Category Archives: 2008 Election
Farewell to a Focked-Up Year
Visiting Colorado this week, I was chatting with a couple, family friends, who remarked that I was the first person they’d met who admitted to having voted for Obama. Of course, where I live, in a New York City suburb … Continue reading →
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The Late-Night Wars: Politics by Other Means
No, I probably won’t be watching tonight when Jay Leno returns to the Tonight Show, but I’m still fascinated with how this whole mess is going to play out. Certainly, the late-night wars are far from over, with Jay once … Continue reading →
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Conan O’Bama
more about "Barack Obama endorses Conan O’Brien", posted with vodpod Remember when George W. Bush became president, and the pundits said that, at last, the grownups were now in charge? (And how did that work out, by the way?) It’s … Continue reading →
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Rattlesnakes Amid the Crabgrass
I’m a little worried about my neighbor. He recently mounted a large flag like this one (left) over his garage, and, just so his neighbors wouldn’t miss the message, put two more little ones in the tree in his front … Continue reading →
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Tagged as Barack Obama, Don't Tread on Me, Gadsden flag, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Tea Party
From White Castle to the White House
I’m still reeling from Monday night’s House shocker, but I want to congratulate Kal Penn for coming up with the best excuse ever to violate the Jerry Orbach rule. Predictably, there’s been some grousing from the peanut gallery that Penn … Continue reading →
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Another Reason I’m Glad I Voted for Obama
My COBRA health insurance coverage for me and my wife was going to cost more than $1,000 per month. Thanks to President Obama, it’ll cost about a third of that through the end of 2009, saving me about $6,000 over … Continue reading →
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Obama’s ‘Special’ Visit to Leno
Not sure why, aside from his wince-inducing Special Olympics joke (about 20 minutes into the clip below), President Obama’s visit to Jay Leno’s Tonight Show last night was considered such a shocking breach of presidential protocol. It’s just like when … Continue reading →
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Separated at Mirth: Gov. Bobby Jindal and Kenneth the Page
Bobby Jindal was supposed to be the GOP’s Great Nonwhite Hope, a potential challenger to Barack Obama in 2012 who would match the Democrat in youth and exotic ethnicity. But then we heard him speak — giving the official Republican … Continue reading →
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Milking the Oscars
I wouldn’t have thought that the way to raise the Oscar broadcast’s viewership was to make it more like the Tonys (the only awards ceremony even deeper in the ratings basement), but I’d have been wrong. As with the Tonys, … Continue reading →
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What’s Bad for America Is Good for Music
Is Barack Obama’s presidency going to ruin music? MSNBC.com’s Tony Sciafani fears that it is. Exhibit A: The rise of Lady Gaga (see above video) on the pop chart. Looking back over 50 years of pop history, Sciafani finds a … Continue reading →
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Gary Susman is an editor, writer, reporter, and critic. He has been a journalist in print and online for more than 20 years. He blogs daily for AOL's entertainment sites, including Moviefone, TV Squad, and PopEater. His work continues to appear in Entertainment Weekly, where he spent nearly eight years as Senior Writer. Other outlets have included MSNBC, People, the Village Voice, the Guardian, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Boston Phoenix, for which he has written since 1989. 
