ABC News' Gibson lands first Sarah Palin interview
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has agreed to sit down with ABC's Charles Gibson later this week for her first ...

Team McCain Chooses Charles 'Softball' Gibson for First Sarah Palin TV Interview [Fail]
Well, the press can stop wondering when and where Sarah Palin's first post-nomination television interview will take place. A campaign adviser says they offered ABC nightly news anchor Charles Gibson the job days ago. That's the same Charles Gibson who was last seen being "greasily avuncular and patronizing" when he and his ABC cohort George Stephanopoulos were ruining the Democratic primary debate back in April. You know, the ABC-sponsored event about which a New Yorker scribe wrote, "Seldom has a large co

Charlie Gibson's Sarah Palin Cheat Sheet
Why did the McCain campaign grant the first post-convention interview of Sarah Palin to ABC's Charles Gibson? A cynic might guess McCain's strategists are hoping to prove their contention that the "elite media" can't keep its questioning in bounds by bringing in one of the guys responsible for moderating ABC's shamefully petty and off-topic Democratic debate. Or maybe they thought Gibson, having endured a paint-peeling chastening after that debate, would be inclined to stick to the high ground. Or maybe the

First Concrete Sign that Sarah Palin Doesn't Know Crap
While commenting on the big whoopsie of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac seizing by the government yesterday, Sarah Palin tipped her hand and alerted the public to something Democrats have known for awhile: the woman doesn't have a clue what is going on in this country:   …the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Is that so? Welp, no. Not if you're listening to those

Sarah Palin and John McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
Sarah Palin makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech — longer even than Barack Obama’s — you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum’s rush. Still, attention must be paid. McCain’s address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, rem

Sarah Palin Poll Dancing - giving all of us a bounce
A John McCain strategist gained a lot of attention a few weeks back when she predicted a huge “bounce” in the polls for Barack Obama following the Democratic National Convention. Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palinal whose nomination produced a significant positive poll movement for the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket The strategist was exaggerating for effect and, as most pundits had anticipated, Obama came out of his party’s confab in Denver with a sol

Sarah Palin gives Bush, Cheney a boner
There’s nothing stopping Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from serving well in the White House, according to the men who now hold the nation’s highest offices. “She’s had executive experience, and that’s what it takes to be a capable person in here in Washington, D.C., in the executive branch,” President Bush said in an interview to be shown Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends.” “John McCain made an inspired pick,” Bush added. The former

Sarah Palin Invited For an Afternoon of Suntanning and Margaritas By the Fourth Estate's Pool
Oh good: 'Gov. Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson for her first interview since winning the Republican vice presidential nomination, the network's news division confirmed today.' Just the type of softball questions McCain's camp was hoping for. That's because Gibson has solidified his reputation as an anchor unable to come up with anything of substance to quiz his subjects on. The upside: At least it's not Larry King? Sep 8, 2008 &middo

Condi Rice Speaks Out: Sarah Palin Is A Governor, of Some State, In the United States!
Here’s forgotten Bush Administration tool Condoleezza Rice weighing in on McCain’s goofy pick for veep, Alaskan anger-bear and baby farmer Sarah Palin. What Condi’s doing here is what elitists call “damning with faint praise.” And that’s only natural for a well-educated academic fancy-pants piano-playing culture vulture like our Condi. What does she know about the real world of snowbilly trash and teen-aged baby mamas? Only a mean, dumb white-trash gal with a community-co

Obama Whoa Maverick VIDEO!
VIDEO! Watch video of the new “Who” or “No Maverick” ad campaign from Barack Obama. The Obama video on McCain goes after the “maverick” image McCain and Sarah Palin pressed at the RNC Convention last week. The video addresses Sarah Palin and John McCain on both images and voting record. The ad spot repeats the Obama position on McCain’s voting position and how it compares to George Bush. Earlier today, LALATE broke that Sarah Palin will give her first network tv

Palin To Tell All!
With Oprah Winfrey not wanting to interview Sarah Palin, or any other candidate until after elections, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate will have to settle for Charles Gibson. Palin has agreed to a sit down interview with ABC's Gibson later this week. This will be Palin's first TV interview since John McCain publicly announced her as his running mate. Gibson will fly to Alaska and interview her over two days. Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, says of Palin, "She's not scared to answer qu

Palin Bounce: John McCain Leads Barack Obama in U.S. Presidential Polls
John McCain and Sarah Palin are on top of Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the U.S. Presidential polls.  It's being billed as a "Cruel September" for Barack Obama as he has gone from rock star status to complaining about...

