Governor Paterson's favorite person in New York these days is probably Hiram Monserrate, the former New York State Senator whose political path has gone from switching parties to an assault conviction to expulsion from the Senate to campaigning for his old seat. Monserrate is a walking distraction, at least until Election Day tomorrow. (more...)

Sometimes even Karl Rove wants to travel to a simpler time. With the release of his new book slated to drop this Monday, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, Rove is making the 2000 presidential election an issue again by admitting to some of his worst mistakes as the 'Architect' of Bush's win, and accusing a former Gore staffer (and, perhaps unintentionally, a major media ally) of putting into motion the news story that may have led to the Florida recount. (more...)

video John Stossel has really embraced the Fox culture since moving from ABC News onto Fox Business. So far, we've seen him join Bill O'Reilly's War on Christmas bandwagon, adopt a Glenn Beck-esque "green phone" (for Al Gore, of course), and drive around the News Corp building in a government-subsidized golf cart, visiting his buddies' programs on Fox News when he's not on Fox Business to tell them all the immoral free stuff they can get from the government, and why they shouldn't. The golf cart made another appearance last night on The O'Reilly Factor, but rather than being a simple goofy representation of the perils of over-sized government, it represented something much more sinister. (more...)

video Jesse Ventura's TruTV show Conspiracy Theory got contemporary last night when it covered two of today's most-debated topics: global warming and Climategate. Last week, the show announced that it wouldn't shy from controversy by taking on 9/11 conspiracy theories. (And really, what kind of self-respecting show about conspiracy theories would shy from controversy?) But Ventura had already been on the record as a 9/11 skeptic before the show. With his unique take on global warming, Ventura takes it up a notch. (more...)

video Confused about what exactly is going on in Copenhagen this week? Uncertain who's there to discuss what? Jon Stewart boils it down to its most essential parts: it's the World of Warmcraft. Our ability to live (on land) is what's at stake! Unless you are a critic, in which case this may be the biggest hoax perpetrated on mankind (after the myth of the female orgasm). Behold: they are importing limos to the climate summit to handle the attendees, large icebergs are floating towards Australia, and not only is it snowing in Houston they elected a lesbian mayor ("I guess Hell really did freeze over!"). Blame those fat cat environmental scientists: "it gets cold in winter, and scientists are getting paid." Eeegads. Video below.

video Diane Sawyer interviewed Al Gore today on Good Morning America and put the former Vice President on the hot seat a couple times with her line of questioning. And guess who made a special appearance? Fox News' Glenn Beck. (more...)

In the age of the Verified Account, we expect our celebrities and media personalities to be on Twitter. It's not only the quickest and easiest way for them to reach their audiences, but sometimes it provides us a small window into the minutiae of their everyday lives. "Famous people, they're just like us!" we like to think when Martha Stewart's dog pees in the house or Oprah says she's tired. But that's not why it's a category on our Power Grid. (more...)

Oprah. Lloyd Blankfein. Serena Williams. Michael Jordan. Vikram Pandit. George Clooney. Al Gore. Al Franken. No, not the invite list to the coolest party of all time. Just a few of the characters who have shot the bull (and maybe worked out a few deals) in the Oval Office with President Obama since he took office in January. (more...)

Is there a better time to bury news than Saturday night of a sleepy holiday weekend? Probably not —by Tuesday, this will be a two-day-old story that will be pushed aside in favor of focusing on Obama's scary, propagand-tastic speech to America's children. Even the Sunday shows didn't get into it too deep. Such is the holiday weekend news cycle. (more...)

"We were teenagers, and now we're the man." That was how DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas described the nearly 2000 activists gathered in Pittsburgh for the 2009 Netroots Nation convention. Billed on its website as "the most concentrated gathering of progressive bloggers to date,"  this year's Netroots Nation is the fourth conference of its kind. It began in 2006 as the YearlyKos convention, and adopted a new name in 2008 to reflect its expanding membership and influence beyond the pages of DailyKos. The 2009 conference is the first without a cadre of primary contenders to invite and the first to deal with reality of being a movement billed as the political establishment. The event regularly attracts progressive power players and up-and-comers alike, with former Vice President Al Gore making a surprise visit last year, while 2007 drew eight major Democratic Presidential candidates for a blogger-moderated debate. This year brought former President Bill Clinton, Governor Howard Dean and Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett as featured speakers - but while the tradition of high-profile politicos in attendance continues, the focus of the conference has definitely taken a turn from its election-driven roots. (more...)

updated AP Reports that former President Bill Clinton is currently en route to North Korea to negotiate the release of jailed American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee who were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts." No official comment has thus far come from the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, nor the U.S. State department. (more...)