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...summer of 2004 both political parties were inviting bloggers to their nominating conventions. But politicians are now wooing the bloggers harder than ever. Much of the activity has been on the Democratic side, since pols on Capitol Hill see the blogs as a liberal media rival to conservative talk radio and potential 2008 candidates recognize left-wing blogs could prove a powerful force in the Democratic primaries. "It?s only been in the past couple of years that I started to fully appreciate the power of what?s going on in the blogosphere," says former Virginia Governor Mark Warner...
...asleep, but oh, those endless routines leading up to bedtime! For eight years, he insisted on sleeping in the same red T shirt with a yellow taxi on it, his large toy keyboard piano laid across his chest, his stuffed animal placed on a chair facing him and the radio playing a 24-hour news station...
...often feisty when he?s supposed to be bantering, as when he crosses words with leggy super-mutilator Ann Coulter, or Bill O?Reilly, belligerent host of The O?Reilly Factor on Fox News. Franken?s radio show was originally called The O?Franken Factor, with the simple aim of annoying O?Reilly and provoking a lawsuit from him. It?s a pleasant irony that, for all his importance in lowering the level of TV?s political discourse to barrier reef depths, O?Reilly?s lasting legacy may be that he diverted the careers of two men: one (Al Franken...
...Simpsons” and “The West Wing” sit down for an evening chat, politics and pop culture are fair game. Yesterday’s discussion, “Making a Difference: When Hollywood Meets Capitol Hill,” brought together comedian, radio personality, and Simpsons writer Harry Shearer and Emmy Award-winning producer and writer of the West Wing Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. ’76 at the Harvard Law School. Atlantic Monthly senior editor Corby Kummer moderated. The panel, co-sponsored by the HLS Committee on Sports and Entertainment...
...Congressman or a Kennedy. After all, Kennedy-bashing is in the DNA of many conservatives and this incident even echoes some aspects of the deadly 1969 Chappaquiddick episode that thwarted Patrick's father's presidential ambitions. And the incident, not suprisingly, is already firing up conservative talk radio...