Barnicle: 'Hillary Like First Wife Outside Probate Court' Taken 'Out o
June 13th, 2008 1:12 PM
Q. What's weaker than playing the "taken out of context" card?A. Digging yourself deeper with the supposedly exculpatory explanation.Mike Barnicle managed the Daily Double today with his mishandling of the flap over the way he described Hillary back in January. Barnicle was on Morning Joe, and discussion turned to a New York Times article, Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage, that…
CNN: Obama Poll Advantage Over McCain 'Enormous' ... in Europe
June 12th, 2008 9:09 PM
CNN calls this serious news, apparently, but a recent report about a Pew Research poll of "more than 24,000 people in 24 countries" shows that foreigners favor Barack Obama over John McCain for president. Aside from the general "who cares" of it all, why is it news that people who wish the United States ill will would pick the candidate most friendly to their interests to become our president?…
ChiTrib: Michelle Obama A 'New Target for Republicans
June 12th, 2008 4:57 PM
Michelle Obama could be considered a liability to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, especially with her controversial "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country" remarks. As such, the liberal media are trying to work against the potentially negative effects of her comments by portraying Michelle as a victim of those evil conservatives and Republicans, even though…
ABCNews.com Features Sexually Charged Vulgar Video Bashing McCain Supp
June 12th, 2008 2:53 PM
Months ago, Obama Girl seductively sang about her love for the junior senator from Illinois. Now, a satirical video, loaded with sexual content, depicts young McCain supporters as inept, clumsy, and not worthy of dating.Making matters worse, ABCNews.com not only reviewed the video, but also embedded it at its website despite the soundtrack including a vulgarity beginning with the letter "F".I kid…
Actor John Cusack Does Anti-McCain Ad For MoveOn.org
June 12th, 2008 11:10 AM
If you find the love affair media are having with Barack Obama unseemly, you'd better prepare yourself for how low Hollywood elites will be stooping in the coming months to get their candidate in the White House.As a potentially sick-making foreshadowing of things to come, MoveOn.org just released a new television advertisement featuring "War, Inc." actor John Cusack playing the role of a…
Olbermann Hits 'Worst Person' Katie Couric for Charging Anti-Hillary B
June 12th, 2008 6:06 AM
On Wednesday's Countdown show, during the show's regular "Worst Person in the World" segment, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who rarely hits liberals during the segment while he often targets conservatives, turned his ire toward CBS News anchor Katie Couric for her recent charges that some media figures were guilty of anti-Clinton, or pro-Obama bias. Olbermann accused Couric of taking out of "…
Dem Congressman's Refusal to Endorse 'Liberal' Obama Goes Largely Igno
June 11th, 2008 8:05 PM
If a Republican Congressman publicly announced that he will not endorse John McCain because the GOP presidential nominee is too conservative and has a track record of refusing to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats, would the press report it?Probably 24 hours a day, seven days a week until this Republican Congressman became a household name, right?Well, on Tuesday, the Associated Press…
CNN’s Obsession With ‘Big Oil’ Profits and Windfall Profit Taxes
June 11th, 2008 7:35 PM
CNN continued to harp about "big oil’s" record profits and the Democrats’ proposed windfall taxes on companies like ExxonMobil on Wednesday. In an interview of Kansas Senator Sam Brownback on "American Morning," co-host John Roberts was amazed over the Republican’s opposition to the tax proposal. "There were a couple of other provisions in this bill. One of them were to roll back the $17 billion…
Chgo Sun-Times: Now Greeley Says It's Racist Not to Vote Obama
June 11th, 2008 6:27 PM
Apparently, the Chicago media have decided that the meme for the 2008 general election is going to be that anyone who doesn't vote for Barack Obama is a racist because this is the second editorial (that I've seen, anyway) in Chicago stating such a theory. Last week the Daily Herald voiced the assumption and this week it's the Sun-Times with the volatile Andrew Greeley taking up the cause of…
'Hottest Ring in Hell' for Messing with Michelle
June 11th, 2008 5:58 PM
My late father, who worked with the toughest kids in a Brooklyn high school, used to say that when a person's reaction is disproportionate to the stimulus, something else is causing it. So when Obama campaign co-chair Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) dramatically reserved the "hottest ring in hell" for those who would go after Michelle Obama, my antennae went up. Interviewing him, MSNBC's Norah O'…
CBS’s Couric: Hillary Coverage ‘Most Unfair, Hostile...I’ve Ever
June 11th, 2008 4:57 PM
As reported by FishBowl DC at mediabistro.com, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric was honored at a luncheon held by Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington DC on Wednesday and remarked: "However you feel about her politics, I feel that Senator Clinton received some of the most unfair, hostile coverage I’ve ever seen."[UPDATE, 11 PM EDT, by Brent Baker: Katie Couric devoted her Wednesday…
ABC's Kate Snow Puzzles Over Hillary Loss With 'Fascinating' Steinem
June 11th, 2008 3:18 PM
"Good Morning America" weekend anchor Kate Snow conducted a fawning interview with the "renowned," "fascinating" Gloria Steinem on Sunday's program. Leaving aside any mention of the feminist author's very liberal opinions or her controversial statements, Snow focused only on the issue of whether former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost "because she is a woman, because the system was…
