Jul 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President announced today this year’s recipients of America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He said: “These outstanding men and women represent an incredible diversity of backgrounds. Their tremendous...
Jul 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As last night’s clunkily polemical opening segment demonstrated, the Daily Show has, indeed, jumped the shark. But John Oliver’s piece was based on a very clever premise: And the interview with John Bolton was text book TV:
Jul 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On last night’s Daily Show Jon Stewart considered the consequences of Henry Louis-Gate: And discussed them with “Senior Black Correspondent” (and veteran TV producer, writer, and Peabody winner) Larry Wilmore:
Jul 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today is the forty-second anniversary of a vitally important but mostly unheralded milestone on RN’s road to the presidency in 1968: his Lakeside Speech at the Bohemian Grove. He later wrote: "If I were to choose the speech that gave me the most...
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The bad news is that both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have, over the last few months, decisively jumped the shark. Maybe they changed writers; or maybe the old writers just ran out of snark and irony and steam, and decided that polemics were as funny as...
