'Dowd' Jones Hits New Low: Cheney-Rumsfeld Like Haggard-Hooker
November 4th, 2006 9:56 AM
Karmic balance? The Dow Jones hits a new high. The 'Dowd' Jones hits a new low. In her pay-to-read column this morning, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times analogizes the relationship of Vice-President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to that of preacher Ted Haggard and a male prostitute.Setting the titillating tone with her headline, "A Wartime Love Story", Dowd writes:At the heart of…
Lauer: Shame On Dems For Not Sticking Up For Kerry
November 3rd, 2006 7:31 AM
Inured as we are to MSM bias, this one was still stunning. A leading MSM member uses the airwaves to scold Democrats for being insufficiently loyal to a leading party light. Former Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card was Matt Lauer's guest on this morning's 'Today.' Matt was intent on wangling from Card an admission that the Kerry comments were a mistake:Lauer first offered his personal analysis: "He…
Kerry Comments: 'Today' Hauls in Harwood to Help
November 1st, 2006 7:52 AM
Just yesterday a reader brought to my attention the sudden TV ubiquity of John Harwood. He pointed out that - CNBC and Wall Street Journal credentials notwithstanding - Harwood is a predictable liberal voice. And sure enough, it was none other than Harwood that David Gregory chose for a comment on L'Affaire Kerry on this morning's 'Today.' And darn if that reader wasn't right about Harwood's…
Talk About Mean-Spirited: LA Times Columnist Depicts W as 'Drunk Drive
October 27th, 2006 8:05 AM
Haven't the MSM been suggesting it's only Republicans who engage in mean-spirited tactics in the closing weeks of a campaign? Yet in her column this morning, the LA Times Rosa Brooks dug deep into the dreck, depicting W as a drunk. She writes:"When it comes to Iraq, being a citizen in George W. Bush's America is like being a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver."Shades of the 2000…
Rumsfeld Sends Mik to the Moon [Update - Mik Concedes Rumsfeld Right
October 26th, 2006 11:02 PM
When NBC military affairs correspondent Jim Miklaszewski posed an ill-founded question to Donald Rumsfeld at a Pentagon press briefing today, the Secretary of Defense responded in, shall we say, animated fashion, leaving very little doubt as to where he stood on the matter.The Mik apparently asserted that every time a security benchmark has been laid down, the Iraqis have failed to meet it.You…
Times Wrap: Krugman Counsels Partisanship, Herbert Finds Obama-mania
October 23rd, 2006 9:43 AM
Reading their respective pay-per-view columns this morning, it's a gauge of just how far out Paul Krugman is on the port side of politics that his New York Times colleague Bob Herbert sounds positively moderate by comparison.In The Obama Bandwagon Herbert expresses salutary - and surprising - caution when it comes to the current outbreak of Obama-mania:"It’s a measure of how starved the country…
