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Published 8/7/2008 by Matt (noreply@blogger.com) at A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago
... and John McCain about the issues that matter to this blog--popcultural ones. Find out who Obama's girls and McCain's wife allegedly supported for Idol, what Michelle Obama's favorite cable channel is, John McCain's forbidden love for ABBA and the will.i.am "Yes We Can" video, and which one has seen a movie in the theatre more recently.

McCain-Obama: The Pop-Culture Debate
Published 8/8/2008 by James Poniewozik at Tuned In - TIME.com
... Entertainment Weekly is a Time Inc. sibling, so this may seem like corporate whoring, but it is probably malpractice for a pop-culture/politics blog not to link to EW's Q with John McCain and ...

Early buzz: 'Iron Man,' 'Fringe,' 'Trek' and lots more
Published 8/11/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
... Facebook app ? - Here's an inspiring story of how Stan Lee , Neal Adams and Joe Kubert have joined forces to tell the tale of a Holocaust survivor who is trying to reclaim her artwork. - Check out the new posters for Star Trek . - Here's an interview with the creator of Journeyman about what would've happened on the canceled series. (Thanks, Zack S.) - Check out Entertainment Weekly 's pop-culture interviews with Barack Obama and John McCain . - Sci Fi has announced a Battlestar Galactica " two-hour special event " that ...

Strippers + Explosions = Patriotism. Clip of the Day.
Published 8/11/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... and John McCain about their pop culture preferences, a feature that finally allows us to make up our minds based on things more fun than “important issues”. I don’t know about you, but I’d never vote for anybody who honestly thinks ...

Obama and McCain pick their playlists
Published 8/13/2008 by Simon Vozick-Levinson at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... nor John McCain got into the nitty-gritty details of their iPod policy positions. If I'm going to base my vote this November on what kind of music the candidates listen to (which I obviously will), I need some hard data that I can compare head-to-head, okay? Luckily, I need only consult ...

10 Movies for Republicans
Published 9/4/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... At first it was shocking to me that John McCain’s pick for best Vietnam movie is this overly dramatic disappointment from director Randall Wallace, which stars Mel Gibson. Then I realized that it’s one of the few Vietnam movies without a completely negative slant on the conflict. In fact, it portrays an official U.S. victory, making it somewhat optimistic compared to technically better films like Platoon and Apocalypse Now. ...

Ebert & McCain & Obama at the movies.
Published 9/13/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) at FilmChat
One more note of a politics-meets-pop-culture nature, if I may. Roger Ebert did some snooping around to see what the favorite films of Joe Biden, John McCain, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin might be -- and while he couldn't find anything for either of the vice-presidential nominees, he did find some interesting stuff on the presidential ones. For McCain, Ebert found this exchange at Entertainment Weekly: We read somewhere that Viva Zapata! is your favorite movie of all ...

Stephen and his Jewish friend talk to EW
Published 9/25/2008 at OH NO!!
... STEWART: I keep hearing that she's ''like us.'' There's this idea that people who hunt and have ''good'' values are somehow this mythological American; I don't know who ''this'' person is, I've never met them. She is no more typical ''us'' than I am, than Obama is, than McCain is, than ...

Lorne Michaels: How 'SNL' Got Sarah Palin
Published 10/22/2008 at OH NO!!
... Palin's people called the Monday after Tina's first appearance [as Palin]. I think about two or three weeks ago she booked the show. We don't talk about it. We wouldn't confirm it. The campaign started talking about it. John McCain mentioned it, I think ...