NBC and the Hol­ly­wood For­eign Press Asso­ci­a­tion have can­celed this year’s Golden Globes awards cer­e­mony, because the SAG actors decided they weren’t going to show up, on account of their “respect” for the WGA strike. HFPA will sim­ply announce the win­ners at some point, with no pomp or cir­cum­stance involved. By can­cel­ing the show and announc­ing the win­ners, HFPA is let­ting the SAG actors eat their cake (by giv­ing them their awards) and have it, too (by cav­ing in to their protest of the awards show). If I were HFPA, I’d have post­poned it instead. That way, they could keep the [ . . . ]

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I expected Huck­abee would turn out on top of the Repub­li­can cau­cuses in Iowa. He won’t do so well in New Hamp­shire, at least. I’ve always said Huck­abee was more fright­en­ing to me for the ide­o­log­i­cal trends he rep­re­sents, not for the pos­si­bil­ity that he might be elected. And I still am not too wor­ried about that. What is inter­est­ing to me is Obama’s vic­tory in the Demo­c­ra­tic cau­cuses. The two most reli­gious can­di­dates won in Iowa. The eleven month long, slow-​​​​motion train wreck begins! For­tu­nately, Iowa has been off the mark as a Novem­ber pre­dic­tor for the past few cycles. I hope those ide­o­log­i­cal [ . . . ]

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Kathy Grif­fin co-​​​​hosted New Year’s Eve at Times Square with Ander­son Cooper on CNN last night. And she claims to be D-​​​​List. That’s a squarely C-​​​​List activ­ity. Kathy tried her hard­est to get Ander­son fired, at one point ask­ing him who, in the cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion, he would most enjoy water­board­ing. Of course we all know Anderson’s posi­tion on water­board­ing (even though he never really comes out and says it), so he was quite per­turbed, refused to answer, and accused Kathy of “cross­ing the line.” To which Ms Grif­fin responded by look­ing at the cam­era and say­ing, “That’s what I’m here for!” [ . . . ]

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