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Lear Center director Marty Kaplan wrote a column about media, politics and pop culture, in print and online, from 2005 to early 2019. During those years, the column won six First Place prizes at the L.A. Press Club’s annual Southern California Journalism Awards. At its inception, the column was published on the home page of the Huffington Post. From 2008 through 2017, his pieces also appeared in the Jewish Journal; in 2018, the column was published by the Forward. Numerous other sites cross-posted the pieces during those years. This archive, comprising more than 400,000 words, makes that work available as pdf and (where reliable) as links.

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2010  2009  2008  2007 2006  2005

2019


I Remember ‘Aunt Carol’ Channing

Here’s Why History Matters

2018

News Media Should Democratize Presidential Debates — Not Monetize Them

Is This the Unacceptable Face of Disney?

A Seder For Thanksgiving Is The Trick To A Peaceful Holiday

The Straight Line From 5,000 Trump Lies To 11 Jews Murdered In Pittsburgh

They Can Dogwhistle Soros, But They’re Reckoning Without Popper

Trust #PlaidShirtGuy To End Trump’s Nightmare Reign

The Suicide Epidemic Is A Symptom Of Our Sick Body Politic

In The Face Of Circus Politics, We Need Better Stories

Life, Death And Wrestling With Delacroix’s Angel In Paris

Is There Such A Thing As Evil — And Is Trump It?

Did Michael Pollan Kill God?

Oprah Says Vote

Roseanne Greets Muslim Neighbors With Islamophobia — Until This Happens

Local News Can Be For The People Even If It’s Not By The People

What Bette Davis Can Teach Donald Trump About Fake News

It’s Not Cambridge Analytica We Need To Worry About, It’s Our Minds

If The Parkland Shooting Made You More Hopeful, You’re Not Wrong

Of God, Dice And Fatal Car Accidents

This UFO Changes Everything

2017

2016

2015


The 7 Stages of Too Much Trump Media Disorder

The San Bernardino Terrorists’ 6-Month-Old

Jihadism Is Not Nihilism

For Whom the Polls Toll

GOP Donors to Euthanize Jeb Bush

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Candidate

Ben Carson, the Nutty Neurosurgeon

Cock-and-Bull Candidates

Whose 5776?

The National Academy of Sugar

Bernie Has It. Trump Has It. Does Hillary?

Republicans Have the Best Bullies

The Quantum Theory of Presidential Politics

Jon Stewart Is Getting Serious

FCC Chief Tom Wheeler Is Five Sixths of a Superhero

In Dick We Trust

These Two Dudes in Denver Should Moderate All the Debates

The Washington Dread and Denial Association Dinner

Earth Day, Race Day, Gun Day, Money Day

Pharoah Said No. You Won’t Believe What God Did Next

When Emotion Trumps Information

Schmaltz Is Gluten-Free

What Matters to Me and Why

Spock’s ‘Good Mother’

Hollywood’s Necessary Not-Niceness

Before Your Favorite Teacher Dies

How Satire Happens

My New Favorite News Network Is Not Liberal (and Not Fox)

2014

2013

Confessions of an Ex-Hoarder

Mary Poppins Does Not Come Back

Iran No-Spoiler Alert

The Obamacare Apocalypse, and the Real One

No News is Bad News

Textism: Is Spelling Over?

This Creepy Ad Can Kill You

Most Depressing Brain Finding Ever

The Put-Up-or-Shut-Up Congress

Hillary, Helmets, ‘Crossfire’ and Cash

Reaganism, Capitalism and Sheilaism

CBS vs. Time Warner Cable vs. You

David Brooks’ Own Private Egypt

Cable News’ Journalistic Suicide

Let’s Be Brazil

Ask your NSA

Diagnosis: Informed Citizen Disorder

The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

Can’t We All Just Not Get Along?

An Apple for the Apple

Daddy’s Been Arrested

The Bartender Who Rescued America

Supermarkets Say: Please Don’t Buy the Crap We Sell

How to Avoid Meteors

CNN Snags First Papal Primary Debate

Being American Is Bad for Your Health

The Post-Kumbaya President

Fear of Fun


Sony ‘R’ Us

God Gave This Land to Them

The I-Word Isn’t Impeachment — It’s Idiocracy

Nightcrawler Nation

The Facts of Fearbola

E-n-c-y-c-l-o-p-ae-d-i-a

Climate Change Will Be the Number One Issue in the 2034 Midterm Elections

Brands Make Lousy Lovers

The News Summer From Hell and the End of Optimism

The Secret of Warren Bennis’ Success

If Norman Lear at 92 Is What 92 Is, I’ll Have What He’s Having

Elaine Strich Tells Me a Very Funny Judy Garland Story

Please Manipulate Me

How To Organize Your Books

Five Doubting Dudes and the Holy Relics of Mount Mortality

Rice Determined Not to Strike in NJ

What If We Really Knew What Media Does to Us

One God, One Vote

Why Is This Blog Different From All Other Blogs

This Is How You’ll Feel When the GOP Wins the Senate

Which Algorithm Are You?

