Days before President Barack Obama’s inauguration for a second term in office, Fox News Channel has signed Dennis Kucinich, one of his former opponents, to be a regular contributor.
Kucinich, a presidential candidate in 2004 and 2008 who ended 16 years in Congress two weeks ago, will make his debut as a Fox contributor on Thursday’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, the network said Wednesday.
“I’ve always been impressed with Rep. Kucinich’s fearlessness and thoughtfulness about important issues,” Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes said. “His willingness to take a stand from his point of view makes him a...
Kucinich, a presidential candidate in 2004 and 2008 who ended 16 years in Congress two weeks ago, will make his debut as a Fox contributor on Thursday’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, the network said Wednesday.
“I’ve always been impressed with Rep. Kucinich’s fearlessness and thoughtfulness about important issues,” Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes said. “His willingness to take a stand from his point of view makes him a...
- 1/17/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Director Kelly Nyks took a road trip approach to exploring the concept of political divides via cultural elements, media and campaign strategies in “Split: A Divided America” back in 2008, and now, just in time for the 2012 presidential election, he’s back for a look at an even deeper divide within American society. Similar to “A Divided America,” “Split: A Deeper Divide” offers up a portrait of a nation that’s divided more so than ever. Nyks talks to a number of political leaders including former Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, Lawrence Lessig of the Foundation of Ethics, Thomas Frank of the Wall Street Journal, and more about the overabundance of bitterness [ Read More ]...
- 9/17/2012
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
As unemployment hits 9.1 percent, Americans are losing their cool. A Newsweek/Daily Beast poll finds rising anger levels affecting everything from work to sex drive. Plus, great thinkers from Cornel West to Robert Reich tell us what they're angry about.
Gas and grocery prices are soaring, the housing market is crashing to new lows, and yet another dismal jobs report has confirmed a stubbornly high unemployment rate. Could the anger fueling the Arab Spring soon bring club-wielding protesters to America?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Boehner's Voodoo Economics
According to an exclusive poll by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, reality is beginning to break down Americans' normally optimistic attitude. Three-quarters of our respondents think the country is on the wrong track. A majority say the anxiety wrought by this recession has caused relationship problems and sleep deficiency. Two-thirds even report being angry at God. See the results of our poll below.
Gas and grocery prices are soaring, the housing market is crashing to new lows, and yet another dismal jobs report has confirmed a stubbornly high unemployment rate. Could the anger fueling the Arab Spring soon bring club-wielding protesters to America?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Boehner's Voodoo Economics
According to an exclusive poll by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, reality is beginning to break down Americans' normally optimistic attitude. Three-quarters of our respondents think the country is on the wrong track. A majority say the anxiety wrought by this recession has caused relationship problems and sleep deficiency. Two-thirds even report being angry at God. See the results of our poll below.
- 6/5/2011
- by Douglas Schoen
- The Daily Beast
Why has President Obama's post-Bin Laden bounce been so limited, especially among Independents? Douglas Schoen, analyzing the new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll, finds an answer in Thursday's jobless jump.
Despite the fact that the president traveled to ground zero Thursday to celebrate the successful elimination of Osama bin Laden, the most significant political development that day was not this highly publicized visit to New York City, but rather the release of the new jobless numbers showing that the number of newly unemployed had jumped to 474,000-underscoring the real and fundamental political problem he faces.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
That problem is the economy and his management of it, which is the top issue facing the country and on which he draws decidedly negative ratings, notwithstanding the goodwill he has generated with the successful raid in Abbottabad.
President Obama received no immediate...
Despite the fact that the president traveled to ground zero Thursday to celebrate the successful elimination of Osama bin Laden, the most significant political development that day was not this highly publicized visit to New York City, but rather the release of the new jobless numbers showing that the number of newly unemployed had jumped to 474,000-underscoring the real and fundamental political problem he faces.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
That problem is the economy and his management of it, which is the top issue facing the country and on which he draws decidedly negative ratings, notwithstanding the goodwill he has generated with the successful raid in Abbottabad.
