Palin turned down a national syndicated talk show by reality TV mega-producer Mark Burnett, reportedly because of location. So stop being so culturally elite, New York and Los Angeles. You're scaring her off.
The NRA just had an amazing victory in defeating a bill to require universal background checks on gun purchases — something it endorsed 15 years ago — and yet the speakers at its 142nd annual convention in Houston sounded awfully bitter. Here's how Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and more defended freedom against those sissies in the White House.
What do you get when Time magazine asks celebrities to write about the greatness of other celebrities? The annual "Time 100," of course! But you also get a lot of terribly obnoxious back-patting, most of which, this year, is guardedly self aggrandizing.
A lot of gun control advocates are upset about what happened in the Senate on Wednesday as a (mostly) Republican minority filibustered gun regulations that the majority of Americans support.
In order to make the case that only she, Sarah Palin, can stand up to the consultants and money men and the "big, bad media," her new ad features nearly 20 media outlets in its pitch to send money to her PAC.
President Obama is hurting the country by abandoning his responsibilities in order to run a permanent campaign, Sarah Palin told CPAC Saturday. Then she took a sip from a Big Gulp. At the close of her speech, she carried it off stage like a trophy.
Today in entertainment news: The former VP candidate is writing a war-on-Christmas book, The Bible is still a big hit, and David O. Russell's mega-cast movie looks destined for Oscar season.
Until Donald Trump's invitation was announced on Tuesday afternoon, this year's Conservative Political Action Conference was mostly in the news for the uninvited guests — their sins were unforgivable. But what do the forgivable CPAC invitees say about the conservative agenda right now? That's where things get weird.
More than 55,000 people have "liked" her Facebook post with an ominous conspiracy, and a reality check is in order.
Now that Palin and Fox News are broken up, Smart Politics wanted to measure whether or not the network got its money's worth by calculating how much Palin was paid per word. We wanted to see how much she made just for mentioning the president.
Given the increasingly public spats between Palin and the network, you have to wonder if Palin's camp is trying to control the post-split spin.
For anyone who thought Manti Te'o and his people were beginning to take control of the girlfriend-hoax fallout, well, it's starting to look like Katie Couric still isn't just your average daytime talk-show host.
Conservatives are hate-watching Obama's inauguration -- can you blame them? -- and their complaints fit into two major categories.
After Newtown, public figures have called not just for more gun control but to find a way to stop glamorizing violence. But some of the most prominent, most serious public figures in America — national politicians — have been glamorizing guns for decades.
Questioning President Obama's record in an election year beyond "driving us over a fiscal cliff," Sarah Palin went on Fox News last night to blast Time's choice.
In an extended Facebook note posted overnight — her longest since the election — Sarah Palin weighed in on the Newtown shootings with an emotional but loaded plea to stop listening to pundits not that unlike herself.
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin are writing a followup to their 2008 bestseller, but this sequel is unlikely to be as thrilling as Terminator 2. (Paul Ryan is no Sarah Palin.)
The only way to save the battered and directionless Republican Party is to have Sarah Palin run for president in 2016, according to the Los Angeles Times' Charlotte Allen, who swears she's not joking. We're one-upping her, and we swear that we are.
Sarah Palin condemned President Obama's response to the attacks in Benghazi as a "shuck and jive shtick" in a note on her Facebook page Wednesday.
Today in celebrity gossip: The Twilight twins (ew) are back together again, Jennifer Aniston tearfully speaks about her engagement, and Sarah Palin and Halle Berry are practically sisters from other misters.
Paul Ryan has posed for beefcake photos in which he flexes his biceps while doing reps of what high school gym coaches nationwide call "curls for girls."
Today in celebrity gossip: Taylor Swift might be in a scandalous Kennedy love triangle in which she's the villain, Lindsay Lohan and mama Dina get in a big fight in Long Island, and Sarah Palin's writin' a book.
