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Rev. Billy Graham, 95, Throws a Short, Efficient Birthday Bash
Palin, Trump and roughly 900 guests celebrated the reverend’s birthday, quickly
Why Donald Trump’s Endorsement Was a Win for Mitt Romney
A couple of hours after Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for President, the Obama campaign sent out an “In case you missed it” tweet with a link, not to a new DNC attack ad mocking the endorsement, but to video published by …
What Herman Cain and Kim Kardashian Have in Common
Kim Kardashian got married. Now she’s getting a divorce. Lindsay Lohan went to jail. Now she is being released. Paris Hilton went to a party. Now she wants to be a DJ. We know all this because there is a whole industry built up around chronicling the lives of people who are famous for no other reason than their fame. As Daniel Boorstin …
Inside the Ludicrous Donald Trump Primary
With her poll numbers sagging, her political organization dwindling and prognosticators declaring her moment to have passed, Michele Bachmann called in a big gun Monday night: Donald Trump.
Trump Won’t Run: GOP Can Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming
The naysayers said Donald Trump was just pulling a con. They said he was doing it for the ratings and to help his renegotiation for a big Celebrity Apprentice payday next year. They said he just wanted folks to pay attention to …
Donald Trump For Sale On Conservative News Sites
The fact that Donald Trump’s name sells stuff is no surprise. (Trump Steaks, anyone?) But who would have guessed that Trump reentry into politics could have been so immediately commodified by the online press? In fact, coverage of Trump’s political ambitions has quite literally become a money-making opportunity for the right’s online news hubs.
Birtherism Is Dead, But the Birther Industry Continues
Of course, Donald Trump declared victory. “I am really honored and I am really proud, that I was able to do something that nobody else could do,” he said in New Hampshire Wednesday morning, after President Obama released the …
The Clown Candidacy
In the annals of political reportage, I thought perhaps we’d hit bottom last week with this: a fake journalist interviewing a fake presidential candidate about a campaign that will never exist. Meghan McCain and Trump banter …
Why Sarah Palin and Donald Trump Get Along So Well
It had to happen. The gravitational tug was too intense. Like two massive stars colliding, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, the hybrid king and queen of the political-entertainment, have come together and declared common …
The Donald Trump Face Slap
The ringmaster of professional wrestling, Vince McMahon, is unlikely to be supporting Donald Trump’s 2012 presidential campaign. But will the fans?
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More Trump professional wrestling here, with cross dressing.
The “Tea Party” Brand Is Dead. Long Live The Tea Party Spirit.
Can we all agree that the Tea Party brand is effectively kaput for the 2012 Republican primary? That’s not to say that you won’t hear it repeated over and over again, in polls, newspaper headlines and in advertisements for …
In The Presence of Donald Trump
“So Michael, what are you doing? Explain. Are you going to do another trash article on Trump?”
This is how Donald Trump greeted me when I entered his Fifth Avenue office last week. It was, to be clear, an entirely friendly …