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Halperin: Any Supreme Court ruling on health care hurts Obama

Time magazine’s Mark Halperin on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama would come out as the loser whether the Supreme Court decided to strike down the health care reform law or not this week. “I actually think whatever the court rules, it’s bad for the president,” Halperin told MSNBC’s Joe…

HBO’s ‘Game Change’ in 43 seconds

Perhaps, having lived through the 2008 election and, like many people, read Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book Game Change less than a year later, you might feel that reliving the events of that election cycle a third time by watching the HBO film Game Change is a bit more…

Romney: ‘A lot of us agree with’ Rush Limbaugh

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had some kind words for the influential conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday during an interview with Time‘s Mark Halperin. During the interview, Romney was asked if he thought the often controversial radio host had too much influence on the Republican Party. “You…

Needs More Mel Kiper

I’m watching the convention in HD on CNN. It kind of ruins the whole “HD” thing by making the person on stage small in the middle of the screen and the surrounding them with useless, repetitive graphics like an audience noise meter, a rotating schedule of things that happened five…