President Obama received no immediate...
- 5/6/2011
- by Douglas Schoen
- The Daily Beast
Fox News has added a high-profile Democrat to its bench of contributors: Former U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh will offer commentary and analysis leading into the 2012 presidential election. Bayh, the highest-profile Democratic politician now contributing to the network, helps bolster its claim to fair and balanced coverage despite a perceived conservative bias. Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news editorial for the network, said Bayh, a moderate from Indiana, would "lend a valuable point of view to the entire Fox News lineup.” Bayh, who was also a two-term Indiana governor and was...
- 3/14/2011
- The Wrap
This afternoon the Huffington Post broke the news that former Indiana senator Evan Bayh has enlisted with Fox News. Bayh, a Democrat with hawkish, Republican sympathies, said of his new job: “I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.” For the record, Bayh was not on our list of potential replacements for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, the long-shot and impossible presidential contenders, respectively, who were suspended from the network until they made up their minds about whether to run. That’s fine, though! We are still eagerly awaiting the inaugural episode of Bayh-Bai, his roundtable with New York Times Magazine reporter Matt Bai, or Bayh, Sell!, in which he gives stock tips. But what we are most looking forward to is Bayh’s Fox News makeover, which we’ve anticipated below.
- 3/14/2011
- Vanity Fair
President Obama hits 50 percent in the new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll, but Americans are largely dissatisfied with Congress, its leaders, and plans. (A bright spot: Trump for president!) Full results below.
A new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll shows that while the American people are gradually warming to President Obama's job performance-he's at 50 percent approval ratings, versus 44 percent who disapprove-the American electorate remains deeply skeptical toward the plans of both the Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and gives Congress itself a distinctly negative rating.
Related story on The Daily Beast: House Democrats Adjust to Life Without Power
Gallery: America's Unhappy Electorate Poll Results
Some of the specific are as follows:
• Only 30 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, versus 58 percent who disapprove. • Only 37 percent support the health-care reform law, versus 56 percent who oppose. But in terms of repealing it, the verdict is split: 41 percent want to repeal, 44 percent oppose such a move.
A new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll shows that while the American people are gradually warming to President Obama's job performance-he's at 50 percent approval ratings, versus 44 percent who disapprove-the American electorate remains deeply skeptical toward the plans of both the Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and gives Congress itself a distinctly negative rating.
Related story on The Daily Beast: House Democrats Adjust to Life Without Power
Gallery: America's Unhappy Electorate Poll Results
Some of the specific are as follows:
• Only 30 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, versus 58 percent who disapprove. • Only 37 percent support the health-care reform law, versus 56 percent who oppose. But in terms of repealing it, the verdict is split: 41 percent want to repeal, 44 percent oppose such a move.
- 2/21/2011
- by Douglas Schoen
- The Daily Beast
As the retirements of Jon Kyl and Jim Webb make plain, the era of Senator-for-Life Strom Thurmond is over. David A. Graham reports on what's pushing senators out early-and more possible retirees, from John Ensign to Ben Nelson.
When Arizona Republican Jon Kyl announced that he wouldn't run for a fourth term in the Senate, it wasn't exactly a surprise-he'd been rumored to be considering the move for months. But in the past, the very idea that a senator in his position wouldn't run would have been shocking. Kyl's the second-ranking Republican in a body the Gop has a good chance to recapture in 2012, and with a reputation as an influential and skillful politico with sharp elbows, his prospects for moving up were good.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Race Backslide
Kyl follows Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-tx), Joe Lieberman (I-ct), Jim Webb (D-va), and Kent Conrad (D-nd...
