I am certain a few of your favourites were left out. These were the best moments of the campaign. There are no adverts because nothing could trump the candidate in their own words and that was the big difference in this campaign. All of us had unprecedented access to every word, speech and moment thanks [...]

 
Miley Cyrus, Marc Chagall, and 39 other topics that distracted us—at least briefly—from the election.
By Chris Wilson, Editorial Assistant, Slate Magazine
The first sign that it might be tough for cultural news to attract any attention in 2008 arrived on Jan. 4, a Friday. Britney Spears had been hospitalized the previous day after a late-night custody [...]

 
by Charley James and others 
T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a pundit was stirring, not one single louse.
The scapegoats were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that Ol’ Bill-O soon would be there.
The folks were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of bailouts danced in their heads.
And Drudge in [...]

 
by Greta Van Susteren, FOX News
They did it again! CNN fires people just in time for Christmas!  Make you sick?
People often ask why I left CNN…..I didn’t like management.  I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.  Everything changed. [...]

by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]

by Charley James
One of Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s “sayings” immortalized in his Little Red Book deals with stealth in politics and war. “Make a noise in the east,” the Great Helmsman wrote, “and strike in the west.”
On Monday afternoon, we realised that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson must be channelling Chairman Mao. While everyone on the [...]

From Michael Moore with thanks to Sandie…
Friends, 
Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was [...]

 
Good that he signed that big new contract before these numbers… FOX News’ BillO is still calling for a Federal investigation of MSNBC’s recent ratings surge, costing him even more audience this week.

His map and view of the world is the only way McCain can be ahead and they casn justify moaning until election day. So [...]

 
TV Newser has the results. Here are the full totals instead of just the 25-54 demographic. What’s impressive here is that Fox’s audience really hasn’t shrunk - they’re pretty much fans and they’re not going to switch channels.
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow combo has attracted hundreds of thousands of NEW viewers to the fold. Numbers are [...]

All The News That’s Fit to Print is the motto of The venerable old lady. The New York Times, much maligned and battered in this divisive contest, called irrelevant and “in the tank for Obama” (but then anyone who says something nice about a Democrat or calls a Republican on their atrocious behaviour is, right?) [...]