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George Will on Sunday exposed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman as a hypocrite when it comes to political ads. ABC’s Christiane Amanpour opened the Roundtable segment of “This Week” with a discussion about some of the Tea Party candidates and the campaign commercials they’re running. After Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m Not A Witch” ad was shown,…

Seemed like a good idea when first bandied about at MSNBC. In execution, however, Rachel Maddow's trip to Delaware on Oct. 5 to cover the Senate race between Republican Christine O'Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons left something to be desired. First up, Maddow speaking with "Delaware voter" Dr. Gilbert Sloan after Sloan asked Coons a question during a public forum at a…

Solidarity, schmolidarity.  It was one thing when the United Auto Workers agreed many years ago to temporary "two-tiered" wage structures at the plants of Detroit's Big Three automakers. After all, it was argued, they'll be brought up to a level of full pay and benefits in several years, and new employees aren't as productive as the veterans.  

Moments before attacking Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" took a swipe at religion and conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. In a mock commercial about the danger of having your mother as a Facebook friend, announcer Bill Hader offered college student Andy Samberg a solution: the "Damn It My Mom Is On Facebook" filter. "Go ahead and…

Two weeks ago in its season premiere, "Saturday Night Live" bashed Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell for "masturbating constantly." This Saturday, the NBC variety show mocked O'Donnell's recent "I'm Not a Witch" commercial by making it crystal clear: she really is a witch. "If elected to the human senate," soothingly said Kristen Wiig, "I promise to fly straight…

Wiley Miller's comic strip Non Sequitur is not a conservative strip. Right before the 2008 election, one of his characters was told that making up the news was illegal, and she replied "You don't see Rupert Murdoch in prison, do you?" But Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander reported Sunday that the Post censored Miller's "Where's Muhammad?" Sunday strip for October 3 -- even though there…

Even when a liberal justice retires, National Public Radio is still athletically suggesting he's not a liberal. The exit interview is as biased as the confirmation process. A first-Monday-in-October story on Morning Edition by legal reporter Nina Totenberg carried the online headline "Justice Stevens: An Open Mind on a Changed Court." Totenberg and the liberal justice insisted the incoming "…

James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal opinion page online has an eye for the absurd, as in the story of one reporter named Paul Vitello: The New York Times finds echoes of history in the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque. It seems that in 1785, some New Yorkers opposed a plan to build a Catholic church in Manhattan:

At one point in the checkered writing career of your humble correspondent, he criticized children's cartoons for displaying fascistic attit

After ignoring on Friday morning the story of California Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman being called a "whore" by an aide for her opponent, Democrat Jerry Brown, CBS started to catch up on the story – but also buried it somewhat – on the same day’s CBS Evening News and a

Some people don't think democracy works when their viewpoint isn't winning. Radical-left cartoonist Ted Rall recently made a stop in Washington at the fashionably radical Busboys and Poets restaurant to promote a brand-new book titled The Anti-American Manifesto. Mike Rhode of the Washington City Paper interviewed him, and it didn't take much prodding for Rall to reveal his book's message: he…

As you might expect, the bloggers at the Daily Kos are already rationalizing away about large liberal losses. This can only mean that true liberalism hasn't been tried, declared one Laurence Lewis, and the media are mean-spirited centrist elites: No matter what happens this November, we know what will be at least one aspect of the corporate media's response: they will tell us that…

When conservative atheist S. E. Cupp and liberal atheist Bill Maher get together on the same stage, it's a metaphysical certitude they're going to fight about religion. Following up on their last heated theological battle on the May 14 installment of HBO's "Real Time," Cupp and Maher went at it again on Friday this time over Glenn Beck's decision to become a Mormon after he got remarried.…

Charles Krauthammer on Friday called the entire panel of PBS's "Inside Washington" a bunch of whiners for complaining about anonymous campaign contributions Republicans are receiving this election cycle. After host Gordon Peterson briefly explained the impact of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling earlier this year, NPR's Nina Totenberg called it a "scandal in the making...this is the…