God Loves Obama
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
Everything is breaking this guy's way-the timing of everything, from Arlen Specter to the swine flu.
100 Days Report Card
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How's Obama doing so far? The Daily Beast's all-star team of analysts, from Christopher Buckley to Paul Begala, Sean Wilentz to Rep. Peter King, weigh in.
7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk
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Rahm gives Bush officials a pass on torture, an ex-CIA chief slams the administration, and Ana Marie Cox fesses up about those tea bag jokes. Watch it all in our Sunday roundup.
John McCain Discovers Technology a Year Too Late
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
The notoriously tech-unsavvy senator's staff set up his account for him, but the real McCain soon took over-and now his pork tweets are the talk of Washington.
Twitter Jumped the Shark This Week
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
It's not a business-and now that Rep. Joe Barton is doing it, it's not even hip anymore.
Who's Afraid of Jake Tapper?
Rachel Sklar is the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite.com and a contributor to the Daily Beast. She was formerly a senior writer and editor at the Huffington Post and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. She recently launched online micro-giving site Charitini, and Twitters up a storm here.
ABC's tenacious reporter is already proving to be the new star of the White House press pack.
Game On! Obama's Clash With The White House Press Corps
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
So much for the media honeymoon. Obama's dustup with reporters Thursday night reveals that he's got Bush's touch with the White House press corps. Plus, the four reporters who could give him fits.
The New D.C. Status Symbols
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
How can you tell if you're an Obama insider? Follow these simple rules.
The Race to Run the GOP Gets Even More Ridiculous
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
In the wake of the "Magic Negro" controversy, the number of men running for Republican Party chair reflects both their identity crisis and their excruciatingly narrow brand.
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.
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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.
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.
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