Karl Rove is accusing the Obama White House of being too political. Yes, that same Karl Rove who sold America on the Iraq War in order to push up his boss’ approval ratings. That Karl Rove. I should take this time to shill my upcoming seminar on What’s Wrong With Nerds Who Like Comic Boo...

On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

Here’s a melding of celebrity and politics that might just be a natural: Academy Awardâ„¢-winning actor and sometime international political analyst Sean Penn is in talks to play former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, in director Doug Liman’s dramatic ...

Karl Rove was invited on Tuesday's "Today" show to discuss Obama's stimulus plan and NBC's Matt Lauer pressed the former Bush senior adviser about the one-sidedness of the vote on the bill by the GOP as he pressed Rove: "219, if you add up the House and the Senate we have what, 219 Re...

Here's the relative tempest in a teapot that happened on Thursday: Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe made an unusual request for his speech today at the National Press Club: he wanted it off the record. ..... Politico editor-in-chief John Harris said that after hearing of Plouffe’s reque...

After the friendly transfer of power from the worst president ever to our Hope King, Bush folk fell back into the old habits, telling reporters that Obama hates America and will cause all the terrorism. David Axelrod isn't having it. Dick Cheney said pretty much outright that Obama's crazy plan to s...

You know how the movie Brazil seems to have a happy ending, with Sam Lowry (the protagonist) getting rescued by the resistance right before he's about the get tortured by the government? But then, we find that Sam has in fact gone insane, that he was never rescued, that he was in fact tortured, and ...

Christy Hardin Smith caught this nugget from Karl Rove in the LA Times: "Secrecy and confidentiality are necessary for every government, especially when you're at war."... "I love how the last eight years, this White House, the Bush White House, was criticized for being tight-lipped. We didn't leak....

Sometimes there is a news item that actually stuns me with how fucking stupid the people behind it must think we are.Today, from the rapidly dwindling L.A. Times, we get this: Rove versus leakersFormer Bush aide Karl Rove, in a......

Republican Senator Howard Baker once asked "What did the President know and when did he know it?" when it became clear that then-President Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal. Back then Republicans were about small government, fiscal responsibility, and the rule of law. Back then Democrats w...