When Arizona Republican Jon Kyl announced that he wouldn't run for a fourth term in the Senate, it wasn't exactly a surprise-he'd been rumored to be considering the move for months. But in the past, the very idea that a senator in his position wouldn't run would have been shocking. Kyl's the second-ranking Republican in a body the Gop has a good chance to recapture in 2012, and with a reputation as an influential and skillful politico with sharp elbows, his prospects for moving up were good.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Race Backslide
Kyl follows Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-tx), Joe Lieberman (I-ct), Jim Webb (D-va), and Kent Conrad (D-nd...
- 2/12/2011
- by David A. Graham
- The Daily Beast
New York – Hollywood studio bosses finally seem to be getting closer to picking a new head of the MPAA, with Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman from Virginia, being a leading candidate, according to the La Times.
The newspaper said that other candidates who were considered, mostly Democrats, are no longer in the running, including outgoing Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, retiring Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Davis, 61, was in Congress for seven terms until 2008 when he decided not to seek another term. The moderate former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee currently works as a consultant for Deloitte Services. He was chairman of the Government Reform Committee and presided over such hearings as the one about steroid use in Major League Baseball.
A source told The Hollywood Reporter that the search could possibly wrap up this month, but many have predicted it will go into next year.
The newspaper said that other candidates who were considered, mostly Democrats, are no longer in the running, including outgoing Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, retiring Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Davis, 61, was in Congress for seven terms until 2008 when he decided not to seek another term. The moderate former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee currently works as a consultant for Deloitte Services. He was chairman of the Government Reform Committee and presided over such hearings as the one about steroid use in Major League Baseball.
A source told The Hollywood Reporter that the search could possibly wrap up this month, but many have predicted it will go into next year.
- 12/3/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
House projected to switch to Gop control; Senate still expected to be in Democratic hands.
By Gil Kaufman
Marco Rubio
Photo: Joe Raedle/ Getty Images
Results are still pouring in, and probably will be for the next 24 hours, but the writing on the wall for Democrats on Tuesday night (November 2) is clear: A change is gonna come.
Nearly two years after President Barack Obama swept into power on a wave of excitement and promises of change that helped Democrats gain control of the White House and both houses of Congress in a rare political hat trick, voters gave the president's ambitious agenda a harsh rebuke in the midterm elections. According to the Huffington Post, exit polls showed that voters were very worried about the economy and not happy with the way Obama and Congress had handled the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, leading many to vote for Republicans...
By Gil Kaufman
Marco Rubio
Photo: Joe Raedle/ Getty Images
Results are still pouring in, and probably will be for the next 24 hours, but the writing on the wall for Democrats on Tuesday night (November 2) is clear: A change is gonna come.
Nearly two years after President Barack Obama swept into power on a wave of excitement and promises of change that helped Democrats gain control of the White House and both houses of Congress in a rare political hat trick, voters gave the president's ambitious agenda a harsh rebuke in the midterm elections. According to the Huffington Post, exit polls showed that voters were very worried about the economy and not happy with the way Obama and Congress had handled the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, leading many to vote for Republicans...
- 11/2/2010
- MTV Music News
If you’ve ever watched C-span or C-span 2 with any regularity, you know that it is the opposite of salacious. Usually the most interesting thing that can happen while you’re watching it is that you realize that you can recognize Senator Evan Bayh by voice alone. But recently on Book TV (the Lost of C-span 2), something really strange happened. A panel discussion that was supposed to be about writers with varying political leanings very slowly morphed into a man explaining that he dated one of the other panelists, and that she is a monster who cheated on him and wanted to play a weird power game in which she would set up a couple just so she could seduce the man in order to confuse him and hurt the other woman. Jesus Christ! And the guy doesn’t even seem that upset about it. And then she doesnt’ even...
- 10/18/2010
- by Noah Garfinkel
- BestWeekEver
New York -- A group of politicians from both parties on Monday unveiled the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act," which is designed to help combat the theft and distribution of illegal digital movies and TV shows on the Internet and which earned positive reviews from industry organizations.
It particularly targets so-called rogue websites that often look like legitimate content sites and are based offshore.
