What Does a Goatee Say About You?
Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
From Brad Pitt to Chuck Todd to Larry the Cable Guy, all types of men are wearing goatees. Bryan Curtis on the beard for all seasons. Plus, a gallery of A-list whiskers.
Obama's 6 Funniest Moments from the Correspondents' Dinner
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The Comedian-in-Chief made an appearance on Friday at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner. From a steamed Rahm Emanuel to an awkward Brian Williams, few emerged unscathed. Watch the video highlights.
Obama's Seinfeld Doctrine
Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
Remember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza succeeds by doing the opposite of everything he would normally do? The Daily Beast's Nicole Wallace thinks Obama and his staff might have watched a rerun recently-and borrowed George's juvenile tactics in their relentless assault on President Bush. Obama's strategy? Doing exactly the opposite of what Bush would do-and wait for global adulation. Below, Wallace imagines some deleted scenes from the president's press conference where he frankly acknowledges the anti-Bush philosophy behind his agenda.
5 Strangest Moments From Obama's Presser
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Sure he was in lecture mode, but there were a few diversions. From the CNN smackdown to an unexpected race question, watch the five best clips.
Gibbs Compares Briefing to Torture
After being thoroughly grilled on AIG bonuses at Tuesday's press briefing, Robert Gibbs describes his treatment from the press corps as 'torture.' Source: CNN
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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.
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