Once Upon A Climate Change

The Flappy Bird of Paradise

The Curious Case of Criticism

Christie’s Weiner

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Clarence Thomas Must Resign

The President of Stranger Things

When Bad People Happen to Good Art

The God of CSI: Las Vegas

Guilty Of Good Grammar: You’re Right And Your Right & ur rite

Holy Hurricane

This Is Your Brain On Trump

Zen And The Art Of Nuclear War: Peace Of Mind In The Age Of Trump

Will Kelly Last Longer Than Scaramucci?

Will Pence Pardon Trump?

‘What Is The First Word That Comes To Mind When You Think Of Donald Trump?’

John Thune: Hunk Hawks Hideous Health Care Bill

The Trouble With Trump’s Tolerance Tour

The Stigma Of The Unworthy Unhealthy

And On His 92nd Day, He Fired The Surgeon General

My iPhone Is My Egypt

Blamer-In-Chief: The Art of the Dodge

Donald, Walter And The Not Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad TV News

Trump, Twitter And The So-titled Truth In An Age Of Lies

I Know How You Feel About Trump

Waterboarding Washington

Should You Watch The Inauguration?


How to Love Trump

None Dare Call It Treason

Trump’s White House Counsel Is Like Kryptonite To Campaign Finance Reform

The Prostate Presidency

King Comey Is Rigging The Election

Ghosts At The Presidential Debates

Who By Strangling And Who By Starbucks: The Fate Of Yom Kippur

Trump Wins First Debate

Hollywood Meets the Sustainable Development Goals

No News Is Good News: Why We All Need To Go To the Desert Until This Campaign Is Over

Trump’s Crocodile Contrition And The Cynicism Of A Political Pivot

Managing Trump’s Anger, And Mine

Mindful Voters, Mindless News: Trump Is A Teachable Moment

Is America Better Than This?

Forget Brexit. Remember Rain.

How to Tragedy

Why Trump is Velcro, Not Teflon (and How That Helps HIm in the Age of Reality TV)

Let Trump Be #NeverTrump

Spiritual, But Not Religious, But Not Woo-Woo

Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)

Is Campaign News Necessary?

I Saw Trump’s Li’l Donald. Believe Me.

Clinton Needs Sanders’ Single Issue

Being Mortal Is A B*tch

The Idiocy of the Iowa Caucuses

Professor, You’re Fired! Or, the Education of a Trump Voter

2012

Sandy Hook, Sandy and the Politics of Learned Helplessness

Two, Three, Many Grover Norquists

GOP Smart on Copyright for 24 Hours

My Chris Christie Hypocrisy

What Do (Suburban) Women Want?

How to Lose the Next Debate

Romney Wins First Debate

Dreaming of a Wave Election

Romney/Ryan and the Lullaby of Lying

How to Ignore the Campaign

It’s Not the Tax Returns – It’s the Arrogance

Why Kim Loves Disney

Ambushed by Optimism

The End Is Nigh. Seriously.

God Loves David Brooks

The Audacity of WTF

Don’t Know Much About History

Exorcising Orrin Hatch

You Don’t Mean a Thing If You Ain’t Got That Swing

Ask Her When She’s Sober

Is Luck Dead?

Harvard, Santorum and the One-State Solution

Political March Madness

Don’t Be Naked

Tim Tebow Is Jewish

Campaign Colonics



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Newt Winked At Me

China’s Christian Bale PR Nightmare

Warning: Political Ads Make You Stupid

Students: Cockroaches or Dirty Hippies?

Keeping Up With The Kandidates

How Occupy Will End

Obama-Romney for President

Occupy K Street

Letting Animals Vote

What Happened to America

What Story Is the Murdoch Story?

The ‘Obama’s Brilliant Strategy’ Theory

Pessimism Is The Last Taboo

If Bachmann and Palin Weren’t Pretty

Working for Women in the Signet

Who’s Afraid of a Countdown Clock?

