Campaigns & Elections

Want to know just how scared of Sarah Palin the left are?Hillary Clinton has apparently accepted a request by the Obama campaign to attack the Alaska governor.Talk about politics making strange bedfellows.  Of course, being a Clinton, there's got to be something in it for her as was made clear in the following report by the British Times Online (emphasis added):

A new whisper campaign is forming in the blogosphere and creeping into web search engines across the internet as a self proclaimed e-zine called "LA Progressive" is spreading a false rumor that Sarah Palin called Barack Obama 'Sambo' while dining in an Alaska restaurant. Charley James, the author of the article that is unlikely to have his blogspot site shut down for Obama bias, also claims…

Just how much are liberal bloggers driving the mainstream media attacks on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin?According to a report in Saturday's Politico, postings by the Netroots Friday concerning a friend and former business partner of the Palins trying to have his divorce records sealed created a media feeding frenzy in Alaska.This was to be the smoking gun tying this individual…

The Obama audacity watch continued Saturday morning as the junior senator from Illinois Freudian-slipped in front of a crowd in Terre Haute, Indiana, telling them he's already president:

On Friday evening, HBO's Bill Maher announced to the world what certainly won't come as a shock to many: "You know who's putting country first? I am by supporting Obama."With this coming a week after he chastised "guys" at MSNBC -- likely Chris Matthews and Chris Olbermann -- for being ready to have sex with the Democrat presidential nominee, it appears Maher no longer thinks it's wrong for media…

First, Bill Whittle at National Review Online. That will be followed by observations of commenter "Tom W" (not yours truly) at Pajamas Media. If they indeed reflect what is happening on the ground, you won't hear about it from the Associated Press, or read it in the New York Times, or see it on the Big Three Networks news or cable shows -- which is why it's so necessary to post items like this…

Susan Reimer, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, is shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that people took exception to her tactless bashing of Governor Sarah Palin in her September 1 column, "A woman -- but why this woman?" In fact, Reimer is so upset that people where exercised enough to drop her a note, give her a call, or write an email about her baseless smearing of Palin that she says in her September…

Want to know why John McCain and Sarah Palin are laughing in the picture to the right?Numbers just released by Nielsen Media Research show the average per night viewership of the just concluded Republican National Convention set a record this week topping the audience for the previous week's Democratic National Convention by more than 4 million viewers each evening.This is quite different than…

When I saw this headline at the Drudge Report, I thought it had to be a mistake:OPRAH REFUSES: PALIN WON'T BE ON Are you kidding me? The strongest and most popular voice for women in this country is refusing to interview the first woman nominated to be vice president in 24 years?WHAT? According to ABCNews.com, in an article stunningly titled, "Is Oprah Biased? Host Won't Interview Palin," such…

In his Friday "Political Memo," "Firing Up the Faithful With Echoes of Culture War Rhetoric," the New York Times's conservative-beat reporter David Kirkpatrick, watching the Republican Convention, uniquely managed to hear echoes of the GOP's 1992 convention -- specifically what Kirkpatrick called the "belligerence" of Pat Buchanan's "cultural war" speech, widely cited in the media (though not…

Were those evil Republicans attempting to carpet-bomb Andrea Mitchell with balloons at the RNC last night?  Chris Matthews mused about the possibility on Hardball this afternoon.  The footage of Andrea gamely batting away the balloons has received a lot of play.  This morning, the Today show had fun with it.  But Matthews seemed to conceive a more sinister scenario:CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you were…