Stock Market Funnies

I've never seen such a simple graph make me giggle so hard...
Bob Owens
 

Coming to U.S. Film Fests: Movie "Humanizing" Palestinian Suicide Bomb

Tim Graham
 

On Letterman, Al Franken Jokes About Execution for Treason of Rove, Li

"And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed” because “outing a CIA agent is treason,” left-wing author and radio talk show host Al Franken asserted Friday night, to audience laughter, on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. Franken qualified his hard-edged satire: "Yeah. And I don't know how I feel about it because I'm basically…
Brent Baker
 

CBS Highlights Republican Critic of DeLay Who Calls Him a Hog

Brad Wilmouth
 

CBS Uses Long-Time DeLay Foe to Suggest He Lacks Support From Republic

Lee Cowan did a report on the "CBS Evening News" tonight concerning Rep. Tom DeLay’s (R-Tex) first day in court. To demonstrate that even people on the right don’t like the embattled congressman, Cowan interviewed Beverly Carter, the Republican precinct chairwoman of Fort Bend County, Texas:“I've not heard of any Republicans that are supporting Tom at this point win, lose or draw. Whether he's…
Noel Sheppard
 

Internal Washington Post E-Mails Show Paper Editors Wary of Web Succes

Based on these internal e-mails, it looks like some editors at the Washington Post dead tree edition aren't very happy that the web version of the Post is doing well. The web version, apparently, is outside their control. It's also growing -- one editor frets it has more readers than the paper version -- and is making money, besides. More info on the angst is available here.
Amy Ridenour
 

WHAT ALEX SAID--And Why We Should Listen

Resa Kirkland
 

Media Matters Failed To Connect Rice "Heckler" to Cindy Sheehan

Media Matters, the liberal organization whose stated objective is in "monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation," chided the New York Times (in this post) for failing to identify a "heckler" at a Senate hearing as a former U.S. diplomat. Mary Ann Wright, the former diplomat, reportedly stood up from the audience at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on…
Dave Pierre
 

WashPost Juxtaposes Anti-Republican and Pro-Democratic Candidate Headl

Brent Baker
 

Couric Wonders If Obsession With Virginity Is To Blame For Rising Oral

Noel Sheppard
 

U.S. News's Gloomy Bush Tune

Tom Johnson
 

NBC Still Promoting Downside of GM Labor Contract

Network looks to pro-union academic to explain why deal is bad for workers.
Dan Gainor
 

Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Negativity

Like holiday displays, downbeat forecasts are coming earlier and earlier.
Noel Sheppard
 

With No Bad News to Report From Iraq's Election, Attention Shifts to T

Greg Sheffield