PALIN’S ATTACK ON NEA DRAWS LITTLE RESPONSE

Sarah Palin’s call last week for defunding the National Endowment for the Arts has remarkably drawn little response from supporters of the agency. Appearing on Fox News’s Hannity, Palin described NPR, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities as “frivolous things that government shouldn’t be in the business of [...]

FOX NEWS DISMISSES PROMINENT NAMES

Until Wednesday, Fox News had on its payroll five potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. It now has only three after it suspended Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, both of whom have acknowledged that they’re exploring the possibility of making a bid for the nomination. That still leaves three other possible candidates on the [...]

HOWARD STERN IS NO OPRAH WINFREY

Piers Morgan Tuesday night lost more than a third of his premiere audience as 1.3 million watched his interview with shock jock Howard Stern versus 2.1 million who watched Monday’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. Fox News’s Hannity, which edged out Morgan on Monday with an interview with Sarah Palin that attracted 2.2 million, retained those [...]

CONAN O’BRIEN “APOLOGIZES” TO JIMMY KIMMEL

Conan O’Brien took to the Internet Thursday to respond to several Web postings that noted that his recent “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” spoof on TBS, in which Sarah Palin is seen shooting Rudolph, was similar to one produced on ABC rival Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show two weeks earlier. In a tongue-in-cheek message, Conan apologized to [...]

IT’S JENNIFER GREY’S PARTY NOW

Twenty-three years after she co-starred with the late Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey has made a triumphant comeback as the winner of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. In a storybook ending watched by 24.13 million viewers, the 50-year-old Grey defeated 20-year-old Bristol Palin, who had become a popular favorite if not the favorite [...]

SARAH PALIN FIRES BACK AT KATIE COURIC

Sarah Palin leveled a highly charged blast at CBS anchor Katie Couric during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night. Palin, who was made to look ridiculous in a parody of the interview by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, was asked whether she would grant another interview to Couric if she [...]

DANCING WITH POLITICS

A day before the winner of Dancing with the Stars is due to be announced, the show appears to have entered the realm of extremist politics. Bringing to mind the anthrax scares of 2001, it was reported over the weekend that a letter addressed to finalist Bristol Palin contained white powder. Although it turned out [...]

NEW CONTROVERSIES DOG PALINS

In words that her detractors might be ready to claim applies to her daughter Bristol, former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has struck out at the “talent-deprived” contestants on American Idol, who, she suggests, suffer from “the cult of self esteem.” Writing in her new book, America by Heart: Reflections on [...]

PBS DENIES POLITICAL AGENDA IN CUTTING TINA FEY’S PALIN REMARKS

PBS claimed on Tuesday that it had no political agenda when it removed Tina Fey’s remarks about Sarah Palin from its taped broadcast Sunday of the Mark Twain Awards at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In her acceptance speech, Fey quipped: “Politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good [...]

SARAH PALIN GIVES TLC ITS BIGGEST PREMIERE EVER

In yet another demonstration of the strength of the former vice-presidential candidate’s popularity among conservatives, Sarah Palin’s Alaska on Sunday drew the biggest audience for a premiere in the history of TLC — 4.96 million viewers. However, the channel routinely drew bigger numbers for its hit reality series Jon & Kate Plus Eight, at one [...]

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