I think, if you listened very closely, today was supposed family values hour on Glenn Beck. Alas, the value part was mostly lost in translation and what came out instead was some weird variation of the last five minutes of a Scooby Doo episode: “If it wasn’t for you meddling kids!” Except that in Beck’s version, the “children of our future” may be secret Maoists.

Will Sarah Palin’s move to Fox News force her to address (nasty) revelations made in the just-released campaign book Game Change? The book’s authors think it’s possible. However, even more possible is that Palin signed on to Fox News in order to secure a safe haven while also maintaining a huge public platform.

WaPo reporter Anne Kornblut’s new book about women in politics hits shelves today. In an excerpt that captures the McCain campaign right before it made a left turn into Bizarro world senior McCain staffer Nicole Wallace recounts the first time she was contacted by a “real” reporter regarding the maternity of Trig Palin.

We are about to head into six weeks of non-stop, end-of-decade countdown and highlight lists. Granted it’s been a helluva a decade. Or, according to Time ‘The Decade From Hell,’ which is the moniker they’ve apparently opted to give it.

It’s not really a secret around here that I am a big fan of New York Times op-ed columnist and author Gail Collins. Collins, whose witty and sharp columns often add a measure of levity to the Times op-ed pages — particularly during last year’s sometimes fraught campaign season — has brought those same talents [...]

Add Drudge to the list of media outlets that has got its hands on Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. The top story on the site today links directly through an excerpt of the book, posted by Drudge, that details Palin’s decision to do the now infamous Katie Couric interviews. Apparently Palin agreed to them because she felt sorry for Katie.

The haircut story was first broken by Ben Smith at the then only three-month-old blog Politico. Yesterday Smith revealed the source of haircut tip: wonder-boy Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe. Will we see similar political savvy going forward? Particularly if Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin continue to dominate the GOP?

Yes, the newspaper industry, as we are all far too familiar, is in critical health. And maybe people are less interested in baseball, for whatever reason ($10 hot chocolate at Yankee Stadium may have something to do with that). Or maybe the country has just discovered a new national pastime. Namely, politics.

Earlier today, Mediaite’s Glynnis MacNicol reported on a new Rasmussen poll that indicates that while 44% of adults (although they never do get to how children would vote) say they would vote to re-elect President Obama were the election held today, 49% say they would not. She correctly notes that the poll doesn’t consider a hypothetical opponent, or other variables.

Imagine, if you will, that you happened to be one of the many people (many in 2004 numbers anyway) watching the 2004 Democratic Convention. You happen to catch then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s roof-raising, career-making (to put it mildly!) speech and you decide, wow this is a guy going places. I should get a [...]

The national political mood of Election Day 2009 would likely not be recognizable to the Obama-happy nation of 12 months ago. What a difference, etc. And yet, it’s hard to believe it’s only been 12 months! And a mere nine-and-a-half months of actual presidency. And truly it is only a slight exaggeration to say that in the interim it’s been all Barack Obama, all the time. With that in mind let’s take a look back at the Barack Obama highlights (and some lowlights) of the last year.

So yes. As the saying goes, what a difference a year makes. Twelve months after the momentous election of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th president, a poll shows that were the election to be held today Obama might not be so successful.

Sarah Palin’s public will have to wait few weeks to discover what the former Governor of Alaska has to say about all things Palin, but in the meantime perhaps they can feast upon a few interesting details from David Plouffe’s new book The Audacity to Win about the 2008 campaign. What did Obama really think about McCain’s choice for V.P.?

This is going to be good. One of the biggest disappointments of last year’s historic election was Oprah opting out out of any political interviews because she was a self-declared Barack Obama supporter, the lack of her clout was particularly felt when it came to a public vetting of Sarah Palin. No more!

The wait, such as it was, is over! Sarah Palin’s memoir “Going Rogue: An American Life” is due to hit bookstores on November 17, months ahead of the original publication date, which was this spring. Seems that Palin has been putting all the extra, non-governmental, free time to good use! But what about that title?

According to a new Gallup poll that nation’s elevated interest in the election was not merely a passing fancy, seems a lot of folks got hooked. Also according to the poll, Republicans and Independents are more plugged in then Democrats, which would sort of explain the current state of the health care bill.