Boston Globe: Obama Afraid of Muslims Because of New 'Red Scare
June 28th, 2008 2:40 PM
Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe has done it again. Now, usually Z is one of those columnists that is sure every white American is a racist and many of his columns are based on that assumption, but it looks like he is branching out from his normal black/white identity politics angle and adding a new twist to his column. You see, Z has just discovered that whites don't hate only blacks, they…
Heroic Detroit Paper Portrayals of ACORN Ignored Its Sordid History
June 28th, 2008 12:53 PM
Two June 23 Motor City newspaper reports -- one in the Detroit Free Press ("Group blasts subprime loans," by Amber Hunt), the other in the Detroit News ("ACORN focuses on vote," by Mike Martindale) -- portrayed the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as a noble enterprise dedicated to helping troubled borrowers and increasing voter involvement in the political process.…
Olbermann's Defense of Obama Flip-flop Draws Netroots Ire
June 28th, 2008 11:09 AM
Just two weeks after getting into a brouhaha with Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has found himself in a tussle with one of the chairmen of the Netroots, Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
At the heart of this dogfight between two shameless liberal pols was Barack Obama's recent flip-flop on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and how Olbermann altered his own views on…
Church Thanked in GOP-bashing Viral Vid Replies to NewsBusters
June 27th, 2008 11:55 PM
On June 20, I blogged about how All Saints Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona, was thanked at the conclusion of a viral video entitled "I'm Voting Republican." The video featured actors portraying Republican voters who sounded left-wing talking points, including one portraying a minister saying that he was voting GOP because women should "never, ever, ever" be trusted with decisions over their…
Smerconish: I Might Vote for Obama
June 27th, 2008 9:41 PM
Michael Smerconish is thinking of voting for Obama. The Philly talk radio host let it be known while subbing for Dan Abrams on tonight's "Verdict" on MSNBC. He actually did so, chatting with Ron Reagan, while criticizing Obama's flip-flops. But the bottom line is the bottom line. SMERCONISH: I want to think big picture, and I want to do so by showing you a piece of that which was published in…
Weekend Captionfest
June 27th, 2008 4:00 PM
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama greets Senator Hillary Clinton before boarding a plane in Washington June 27, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)
Zero Outrage for Private-Financing Obama on the Left
June 27th, 2008 8:18 AM
The absence of liberal outrage over Barack Obama’s decision to reject public financing for his presidential campaign took a jaw-dropping turn on the hard-left Pacifica Radio network and its show "Democracy Now!" Host Amy Goodman, who regularly welcomes long screeds from Bill Moyers and his fervor about our bought-and-sold elections, welcomed two campaign "reformers" on Monday, and both failed to…
CBS’s Greenfield: Obama’s ‘Relentless March to The Center
June 26th, 2008 5:00 PM
On Wednesday’s CBS "Evening News," political analyst Jeff Greenfield suggested that Barack Obama was becoming more moderate: "...a relentless march to the center. He's determined not to be defined as Dukakis was and as John Kerry was, as outside the mainstream." Greenfield cited examples of Obama’s move to the middle by describing how: "His compromise on warrant -- on how you can wiretap foreign…
McClatchy Worries Obama Will Lose Height Advantage in Sit-down Debates
June 26th, 2008 4:48 PM
McClatchy Newspapers won the MRC’s 2008 Dan Rather Award for the Stupidest Analysis for its article spinning the success of the troop surge in Iraq as bad news for Iraqi gravediggers. Apparently the editors are aiming for a repeat performance at next year’s program. In his June 26 article, writer Stephen Thomma, on the recently released debate proposal by the Commission on Presidential…
ABC's Tapper Notes Obama Shuffle on Gun Rights
June 26th, 2008 2:38 PM
It should prove interesting to see how many other reporters pick up on this.Barack Obama is scooting to the right on gun rights, notes ABC's Jake Tapper, in a June 26 blog post at his Political Punch blog.The ABC correspondent picked up on an exchange between the Illinois senator and a reporter from Pennsylvania, the land of bitter gun-clingers:Craig Layne, a reporter from WJET-TV in Erie, Penn…
Stephen Baldwin Mocks Alec's 'I'm Leaving if Bush Wins' Pledge
June 26th, 2008 1:39 PM
Remember back in 2000 when actor Alec Baldwin allegedly promised to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected president?Well, his brother Stephen was on Fox News's "Just In with Laura Ingraham" Wednesday evening, and apart from skewering celebrities for supporting Barack Obama "just because quote unquote they want change, whatever, without ever really fully recognizing who the best person…
ABC's Robin Roberts Ignores Radicalism of 'Maverick Priest' Pfleger
June 26th, 2008 12:47 PM
"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts treated Father Michael Pfleger to a fawning interview on Thursday in which she mostly ignored his radical comments and lauded the "maverick priest," describing him as "not someone to be silenced." Although, a previous segment featured a single clip of Pfleger's sermon at the former church of Barack Obama where he viciously attacked Senator Hillary…
