Take Five (Timmy, We Hardly Knew Ye but Get Lost edition)
ONE: Ready? Ames. Fired! And just like that, the landscape of the Republican presidential race, already a strange and terrible place to those of us who vote Democratic, got a lot stranger and even more...
View ArticleTake Five (Big Wet Kisses of Death edition)
ONE: Orly Said Knock Him Out The juggernaut that is the Rick Perry campaign briefly screeched to a halt in a shower of lurid sparks recently, when Governor Perry’s newest high-profile backer emerged...
View ArticleTake Five (Full Tilt edition)
ONE: I hope the Sherpas don’t forget the sunscreen. Laurie Roth’s website informs us that the radio host holds a Ph.D. in counseling, is a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who has cracked the...
View ArticleTake Five (Take My Candidate, Please edition)
ONE: None of the Above, Thanks! While I can no more imagine voting for a Republican than I can imagine myself conducting the Seoul Philharmonic or being named World Series MVP, that doesn’t mean I’m...
View ArticleTake Five (Do Not Disturb edition)
ONE: Fired Up and Ready to Stay Home! A couple of weeks back, Take Five looked at a CBS News poll which indicated that voter enthusiasm (meaning a lack thereof) could be a huge problem for the...
View ArticleSunday Talks, 3/11/12
Republican presidential politics will again anchor this Sunday’s television talk shows, with rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich making the rounds. Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania who...
View ArticleSunday Talks, 6/17/12
Mitt Romney headlines this Sunday’s television talk shows, doing a rare interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Host Bob Schieffer said midweek he was heading out on the campaign trail to catch up with...
View ArticleSunday Talks, 6/24/12
This week sees a triple treat of Darryl Issa. Oh goody….. The nation’s growing Hispanic vote and the House investigation of the Fast and Furious gunwalking operation top the lineups for this Sunday’s...
View ArticleSunday Talks, 7/22/12
The deadly mass shooting at the movie theater in suburban Denver will dominate this Sunday’s television talk shows. Plans for guests from both presidential campaigns – President Barack Obama’s and...
View ArticleSunday Talks, 8/12/12
With Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, the focus of this Sunday’s television talk shows will be squarely on the new Republican Romney-Ryan ticket....
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