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Movie Deal For Staggeringly Wrong Political Journalist
6:13PM Ryan Tate | He said Matt Drudge and Karl Rove held the key to the presidency. His last book was embarrassingly wrong. Barack Obama won by studiously ignoring his advice. Someone put Mark Halperin in pictures! More »
2008: The Year Pop Culture Won the Presidency
6:37AM STV | Join us in looking back at the trends, names, faces, places and unhinged absurdity that made our Defamer Decides 2008 coverage an unparalleled historical record of American presidential politics at its finest.
Did Cindy McCain Take Styling Tips From Alfred Hitchcock’s Blondes?
1:55AM STV | An eagle-eyed political observer noticed a few uncanny similarities between First Lady hopeful Cindy McCain and those victimised blondes populating so much of Alfred Hitchcock’s work. We can’t say we disagree, though if the natural next step requires Mrs. McCain to race through the Arizona desert tonight with a few thousand stolen dollars from her husband’s campaign, we’d urge her to skip the shower when she stops for a rest. Is Cindy McCain a Hitchcock Blonde? [Gabe's Declaration of Principles] More »
Chris Rock on McCain: ‘We Can’t All Dump Our First Wife And Marry a Rich One’
2:27AM Kyle Buchanan | This election year has proved a boon for the chattering class of political pundits, but there are few on cable news who can break things down as well (or as loudly) as comedian Chris Rock. After making a memorable appearance on Letterman in September to rebut Bill Clinton (“Hillary lost!”), Rock showed up at a Barack Obama rally in Tampa over the weekend, and it wasn’t to promote Madagascar 2. While joking that he took his children trick-or-treating Friday at John McCain’s many houses, Rock critiqued the Republican candidate’s own wife-swapping, $US100 million bailout of yore. “You want somebody who can relate to what you have to say,” Rock continued. “Like if I have problems getting laid, I wouldn’t call Brad Pitt ’cause he wouldn’t know what I was talking about!” Clip above. Listen to Chris Rock at Tampa Obama rally [TampaBay.com] More »
John McCain Welcomed to ‘SNL’ By Tina Fey, Boos
9:04PM Kyle Buchanan | Though both Barack Obama and John McCain were rumoured to be planning appearances on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, only McCain showed up in the end, and the two sketches he appeared in repped a decidedly mixed bag.
Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, And An Emboldened HuffPo Blogger Enliven Thursday ‘SNL’
5:07PM Kyle Buchanan | Returning alumni Will Ferrell (as George W. Bush) and Tina Fey turned last night’s Thursday edition of Saturday Night Live into a veritable class reunion, but one other notable name returned behind the scenes: Ferrell’s frequent collaborator Adam McKay. Little over a month ago, McKay (Step Brothers, Anchorman) lit up the left with a sky-is-falling Huffington Post blog entitled “We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose This Thing,” but to judge from the opening sketch he co-wrote, he now finds the Republican ticket about as threatening as a Jackie Mason PSA. The clip, after the jump: More »
Samuel L. Jackson on Obama: ‘Nobody Wants to See an Angry Black Man’
3:26AM Kyle Buchanan | Samuel L. Jackson and Barack Obama may have a certain amount of preternatural cool in common, but there’s one thing Jackson can do that the presidential candidate can’t: curse up a storm! While promoting his new film Soul Men, the actor opined at length on all things Obama, and thanks to Hollywood Outbreak, we have the NSFW audio (caution: as though he were back on the set of a Tarantino film, Jackson lets fly with a torrent of “n-words”). More »
Diablo Cody Claims A McCain Presidency Is One Doodle That Can’t Be Undid
4:20AM Kyle Buchanan | When Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol revealed her pregnancy earlier this year, all of America played the exciting game “This Thing Is Like That Thing,” remarking, “Hail fellow! This young maiden with childe recalls the heroine of the moving picture Juno. For seriousballs!” And it was good. Sadly, Sarah Palin is not Allison Janney, and according to Juno scripter Diablo Cody, Bristol is no Sunny D-swigging Juno, either: More »
Enjoy This Squirmy Footage of McCain on ‘Letterman’!
6:28PM Kyle Buchanan | As promised, John McCain finally made it to the Late Show with David Letterman tonight, and we’ve got CBS-supplied footage of many of the highlights. Not included: the twenty minutes of relentless McCain jokes that Letterman opened the show with to signal that this would hardly be a pushover appearance for McCain. And it wasn’t! More »
