LA Times Writer Whacks Robert Novak for ‘Shivving’ Sebelius Over A
May 28th, 2008 3:02 PM
Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten, in his latest column titled "The rebirth of abortion," voiced his dismay that social conservatives are reviving the issue of abortion in the 2008 presidential campaign. "If there's one issue that epitomizes the culture wars that have so deeply divided American politics over the last eight years, it's abortion. That's why those who benefited most from…
Barnicle: Bloggers 'Nitwits Who Think They're Part of News Media
May 28th, 2008 8:09 AM
You pathetic little people of the blogosphere. You're nothing more than "nitwits at home with [your] computers" who've deluded yourselves into imagining you're "part of the news media." Just ask Mike Barnicle. The former Boston Globe columnist broke the tough truth to us on today's Morning Joe. WaPo editorial writer Jonathan Capehart was "so glad" to agree.Capehart was in full courtier mode to…
Campbell Concurs: Obama Flag Pin Issue 'Nonsensical, Ridiculous
May 27th, 2008 10:13 PM
CNN classifies Campbell Brown as an "anchor," but that apparently doesn't prevent her from riding to Barack Obama's defense on a high-profile issue. On this evening's Election Center, Brown seconded a guest's assertion that the controversy surrounding Barack Obama's erstwhile refusal to wear a flag pin was "nonsensical" and "ridiculous."The topic was the matter of Obama's patriotism as a…
WaPo Gives Obama 'Three Pinocchios' for Uncle Liberated Auschwitz Gaff
May 27th, 2008 8:20 PM
The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" blog has given Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama three Pinocchios (significant factual error and/or obvious contradiction) for his bogus claim that one of his uncles helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. This is down from the four Pinocchios (whopper!) fact checker Michael Dobbs originally gave the junior senator from Illinois for…
Time’s Stengel: ‘Certain Amount of Glee’ in Press Over Hillary
May 27th, 2008 5:35 PM
Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel made an open confession about the mainstream media’s pro-Obama leanings on Monday’s "The Situation Room." " I would be a liar if I said that there hasn't been a certain amount of glee in the press corps about Hillary Clinton not doing that well. To use a very fancy word, there's some schadenfreude among the press." Despite this candor, he then went on…
NY Times Reporter on 'Legendarily Dense' GOP Official Katherine Harris
May 27th, 2008 3:19 PM
New York Times TV-beat reporter Alessandra Stanley reviewed "Recount," the HBO film about the controversial aftermath of the 2000 presidential campaign vote in Florida.
Will Media Report Obama's Claim His Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz
May 27th, 2008 2:20 PM
Seeing dead people in the audience wasn't Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's only gaffe on Monday, for it has now been revealed that he also spoke about an uncle "who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."American troops didn't liberate Auschwitz; Soviet troops did.According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (…
'Obama's Gaffes Start to Pile Up' -- Lynn Sweet in March
May 27th, 2008 1:59 PM
Barack Obama's penchant for gaffes is hardly anything new, but as the Illinois Democrat has come closer and closer to becoming the official Democratic presidential nominee, it seems the mainstream media have become less and less likely to note his gaffes. A cursory Web search finds a few instances of the mainstream media picking up on Obama gaffes in 2007, when Sen. Clinton was well ahead of…
Election 2000: Media Continue to Downplay FL's Military Ballots Contro
May 27th, 2008 10:33 AM
Pretty Dern Selective On Sunday, NewsBusters' Brent Baker noted how unhappy actress Laura Dern is with the 2000 presidential election ("Dern 'Devastated' by Florida 'Because There Were Uncounted Votes'"). Dern plays then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in HBO's "Recount," which first aired on Sunday. Dern's displeasure has an apparently limited focus. A review of the CNN program…
Hardball's Haggard Hillary Promo Pic
May 27th, 2008 6:56 AM
If NewsBusters were ever to use in its promotional material a photo this unflattering of Hillary Clinton, we'd be accused of the worst kind of sexism, of unfairly attacking a candidate based on her looks rather than her views. Check out the image of Hillary that MSNBC used in its promo of tonight's Hardball with Chris Matthews that aired at 5:59 AM EDT today just before Morning Joe came on the…
Will Media Report Obama Seeing Dead People in Memorial Day Audience
May 27th, 2008 12:44 AM
The gaffes continued this holiday weekend for the media's presidential candidate.Having mispronounced the name of the Florida city he was speaking in on Friday, as well as erred about what president was in the White House when Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, Barack Obama talked about seeing dead people in the audience during a Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico.Of course, you're not…
Lorain (OH) Councilman's Arrest Is a Group 'Name That Party' Failure
May 26th, 2008 8:12 PM
Also see the compare-and-contrast example in the final paragraph. A city councilman in Lorain, Ohio, a city of about 75,000 west of Cleveland, was arrested during a prostitution sting on Friday. Of the six stories I found covering the event (the Google News search is for May 22-26), only one referred to the political party of councilman Dennis Flores, who is a Democrat (scroll down to "Second…
Monday Funnies: Hillary Boogies With Fox News Producer
May 26th, 2008 4:09 PM
If Woody Harrelson proved in 1992 that white men can't jump -- a premise my son lives to disprove, mind you! -- does the following video of Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton getting down with Fox News producer Aaron Bruns prove that middle-aged white women can't dance?
