With Deep Voice, Katie Couric Mimics Potential GOP Ad: 'John Kerry Ins

During a discussion on Tuesday's CBS Evening News about John Kerry's seeming insult of troops in Iraq, anchor Katie Couric invoked a deep voice as she mimicked an imaginary possible Republican ad of the future: “John Kerry insults the troops. Do we really want the Dems to take over?” Couric offered her impersonation, an odd persona to be taken on by a broadcast network anchor, during a segment…
Brent Baker
 

ABC Highlights Role of NewsBusters In Getting Kerry Story Out

This evening's edition of ABC's World News highlighted the role NewsBusters played in getting out the story of John Kerry's controversial comments on education and "getting stuck in Iraq."NewsBuster Warner Todd Huston was among the first in the blogosphere to break the story. As ABC senior national correspondent Jake Tapper described how "the Republican PR machine mov[ed] into high gear . . . and…
Mark Finkelstein
 

CNN Shills for Sen. Kerry, Uneducated Soldiers Comment Meant For Presi

After today, CNN might have to change the “C” in its initials to a “K”, as the cable network has been shilling for Senator John Kerry for hours. By now, most of you are aware of an extraordinarily demeaning statement made by the junior senator from Massachusetts yesterday in front of a group of college students in California as reported by NewsBusters (video here). Well, some of CNN’s finest have…
Noel Sheppard
 

Matthews Brushes Off 'Brouhaha': 'I Think Kerry Meant To Go After Pres

Mark Finkelstein
 

CNN Reporter: Corporations, GOP Conspire to Keep Wages Low

Scott Whitlock
 

Rosie O’Donnell Says Condi Rice is Dick Cheney’s Evil Twin Brother

Honestly, how much more can ABC tolerate of this? On yesterday’s “The View,” comedienne Rosie O’Donnell said something truly disgraceful about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney. As the gang was discussing the possibility of a woman becoming president, co-host Joy suggested that Condi could win. This set up O’Donnell to state: “I don’t think she could win,…
Noel Sheppard
 

ABC's Beaming Stephanopoulos Touts Predictions of Democratic 'Wave

Why was ABC’s George Stephanopoulos smiling during his segment on Tuesday's Good Morning America? About ten minutes into the 7am half hour, following a report on Karl Rove’s optimistic outlook for the Republicans in the upcoming midterm election, and an interview with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Rahm Emanuel, Stephanopoulos grinned during this exchange with Diane Sawyer:…
Megan McCormack
 

Subterranean Kerry Channeling Bob Dylan: 'Join The Army If You Fail

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS's Hughes Lauds California's 'Trend-Setting' Liberalism

Michael Rule
 

GOP Treats Dems 'With Disdain' -- But NY Times Passes Over Pelosi Stab

Clay Waters
 

Networks Eat Up Food Police Message on Trans Fats

ABC, NBC highlight pro-regulation forces and compare obesity to tobacco.
Dan Gainor
 

Open Thread

Today's starter: After the media led the general public to clamor for electronic voting, now they're starting to raise questions about it, possibly in preparation for a Democratic loss?In any case, if there is a problem with electronic voting (deliberate or not), the media ought to share some of the blame.
Matthew Sheffield
 

Today Show Goes On the Campaign Trail with Michael J. Fox

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Blitzer Blackfacing Blogger Loathes Liberal Label, Rather be Referred

Want to know just how dirty a word “liberal” is? Well, the blogger who posted a blackfaced abomination of CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Sunday has responded to the blogosphere’s outrage by asking folks to stop referring to him as a liberal. In fact, he’d rather be called a racist, a hypocrite, a communist, or a lunatic. I kid you not.In his Monday evening post on the subject, Whiskey Bar blogger, aka…
Noel Sheppard