November 22: 8 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Mitch McConnell throws cold water on heath care reform, Jerry Springer waxes poetic about Oprah, and Liz Cheney wants to look beyond Sarah Palin. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
October 11: 8 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Conservatives take turns bashing Obama's Nobel, McCain admits to "tension" with Palin, and the White House jabs Fox News-hard. Watch our picks from the Sunday talk shows.
The Next Wingnut Attack
John P. Avlon writes a column for The Daily Beast and is author of the forthcoming Attack of the Wingnuts, to be published in January by Beast Books. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
And you thought the health-care fight was vicious. As the White House wades into immigration, John Avlon reports on the vitriol ahead. Plus, the 25 most outrageous attacks, past and present.
August 9: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Newt defends Sarah Palin, Lindsey Graham warns Dems not to "Rumsfeld" Afghanistan, and Hillary admits she's "not exactly a shrinking violet." That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Run, Sarah, Run!
Michelle Goldberg is the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World and Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and many other publications.
As Sarah Palin prepares to bid Alaska adieu, liberals should hope that she runs for president in 2012. Not only will she lose-she could take the entire Republican Party down with her.
MSNBC's Earliest Star
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.
Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist will soon be getting up even earlier-he tells The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove about his new show, fist-bumping with Pat Buchanan, getting massages with Donald Trump, and more.
The Week in Outrageous News
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Though the week was dominated by Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court hearing, there were plenty of other memorable moments, from David Brooks' inappropriate PDA to Barney Frank's saucy Daily Show appearance. Here are nine of our favorites.
July 12: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Democrats including Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin slam Dick Cheney for allegedly duping Congress, Howard Kurtz revisits Obama's controversial glance, and guess who's still defending Sarah Palin?
Closing the Case Against Sotomayor
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Three lines of attack have been outlined against Sonia Sotomayor: The Princeton and Yale Law graduate is dim, a product of affirmative action and a reverse-racist. The Daily Beast's Scott Horton debunks each one.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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