Anderson Cooper Praises Ellen for Making Dance a Part of the Election
Anderson Cooper is praising Ellen DeGeneres for making dance a part of this year's election. He said many political analysts have failed to notice the importance of the "Ellen Factor." "You've played a role in this election to which I think historians are going to recognize years from now," he joked on Tuesday's Ellen DeGeneres Show. "Seeing Barack Obama dance, then compare that to Michelle Obama, and then to have Barack Obama come back on and have to re-dance ... it was some pretty dramatic moments that

Emanuel Accepts Chief Job As Obama Transition Team Comes Out
The chatter first began this morning after ABC News reported on the then-rumored job change, and picked up speed after Rahm's office confirmed that Obama had extended his hand to Emanuel, an Illinois-based Congressman who previously worked in Bill Clinton's White House as a top advisor. (He also worked on Clinton's first presidential campaign.) CONTINUED » Nov 5, 2008 · posted by drew · Link · 1 Response Related Posts • 11.05.08: H

Election Coverage: Which Network Will You Watch for the Results?
On Tuesday, the presidential campaign will come to an end, sending either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain to the White House. Here's how the coverage of this historic election shakes out. ABC (7 pm/ET-2am; 2:35am-3:05am) Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos are the anchors. CBS (7 pm-2am) Katie Couric is at the helm. CNBC (7pm-midnight) Scott Cohn broadcasts from McCain's HQ, Jane Wells from Obama's. CNN (6 pm-2am) Wolf Blitzer anchors with analysis by Campbell Brown,

Hinckley: It's a whole new reality for the networks
After 18 months of unrestricted projection, speculation and analysis about how America would vote in the 2008 presidential election, TV was stuck last night with the actual information. It did the best it could. For starters, CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviewed a hologram of correspondent Jessica Yellin and later Anderson Cooper chatted with a hologram of singer will.i.am. PHOTO GALLERY: PEOPLE CELEBRATE Obama VICTORY FROM TIMES SQUARE TO GRANT PARK Fortunately, they ran out of airtime before they could in

No Need for 'Out' to Out Rachel Maddow
They editors of Out must be so relieved: They finally have an openly gay news star to call their own. MSNBC breakout talent Rachel Maddow tops the new edition of the Out 100, the magazine's annual list of movers and shakers (not to be confused with the Out Power 50, its annual list of machers and heavy-hitters.) NPR's Ari Shapiro is also among the names released so far. Not yet mentioned this time around is CNN's Anderson Cooper, who has appeared at Nos. 3 and 2 on the last two editions of the Power 50

Barack Obama On Hurricane Gustav Relief Efforts
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama took to the airwaves Monday night for an exclusive interview on CNN's 'Anderson Cooper 360' -- weighing in on Hurricane Gustav relief efforts. Fresh off of his historic nomination at last week's Democratic National Convention, Obama told Anderson Cooper he is satisfied with the handling of relief efforts for Hurricane Gustav, which hit landfall on the Gulf Coast Monday. "We have seen the evacuation of two million people, with relatively few glitches,"

News Teams Improvise for Hurricane Gustav
With a major hurricane moving toward New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast, CBS News anchor Katie Couric is departing the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., while other TV and cable networks shuffle anchors and correspondents to cover the storm. The changes reflect the demands placed on news networks that are scrambling to cover back-to-back presidential conventions and a looming natural disaster that could rival Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. The long-planned schedule

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Dave Karger says Obama’s win could help ‘The Dark Knight’ come Oscar time
I thought the sequence involving the two ferries (in which a group of commuters and a group of convicts have the power to blow up each others’ boats but don’t) was a bit too reality-show-ish for my taste. But I know most viewers loved it. Either way, that part of the film speaks to the innate goodness of human behavior. And let’s remember that Oscar ballots are due next January 12, just a week before Barack Obama is inaugurated. It’s safe to say most Hollywood types will also see tha

Barack Obama, Conservative
Karol Sheinin makes the point that Obama is anti-gay marriage, pro-death penalty, pro-tax cuts and anti-meeting with despots without preconditions. (Or at least those are his latest positions; stay tuned for updates.) Absent was the Walter Mondale moment: “He won’t admit he’ll raise your taxes. I just said I would.” So was the big winner of this election…Ronald Reagan? Obama proved that campaigning as an overt liberal is dead. Topics: Barack

Obama notes McCain’s effort to temper GOP comments
AP - Barack Obama acknowledged Saturday that John McCain has asked his supporters to temper their attacks on him. But the Democratic presidential nominee said the Republican’s economic plans remain wrong for the country. "I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other," Obama told supporters in Philadelphia. He said McCain "has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks for that." However, Obama said, McCain "still doesn’t get it" reg

