Palin Can't Tweet Away HBO's Ratings Bonanza for 'Game Change'
Game Change, HBO's docudrama about the McCain-Palin presidential bid, pulled in 2.1 million viewers on Saturday night.
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On last night's Daily Show, John Oliver nearly fell into temptation. You see, Palin returned to Fox, and he almost didn't know where to start, but then he realized something: "We can respond to her obvious trolling with a series of insulting jokes," he said, "or we can just f--king ignore her."
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 State of Alaska released the latest batch of e-mails from Sarah Palin's time as governor, but the nation's reporters aren't chartering jets to Juneau to get a first peek at any scandalous revelations they may contain.
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As the Republican primary season rumbles on, there can only be more campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out. Today: Sarah Palin reminds us she exists and Romney goes after Santorum.
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Mitt Romney was under attack on the Sunday morning political talk shows.
Sarah Palin has overlooked her various beefs with Newsweek to write an essay for the magazine: "My Life With Trig."
Now that we've had a couple hours to mourn the fact that the most boring Republican candidate will likely be the presidential nominee, it's time to hold all those pundits who tricked us into thinking there'd be someone more fun to write about accountable for their mistakes.
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Sure, Mitt Romney has the most endorsements of Republican elected officials, but he's in a heated competition with Newt Gingrich for the endorsements that really matter: Famous people.
Twitter tells us that Newt Gingrich just revealed that he'd offer Sarah Palin a job in his administration, should he win the Republican nomination and then get elected president.
When asked by Sean Hannity on Fox News if she was ready to make an endorsement, Sarah Palin said, "If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I would vote for Newt."
Todd Palin, husband of Sarah Palin, has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, he told ABC News Monday, prompting some political watchers to, well, snicker.
What has Sarah Palin been doing while no one was watching?
You're probably out of luck if you asked Santa Claus for a new Sarah Palin television adventure this year.
It's funny how the only two Republican presidential hopefuls who consented to be photographed with Donald Trump are Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.
Roger Ailes probably didn't care that Sarah Palin wasn't running for president, he just wanted her to announce it on Fox News.
Intrepid-Washington Post reporter Ned Martel asked costume store owners and pollsters alike, and discovered that no one wants to dress up like Sarah Palin this year, perhaps the most festive sign that her political star is fading.
Would more House Republicans rather have John Boehner's job or Sean Hannity's? How many Republican presidential candidates would rather be in a Fox News studio than the White House?
Cartoonist Steve Benson on Sarah Palin's diminishing returns
The real losers, he points out, are those who gave her money thinking she'd run
There's still a future for their girl: VP, a third party candidacy, something
Based on the reactions she got on Fox News this morning, the answer may be yes
According to two reports
Nicolle Wallace says she was inspired by Palin to write about a mentally ill vice-president
Her lawyers checked: Oct. 28 is the last day she can get on the New Hampshire ballot
The Daily Show host tries to understand Sarah Palin's latest musings
A painting of Bachmann with a serial killer, a Gingrich paper doll, a hideous Palin pot
"Is a title and is a campaign too shackling?" Palin wonders on Fox News
Joe McGinniss may feel the wrath of Palin's lawyers
2012 GOP candidates all want to meet him -- even though he's not conservative or powerful
You can't win the Republican presidential nomination without talking to the Fox News chief
Drawn into a fight with a guy over her mom
Levi says even Bristol thinks her pro-abstinence career is pretty funny
Van Susteren calls Carlson a 'pig' and attacks his website after a NSFW Palin story runs
The author of 'The Rouge' defends a book derided by critics as trashy, gossip-strewn
The New York Times hates it, as expected
Before he ruined Michele Bachmann's day, he was walking all over Sarah Palin
Author and unwanted Palin neighbor Joe McGinnis cut a deal with Garry Trudeau
An Elle article draws ire from the conservative women it profiles
Increasingly clear there's a new frontrunner in the 2012 race
She faces a hard deadline to run in October -- and tough poll numbers
He leads even among not-yet-announced competitors
Hell hath no fury like a maybe-presidential candidate scorned
Her political action committee debunks Karl Rove's suggestion
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