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<p>NEW YORK, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- "Much has been written about how boomer women have rallied to Hillary's cause (she won an impressive 67 percent of the white women voting in Ohio; they were 44 percent of the total). It's fashionable to write off this core element of her base as rabid paleofeminists fighting the tired old gender wars of the past. But Hillary's appeal to the boomer gals is wider and deeper than that," author Tina Brown writes in the current issue of Newsweek.</p>

Look for NOW to be setting up picket lines outside Rush's Southern Command, protesting the way Limbaugh has demeaned mature women, writing them off as the "hot-flash cohort." What an outrageous slur! You know, these right-wing men just don't -- What? It wasn't Rush? It was that avatar of elite liberal thought Tina Brown, writing in Newsweek? Never mind. Here's how Brown put it in Hillary and the Invisible Women [emphasis added]:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - British celebrity journalist Tina Brown is writing a book about Bill and Hillary Clinton, aiming to repeat the success of her best-selling biography of Princess Diana, her publisher Doubleday said. "The Clintons have a political and emotional partnership that continues to defy all expectations," Brown said in a statement by the publisher sent to Reuters on Friday. The book about the former president and his wife, who is running for president herself this year, is due to be published in 2010, the statement said. "As I did with 'The Diana Chronicles,' I plan to explore not...

I'd be curious to see how Tina Brown describes someone she dislikes. Because after painting what seemed for all the world an unflattering portrait of Hillary Clinton, Brown proclaimed that she think's Hillary's great. Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Talk appeared on today's "Morning Joe" largely to discuss British royal doings as dished in her "Diana Chronicles"and otherwise. View video here.

Singer-turned-crackhead Whitney Houston has allegedly engaged in lesbian sex escapades after getting high on crack-cocaine, according to a published report. Tina Brown, Whitney's sister-in-law who claimed recently that the star is addicted to drugs and living in filth, has made new claims describing how Whitney has had several raunchy lesbian sex affairs. The National Enquirer magazine quotes her as saying, "It's no secret. I've seen her with a woman a couple of times. They were walking around without shirts on when I came in the house." And if that's not interesting enough, Whitney's husband Bobby Brown reportedly knew about the...

hillary's burqa by Mia T, 10.6.05 $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco. Edward Klein The Truth about Hillary:What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President "What Klein doesn't understand is that Hillary's success today depends not on an ability to be aggressively masculine, but on the exact opposite. That black pantsuit is the power woman's burqa -- a disguise for screening out, not extinguishing, distracting gender" Tina Brown pontificating on the nuances of haute couture jla unny. My Margaret-O'Leary ensemble doesn't seem to "screen out" my gender.... Tina Brown is onto...

Last night, even while suffering the ravages of the virus that has overtaken my body, even though I am still here in the process of fighting these ravages, I was diligently preparing for this program. And I ran across what I think is the first written lap dance I have ever encountered. It is a Tina Brown column in the Washington Post. The biggest lap dance ever written is about Bill Clinton. I know lap dances used to be free in the Oval Office, but the guy's gotta get some money somewhere, he's giving away his food and booze,...

Hillary biographer Ed Klein is returning fire against his Vanity Fair old boss, Tina Brown, who trashed the author and his book, "The Truth About Hillary" in her Washington Post column last week. Calling Klein "Ed Slime," Brown lamented the writer's alleged political metamorphosis: "Klein used to be a workmanlike scribe with glamour aspirations when he was flat-footing around in the Jackie O crypto-sphere," the literary doyenne recalled, dismayed that he's now become a "sniper in the Republican stage army." "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that misogyny is a sure boomerang," Brown warned. The one-time editor...

Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 10:25am EDT, Monday May 23, 2005 (Vol. Ten; No. 91) Interviewed by Tina Brown in a session aired Sunday night on CNBC, Dan Rather praised Mary Mapes, the producer of the 60 Minutes story based on forged memos, as "a very good pro," and insisted that "she's the kind of professional that the audience should want in television." Asked by Brown if "after the flap over the National Guard story, do you feel inhibited?", Rather contended he's never "inhibited when it comes to news and trying to do fair-minded, accurate reporting on important stories."...

CNBC Pulls Tina Brown Show By John M. Higgins -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/6/2005 4:25:00 PM The subterranean ratings of Topic A with Tina Brown have finally prompted CNBC to pull the weekly interview show. A memo sent to CNBC employees late Friday said that Brown was leaving the show to work on a book on the legacy of Princess Diana. But Brown's ratings tell a more compelling story. Last Sunday, Topic A's prime time airing managed to draw just 4,000 souls in the key news demo, adults 25-54. Total viewership reached just 26,000. The weekly show debuted in February...

As usual in her play on behalf of the Zeitgeist, Tina Brown turns up trumps. The very, very latest trend spotted by this inveterate trend-spotter in her column in the New York Sun ("It Shines for All") is the attractiveness of women of a certain age -- of, say, her own age -- which has been hitherto overlooked by our youth-obsessed culture. Wow! Bet you never saw that one coming. And this Big New Thing, the discovery that oldies can be beautiful, is not only as a result of the advance of science to the point at which, "thanks to...

