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Sarah Palin Is Back — on TV
The series debuts next April
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Martin Bashir Resigns, Finally, From MSNBC
If there was ever a case where a single offensive comment deserved repercussions, this was it.
10 Lightning-Speed Celebrity Memoirs: How Soon Is Too Soon?
It seems like just yesterday that Gabby Douglas was doing back handsprings. Now, she’s writing a memoir, due out in December. Who else rushed to the presses after making a name for themselves?
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TCA 2012: Palins, Monkey Join NBC Media Circus
When you have a successful lineup of acclaimed shows at the Television Critics Association, all you need to do to get attention is to bring out the talented stars and creators who made the shows. When your network is in a, er, “rebuilding year,” you haul out all the stunts you can.
At NBC’s “meet the stars” cocktail party, poolside at …
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Game Change! On Today Show, Palin Joins Lamestream Media
Before she was a guest host on this morning’s Today show — 45 minutes before — Sarah Palin was a guest, joining Matt Lauer on the morning of three Republican primaries, to offer “her take on the race.” Toward the end of the …
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CNN Poaches Palin From Fox (For a Few Minutes)
CNN deployed its resources across the country for yesterday’s Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, as far as the vast state of Alaska, to which it sent a single camera crew. And of all Alaska’s cities and towns from which to cover Alaska’s Republican caucus, it happened to pick Wasilla, because of—oh, no particular reason, right? As …
Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace knows politics. Her new novel, It’s Classified, explores what would happen if a woman plucked from relative obscurity became Vice President of the United States
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Palin Fans Try to Rewrite History (or at Least Wikipedia) on Paul Revere
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This weekend, Tuned In Jr., who is studying Boston and the American Revolution in school, mentioned that he was getting a “locked” error message while trying to load a Wikipedia page on Paul Revere. I know! As a father and a journalist, I should know better than to let my son use …
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MSNBC Hires Non-Puppet Michael Steele; Roger Ailes Wants to Be GOP Puppetmaster
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Fox News’ Republican-professional commentator ranks have been thinning lately, with contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum leaving to explore Presidential runs. So you’d think that Fox might be a promising perch for former GOP party chief Michael Steele. You would be wrong: …
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Julianne Moore Is… Sarah Palin! Cast the Rest of HBO's Game Change
HBO announced today that it has signed Julianne Moore to play then-Alaska-governor Sarah Palin in its coming movie Game Change, a behind the scenes account of the 2008 election that dishes dirt on Republican and Democratic campaigns.* (The film is being directed by Jay Roach, who helmed HBO’s Recount, about the 2000 election’s …
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Sarah Palin Steers Into the Skid
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Wait! Come back! I swear this is not one more post about Sarah Palin’s “blood libel” reference!
Well, not exactly. I will leave it to others to judge the way she described her personal claim of unfair treatment in the media using the term for the charge that a religious minority, usually Jews, …
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The Morning After: Bristol and Dancing Beat Sarah and Skating
The first part of Dancing with the Stars‘ finale drew huge ratings last night. Unsurprisingly, Skating with the Stars did not. Why? Because it’s skating.
Fine, I’ll elaborate.