Did you hear that Monica Lewinsky is getting an eight-figure book deal for her juicy tell-all? We'd take that with a grain of salt.
When the U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed by protesters last week, conservative pundits took the opportunity to condemn Obama's attempts to encourage Muslim nations to embrace democratic change.
There is always a group of people for whom it is never too soon to analyze four Americans' murder for possible partisan gain.
What's the difference between Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin? 15.3 million viewers. And lipstick.
Republican leaders have universally condemned Todd Akin, but the conservative ground troops aren't so unified. The backlash to the Akin backlash has two arguments: that he's apologized and must be forgiven, and that his fake science wasn't so bad.
After Joe Biden used a crass slavery analogy, some said the campaign season had reached a new low, but Jon Stewart had news for those people last night on The Daily Show: If you really think that's low, you clearly haven't been following the campaign.
Some (like John McCain) may deny similarities between the VP picks of Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin, but the Internet feels differently. Here are a few demonstrated learnings and consistencies (and predictions of further consistencies) gleaned from online reactions thus far.
In a USA Today/Gallup poll out today Paul Ryan is considered by 42 percent of Americans only a "fair" or "poor" choice for Mitt Romney's vice president— a higher number than that of registered voters who put Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin in the same categories upon learning of their selection.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has walked back—or let's just say "updated"—his comments that it was a mistake to select Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate in 2008.
Dick Cheney said John McCain's choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 election was a mistake in an interview that aired on ABC; Mitt Romney danced around supporting an Israeli attack on Iran after one of his aides said he would be okay with it.
While hyping her new morning talk show, Katie Couric mentioned that she's asked Sarah Palin to come on the show, an idea we support if only because they might talk about their last face-to-face, but so far, "no response" from Palin, Couric says.
Every time the Mitt Romney Veepstakes Finals gets quasi-officially narrowed down to the couple "boring white guys" the Romney campaign has been reportedly looking at for months, the campaign quickly moves to make the list looks more expansive.
Last December, after Sarah Palin announced in October she wouldn't run for president, we started to notice she was shrinking. Now, four months ahead of the election, she seems smaller than ever.
Mitt Romney's campaign has had a "No more Palins" approach to picking his running mate, which appeared to rule out not just candidates who'd fail foreign policy quizzes, but also candidates who are female.
Jeb Bush is setting himself up perfectly to be the savior of the Republican Party in 2016, but first has to rehabilitate the Bush brand, and what's fascinating is that he's doing it by stealing from the playbook of John McCain, his brother's former nemesis.
Steve Schmidt is the guy everyone blames -- himself included -- for convincing Sen. John McCain to pick Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008.
Herman Cain will get a nationally syndicated radio show next year, following in the footsteps of other terrible presidential candidates who became successful media stars.
Newt Gingrich has admitted that he probably won't become president, and Roger Ailes says there's no future for him at Fox News, but the candidate still insists on being treated like a king.
Sarah Palin did not like Game Change because it made her look like an uninformed diva more obsessed with her image than politics, which is why it's funny that her political action committee spent $19,000 on a video rebutting the film, but nothing on actual politicians.
We appear to be entering Phase Three of Sarah Palin's career: Woman stuff guru.
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There are people who watched HBO's Game Change with glee and others who recoiled in horror, and Mitt Romney's campaign is making it quite clear they're in the latter camp.
Fox News felt a 17 percent drop in viewers this month compared to March 2011 -- guess that means everyone hates Republicans, right?
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Game Change, HBO's docudrama about the McCain-Palin presidential bid, pulled in 2.1 million viewers on Saturday night.
Let's get to the important stuff first: Julianne Moore winningly captures the physicality of the Thrilla from Wasilla in in the new HBO film Game Change. It's a shame, then, that the rest of the movie is so much flatter.
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The press is stirring up rumors of a near-divorce between Sarah Palin and her husband Todd but it looks like the "lamestream" media missed the joke.
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