NY Times Snickers at Palin's Simplistic Patriotism

On the trail with Sarah Palin in Richmond, Va., New York Times reporter Patrick Healy filed a condescending profile of her stump speech in Tuesday's "A Riveting Speaker, Waving the Flag." Healy claimed that Palin's "partisan zeal" and "with-us-or-against-us message" could "repel some independent voters," and that her speeches have "holes in logic." It was the sort of treatment that gaffe machine…
Clay Waters

Open Thread

NB Staff

'Nightly News' Longs for Higher Commodity Prices

Segment laments hardship of farmers hurt by decrease in agricultural prices.
Jeff Poor

Will MSM Investigate Alleged Angry Phone Call by Michelle Obama to Afr

P.J. Gladnick

Smearing Palin, Olbermann Makes Stupid Error

D'oh! In his haste to condemn Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin last night far-left MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann made a particularly elementary reading comprehension error.The mistake, caught by our friends at Olbermann Watch, involved a report of a person at a McCain-Palin allegedly shouting out to "kill" Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.Rushing to tag the GOP ticket…
Matthew Sheffield

New Evidence of Nancy Pelosi Associate Supporting Chavez, Marxists

A Colombian associate of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is once again linked to FARC terrorists and Marxist Dictator Hugo Chavez with the revelation of damning new messages concerning Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba that are currently being investigated by Colombian military officials. Once again we have a powerful American politician, this one the Speaker of the House of Representatives…
Warner Todd Huston

Obama Buys Ads In Online Video Games

Video game maker Electronic Arts confirmed Monday that the Obama campaign has purchased ads that appear on virtual billboards in the online version of the popular racing game "Burnout Paradise."This is deliciously fitting given the junior senator from Illinois' rise to capture the White House being nothing but a high-priced media fabrication.Tastier still, in another glaring hypocrisy that will…
Noel Sheppard

As Campaign’s Intensity Peaks, Interest in Big 3's Evening News Cont

Three weeks out from Election Day, surely more Americans are tuning into the Big 3 networks' evening newscasts, right? Wrong. In the past two weeks, Big 3 evening newscast viewership has actually declined by 360,000, or 1.6%. What's more, in percentage terms, viewership among "The Demo" of ages 25-54 has declined even further (220,000, down 3.1%). Here are the rest of the gory details for total…
Tom Blumer

Wonder Woman vs Wonder Woman: Lynda Carter Claims Sarah Palin Is "Dict

P.J. Gladnick

U.S. News "Hates To Say It," But Folks Associate Voter Fraud With GOP

D. S. Hube

Republican Fires Back at Matthews's Palin Insults

Chris Matthews spent the entire first segment of Tuesday night's "Hardball," questioning Sarah Palin's "intellectual ability" to lead but Republican Congressman Dan Lungren wasn't having any of it, as he countered: "You want to talk about my friend Joe Biden who made at least 10 misstatements in the last debate," and even made fun of Matthews' Obama fondness, as the California Congressman fired…
Geoffrey Dickens

Rosie O'Donnell: Sarah Palin = Harriet Miers 'with a Better Ass

And now, ladies and gentleman, purely for entertainment value, the one and only Rosie O'Donnell, the lovable, unofficial poet laureate of NewsBusters (h/t NewsBusters "The View" embed Justin McCarthy): the republicans have been n power for so long mccain actually thought he could take letterman oh it gets better and betteras america finally wakessarah p - harriet miers with a better ass
Ken Shepherd

Bozell Column: Who's 'Fierce' on Abortion

Brent Bozell

Actor Josh Brolin Plugs Oliver Stone's W. on 'Today

The "Today" show has yet to promote the conservative satire An American Carol, that spoofs Michael Moore but they did find time to invite on Josh Brolin to plug Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic W. on Tuesday's show. Co-anchor Matt Lauer interviewed Brolin, who plays the title character, and noted critics were expecting "a political hatchet job" of the President, to which Brolin, defended…
Geoffrey Dickens