Every time that someone in tonight’s debate utters ‘Main Street,’ be it Biden, Palin or moderator Gwen Ifill, I will take a shot. I promise.
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
The Main Street/Jose Cuervo challenge
October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sarah Palin gets increasingly adorable on SNL
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
In case you missed it (as I did) here is last night’s Sarah Palin sketch from Saturday Night Live, featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Katie Couric.
Telepathic approval
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments
This McCain campaign ad began broadcasting before John McCain was even off the stage at tonight’s debate. Does “I approved this message” mean that “I allowed Rick Davis to approve this ad?”
Debate notes
September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
McCain just referred to himself as a maverick of the Senate, and that he has a running mate who is a maverick, too. Oh, and he also mentioned – another recycled sound bite – that he wasn’t voted Miss Congeniality in the Senate.
An entire post without the word “victory.”
September 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Eventually, in that retail business mileau, I had to tell the community, “Thanks, but no thanks,” for that financial black hole to nowhere. If I really wanted a financial black hole, I’d dig it myself.
Tags: language · politics · self · TV
“I can see Russia from my house!”
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Sarah Palin (Tina Fey) and Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler) make a joint appearance on last night’s Saturday Night Live.
The freecreditreport.com song (with no lip synching!)
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Kaia, an eight-year-old, performs the freecreditreport.com commercial (version: “Pirates in a restaurant”) in its entirety at the school talent show.
Keith Olbermann on the politicization of 9/11
September 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
And his childish, squealing, braying, Tourette’s-like repetition of 9/11 (TM), was greeted not as conclusive evidence that he is consumed by massive guilt – hard-earned guilt, in fact but rather as some kind of political tour-de-force, an endorsement of your Vice Presidential nominee, a rookie governor, a facile and slick con artist.
The Keith Olbermann flap
September 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election. That experiment appears to be over.
In a world without Don LaFontaine
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
But he is best known for “In a world where … ,” which has become overused and the subject of parody. Ms. Baker could not say for what production that phrase was first used.
