NYT: Saddam Was a Year Away From Atomic Bomb

In a story apparently designed to attack the Bush administration less than a week away from the midterm elections, the New York Times has instead delivered a stunning November Surprise to the Democrats: Saddam Hussein's regime was perhaps only a year away from developing nuclear weapons at the time of the US invasion.
Al Brown
 

Williams Uses NBC News Time to Dismiss Flimsy Charge of Liberal Bias

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams gave air time to dismissing a flimsy charge of liberal media bias based not on any content, but simply on the planned location of the newscast. From Memphis, Williams noted that “emotions are running so high,” in the Tennessee Senate contest between Republican Bob Corker and Democrat Harold Ford, “that we must tell you, even our choice of…
Brent Baker
 

Cafferty Indicates Bush Deserves Impeachment, Showcases 'Amazing

CNN's Jack Cafferty listed a litany of supposed Bush misdeeds and how Bill Clinton “was impeached for telling a lie” before posing his “Cafferty File” question in the 7pm EST hour of Thursday's The Situation Room: “If the Republicans lose the election Tuesday, what should happen to President Bush?” Naturally, Cafferty's strong suggestion that President George W. Bush deserves the same generated…
Brent Baker
 

USA Today Pronounces Iraq War Not 'Right' Vote

Warner Todd Huston
 

US Military Spokesman: Press Shouldn't Pry Into Soldiers' Private Conc

Mark Finkelstein
 

Open Thread

We had a pretty bad database crash tonight. The site as it is restored from a backup of last night.We're working on restoring today's articles. In the mean time, use this thread to post on whatever you like.Sorry for the delays. We're working on an upgrade and a move to another host, all of which should be completed by the end of the month.Note to NB bloggers: Please save a copy of anything you…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Meredith Vieira: Could Kerry Gaffe 'Backfire' on Republicans

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Strong Sales Figures from GM, Ford Go Unnoticed

ABC reports, but CBS and NBC ignore sales increases to discuss hormone treatments.
Julia A. Seymour
 

CBS Likens Softening Housing Market to Great Depression

But economists see a stable housing market gaining value in the coming year.
Ken Shepherd
 

Wednesday Night Fights: Alan Colmes vs. Rep. Harold Ford

A real barnburner occurred on Fox News Wednesday. Yet, strangely, the competitors were on the same side of the aisle. As “Hannity and Colmes” welcomed Tennessee Senatorial-hopeful Congressman Harold Ford (D-Tennessee), one would have expected the fireworks to be lit when Sean was doing the questioning. However, the liberal-minded Alan Colmes showed America the lack of tolerance the media and the…
Noel Sheppard
 

Olbermann Links Bush to Domestic Terrorism & Racist Caning of Senator

Brad Wilmouth
 

New CNN Anchor Hails Jesse Jackson As 'Huge' Leader, 'Great One' Like

Tim Graham
 

Apology Hypocrisy - Pope Benedict and John Kerry

Robin Boyd
 

CNN's Paula Zahn: Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens 'A Pair of

Mike Bates