Brooke Hogan on Sarah Palin: 'Who's That?' [Defamer Interviews]
Though it's only been a scant ten days since John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, it's hard to find anyone on earth immune to the media onslaught that followed. Oh, for the halcyon days of mid-August, when our nation was more consumed with the abdominals of Michael Phelps than the baby-making, celebrity-stifling, Liz Lemon-resembling Palin name! To meet the rare creature who still knows nothing about the controversial candidate would be like staring into the windows of our pre-RNC innocenc

Sarah Palin Action Figure
Following her successful debut at the RNC last week, Republican vp candidate Sarah Palin is a hot commodity. The Alaska governor has not one, but two action figures made in her likeness. The gun-toting, underwear-flashing action doll is expected to be the hottest selling item this Christmas if Palin and McCain win the election in November. ‘Sarah Palin The Super Hero’ - which features the 44-year-old Alaska governor in her lingerie packing a .45 caliber gun on her hip - retails at $29.95 USD.

Scoop: Readers dump Us Magazine over Palin
Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it. » MSNBC.com: Gossip    Click for more articles from www.msnbc.msn.com J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim McCain, Palin criticize Obama on earmarks The Scottos' risotto and pork tend

Scoop: Obama, Palin double up for OK!
The lines continue to blur between political coverage and celebrity gossip. Barack Obama and family grace the front cover of OK! Magazine this week, while Sarah Palin and baby son Trig are on the back. » MSNBC.com: Gossip    Click for more articles from www.msnbc.msn.com J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim McCain, Palin criticize Obama on earmarks The

Tidbits: Hartnett’s accidental sex tape
Thanks to some well-placed surveillance cameras at a SoHo hotel, Josh Hartnett and an unnamed female friend starred in an inadvertent sex tape, reports The Daily Mirror. » MSNBC.com: Gossip    Click for more articles from www.msnbc.msn.com J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim McCain, Palin criticize Obama on earmarks The Scottos' risotto and pork tende

Scoop: Anonymous attempt to ‘save Katie’
When Katie Holmes’ Broadway show “All My Sons” opens Oct. 16, ticket holders won’t be the only ones in attendance. The anti-Scientology group Anonymous will be on hand for Holmes’ Broadway debut as well. » MSNBC.com: Gossip    Click for more articles from www.msnbc.msn.com J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim McCain, Palin criticize Obama on earm

McCain Powered Up Online Ad Spending in August
Republican presidential nominee John McCain amped up his Web video advertising in August while Democratic nominee Barack Obama decreased his online ad spend, according to data released today from Nielsen Online. The measurement company said Sen. McCain increased his “image-based” impression by 254% over the prior month while his sponsored search links rose by 43%. Meanwhile, Sen. Obama decreased the number of image-based impressions by 48% and sponsored links by 18%. Nielsen did not cite a reason for t

Psycho John McCain Pushes POW’s Relative Into Wall, Nearly Punches Wheelchair-Bound Lady
John “McNasty” McCain has a well-deserved reputation as a vulgar and delusional psychopath who should be locked up in a crazy house forever, but a Sunday feature on Walnuts’ insanity includes an example from the recent past that tops anything else we’ve ever heard. First he knocked some poor lady into the wall of a Senate office building, and then he nearly punched out another old lady in a wheelchair. About 25 members of the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America&#

A Convention Winner: Fox News
Viewers have been gravitating toward cable news, that always-on fountain of political opinion, to a degree not seen in previous election cycles, and the channel that has benefited the most is Fox News Channel, a unit of News Corporation. The speeches by Senator John McCain and his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, were tied as the third highest rated telecast in the channel’s history, behind a presidential address on the eve of the war in Iraq in 2003 and a presidential debate in 2004. “Over

Post Endorses McCain, Congratulates Obama on Being Black
Despite Barack Obama secretly meeting with Rupert Murdoch, and despite the New York Post's semi-recent turn to support Hillary Clinton, the News Corp. tabloid has gone ahead and "enthusiastically" endorsed John McCain for president. Not that the Post is ready to pour cement shoes for Obama: "None of this implies an iota of disrespect toward Obama. It took a formidable candidacy to defeat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - a candidacy, by the way, which we strongly supported earlier this year.

Conservatives Love McCain, They Really Love Him
As conservatives of all stripes came out of the woodwork last week to praise John McCain, it was hard not to remember a time when he was the scourge of the party, shunned by traditionalists for his maverick, independent ways. Nowadays he's being praised as "an independent man who thinks for himself" by the man responsible for claiming that McCain is the crazy gay father of a black child. But President Bush isn't the only prominent Republican to undergo a recent change of heart. McCain's gained supporters am