went on to the "official hipster neighborhood of the United States of America," a/k/a Williams ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Defector Specter: Fewer But Better Republicans!

"The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians." -- Ninotchka. Once upon a time -- as we pointed out elsewhere -- rightbloggers disapproved of purist liberal Democrats who were trying to drive moderates like Joe Lieberman out of their Party. This hun ... More >>

Interview: Janeane Garofalo on 24, Henry Rollins, and Her Inevitable Run for Junior Senator of Minnesota

"When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything." Janeane Garofalo is known for biting standup, stints on SNL, The Larry Sanders Show and The West Wing, and her pioneering contributions to Air Americ ... More >>

Radio's George Weber Slain

Police found George Weber bound and stabbed to death in his Henry Street apartment Sunday morning. The former newsman for WABC radio, gone freelance since being laid off in February of 2008, was undressed and in his bed; his tub was running, the apartment was ransacked, and there were no signs of ... More >>

We Pedal Uphill

John McCain's Chief of Staff Is a 'Mo!

DAILY ZINGERS

Jon Stewart should really thank her

All Eating All the Time

Democracy Dot Com: The Left Shoots Back

Democracy Dot Com: The Left Shoots Back

Ron Kuby Hits the Airwaves Again

New NYT Columnist Lives Up to (Bad) Expectations

Air America's Randi Rhodes Attacked: Report

Air America: Randi Not a Victim of a Hate Crime

Special Amnesty Edicion

A Senate bill fails, and we feel the love

Fighting Words

Liev Schreiber puts the torque in Bogosian's Radio

Air America's Green Revolution

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

'Al Franken: God Spoke'

Anchors Way, Way Away

Port Security and the Politics of a Good Story

Harrumph Roast

Decently, Kill the Muslims

Speech The FCC Won't Touch

Sports

He Was the Best of New York

Lars-Erik Nelson and the Business of Journalism

Celebrity Bigots

Why Hate is Hot

Left Behind

The Radical Right Got Wired Fast. When Will Progressives Catch Up?

Radio Free Internet

A Low-Fi Guide to Online Radio

Talk Radio and the Police

WABC Chills the Air