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Keith Olbermann's new show debuts on Al Gore's Current TV on Monday. Like his old show on MSNBC it will be called Countdown, and it will feature much of the same staff. And, judging by the ad released yesterday by Current, it will also include many of the other trappings of the old show: hubris, paranoia, finger-pointing, and doom-saying. (Not that you expected anything less when you heard Gore and Olbermann were going to get together). The suffocatingly self-serious ad features Olbermann awkwardly avoiding a censor box as he speaks. "The free flow of information has been thwarted, dissenting...

TLC and why Palin will never be president -- part 2 Last week I wrote a piece pegged to tonight's TLC pairing of Kate Gosselin and Sarah Palin on Palin's "Alaska" reality TV series. The core of my commentary was that Palin will never be president because she has sold herself too cheap to low-rent reality-TV venues like TLC, and now she is being perceived as another one of the channel's freak moms like Kate Gosselin or the women on the series "I Didn't Know I was Pregant." As the title so coyly suggests, that shows features women who gave...

West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin today gave Sarah Palin both barrels over her US TV reality show, accusing the contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination of shooting an animal "for political gain". Sorkin, writer of the recent Facebook movie The Social Network, also accused the Fox News contributor of making a "snuff film" after the latest episode of Sarah's Palin's Alaska featured the politician going hunting with her father and shooting a caribou. He described Palin as "deranged", a "witless bully" and a "phony pioneer girl". He also said The Learning Channel, the US cable network, "should be ashamed...

CONSIDERING HOW badly things have been going for conservatives, right-wingers, Republicans and anyone else whose brain doesn't explode like one of those guys from the movie "Scanners" at the thought of another Republican President, it's worth noting that one of the greatest conservative victories of the last 40 years is quietly unfolding right in front of us. On March 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an epochal ruling. The court found that the Second Amendment actually protects the right to bear arms for individuals. Now, that in and of itself is huge. For...

The New Treason Exposing the Myth of "Liberal Patriotism" Down through the decades, we have heard from many Democratic luminaries that the Constitution is a "living document." Even Al Gore, the truly "elected" President, espouses the notion that the Constitution can be endlessly altered and amended, if only to extend legal protections to every sort of wheedling, behavior-based victim-group. The social grammar, the invisible infrastructure of our national life can (and should be) manipulated by small groups of griping people. We changed the Constitution to accommodate brown people and female people and gay people, so why don't we modify the...

I would like to make a collection of all the news article threads wherein our good friends in the dying Main Stream Media have exhibited "exploding head" behavior over the results of the recent election. I've been somewhat out of touch with the forum since the election, so I've only read a few of what I am sure are MANY meltdowns on the Left side of the ink-stained wretch aisle. Yes, you can include the pre-election stuff from Lawrence O'Donnell, since his head has continued to explode since his LiarLiarLiarLiarLiarLiar performance with O'Neill before November 2. I'm sure the mere...