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July 2008 (4)
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June 2008 (57)
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30: the winnowing of pop culture (0)
30: trees obscure forest (0)
30: let the Beltway games begin (0)
30: give him that ten-foot pole, quick! (0)
30: confused, but not that confused (1)
29: digging beneath the surface (0)
26: excuses, excuses (0)
26: feather, blown over with (0)
26: the internet waits for no one (0)
26: uncommon common sense (1)
25: overexposed much? (0)
25: thin-skinned hyperpartisans (0)
25: they’re rearranging themselves inside the Beltway (1)
24: brooks no orthodoxy (0)
23: preserved for posterity (0)
22: unconvinced (0)
22: betting on paper (0)
22: Obama lied, and his fans were filled with pride (0)
22: can we be reprogrammed? (0)
20: he’s got game (0)
20: the great diffuser (0)
20: what we think we know is wrong (0)
20: what we don’t know can’t hurt us, insider edition (0)
20: meet the new Obama (0)
20: what we don’t know can’t hurt us (0)
19: dialogue is good (0)
18: the right surrogate (0)
18: they demand their close-up (0)
18: Michelle, the relaunch (0)
16: what’s in a slur? (0)
16: how to lead on Iraq (0)
16: they don’t like change (0)
16: must-avoid TV “news” (0)
15: kicking ‘em when they’re down (0)
15: they are not the world (0)
14: no detail too small (0)
14: mark your calendars (0)
14: the personal cost of political invective (0)
14: a step too far for the new media? (0)
14: shaken but not stirred (0)
13: a study in contrasts (0)
13: victory for Israel, and for the Jews (0)
13: comment of the day. (0)
13: a new line in the sand (0)
11: the moral purity sweepstakes (0)
11: pitchforks at the ready (0)
10: he told ya so (0)
10: who are they wearing? (0)
10: Jim McKay, RIP (0)
09: the old-fashioned way (0)
08: self-criticism sessions coming to a venue near you (12)
08: we are miserable enough without your wretched memoirs (0)
05: oops (0)
04: stealing her thunder (0)
04: all the world loves a winner (0)
01: a predictable decline (0)
01: a somewhat rosier picture (0)

May 2008 (35)
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29: life returns to Iraq (0)
29: what’s wrong with this picture? (0)
28: the barometer (0)
27: the gaffes heard ’round the world (0)
27: news and views don’t mix (0)
27: because they’re human (0)
26: the road to hell is paved with good intentions (0)
26: we remember (0)
26: the loosest cannon (0)
24: the other Israel (0)
21: behind every great man (0)
21: prescience (0)
20: in defense of nuance (0)
20: Teddy (0)
20: what war? (0)
20: from the horse’s mouth (0)
20: another one bites the dust (0)
20: how to lose friends in the media (0)
19: why can’t a woman be more like a man? (0)
19: they like his style (0)
19: the times they are a-changin’ (0)
19: what’s wrong with the movies? (0)
19: one lies, the other one doesn’t (0)
18: rock star numbers (0)
18: what I’ve been reading (0)
18: last licks (0)
17: happy birthday, Israel (0)
17: words, glorious words (0)
16: loves Jesus, loves America too (0)
16: advice from a pro (0)
15: you’re so vain (0)
13: the blahs (0)
07: quick study (0)
07: demented (0)
04: it’s the issues, stupid (0)

April 2008 (60)
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30: gone fishing (0)
28: careful what you wish for (0)
28: a pig for Obama (0)
27: that’s the way it was (0)
27: when artists alienate their fans (0)
27: grim and bearing it (0)
24: body blows (0)
24: pariahs (0)
23: radio silence (0)
19: how revolutionary (0)
19: make peace, not war (0)
19: dumpster diver discovers massive security breach (0)
18: do your friends have a sense of humor? (0)
18: bloggers, beware (0)
18: brave new future for books (0)
18: meta is better, take two (2)
16: American terrorist appeasers (0)
16: leadership (0)
15: refresher course (0)
15: good Jews (0)
15: universities for sale (0)
14: he just doesn’t get it (0)
14: it’s morning in America (0)
14: never the twain shall meet (0)
13: the runner stumbles (0)
13: unanswered questions (0)
12: the campaign-media nexus (0)
12: the hauteur factor (0)
11: leftists can’t help it (0)
11: midtown Manhattan (0)
10: surprisingly bad news for Dems (1)
10: they write a cartoon script and call it reality (0)
09: gimme (0)
09: the face of the news (0)
08: editorial bias (0)
08: live by the clip, die by the clip (0)
08: in it to win it (0)
08: when the shoe is on the other foot (0)
07: stop calling it “the news” (0)
07: that stinking war we’re fighting over there (0)
07: on self-reliance (0)
07: make the pie higher (0)
07: honor thy father? (0)
06: weeklies are weak (0)
06: let’s not and say we did (0)
06: Hollywood recidivist (0)
06: perennial faves return (0)
06: they have met the future, and they like it (0)
05: seeing the world through Al Jazeera-colored glasses (0)
05: the future is unpredictable (0)
04: this is the news? (0)
03: what’s missing (0)
03: hair (0)
03: serenity, thy name is Hillary (0)
03: bestsellerdom from the inside (0)
02: when will Obama weigh in? (0)
02: the new journalism (0)
02: don’t stop thinking about tomorrow (0)
01: MSM caught telling the truth (0)
01: talking about the war (0)

