And I thought the Piers Morgan interview of Jermaine Jackson was excurciating

Rosie O’Donnell gets her wish: Russell Brand will be the first guest on her new talk show. …

O’Donnell has said she’s fascinated with Brand and called him a genius. She previously said she would love to have him as her first guest.

Brand just missed joining the Chris Brown-pitying conspiracy theorist on my list of the 13 people I least want to have dinner with.

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Rick Santorum and Nazis

He’s quite fond of comparing political opponents to the Third Reich, as Dana Milbank points out: His most famous episode came in 2005, when Democrats criticized Senate Republicans for threatening to do away with the filibuster. “The audacity of some members to stand up and say, ‘How dare you break this rule?’ — it’s the equivalent [...]
Why does Sarah Palin speak like a third grader?

The idiot Palin’s response to Rick Santorum’s views on Satan “setting his sights on America” are predictably childish. And for these lame-stream media characters to get all wee-weed up about that, first you have to ask yourself, ‘Have they ever attended a Sunday school class even? Worse, she thinks she’s clever.
Romney’s desperation grows

ABC News reports that the Mitt Romney campaign is deploying Donald Trump as a surrogate in radio interviews in Michigan.
The problem with constituencies

For years the GOP has placated the religious right, even as Christian fundamentalists have steered the movement to the fringe. On a national level, at least, that constituency has been heard but not seen. Sure, George W. Bush spoke openly of his faith and helped secure a second term behind the gay marriage boogeyman, but [...]