So Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint endorsed Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware Republican primary. Some folks called this idiotic, because O’Donnell is a fringe candidate endorsed by Tea Partiers.

And maybe, she has problems.

The financial stuff’s been reported everywhere: her 2008 Senate campaign was way in debt, and she also used campaign cash to pay half her rent – when her home doubled as a campaign office. On top of that, she may have lied about attending Princeton (or, something like that – it’s too confusing).

So, she’s not rich. She ran a small campaign against a large one, spent a fraction of her adversary, but she’s broke. She’s a young politician, screwing up like every other ambitious pol.

But yeah, that’s a red flag.

Here’s another. On the CBS Early Show, Nancy Cordes portrayed O’Donnell as weird, because she quote, “crusaded for abstinence and against porn.” Christine also wrote that ‘when a married person uses pornography, it compromises the spouse’s purity.’” (more…)

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You would think the awkward, most squirm-inducing moment would be Al Gore reading his own poetry, but you would be wrong… (more…)

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Wow. That is quite a moment in the “60 Minutes” interview when director Roman Polanski says of the 13 year-old girl he drugged, raped and sodomized:

“She wasn’t unschooled in sexual matters. She was consenting and willing…”

First off, the victim disagrees. Secondly, if she was so willing, why the Quaalude?

Polanski may be a monster, but he’s Hollywood’s Monster, and they are the rich and powerful elite in this town and that matters. And what does it say about Polanski’s defenders in both the entertainment industry and media that they consider his living luxuriously in Europe as ”a horrible, soul-wrenching price for the infamy surrounding his actions“? (more…)

The fact that I’ve needed to correct the record every time I’m involved in some sort of media firestorm (about once a month since the election, it seems), probably says at least as much about the pathetic nature of our news media as anything I put in my documentary “Media Malpractice,” a film whose truth I’ve dedicated almost all of the last year of my life to. The most recent episode involving the controversy over David Letterman’s comments about Governor Sarah Palin and her family is certainly no exception.  

First, let me tell you what really happened, and then I can explain what we should all learn from this.  Here’s the timeline… 

Monday, June 8th: Letterman uses Palin’s trip to New York to unleash a torrent of  ”comic” attacks on her and her family. The entire “Top Ten” list is devoted to the Governor and includes cracks about her updating her “slutty” wardrobe and possessing illegal drugs. The monologue includes a “joke” about Palin’s “daughter” getting “knocked up” at a Yankees game by Alex Rodriquez during the 7th inning stretch while her mother and a stadium full of spectators presumably watched.   (more…)