March 2008 (96)
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31: money for mindshare (0)
30: don’t knock it till you’ve tried it (0)
30: a tale of two narratives (0)
30: as if (0)
30: testing, testing, one, two, three, testing (0)
29: doesn’t stop losses (0)
29: cuddly Obama (1)
29: irony loves company (2)
28: who says glamour is dead? (0)
28: the view from here (0)
27: cold water edition (0)
27: up against the wall, the repost (0)
27: who do you trust? (0)
26: typo hell (0)
26: no dysfunctional life left behind (0)
26: a little ephiphany (0)
26: the squeaky wheel gets the grease (0)
25: a litmus test for our times (0)
25: not a chance? says who? (0)
25: the digital-book race begins now (0)
25: it’s all over but the voting (0)
25: storytelling in a new era (0)
24: the news junkie’s lament (0)
24: if you want a friend in Washington (0)
22: the bigger picture (0)
22: this one’s for the kids (0)
22: bringing it all back home (0)
22: the war between the supporters (0)
22: making fun of Osama bin Laden (0)
21: brutal reality (0)
20: how to do yourself in (0)
20: Obama: the nuanced reveal (1)
20: the electorate versus the pastor (0)
20: Al Qaeda vs. Europe (0)
20: ideological counterterrorism (0)
20: blame it on the Clintons! (0)
19: unity through mau-mauing (0)
19: it’s the biology, stupid (0)
19: Obama reax from the watercooler (0)
18: the big speech (0)
18: warts-and-all (0)
17: image matters (0)
17: instant fallout (0)
16: when all else fails, try satire (0)
16: now you see him, now you don’t (0)
16: we are all America haters now (0)
15: let’s go to the videotape (0)
14: Obama and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (0)
14: solidifying the pop-culture vote (0)
14: the Liberal Guilt party (2)
13: another thing you’re not allowed to say (0)
13: you can’t argue with success (0)
13: politics in a pop-culture key (0)
12: what, no cherubs? (0)
12: stirring up the politics of the present and calling it “change” (0)
12: free to be perverse (0)
12: burkas are fun! (0)
11: pig fight (0)
11: it’s contagious! (0)
11: that’s some tough rhetoric (0)
11: the spotlight moves on (0)
10: waiting for the counterpunch (0)
10: and then they came for the media people (0)
10: just another lying, hypocritical politician (0)
08: another take on Power (1)
08: the one who got away (0)
08: by George, he’s got it! (0)
07: credit where due (0)
07: there goes the youth vote, take two (1)
07: the boxer (0)
07: the dog ate my homework (0)
07: for shame (0)
07: duped (0)
07: celebrating terrorist murder (0)
07: cringe-inducing (0)
07: giving us our money’s worth (0)
05: signs of the times (0)
05: no-see-’em movies (0)
05: keep ‘em wanting more (0)
04: media love for Obama in full color (0)
04: who’s sorry now? (0)
04: long time passing (0)
04: the need for speed, and authenticity (0)
04: grin and bear it (0)
03: hammered (0)
03: promises to keep (0)
03: the soothing balm of laughter (0)
03: you can fool some of the people all of the time (0)
03: go with the flow or buck the trend? (0)
03: badly lost in translation (0)
03: and now, the backlash (0)
03: mania balloon punctured? (0)
02: an irony-rich meal (0)
02: an open question (0)
02: under fire (0)
02: undercurrents (0)