Obama and McCain Seem to Understand the Importance of Renewable Energy
The good news from the presidential campaign is that even though Senator McCain and Governor Palin have resorted to swift-boat tactics, the fundamental issue of economic well-being has begun to dominate the race for the White House. In the past, that would be bad news for environmental protection and sustainable development, as we’d be hearing we can either have either economic growth or environmental protection. Fortunately, Senator Obama is connecting economic well-being with energy efficiency and renew

Palin drubs Obama on abortion during Pa. rally
Palin says a vote for Obama is, in her words, "a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate that we deserve and that we need on this issue of life." Palin made her remarks Saturday during a rally before about 5,000 people in Johnstown, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh. On Saturday night, the self-described "hockey mom" is scheduled to drop the ceremonial first puck when the Flyers open their NHL season in Philadelphia against the New York Rangers. Share with

Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive. Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable. Rezko also was friendly with Obama — offering him a

Winfrey's 'Mr. Man' ID'd as Obama campaign worker
CHICAGO - Colleagues of a Barack Obama campaign worker from California have identified him as the man whose shoulder Oprah Winfrey cried on during an Election Day rally in Chicago. This Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007 file photo shows President-elect Barack Obama, center, his wife Michelle, right, and Oprah Winfrey as they wave to the crowd at a rally in Manchester, N.H. If it seems like pop culture took a more prominent role in Campaign 2008 than ever before, it's largel

South Park: The Obama-McCain Master Plan
No wonder John McCain's concession speech Tuesday night was so gracious. It turns out he's been in cahoots with Barack Obama for the last 10 years, and the pair have been...

Election Night: CNN (Part 3)
Filed under: News, Programming, Reality-Free 12:23: Wolf Blitzer just reminded us that this is, in fact, an historic occasion. He also assures us that the coverage will continue. I, however, will not. All in all, CNN's coverage was adequate, but pretty boring. The reason I choose CNN over the other news channels is because of the personalities. Campbell Brown, Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper usually find ways to engage and amuse me, but not tonight. Everyone was pretty straightforward and dry. What do they

It’s Barackfest in New York!
As election night neared, New York’s power elite—but also its creative class, its political class, its partying class, lurched to find the center of gravity for election night. The premonition that New York’s obvious choice, Barack Obama, was likely to win was not the smallest consideration here. And then there were those who attempted to provide the city with its own massive town square, to hold election night, for the first time in eight years, as a massive, citywide, public event. ABC did Times S

The Ticker (video edition): Matthews, Cooper, Hannity...
> SNL got one final round of political sketches in last night, including a portrayal of MSNBC's Chris Matthews with Sen. Barack Obama. Check out the video. > CNN's Anderson Cooper was interviewed on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show today, and he explained "The Ellen Factor." Check out the clip. > In honor of Election Day, Nas, who is not a fan of Fox News, released a new song, with a shot at Sean Hannity. Click here to listen. Posted by SteveK | 04:35 PM | The Ticker

Election Night: CNN (Part 2)
Filed under: News, Programming, Reality-FreeThe continuing adventures of Anderson Cooper, Mr. Magoo and the magic board. 10:20: They've moved out to the lawn in Phoenix. The atmosphere there is quite a bit more, uh, subdued than in Chicago. 10:19: Yikes. Dana Bash looks more and more depressed each time they show her. She's reporting that McCain's camp has given up. 10:08: Wolf Blitzer: "Arkansas. Put that in John McCain's column right now." Is it wrong that that made me snicker? It doesn't even make s

Why We Should Support 'Less Bullshit' Journalists Like Campbell Brown
Always looking for the next big thing in television news media — Katie Couric, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Mike Huckabee have all received the treatment — it appears we're ready to move on to our next nominee: Campbell Brown. The NBC veteran who left the network just a couple months after losing the Today show vacancy Couric left to Meredith Vieira, Brown signed with CNN and became a respectable, albeit benign and forgettable, asset. T

Loose Lips [Oprah]
Oprah has already has picked out a dress to wear to Obama's inauguration. "I created a vision board. I had never had a vision board before. I came home, I got me a board and put Barack Obama’s picture on it and I put a picture of my dress I want to wear to the inauguration," Oprah said this morning. And we are already well aware that whatever Oprah wants, Oprah gets. • Anderson Cooper says Ellen played a dramatic role in this current election, but not one that has anything to do with Proposition 8. "You

Anderson Cooper Comes Out of the Closet... About His 'Real Housewives' Addiction [Announcements]
newVideoPlayer("/Ellen_Anderson_NeNe.flv", 506, 423,""); "Honey, I don't even know where to begin with NeNe!" says Anderson Cooper, and we don't know where to begin with this clip, in which the newsman throws some serious shade on Ellen DeGeneres for not watching his favorite guilty pleasure, Real Housewives of Atlanta. Yes, when not globetrotting in Kosovo, interviewing Katrina evacuees, or organizing his closet of medium-size black t-shirts (by frequency of use, natch), the Coop is a reality television d