newVideoPlayer("/arichrisfight.flv", 506, 423,""); Oh man. Who even knows why this happened, but Chris Matthews and former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer had a hilarious bitchy fight a few minutes ago. Ari calls Chris "shameful" and says "how dare you" and then they talk over each other for a fe...

Last week Rachel Maddow called out failed Clinton consigliere Mark Penn for running an evil PR firm, Burson-Marsteller. The firm is evil, and Penn should just shut up. But he didn't! So he paid: After Maddow reamed Burson for working for a laundry list of the world's dirtiest companies, Penn sent ou...

Following the debate, Rush will challenge Obama to a "calling attention to yourself" constest. Anything to stay in the headlines! Screw the GOP! [CBS]...

Rush Limbaugh: "Jake Tapper is the one guy that's outside of the butt boy bubble in the White House press room." Sucks for you, Jake! Keep trying. [Media Matters]...

newVideoPlayer("/Hardball_DemocratParty.flv", 506, 423,""); In this clip, Chris Matthews ignores everything Darrell Issa says except two words: "Democrat party." And Chris Matthews is sick of this shit. Chris's fuse seems to have gotten pretty short lately!...

The Stimulus Package: Obama signs it tomorrow and oh my freaking god, the cable networks will totally talk about it. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC each have their own promo; they grow increasingly insane: newVideoPlayer("/Cooper_Stimulus.flv", 506, 423,""); CNN: The stimulus package: Is it a good deal fo...

The Senate votes today on the economic stimulus package which will (temporarily?) stave off utter doom. If it doesn't pass by a huge margin, Obama's "work together" agenda is a total failure! Time to panic! The theme of the day among "political types" is this: Obama is bad at PR. Here we are, a coup...

newVideoPlayer("/Coulter_FoxFriends.flv", 506, 423,""); Skeletal oddity Ann Coulter was "BANNED BY NBC," but now she's making the rounds of the fair networks to bleat about her own victimhood: You can see her wearing out the ear of the sympathetic crew on Fox & Friends, who were forced to listen to ...

Ron Howard, TV's Opie, just directed the film version of Frost/Nixon, because the man knows Oscar-bait when he sees it. And also, sure, because it's politically relevant or something. Howard, the very definition of American Middlebrow, is not a political director, though this year he endorsed Obama ...

Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews are both famous cable news shouty persons, yes, but beyond that how much do they have in common? Both cling to a Northeastern Working-Class Catholicism that colors their broadcast personae even though they've both been rich and famous long enough to leave most of the...