February 2008 (95)
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29: now they tell us (0)
29: it’s the scalpel, stupid (0)
29: anyone can play (0)
28: out of touch in the wonk community (0)
28: reading tea leaves (0)
28: rules for home libraries (0)
28: clearing up misapprehensions (0)
27: on being unplugged (0)
27: down memory lane with WFB (0)
27: no response rapid enough (0)
27: Obama’s most revealing flub (0)
26: alien concept (0)
26: barking up the wrong tree (0)
26: Obama’s secret (0)
26: maybe I’m just 2 demanding (0)
26: Olbermann’s rules for politically correct comedy (1)
26: it’s the access, baby (0)
26: too clever by half (1)
26: called out (0)
25: Obama’s team resorts to name-calling (0)
25: disillusioned with Cuba (0)
25: acting class (0)
24: Once! (0)
24: blink and you missed it (0)
23: glory days (0)
22: have you ever visited ’60s radicals? (0)
22: it’s over already? (0)
21: while you were transfixed by campaign nonsense … (0)
21: reader, she didn’t marry him (0)
21: hit-job conspiracy stories (0)
21: hit job (0)
20: the left versus the patriotic middle (0)
20: fair and balanced to commies at CNN (0)
20: words do matter (0)
19: a hopeless and dispirited nation (0)
19: obscene media favoritism toward Obama (1)
19: the greatest candidate ever sold (0)
19: everything’s been returned which was owed (0)
19: victory in Iraq (0)
19: lines of attack (0)
18: Heil, Mughniyeh (0)
18: meanwhile, on the foreign-policy front … (0)
18: even spicier daily brew (0)
18: spicy daily brew (0)
18: in praise of proper punctuation (0)
17: post-vacation blues (0)
17: burnishing Obama’s halo (0)
16: there will be no Holocaust denial in France (0)
15: freedom of speech still lives (0)
15: do you believe in magic? (0)
15: from Russia with disapproval (0)
14: a headline crying out for rewrite (0)
14: that Obama meme (0)
14: Mughniyeh whodunit (0)
14: smug satisfaction (0)
14: talkin’ the future of books (0)
12: my Obama conundrum (0)
12: Obama’s advance man in the Middle East (2)
12: Berkeley is also McCain country (0)
11: baby steps (0)
10: he’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony (0)
10: forgive him, he doesn’t speak in sound bites (0)
10: the underdog (0)
10: mania (0)
10: the spine-stiffening British media (0)
10: long live the freedom loving British media (0)
10: thought for the day (0)
08: the new New Jesus (0)
08: now, that’s support (0)
07: meanwhile, back in L.A. … (0)
07: cussedness, Middle Eastern-style (0)
06: look it up (0)
06: flaky Obama fans (0)
06: TV is a news-free zone (0)
06: the disgrace that is the MSM (0)
06: the devil you know (0)
06: psssssssst! (0)
05: believing their own press (0)
05: getting the hip-hop vote (0)
05: losing the fashionista vote (0)
05: roots, and hope (0)
05: the power of storytelling (0)
04: the Egyptians discover Palestinians on their border (0)
04: in support of Hillary Clinton (0)
04: Michelle Obama can’t rise above bitter partisanship (0)
04: getting buggy with it (0)
04: Barack the Brand (0)
04: they are giants (0)
03: they might be giants (3)
03: go, Giants! (0)
03: whither privacy, and freedom? (0)
02: prevailing conditions are murky (0)
02: Twilight Zone politics (0)
02: when the shoe is on the other foot (0)
01: is it real, or is it Memorex Al Qaeda? (0)