Our Friend Pakistan and the Other Mental Pretzels

The Naked Nielsens

Moses, Media Piracy and the MPAA

The More You Watch, the Worse You Feel

Al Jazeera English vs. The Charlie Sheen Channel

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Mitt Romney’s South Park Primary

My Favorite Blowhard

The Vitriol Vitriol

The ‘Lock and Load’ Rhetoric of American Politics Isn’t Just a Metaphor

2010


The Senators Who Dissed Baby Jesus

My Declaration of Independents

I Take Israel Personally

Is it Audacity Time Yet?

The Question That Answers Everything About the Election (and America, Too)

Waiting for Jewman

Waiting for Sanityman: Can Jon Stewart Save America?

The Scary Staleness of Truth Telling

In Politics, Two Negatives Don’t Make a Positive

They Have Us Over a Barrel

Just Like the Internet You See in the Movies

The Best of All Possible Americas

Thank You, Robert Gibbs

Breitbart’s Site Has Video of Kagan Saying She’s A Commie

Springtime for Schmucks

The Real Shakedown to Apologize For

Tom Friedman Wants to Raise Your Taxes

What We “Need to Know” About PBS After Moyers

The End of Hollywood as We Know It

How Dumb Do They Think (Know) We Are

I Got the Broadcast Blues

The Lies and Reconciliation Commission

Side Effects Include Denial

Why Are Republicans Better Storytellers?

Thank You, Norman Lear

Mercury Is Poison

2009


Barack Obama Is A Traitor

Lord of the Gingers

Bra Helps Fight Breast Cancer

If You Liked Health Care, You’ll Love Afghanistan

How Would the Right Know It’s Wrong?

I Want to Know What Happens Next

The 60 Questions of Our Life

Kumbaya, Not Kevorkian, Will Kill Granny

Smile! You’re on Deather Camera

Mobs R Us?

The Best Speech I Ever Wrote

My Daughter, the Best-Selling Novelist

Cheney Meant Well

The Importance of Being Michael

Health Care Scare

Sonia’s Wiki Wonder

It’s Tough Love Time for Obama

Bye Bye Bybee

The Virtue of Hate

The Upside of Outrage

Viral Spiral with David Bollier & Marty Kaplan

The Stem Stem Cell Slippery Slope Fallacy

Solidarity For Never

The Media Are the Message

Patriotic Extortion

Compassion Fatigue

Liberal Parents, Liberal Children

The Science of Forty-Four

The CNN-NPR-NY Times Middle East Conspiracy

Eyeless in Gaza

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2007

I Know Who’s Going to Win

And Now, The Saddam Snuff Show

Three Reasons to Kill Yourself

Makin’ a List, Checkin’ It Twice

Is Huckabee The Antichrist?

Oprah Is To Iraq As Cronkite Was To Vietnam

Romney Says Nothing; Other Candidates Demand Equal Time

President Giuliani. President Romney. President Huckabee. President Just-Shoot-Me

Time Warner: Brown Is The New Gay

CNN: Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice To Deceive

CNN Flack Sez I’m Pretty Infuriating

Rescuing Newspapers

Conglomerates Gone Wild (My Seven-Part Video Epic)

The Narrative Narrative

Your FCC At Work

Tell Me What You Watch (And Listen To, and Read), And I’ll Tell You How You Vote

The Suicide Strategy (Not)

How To Bring America Together (Or, The Idiocy of National Unity)

Rudy’s Prostate Palooza

No Blood for No Oil

Soros or Murdoch

The Pet Constitution

George & Andrea & Fred & Vomit

Ask Dana Perino

Mr. Justice Whoop-dee-damn-doo

My Media Fast

The Magnificent 37

This Is The Week When Nothing Will Happen

When Generals Lie

Senator Craig I Am

Bye Bye ‘Berto’

T4: The Postpartisanator

Vietnam. Watergage. What’s Next – Disco?

The Truths Rove Told

I See Dead People

Our Years of Magical Thinking

After The Next 9/11

I Believe For Every Drop Of Rain That Falls, A Flower Grows

Worse Than Libby

Constitutional Smackdown

Commuter-in-Chief

You Can’t Impeach Me, I’m Delusional

Bong Hits 4 Bush

Reaming College Rankings

Watch Mr. Wizard

Paris Is Push; Baghdad Is Pull

Pardon Me

Ask Mr. Media

Oedipus Wrecks

Kill Illegals: Study

Did Jerry Falwell Go To Hell?

It’s The Constitution, Stupid

Would Rupert Murdoch Have Let The WSJ Lead With This?