The bill was introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and senior Republican member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and co-sponsored by committee members Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Chuck Schumer (D-n.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Senators Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) are also co-sponsors.
"We're very pleased to join a great number of creators and workers from throughout the motion picture and television industry in support today of this important legislation to combat...
It particularly targets so-called rogue websites that often look like legitimate content sites and are based offshore.
The bill was introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and senior Republican member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and co-sponsored by committee members Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Chuck Schumer (D-n.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Senators Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) are also co-sponsors.
"We're very pleased to join a great number of creators and workers from throughout the motion picture and television industry in support today of this important legislation to combat...
- 9/20/2010
- by By Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Singer posts online videos of fans urging senators to repeal controversial policy.
By Mawuse Ziegbe
Members of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network join Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV VMAs
Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/ Getty Images
When it comes to the repeal of the U.S. Armed Forces' controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, Lady Gaga is proving that she's not giving up without a fight.
Gaga, who has often used her celebrity to speak out in favor of gay rights, recently launched a campaign to prompt lawmakers to repeal "Don't Ask," which bars openly gay Americans from serving in the military and has prompted the discharge of thousands of servicemembers. She walked the Vma white carpet with former members of the military who were kicked out because of their sexual orientation and she has been tweeting with high-profile politicians such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The pop icon has also...
By Mawuse Ziegbe
Members of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network join Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV VMAs
Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/ Getty Images
When it comes to the repeal of the U.S. Armed Forces' controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, Lady Gaga is proving that she's not giving up without a fight.
Gaga, who has often used her celebrity to speak out in favor of gay rights, recently launched a campaign to prompt lawmakers to repeal "Don't Ask," which bars openly gay Americans from serving in the military and has prompted the discharge of thousands of servicemembers. She walked the Vma white carpet with former members of the military who were kicked out because of their sexual orientation and she has been tweeting with high-profile politicians such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The pop icon has also...
- 9/19/2010
- MTV Music News
Something sounds off when you think of mixing Playboy with politics. Last year we heard Holly Madison gunning for a government position in Vegas, and now we're hearing news of her fellow former Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson running for the U.S. Senate. What's more, it looks like she'll have plenty of supporters there.
The Examiner reports that a number of Indianapolis radio stations asked voters about who they wanted to replace Senator Evan Bayh. He recently announced that he won't be seeking a third term in the 2010 midterm elections, so there may be a need for someone new. Who else would be able to fill the void but reality star Kendra Wilkinson? Wait, what?...
The Examiner reports that a number of Indianapolis radio stations asked voters about who they wanted to replace Senator Evan Bayh. He recently announced that he won't be seeking a third term in the 2010 midterm elections, so there may be a need for someone new. Who else would be able to fill the void but reality star Kendra Wilkinson? Wait, what?...
- 2/21/2010
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
In music, when a record "breaks," it's a good thing. In Washington, when our government "breaks," it's generally a bad, bad thing. At least that's what I got from Senator Evan Bayh. All the recent talk on the Sunday shows about "broken government" got me thinking that perhaps We The People need a Federal Musical Stimulus Plan here. But first, let's all face facts -- that our government is broken, so let's fix it, and make more beautiful music as we reform a more perfect union. "Everything Is Broken" - Bob Dylan "Broken" - Robert Downey Jr. "Broken Arrow" - Robbie Robertson "Broken Boy Soldier' - The Raconteurs "Breakdown" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers "Broken Promise Land" - Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" - Albert King "I Will Not Be Broken" - Bonnie Raitt "Broken Down Ole Merry-Go-Round" - The Gordian Knot "The Way We...
- 2/21/2010
- by David Wild
- Huffington Post
Some Indiana residents want reality starlet Kendra Wilkinson to work the poll - the voting poll!
According to The Examiner, there is a grassroots movement building that is urging the "Kendra" and former "Girls Next Door" star to run for Evan Bayh's Indiana Senate seat. The Senator has announced he won't seek reelection in the 2010 midterm elections.
