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Obama Video Game Ads Contradict Early Rhetoric
Media ignore Democrat's flip: from telling Americans to put 'video games away' to advertising in 18 games.
Don't Cross Obama: NYT's Larry Rohter Takes Wrench to 'Joe the Plumber
Embarrass Obama, and expect the liberal media to go after you, no matter who you are: That's what National Review journalist Byron York warned early Thursday afternoon. He was quickly proven right by a story from reporter Larry Rohter in Friday's New York Times, "Real Deal On Plumber Reveals New Slant," in which Rohter took a wrench to Joe Wurzelbacher (aka "Joe the Plumber"), the citizen who…
CBS: 4 Out of 5 ‘Average Joes’ Would Get More From Obama Tax Plan
After smearing Joe the Plumber on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith turned to a group of his own hand selected ‘average Joes’ to defend Barack Obama’s tax plan: "I'll tell you, we have assembled a panel of 'average Joes.' Joe the plumber, the most famous person in America now. Well, we have five Joes here this morning, from various walks of life, and we're going to put their incomes to…
Media Near-Secret: Deficit Increase Almost Entirely Due to Spending
Story after story on the full-year results for the federal budget refers to the size of the full-year deficit for the fiscal year that just ended on September 30 ($455 billion), and how it compares to last year's deficit ($162 billion). Almost none of them talk about why the deficit ballooned. I wonder why? Could it be because the Democrat-controlled Congress of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid…
'Nightline' Hypes Breaking News: Joe the Plumber Not Named Joe
Continuing the mainstream media's dogged pursuit of the truth, Thursday's "Nightline" breathlessly asserted that Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher isn't really named Joe. In a segment on the Ohio man who quizzed Senator Barack Obama about his tax plan, co-anchor Martin Bashir derided, "But his name's not Joe and he's not a registered plumber. And those are only half his problems." Of course, his…
FT Notes Scranton Union Worker Voting Reluctantly for Obama
Imagine the media maelstrom if a reporter found a swing-state Republican voter who had strong reservations about voting for John McCain, was flirting with the idea of voting for Barack Obama, but ultimately resigned him/herself to voting for McCain out of pressure from his/her evangelical church.But make that a labor union Democrat from Pennsylvania and it's but a passing reference in a news…
CNN’s David Gergen Mocks Joe the Plumber, Asks Why McCain Didn’t V
On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360 program, CNN senior political analyst David Gergen followed the liberal talking points about how Joe the Plumber’s real first name is Samuel and how he doesn’t have a plumbing license. When host Anderson Cooper asked if John McCain benefitted from the attention on the Ohio laborer, Gergen replied, "Well, I think he was for a while. But I -- when we found out he…
Weekend Captionfest
Barack Obama speaks with Joe-the-Plumber Wurzelbacher on October 12, 2008 in Holland, Ohio. (AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)
Talk About Guilt by Association: Wall Street Journal Profiles McCain F
Barack Obama’s supporters are whining about any attempt to link their candidate with former Weather Underground bomber William Ayers as “guilt by association” — even though, as National Review contributor Stanley Kurtz points out, the working relationship between Obama and Ayers can more correctly be described as “guilt by participation.”But today’s Wall Street Journal treats us to a classic case…
CNN Glosses Over Failure of Universal Health Care
This health care plan seems like it has more flaws than the bailout bill. A news brief on "CNN Newsroom" Oct. 17 said that Hawaii's universal health care program for children would be hit with the "budget ax." The screen said "Hawaii's Budget Ax" and anchor Heidi Collins reported that, "For the past seven months it's been the only state in the nation to offer universal healthcare for…
Mitchell: Nobody Claims Obama Worked Closely With Ayers
They [the RNC] are calling voters, cold calls, and saying to them, what about William Ayers and the close working relationship he had [with Obama], which is not true by anybody's count . . . It certainly is a mischaracterization of the relationship. -- Andrea Mitchell to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), MSNBC 10-17-08.Andrea Mitchell, meet Stanley Kurtz . . . It's turning into Andrea Mitchell Day here. …
BaltSun Critic: Stone's 'W.' a 'Train Wreck', Script Like Rehashed Mo
Finally a movie review that takes on Oliver Stone's "W." on its cinematic merits or rather the lack thereof. Far from being "illustrated journalism" as Time's Richard Corliss lamented or "sunny and sympathetic" history as Newsweek's Alan Brinkley argued, it's simply an "old-fashioned train wreck," concluded Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow in his October 16 review.The film critic -- who gave the film…