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Mark Halperin: Dick Durbin Will Keep Obama From Going Crazy Liberal
Time Magazine editor at large Mark Halperin appeared on WLS AM radio in Chicago this morning with Don Wade and Roma to discuss politics as he does every Monday. In one of the better moments in radio Don Wade quipped that Halperin was doing stand up comedy after Halperin stated that Rahm Emanuel, Charles Schumer and Dick Durbin would actually prevent Barack Obama from going crazy liberal. (audio…
AP Ropeline Story an Excuse to Chronicle Obamalatry
In his October 20 feature "Obama ropelines: bouncing babies, controlled chaos," Associated Press writer Charles Babington found room to write about enthusiastic crowds reveling in the Obamessiah.The hosannas have already been sung in numerous stories of this variety from earlier in the campaign, but for some reason Babington thought fit to chronicle the cries of adulation from the Illinois…
ABC Touts 'Obama's Best Weekend Ever,' Powell's 'Booster Rocket
"Good Morning America" journalists celebrated the endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday's program. An ABC graphic for reporter John Berman's segment did not hold back. It asked, "Obama's Best Weekend Ever? Powell and Donors Boost Obama." Co-host Diane Sawyer teased the story by announcing, "This morning, Senator Obama's banner weekend: Record…
CBS’s Schieffer: Colin Powell ‘Saying Aloud What a Lot of Republic
On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez discussed former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama with Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer: "To hear Colin Powell say that he's not sure John McCain can handle the economy, he's not sure if Sarah Palin is qualified, he doesn't like the nasty tone of this campaign, how significant was that, Bob?" Schieffer replied…
WaPo Editorial Board: Defender of Free-Market Capitalism
You have to give credit where credit is due. The lead editorial in the Oct. 20 Washington Post didn't declare free-market capitalism dead after the failure of several financial institutions led to massive government intervention - as a front-page story on its Oct. 10 edition declared. Instead, the editorial pointed out the how the market that failed wasn't exactly free to begin with. "The…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: What else...fifteen days and counting!That said, let's hear it for the Tampa Bay Rays! Ain't it grand to see David slay Goliath?
CNN: Obama's Tax Plan 'Robbing Peter and Giving to Paul
'Your $$$$$' moderates debate over Bush tax cuts 'crashing failure' and Obama's redistributionist plan.
MRC/NB's Motley on FNC to Discuss NYT Hit Job on Cindy McCain
The Media Research Center's Director of Communications and NewsBusters.org Contributing Editor Seton Motley appeared on the Fox News Channel's Fox News Live yesterday to discuss another New York Times hit job on the McCains, this one on wife Cindy.Included in the Times outrages was co-author Jodi Kantor contacting friends of the McCains's youngest daughter Bridgette via Facebook email "trying to…
Obama-backing Former Bradley Aide: Enough with the Bradley Effect Alre
With Sen. Barack Obama's present lead in the polls, there's been hand-wringing in the media that he could possibly lose the race due to the so-called Bradley Effect, wherein racist white voters lie to pollsters on the telephone about their voting preferences in order to, well, not sound racist.But as a former Bradley campaign staffer writes in an October 19 op-ed for the New York Times, it was…
Biden Guarantees an International Crisis in Six Months if Obama Wins
Democrat vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday guaranteed that if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be an international crisis within six months.It's certainly going to be interesting to see how the Obama-loving media report this potentially huge gaffe by the Delaware senator.UPDATE AT END OF POST: Is Biden basing this on national security information the Obama campaign…
Jon Stewart Tells Sarah Palin 'F**k You
You can officially add "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart to the list of unabashed Sarah Palin haters, for while speaking in front of a crowd at Northeastern University on Friday, the comedian told the Alaska governor "F**k you!"Unfortunately, as reported by Mary Katherine Ham at the Weekly Standard Sunday evening, there was more to Stewart's invective-filled rant.Here are some of the lowlights (…
Daily Kos And Other Lefties Will No Longer Call Powell 'Uncle Tom
When a black republican like General Colin Powell endorses a major liberal figure like Barack Obama, it is amazing to see racial vitriol stop at a lefty website like Daily Kos: Powell didn't just decimate the McCain campaign rationale, however. Powell also offered up an endorsement of Barack Obama in the strongest possible terms, saying that Obama would be an "exceptional president" and that he…
Of the MRC's Sweet-On-Obama Sixteen, Only the Infatuated Four Remain
And then there were four -- the Infatuated Four.Of the sixteen most pro-Obama journalists, you have determined the four that have been the sweetest on him. Your righteous indignation, and your votes, have solidified the Sweet-On-Obama Sixteen's Infatuated Four. So check the results, and vote again to pare the four down to two. All on the way to determining the Media's Most Valuable Partisan (…