Multiple Indianapolis radio stations asked their listeners to chime in with their replacement pick for Bayh, and numerous listeners called in to say they want Kendra on the ballot.
But the reality star, who resides in Indiana with husband ...
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According to The Examiner, there is a grassroots movement building that is urging the "Kendra" and former "Girls Next Door" star to run for Evan Bayh's Indiana Senate seat. The Senator has announced he won't seek reelection in the 2010 midterm elections.
Multiple Indianapolis radio stations asked their listeners to chime in with their replacement pick for Bayh, and numerous listeners called in to say they want Kendra on the ballot.
But the reality star, who resides in Indiana with husband ...
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- 2/19/2010
- by AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff
- Access Hollywood
Some Indiana residents want reality starlet Kendra Wilkinson to work the poll - the voting poll!
According to The Examiner, there is a grassroots movement building that is urging the "Kendra" and former "Girls Next Door" star to run for Evan Bayh's Indiana Senate seat. The Senator has announced he won't seek reelection in the 2010 midterm elections.
Multiple Indianapolis radio stations asked their listeners to chime in with their replacement pick for Bayh, and numerous listeners called in to say they want Kendra on the ballot.
But the reality star, who resides in Indiana with husband ...
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According to The Examiner, there is a grassroots movement building that is urging the "Kendra" and former "Girls Next Door" star to run for Evan Bayh's Indiana Senate seat. The Senator has announced he won't seek reelection in the 2010 midterm elections.
Multiple Indianapolis radio stations asked their listeners to chime in with their replacement pick for Bayh, and numerous listeners called in to say they want Kendra on the ballot.
But the reality star, who resides in Indiana with husband ...
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- 2/19/2010
- by AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff
- Access Hollywood - TV
John Mellencamp could soon be drafting laws instead of writing songs about "Pink Houses."
An online movement is building to make the singer the top choice to run for the soon-to-be empty Indiana U.S. Senate seat -- which became available with last week's announcement that Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh would be leaving, Huffingtonpost.com reports.
Tweeters are all atwitter to elect Mellencamp, while three separate Facebook groups have formed, with nearly 2,000 members.
On Thursday,...
An online movement is building to make the singer the top choice to run for the soon-to-be empty Indiana U.S. Senate seat -- which became available with last week's announcement that Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh would be leaving, Huffingtonpost.com reports.
Tweeters are all atwitter to elect Mellencamp, while three separate Facebook groups have formed, with nearly 2,000 members.
On Thursday,...
- 2/19/2010
- Extra
If Al Franken can do it, why not John Mellencamp? A bunch of Indiana fans have launched an online grassroots campaign to recruit the Hoosier hero to run for the U.S. Senate soon to be vacated by the retiring Evan Bayh. The Draft John Mellencamp for Senate popped up on Facebook a few days ago and has attracted nearly 3,000 members. According to the Facebook page, Mellencamp's name first came up via a commentator at the popular political blog Talking Points Memo. As a founder of Farm Aid and a history of celebrating working-class folks in such anthems as "Our Country," "Pink Houses" and "Small Town," Mellencamp compares favorably to the likes of Sonny Bono and Jesse...
- 2/19/2010
- E! Online
A Facebook group has called to draft John Mellencamp to the Us Senate. The "Draft John Mellencamp for Senate" group promoted the singer as a possible replacement for Sen Evan Bayh of Indiana. "He is a voice for working people and a champion of farmers," said Brent Budowsky of The Hill. "Mellencamp has long been a great champion of the Farm Aid cause and concerts." Outside of co-founding Farm Aid, a benefit concert to raise funds for family farmers, the 'Pink (more)...
