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Kudos to Mother Jones for some great muckraking when it comes to Palin's foreign policy experience as Alaska governor. Not only do the governor's calendars562 pages of schedules that MoJo obtained under Alaska's Open Records Actshow that Palin conducted no official meetings with Russian officials...  

Palin isn't the only politician from the north side of the the 49th parallel having trouble in TV interviews. Here's an awkward video of a CTV interview with Stephane Dion, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, where he grows flustered and asks for several do-overs to what seems like a simple...  

Saturday Night Live--the latest outlet, it seems, to fall victim to the blink-and-you-miss-it speed of the contemporary political news cycle--has initiated Update Thursday, a chance to move beyond its worst-timing-possible-for-news-relevance late-Saturday time slot to mid-week. The show premiered...  

From the "alas, 'twas always thus" department: PEJ turns in a brief but interesting study of the long history of politicians mocking, disparaging, and otherwise hating on the press. "The more overtly partisan and ideological nature of the criticismthat the press is liberalis relatively new," the...  

The New York Timess political blog, The Caucus, is cleaning up after itself after a Monday night post claimed that at least six million questions were received for Tuesday nights presidential debate. The number raised many eyebrowsours includedgiven that Tom Brokaw, the debates moderator, made a...