Matthews: 'Liberal Media' Going Soft on 'Crazy' Huckabee
According to MSNBC host Chris Matthews, 2008 Republican candidate Mike Huckabee has been given "the biggest free ride from the liberal media that I have ever seen in my life." Appearing on Monday's edition of "Morning Joe," the "Hardball" anchor speculated that left-wingers would enjoy seeing the GOP "chaos" that a Huckabee victory in Iowa would produce and, as a result, are ignoring the…
Boston Globe Laments Immigration as 'Wedge Issue for Our Times
Consider yourselves warned. Should conservative and Republicans hold fast to strong stands on illegal immigration in the coming election year, and if they ultimately do well at the polls because of it, look for the Boston Globe to lament the tactic as a cynical "wedge issue," rather than a reaction to valid concerns from the electorate. The Boston Globe editorial board may be sharpening their…
Huckabee: My Critics Get Rich 'At Expense of People Who Don't Know If
Was that Mike Huckabee on "Morning Joe" today -- or John Edwards? The former Arkansas governor found an odd way to refute charges he's not a true conservative, indulging in some class-warfare rhetoric that would have been the envy of the former North Carolina senator.Mika Brzezinski hit Huckabee with an excerpt from Bob Novak's column of today. Here are the opening paragraphs from Novak's False…
Fred Thompson Says Fox News Is Biased Against His Campaign
This should certainly raise the eyebrows of folks around the country who believe Fox News is too conservative.On "Fox News Sunday," Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson told a somewhat stunned Chris Wallace that FNC is biased against his campaign. I kid you not. As reported hours ago by TheHill.com (video available here):
NYT Headline: ‘As Democrats See Security Gains in Iraq, Tone Shifts
Would you have ever imagined the New York Times, less than a year before the presidential elections, not only admitting that things are getting better in Iraq, but also suggesting Democrats – including those campaigning for president – were wrong about the surge? On the front page of its popular Sunday edition, no less?Well, there it was this morning, in big, bold letters: “As Democrats See…
Weekend Captionfest
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., talks with visitors as he serves lunch at the Iowa Homeless Youth Center, Wednesday, November 21, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Philadelphia Bulletin on MRC Book: Bozell and Limbaugh are Right
In the Philadelphia Bulletin, long-time Philly TV consumer reporter Herb Denenberg reviewed our book Whitewash, and easily found how its thesis of paving Hillary's path to the presdiency applied to the here and now. Hillary Clinton is being favored by the liberals at CNN during the current campaign: I happened to be reading the book when the CNN debate with the Democrat presidential candidates…
Robert Redford Bashes Al Gore as Greedy Opportunist
As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore's climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the world wonder when the former vice president's house of cards will collapse. Without question, if Gore were to lose the support of almost universally adoring Hollywoodans, the scam would…
WaPo Gives Second Standing O for O'Malley Tax Hike, in Editorial
Yesterday I noted that the Washington Post's John Wagner virtually cheered Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and the Democratic Maryland General Assembly for its recently-concluded, tax-hiking special legislative session. Well today the hosannas migrated from the front page to the editorial one. The closing paragraphs are rather telling (emphasis mine): Politically, Mr. O'Malley will have more than higher…
Times-Picayune Buries Dartez Defeat - No Mention of 'Buckwheat' Slur
On Saturday, State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez (D-La.) lost her re-election bid to Republican challenger Joe Harrison in a heated and controversial run-off. Yet the largest newspaper in Louisiana, The Times-Picayune (TP), chose to bury it as an afterthought in its coverage of the statewide election results. The Times-Picayune online edition, NOLA.com, placed this paragraph at the end…
