George Will Definitively Declares Sarah Palin âCannot Be Elected Presidentâ

We’re today inferior than digit years absent from the incoming statesmanly election, which effectuation it’s instance for 2012 statesmanly speculation to begin! The prototypal This Week of the assemblage kicked soured the speech with whatever of the large obloquy on the politico side, and George Will seems to hit found finished the litany of obloquy what he titled “the President’s info weapon”: Sarah Palin’s quality to be elected.

Asked by Jake Tapper (filling in for Christiane Amanpour) to evaluate the politico landscape for November 2012, Will began by addressing the fact that Mike Huckabee had performed specially well in the primaries in 2008– meliorate than Mitt Romney– and then added this salacious tidbit of speculation:

“The President’s info instrument haw be the politico nominating electorate… There is digit person, broad in the polls, wife Palin, who cannot be elected chair because she cannot contend where elections are decided. In the arrest counties right Chicago, Montgomery County right of Philadelphia– just can’t contend there.”

He went on provide whatever predictions supported on the fact that nominees, he explained, run to win the majority of electoral votes in the Mississippi Valley– gift Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Sen. John Thune, and the suddenly-popular Gov. Mitch Daniels a leg up in that area.

It module be engrossing to see if and when Palin confronts much derision, especially if this module ordered the talk for how pundits module handle her chances for the rest of the year. While in 2010– digit years removed– she could afford to be glib about it over Twitter, her chances as she races the clock module increasingly depend on how statesmanly she crapper come across, that trait digit that, using her behavior terminal assemblage alone, haw be cushy to “refudiate.”

The clip from today’s This Week on ABC below:

Rep.-Elect Allen West Reaffirms On Fox: Liberal Agenda Is Tyrannical, Socialist And Despicable

Representative-elect Allen West from Florida appeared on Fox News Sun and patron Chris Wallace offered him an opportunity to back absent from his time comments where he titled the Democratic list a “left-wing, vile, vicious, evil machine.” Instead, West chose to double-down reaffirming his belief that the government for the time digit years has in fact been, “tyrannical, socialist, despicable,” because so much of the country’s creation has been nationalized.

Wallace was puzzled and wondered if it was rattling as bad as West described it. Yet West seemed dead comfortable with his assessment. Welcome to legislature Mr. West, it looks same you’ll be a recreation maker of many many more disputable comments to come in the new year.

Watch the instance from Fox News below:

The Cynic's Guide to the Oprah Winfrey Network [Field Guide]

The Oprah Winfrey Network launched yesterday. New royalty Times broadcasting critic Alessandra Stanley calls it "a locate where cynicism takes a holiday and mimicry hasn't yet been invented." This module not abide. More »

More Photos From Polar Bear Swim 2011

              

Though there was plentitude to oppose at yesterday's New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim, it looks like some participants chose to pore on the 108-year-old tradition of plunging into the chilling liquid for "stamina, virility and immunity" instead of the possible destruction of some boardwalk favorites. Or perhaps they were just bright they could secure discover in 50 degree air, instead of the 0 degree liquid at the Polar Bear Swim in Lake Erie. Check discover the recording beneath of the revelers, and be pleased you're watching it from the comfort of somewhere with heating:

Review: Oprahâs New Network A âMissed Opportunityâ Serving Up Stale âReality TV Dreckâ

Amid the football and hangovers of New Year’s Day comes a taste of television history: the start of Oprah Winfrey’s sort newborn network, OWN, which began dealings today.

Writing on The Root, Jennifer Mabry sums up her feelings most the Oprah Winfrey Network in digit word: “disappointed.” Mabry writes that she’d hoped to wager Oprah enter the programming expanse and reinvent it–as she did when she began her talk show–”by existence ambitious, audacious and creative” instead of opting to “be conception of its further degeneration by adding to an already glutted mart of spectator dreck.”

After a few hours of OWN, Mabry describes the driving belief behindhand the meshwork as simple: “Find anyone with a heartbeat and a willingness to have cameras study them during their ordinary day-to-day life, and voilà — we’ve got ourselves a TV show!”

Ouch.

Beyond the simple difficulty of existence uninventive and boring, Mabry knocks Oprah for imperfectness to bring diversity to her network:

Of course, Winfrey is free to choose how she spends her millions. But it’s disconcerting, to feature the least, that of the breakout syndicated personalities she has helped to start during her reign as the queen of media — Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Nate Berkus and Rachael Ray — none is a black male or female, sans (Gayle) King.

OWN is a uncomprehensible possibleness for Winfrey to create cable television that’s genuinely FUBU: For Us, By Us.

Cop Tasers Camel [Odd]

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Gawker's Year in Review 2010 [Year In Review]

Well, that's it from us for 2010. If you want to feature most our selection books, music, movies, TV, rumors, feuds, scandals, and stories, this is the place to do it. We'll be backwards tomorrow—Happy New Year, everyone! More »