Glossy magazines were guilty pleasures--before they discovered George W. BushON MARCH 6, THE Drudge Report noted the fact that newsstand sales for the magazine Vanity Fair had plummeted by 22.5 percent during the last half of 2004, attributed by the editor to three successive covers that showed pictures of . . . men. What Drudge did not cite is the parallel fact that this slide tracks exactly with the mutation of the magazine from a great escape read of the guilty-pleasure variety, the place to go for fatuous film stars, Princess Diana, and society murders, into a Bush-bashing rag of...

Normally Democrats urge their candidates to expunge God and morality from politics. Even the word morality grates on them. It is a far too judgment-laden term for their taste. How about the insipid term "ethics"? Okay, if you must -- goes the attitude -- but don't use the loaded term "morality." Yet what are we now hearing from the Mike Barnacles and Nancy Pelosis? That Kerry didn't talk about God enough. That he failed to satisfy the public's hunger for spirituality and morality. Like children who recently learned a new phrase, liberals are giving Kerry a post-mortem drubbing for not...

Are the media having a nervous breakdown? The Dan Rather affair looks like yet another giant freakout in the patient's collapse. For Rather and CBS, all the conflicting tensions that torture journalists and producers day and night came together. The broiling partisan heat, the pressure to get out of third place with a scoop, the hot breath of cable news, the race to beat all the hacks and scribes who keep nibbling away at the story (your story, the story you've spent five years trying to get right), the baying of the bloggers, the sick sense of always being news-managed...

'When ya gettin' rid of him?' Tony Blair has become an embarrassment to Labour's natural allies across the Atlantic - the Democrats Mark Seddon Friday August 20, 2004 The Guardian Out on the stump in Brooklyn with Democrat Congressional hopeful Frank Barbero came a chance to talk to the footsoldiers in an election that all agree is the most important in decades. America is polarised between red and blue - or, as some Democrats whisper, between progressive America and a revived Confederacy. With George, the Vietnam vet turned transit worker, and Jeff Gold, the eternally optimistic full-time organiser, we leafleted...

Taking the GOP Bait, Hook, Line and Stinker By Tina Brown Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page C01 There was a surreal moment at a serious Manhattan dinner party Tuesday night when 12 power players who had all been talking at once about the mess in Iraq suddenly fell silent to listen to the waiter. He dove in shortly after he had served the coconut cake with lemon dessert -- perhaps to give moral support to the only Republican present, who was beginning to flag. Or perhaps he just thought it might be helpful for the guests to hear from one...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Topic A with Tina Brown," the CNBC talk show hosted by the publishing maven nonpareil started inauspiciously with a distant fourth place finish among cable news channels. The show, which aired at 9 p.m. Wednesday night and featured interviews with media-cum-Internet mogul Barry Diller, chief executive officer of USA Interactive, Sony Corp . of America CEO Howard Stringer and Queen Noor of Jordan, among others, garnered a paltry 74,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. By comparison, Fox News' "Hammity & Colm," which featured former U.S. Senate majority leader Trent Lott and Casper Weinberger, the former...

TINA BROWN CNBC-TV SHOW PULLS LOWEST POSSIBLE SHARE: 0.1; ONLY 65,000 HOUSEHOLDS WATCH DEBUT... MORE...

Lately, the news has been absolutely dominated by stories about the war in Iraq. You?ve heard about the fighting. You?ve heard about the looting. You?ve heard about the fall of Saddam (both figuratively and, at least in the case of his statue, literally). But what you may not have considered is one of the most underreported angles of the conflict: the effect this war has had on Tina Brown.......

NO DOUBT the Bush White House has its own good reasons to feel cross with me, but scheduling Operation Shock and Awe to begin precisely at the moment of my new CNBC TV show seems a little excessive. Oh, well. Being pre-emptively struck off the air is a more honourable way to go than the bum’s rush administered to other cable-news types such as poor tonto Peter Arnett or the world-class swaggerer Geraldo Rivera, of Fox News, who was booted by the Pentagon. Less justified in the build-up to war was aborting the comebacks of the liberal talk host Phil...

Dem Dream Ticket, 2004 In the NYTimes last Saturday, Frank Rich, a board-certified pundit resident here in New York's 8th Congressional, offered his prescription for an ailing Democratic Party. "A unified vision composed of actual policies and principles, as opposed to knee-jerk liberal sloganeering, cynical political strategies and anti-Bush whining, is now required." As you can observe if you look carefully, Mr. Rich doesn't quite say what this unified vision should consist of, he just wants it to be unified. How will that work? Whose vision should be adopted? I guess we'll have to wait, breath abated, until he lets...

clinton Corners O'Reilly at Post-Talk-Tina-Brown Sutton Place Soirée: "Bin Laden not my fault." by Mia T   How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland EW YORK -- Although bill clinton, like his wife, continues to subsist on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind (see the latest Jonathan Alter-Newsweek puff piece), bill clinton, always one to hedge his bets, has developed another equally revisionist but somewhat more bizarre tactic: corner and spin. If one should be unlucky enough to become a target...