January 2008 (103)
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31: dueling endorsements (2)
30: good news from the book world (0)
30: don’t let the door hit you on the way out (0)
30: the Entertainment Nation is back to normal (0)
30: shocked, shocked by anti-Israelism at the UN (0)
30: best line of the night (0)
29: symbols, symbols everywhere (0)
29: racking ‘em up (0)
29: parsing the Hillary vs. Obama parsers (0)
28: wheels for Gaza (0)
28: was tested, was ready, not now (0)
28: Obama gets specific (0)
28: they bet you can’t wait (0)
28: the morning-show personality fails in the evening (0)
28: the scales of political correctness (0)
28: the Holocaust remembered (0)
27: bring me your huddled masses and your klieg lights (0)
27: the nadir (0)
26: Dear Mr. President, please reflect our hopes and dreams (0)
26: click at your own risk (0)
25: meanwhile, back on the Gaza border … (0)
25: smell the fear (0)
25: a year at the races (0)
24: reassessment (0)
24: will Hollywood give us a happy ending? (0)
23: when propaganda falls flat (0)
23: the super-rich panic (0)
23: the content of their character (0)
23: Bush lied! (0)
22: so sad (0)
22: a Dem ticket? (0)
22: Condi Rice is unfit to lead during an information war (0)
22: whose credibility is at stake? (0)
21: nice words (0)
21: hype meets the brick wall (0)
21: what just happened? (0)
21: meanwhile, back in London … (0)
20: which Clinton is running, anyway? (0)
20: make them an offer they can refuse (0)
20: organic weapons of mass destruction (0)
19: good parents (0)
19: campaign fever, take two (0)
18: campaign fever (0)
18: Sarko the Mysterious (0)
18: another way to think about change (0)
18: pretty please, with sugar on top (0)
17: Orwell lives (0)
17: why don’t we do it in the stall? (0)
16: climbing the charts (0)
16: resurrecting Rudy (0)
16: all process, no peace (0)
16: ready to take on al Qaeda from day one (0)
16: our man in the Arab Middle East (0)
15: they dream of a brokered convention (0)
15: anonymously yours (0)
15: managing impressions (0)
15: while you were narcotized (0)
15: bad press (0)
14: even more celebrity gossip (0)
14: politics delivers audiences, part deux (0)
14: watch what you say about my icon (0)
14: Dems hoist by their favorite petard (0)
14: the information war is on (0)
14: politics delivers audiences (0)
14: three cheers for freedom of speech (0)
14: new horse ahead! (0)
13: legalized robbery in Hungary (0)
13: this weekend in gossip and pop culture (0)
13: you can’t stop progress (0)
12: let’s all play along on Israel-Palestine (0)
12: oooh la la (0)
12: we want to pump you up (0)
11: Huck goes to school (0)
10: honesty is the best policy (0)
10: bad direction (0)
09: tone deaf, and with bad timing again (0)
09: the real contest (0)
09: embedded with the Obama campaign (0)
09: Iranian lies exposed (0)
09: meanwhile, back in Iran … (0)
09: why did she win? (0)
09: Hillary! (0)
08: a little reminder (0)
08: Schadenfreude alert (0)
08: hope springs eternal (0)
08: they want their comedy (0)
08: reading Obama closely (2)
07: reading up on Islam (0)
07: meanwhile, back in the Straits of Hormuz … (0)
07: Mandela, Rabin, and Hillary (0)
07: the greatest show on earth (0)
06: meanwhile, back in Israel … (0)
05: meanwhile, back in Pakistan … (0)
05: self-involved nation (0)
05: George MacDonald Fraser, RIP (0)
04: skeptics (0)
04: good performance (1)
03: will not go quietly (0)
02: what if they gave an awards show and nobody came? (0)
02: trends (0)
02: there’s no time like the present (0)
01: playing the media like a violin (0)
01: no regrets (0)

December 2007 (75)
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31: onward toward ‘08 (0)
31: when pro-choice means pro-choice (0)
31: hear them holla (1)
30: the heir apparent (0)
30: the awakening (0)
29: full transparency (0)
29: a shameful performance from publishers in 2007 (0)
29: a special message for CEOs (0)
29: doesn’t know which way is up (0)
29: neocons are old news (0)
28: interesting times call for interesting measures (0)
27: Benazir Bhutto, RIP (0)
25: tradition (0)
24: making a difference (0)
24: Happy Winterval! (0)
24: forever and beyond (0)
24: new Jews (0)
23: contemplate this (0)
23: in with the new, out with the old … again (0)
23: shopping (0)
22: play Twenty Questions with al Qaeda (0)
21: to do before the New Year (0)
21: Huck the hick is a hit (0)
21: there’s no Santa Claus, either (0)
20: end jihad, advises an Al Qaeda ideologue (0)
20: book biz talk (0)
20: don’t forgive and forget (0)
20: in the future, politicians will be even more foolish (0)
20: humbled in Gaza? (0)
20: my country ’tis of thee (0)
19: CNN, the first name in infotainment (0)
19: not by the book (0)
19: the fun part (0)
19: campaign dirt (0)
19: he’ll never eat lunch in that town again (0)
18: six shopping days left (0)
18: Zawahiri, media critic (0)
18: MoveOn explains how the world works (0)
18: homespun wisdom (0)
18: worms and Hollywood (1)
17: no late-night comedy is bad news (0)
17: also kindles interest (0)
14: under my skin (0)
13: which one would you rather read? (0)
12: the fabulous presidency of George W. Bush (0)
12: diluting the brand (0)
12: blossoming American ignorance (0)
12: the light that will banish darkness (0)
11: wretched in Hollywood (0)
11: real-life consequences in La-La Land (0)
11: sowing doubt in geopolitics (0)
11: take it to the limit (0)
10: NIE fallout (0)
10: they don’t get no respect (0)
09: the mornings just got brighter (0)
08: huh?, part deux (0)
07: another troubling question (0)
07: not my goddamn savior (0)
06: a troubling question (0)
06: mental vacation (0)
06: everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the NIE but were afraid to speculate (0)
06: kindles interest (0)
05: rain, rain, go away (0)
04: the last holdout (0)
04: sensitivity training in Britain (0)
04: Central Europe’s boulevard of dreams (0)
04: the end of television as we know it? (0)
04: huh? (0)
03: where’s the outrage? (0)
03: accentuate the negative (0)
03: the long slide (0)
03: how to succeed in business without really trying (0)
02: second verse same as the first (0)
01: the long and winding climb-down (0)
01: travelogue (0)