These Are The Final Days

ATTENTION! SICKNESS! and Attention Sickness

Either Imus Goes, Or Gonzales Goes

MSM Voluntary Code Of Conduct And Badges of Approval

Don’t Try This Thought Experiment At Home

Donate Your Personal Tragedy to the White House

Kyle Sampson’s Ten Reasons Why Monica Goodling Doesn’t Need to Plead the Fifth

Outing Homo Pomo

Ryan Seacrest to Edit Los Angeles Times Opinion Pages

How to Pleasure the President

White House: Rove May Testify When Dead

Are You Smarter Than A Neocon?

300 Reasons to Hate America

Impeachment Is An Underblown Personnel Matter

I, Lewis Libby

CNN’s All-White Color On Selma

New Hampshire Primary to be Held Next Tuesday

Sticksandstoneaphobia

The State of the Scrotum

Bush Shaves Head

Sincere Idiot, Persistent Ass, Incompetent President

If We Fight Them Over There

If Only Doug Feith Had Big Tits

Marty Kaplan, Republican Strategist

Dear Hillary

Biden To Be Euthanized

The Founders Fumbled

We, the Libby Jury

There Is No ‘Itself’ There

How To Find A Billion Dollars To Pay For An Iraqi Jobs Program

The Washington Post Grows A Pair

You’ve Got Mail. No, THEY’VE Got Mail. No, They’ve Got YOUR Mail.

Talk Broder, Walk Gingrich

Alternate History: NSFW


2006

Woodward’s Woody

Seven Days in May December

Does Iraq Need More Debate?

When Is A Slap-Down a Slam-Dunk?

Message: I Listen

Hannity’s Boswell to Rummy’s Johnson

The Fabulous Baker Boys

My Fellow Americans

The Mission Is Complete!

After the ‘Civil War’ War

Pardoning the Turkeys

At Last, An Iraq Policy That Rhymes

Fact Is The New Fiction

The Bumminess of the Bums

They Found The WMD!

Why The Hell Won’t We Have to Fight Them Here Even If We Beat Them Here

Where Is Natalee Holloway Now That We Need Her?

As Good (And Bad) As It Gets

Lynne Cheney’s Anger Management Problem

Show Me the Dirty Parts

W to US: Go Cheney Yourself

Make Your Own Ad

The (Jonah) Goldberg Variations

Bush as Bobby McFerrin

The Manchurian Sodomite

654,000 Stuffs Happen

Out of the Mouths of Twits

In Which, Like Speaker Hastert, I Take Responsibility

Diversity Made Me Do It

What I Told the FCC

Outside Voices: Marty Kaplan On The Niceness Of The Dinosaur

The Niceness of the Dinosaur

Murder! Terror! Customer Service

The Fox Conventions

Atheists for Cheney

Our Pet Goat

How to Hack a Diebold (Ivy League Edition)

What Rhymes with ‘Accountability?’

Pajamahadeen = Chattering Class + Broadband

Status Quo Auntie

I’m Mel Gibson, and I’m an Anti-Semite

How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine

Taylor Hicks for President

Elite Eyeballs for Sale

Surprise!

Crisis Porn

QUICKVOTE: Is God Dead? (Yes) (No)

Why’s North Korea Now Not What Iraq Was Then?

Two Fourths Equals One Half, Not One Whole

A Republican Democrat

An Affectively-Based Alternative to the Air Force’s RSTC Approach to Blog Analysis

Graceless Land

Take My Tinfoil Hat – Please

Hillary’s Daou Jones

Kos = DeLay

The Real ‘Daily Show’ Effect

Funny Rummy & Chatty Cheney

The Axis of the Banality of Evil

Attention Must Be Paid

The Nielsen News Networks

Here Come the Culture War Games

Oh! What a Lovely (Civil) War

OJ Simpson and Carol Platt Liebau

Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

The Bush Stops Here

Professor Stupidest

Gore-Feingold vs McCain-Condi

Money = Message

Electile Dysfunction

My Daughter the Blogger

In Praise (Yikes!) of Richard Cohen

Balls & Eyeballs

In Which I Reveal Our Secret Plans to the Terrorists

Thanks for Having Me

Paging Tom Clancy

I Love Ray McGovern

Hey Porter-Not Even ‘Citing Personal Reasons’?

Journalism’s Broken Windows

Barnes to Snow: Stonewall

Let Them Eat Yellowcake

O Harriet! My Harriet!

History? Shmistory!

If You’re Reading This, You Must Be Nuts

Our Mister Mxyzptlk

Zinni for President

Mid-Term Elections Seen As Sign Bush Not a Fascist

W Chews Off-the-Record Fat with MSM; Democracy Gets Heart Disease

Bush to Be Impeached for Plagiarism

All the World’s A Blog

The Terrorists Have Won

We the Morons

Feingold for President

Drudge’s Strategy, Strategery’s Drudgery

Soft Bigotry, Hard Bucks

W: ‘My Government’

It Keeps the Elephants Away

Prof. Harold Hill Hits the Road

Knee-Jerk Jerks

Yoohoo! Yahoo!

We Are All Harry Whittington

What – No Up-or-Down Vote, Dr. Frist

From Paul Wellstone to Coretta King

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Urea?

Snapshots from the Coolness Conference

The Ministry of Truthiness Vets the SOTU Text

Try This SOTU Thought Experiment

Break Glass in Case of SOTU Speech

State of the State of the Union

The Two Howies

The Lobbyist in the Mineshaft


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The ‘Suck’ in ‘Thumbsucker’

Grand Intervention: When A Riot Is A Good Thing

Tie-Breaking Cheney to Students, Seniors, Middle Class: Go F— Yourself!

Pretzel Time

Read Rockefeller’s Letter

Russert Watch

Pundit Payola, Continued

Gaming the System, NPR Division

Journalism’s Slo-Mo Suicide

What’s Black and Blue and Read All Over?

Corruption Do’s & Don’ts

Is Your Car Gay?

A National Strategy for Strategy

Porno for Patriots

“News Nukes Duke’s Puke,”

“Rockwell Redux,”

“Libby:Iraq War::Katrina:Class War,”

“Journalism: R.I.P.”

“My Litmus Test,”

“What – No Codpiece?”

“Russert Watch – Downward Doggie-Style,”

“Cheney’s Rotten Apples,”

Libby &Hearts Al-Ibi

Balls!

Hey! Watch the Birdie!

Media, Meta, Mania

Harry, You’ve Done A Heck Of A Job

Coin-Laundry Chyrons

Poll: 2 + 2 = 5

Tucker: Moron, Liar or GOP Sock Puppet?

This Is How It Works

Sweet Schadenfreude

Must Read

Arriet-hay Iers-may Ill-way Overturn-way Oe-ray Ersus-vay Ade-way

Scooter’s Just Not That Into Her

Blonde Star Mothers

Brownie for Prexy

Hurricane Karl

To Infinity And Beyond! (Your Ad Here)

What Does It Feel Like To Be Played Like A Piccolo?

Pump Genius Into Our Park

Why Do Terrorists Hate Missing White Women?

Be Now All You Can Be

They Really Like Us — in Our Dreams

Big Pharma Dreams

Don’t You Love This Media Abundance?

Archbishop Clegthorpe

Homo Pomo

Essay Tease


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Once in a Lifetime

Center-Right Hype vs. Center-Left Data

Broadband: Not for Kids Only

All’s Well That Ends Zell

All The News That’s Fit To Neuter

The Kids Are All Right

Let Bygones (Not) Be Bygones

Move Over, Willie Horton

R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Colin Powell

The Faces of John McCain

Alan Shrugged

Gotcha? You Betcha!

The Debates Won’t Matter

Meet the Purples! Decoding the DNA of the Swing Voter

One-Day U

The Stigma of Education

Post-Palin Depression

Impeach McCain/Palin

How Will the Right Try to Destroy Dr. Philip Butler?

The Hollywood Candidate Is Not Obama

Peggy Noonan and the Two-Headed Bowling Ball Child

President Palin

Why Don’t They Just Issue Swami Turbans at MSNBC?

“But He’s a Muslim!”

The Cut-and-Runners Have Won, and They’re Bush/Cheney

Happy Birthday to Me

Will Someone Please Make Obama Watch the McCain Version of the Karina DVD?

In the Quest for ‘The God Particle,’ Mystics Get a New Machine

Say It Ain’t Jew, Joe

George W. Bush Is to Georgia as George H.W. Bush Is to Kurdistan

Welcome to the Orwell Olympics

Why Americans Hate Journalism, Part 62

McCain: MLK and RFK Were Dumb Blondes

On Having Your (Political) Heart Broken – the Edwards Scandal

What Is It About George W. Bush That Makes You Want to Serve Him?

Ich bin ein Amerikaner

Beyond Sicko

The Los Angeles Bagels

Bush to EPA: ‘Hi. Thanks for Writing. Between Now and January 20, I won’t Have Access to Email’

The Next President’s Gums

Bush Gives Dems STDs

Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

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