- 2/19/2010
- by By Shannon McGarvey
- Digital Spy
From "Jack & Diane" to a Senate seat? Internet buzz over John Mellencamp's potential career in politics has heated up, with nearly 1,700 people joining the "Draft John Mellencamp for Senate" group on Facebook. And several politicos seem to think the rocker could be a viable possibility to replace Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh, who has announced he won't seek reelection. As first reported in The Week, Brent Budowsky of The Hill notes that Mellencamp, who co-founded the Farm Aid concerts, is already a "voice for working people and a champion of farmers ... [He's] one of the great advocates of small-town America."And...
- 2/18/2010
- by Rennie Dyball
- PEOPLE.com
The Indianapolis Star has a poll going to see whom the Internet thinks Democrats will choose to replace Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, who surprised everyone with yesterday’s announcement that he would not be seeking re-election. Your Vf Daily blogger did not recognize very many names on this list, pictured above, but for the poll we picked Joe Hogsett because not even the Indianapolis Star provided him with some sort of descriptive epithet. (By Google’s calculations, it turns out he was Indiana’s 54th Secretary of State! By the poll’s calculations, he is tied for dead-last place with U.S. Rep Joe Donnelly.) So what can the Internet tell us about these mystery men, besides absolutely everything?...
- 2/16/2010
- Vanity Fair
Evan Bayh, a mainstream Democratic senator and second-string presidential contender, bailed out of politics yesterday. Bayh is a political professional of the most conventional sort—earnest, diligent, policy-oriented, liberal, as well as the son of a second-tier presidential contender. In a sense, Bayh, with a bitter castigation of Senate gridlock and culture, is taking home his marbles. Likewise, Teddy Kennedy’s son, Patrick, a longtime congressman from Rhode Island, is also bailing out of the family business. At the same time, more and more outsiders to the political profession are eager to get into it. My friend, Mort Zuckerman, the proprietor of the Daily News and one of the most successful real estate developers in New York, is flirting with a run for the Senate. So is Harold Ford, whose brief political career has been eclipsed by his cable television career. So what do the eager outsiders see that the...
- 2/16/2010
- Vanity Fair
Senator Evan Bayh’s startling announcement Monday that he, too, will be leaving the Senate at the end of his term was remarkable mostly for its refreshing candor. Like any other rational, conscientiousness person, Bayh evidently doesn’t want to hang out any longer with a bunch of hypocritical blowhards who are so busy prolonging their own careers they don’t have time to do what we pay them for. He wants out. Really, can you blame him? And could he have said it any better for you or me than this? “For some time, I have had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should,” Bayh said Monday. “There is too much partisanship and not enough progress—too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem solving. Even at a time of enormous challenge, the people’s business is not being done.” Anyone out there want to contradict him?...
- 2/16/2010
- Vanity Fair
• The C.I.A. and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence teamed up last week and successfully captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s top military strategist. [New York Times] • Indiana Democrats have until Friday to replace the seemingly replaceable Evan Bayh. For by Friday, there will be no “bye/Bayh” puns left. [Washington Post] • Five people were killed when a private plane crashed in New Jersey yesterday afternoon. [CNN] • John McCain, and therefore also B.F.F. Lindsey Graham, are demanding that Obama fire John Brennan, the homeland security advisor whose unfortunate USA Today op-ed suggested that partisan criticism towards Obama's homeland security team is a favorite thing of al-Qaeda. [The Hill] • Chynna Phillips, of Phillips Wilson fame (?), has checked herself into rehab for “anxiety,” a frequently abused over-the-counter stimulant. [People] • China cleaned up in last night's pairs figure skating competition, taking home both gold and silver medals. [Los Angeles Times] • Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne lives in a spinning, sequin-covered house...
- 2/16/2010
- Vanity Fair
Lately Congress has started to feel a bit like a game of Ten Little Indians: who's next. Yesterday's announcement from Indiana senator Evan Bayh (D) that he would be retiring, amazingly caught just about everyone off guard. So who did he screw more, the Democrats or the Republicans? And is this actually a first step towards a White House run?...
- 2/16/2010
- by Glynnis MacNicol
- Mediaite - TV
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