November 2007 (70)
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30: how not to win friends (0)
30: start spreading the news (0)
29: don’t all cheer at once (0)
29: good grief (0)
28: before there is peace, there must be empathy (0)
27: got to admit it’s getting better (0)
27: ready, aim, fire—circularly (0)
27: will we always have Paris? (0)
27: a writer finds his subject (0)
27: they’re so lonely they could cry (0)
26: buried but important (0)
25: a weak defense (0)
25: the mirror effect (0)
24: create your own echo chamber (0)
23: he’s not there, either (0)
23: not funny (0)
23: grudging respect (0)
21: gobble, gobble (0)
21: citizen, inform thyself (0)
21: singing those free-speech campus blues (0)
21: faster (0)
20: are politicians different from celebrities? (0)
20: no, he is the greatest (0)
20: go directly to jail (0)
19: can-do America (0)
19: the stalwart (0)
19: Iraq’s civil war is over, if you want it (0)
19: lost and found in translation (0)
19: the memory hole (0)
19: a shaker of salt (1)
18: aw shucks, you shouldn’t have (0)
18: facing tomorrow (0)
18: moving immovable objects (0)
18: sticking to his guns (0)
17: role models at Columbia (0)
16: diluting the brand (0)
16: everybody hates the media (0)
16: speech lessons for Democrats (0)
16: say uncle (0)
15: your terrorism-fighting dollars hard at work (0)
15: a warm bath for Rudy (0)
14: Hollywood writers, meet the totem pole (0)
14: say the right thing on TV (0)
14: the electorate (0)
13: who loves ya, baby? (0)
13: what’s in a name? (0)
12: the Fourth estate (0)
12: original sin (0)
12: know thine enemy’s propaganda (0)
12: the Hollywood blues (0)
10: Norman Mailer, R.I.P. (0)
10: if a gauche Frenchman speaks, does the MSM hear it? (0)
09: if you can’t beat ‘em, compete (0)
08: let them eat fantasies (0)
07: teens, sex, and sociology (0)
07: must-avoid TV (0)
07: you can bitch and moan or you can carry on (0)
07: the case of the disappeared post (0)
05: urgent housekeeping news (0)
04: clear as the Liberty Bell (0)
03: he hereby rejects the Nobel committee (0)
03: she gets my vote (0)
03: pity the poor do-gooders (0)
02: they just couldn’t care less (0)
02: let them indoctrinate U (0)
02: serious politics, the oxymoron (0)
02: an inconvenient silence (0)
01: listen to him, too (0)
01: listen to him (0)
01: the unbearable stupidity of the New York Times (0)

October 2007 (33)
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31: I’d just like to say this about that (0)
31: r-e-s-p-e-c-t (0)
31: just say no to peace, love, and understanding (0)
31: the Queen learns to read, and other items (0)
28: sassy (0)
28: left behind, part deux (0)
28: left behind (0)
27: those protests (0)
27: writing fairy tales (0)
27: when a man needs a bicycle (0)
27: all they are saying is give peace a chance (0)
27: oh Mom, poor fictional Mom (0)
27: other people’s money (0)
25: a continuing failure of imagination (0)
25: he’s right! (0)
24: our co-saviors (0)
22: complicity (0)
20: missing the glaringly obvious (0)
20: how infotaining! or, how I spent my early-fall vacation (0)
14: going back to the source (0)
13: broken record (0)
12: fill ‘er up (0)
11: shades of truthiness (0)
10: in their own words (0)
09: crime and punishment (0)
08: that “liberal” media (0)
07: A’jad’s full court press (0)
06: the newest prejudice and the longest hatred (0)
05: who cares? (0)
04: dashed (0)
03: the myth of the vanished WASPs (0)
02: about the author (0)
01: both sides now (0)

September 2007 (54)
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30: and furthermore (0)
29: get a room (0)
29: on the road, part 1 (0)
28: every picture tells a story (0)
27: the most important article you’ll never read (0)
26: Giuliani’s secret admirers (0)
26: