The 6 Best Pie-in-the-Face Pranks
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Comedian Soupy Sales, pioneer of the pie-in-the-face prank, died Thursday at age 83. Watch video of others who took a cream pie to the noggin after Soupy set the standard.
Michelle Malkin Has Feelings, Too
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
In college she was known as 'the Eva Braun of Oberlin.' Today, she's the right's biggest bomb-thrower-and queen of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. Lloyd Grove feels Malkin's pain.
18 Outrageous Conservative Quotes
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Republican Congressman Joe Wilson made a name for himself Wednesday night by shouting "You lie!" during President Obama's health-care speech to Congress, but he's hardly the first conservative to spark controversy with a crazy statement. In his new book, Republican Gomorrah, Daily Beast columnist Max Blumenthal presented a compendium of quotes from influential right-wingers.
Behind the Obama-Hitler Slur
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
That outrageous comparison that Limbaugh and town-hall screamers have been making? Max Blumenthal tracks its origins to cult leader Lyndon LaRouche, whose followers pushed the attacks.
My Message for Michelle Malkin
Meghan McCain is a columnist for The Daily Beast. Originally from Phoenix, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site mccainblogette.com.
The Daily Beast's Meghan McCain on why the far-right pundit, who says McCain needs to shut up, won't be getting her wish-and why telling moderates to get out of the party is bad for the GOP.
Coulter: Racial Profiling is a Hoax
Ann Coulter thinks most cases of racial profiling aren't legit, and that the Gates arrest is merely a teaching moment for Obama who stereotyped an Irish cop by assuming he wanted beer. CNN
12 Most Outrageous News Videos of the Week
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From Obama's reaction to Skip Gates' arrest to a weatherman eating fertilizer and a Broadway tribute on the House floor, plus Glenn Beck singing, watch twelve must-see clips.
The Complex Lives of Escorts
Marty Beckerman is the author of Generation S.L.U.T. (MTV Books) and Dumbocracy (Disinformation). He has written for Playboy, Discover, Radar and Huffington Post. His website is www.MartyBeckerman.com.
Anna David, the author of Bought, a new novel on high-priced prostitution, talks to The Daily Beast's Marty Beckerman about her fictional high-price prostitution ring.
The Republican Bestseller Machine
Ben Crair is an associate editor at The Daily Beast.
Glenn Beck's new three-book deal shows that while conservatives wander the political wilderness, they continue to dominate book sales. As Ben Crair demonstrates, the hit parade stems from title and marketing formulas that are nothing short of scientific.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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