Outside the Beltway

A perennial fantasy has a new standard bearer.

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

Donald Trump takes opposition to abortion to a new, extreme, level.

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

None of the cable news networks did particularly well last night.

The Geek Squad Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

“I would never let anybody write something for me,” Matthews says. “Why do you think I’m like that? It’s amazing to me that you think I’m some lightweight, glib bullshit artist that has somebody do his work for him. The writing is the hard part, the composition.”

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center and founder of CNS News, calls Christine O’Donnell’s walking off the set of Piers Morgan was “beyond indefensible. It was downright bizarre.”

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

Fewer Americans are watching cable news networks, and that’s not surprising.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

The race between Jeb Hensarling and Michelle Bachmann for Chair of the House GOP Conference is a microcosm for a battle that is likely to take place within the GOP for the next two years.