It Doesn’t Matter That Al Gore Is “Romney-Rich”

Why Fox News should praise the former veep’s wealth.

It appears Al Gore is now "Romney-rich." That was the phrase used in a piece earlier this week by Bloomberg News, and repeated in an extensive New York magazine profile of the former vice president. Gore, according to Bloomberg, now has a personal net worth of around $200 million, money gleaned from the recent sale of his Current TV network, as well as his various investments since leaving public life. By comparison, the piece said, Gore's net worth at the time of his 2000 presidential bid was less than $2 million.

College Kids Do the Darndest Things

Frank Luntz gets a modern media lesson at Penn.

If you have something to say that's newsworthy, but you don't want it in the news, it's probably wise not to say it in front of a large audience of people, at a speech that's open to the public. That's the lesson learned recently by Frank Luntz, the longtime Republican pollster and Fox News regular, when he spoke to an audience of College Republicans at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, and made some relatively innocuous comments that were critical of Rush Limbaugh and other talk-radio personalities. Luntz, according to the account in Mother Jones—by David Corn, the same reporter who broke...

From Cursing News Anchors to Baseball Players: When It’s OK to Swear on TV

And who gets to decide when it’s not.

If you ask me, the greatest moment of Julius Genachowski's soon-to-expire tenure as chairman of the FCC came on Saturday.

Review: Dick Morris’ Philly Talk Radio Debut

Remember when CBS Radio put David Lee Roth on the air?

Local radio station WPHT, for mysterious reasons, has handed its afternoon drive-time radio show over to a man who's never hosted a radio show, has no ties to Philadelphia save for a few long-ago political consultancy gigs, and whose credibility—for a myriad of reasons—is at an all-time low.

New Jackie Robinson Movie 42 Recalls Phillies’ Shameful Past

A reminder that booing Santa is nowhere near the worst time in this city’s sports history.

There's a new movie coming out this week that paints a rather unflattering picture of Philadelphia and its sports culture. And it goes much farther back, and much deeper, than fans booing Santa Claus or Michael Irvin.

CBS Handled Kevin Ware’s Leg Break Well. Did You?

Kevin Ware, Andrew Bynum, and how we feel about sports injuries.

Aside from the miracle runs by Florida Golf Coast University and Philly's own La Salle Explorers, this year's NCAA mens' basketball tournament had been relatively uneventful- that is, until Sunday night, when a national television audience witnessed one of the most horrific and devastating injuries in the history of televised sports.

Who’ll Be Fired at the Today Show or NBC for Sandusky Interview?

The only one who came out looking OK was Matt Lauer.

As is often the case when the most hated man in America is the focus of a nationally televised news segment, NBC's decision to air an interview with Jerry Sandusky on the Today Show was sure to be controversial.

What CNN and a Rabbi Have in Common: Siding With Abusers

Never mind the rape and sex-abuse victims.

The high-profile Steubenville, Ohio, rape case ended last weekend with guilty verdicts for both defendants—leading to one of the more embarrassing segments in the history of CNN. Both, as well as other stories in the news, are symptomatic of a tendency I've noticed a whole lot the last couple of years: In cases of high-profile sex crimes, way too many people have way too much sympathy for the perpetrators, and not enough for the victims.