Networks Help Obama Bridge Gap on Earmarks

BMI Staff
 

CBS ‘Early Show’ Focuses on Palin ‘Trooper-gate,’ Leaves Out K

At the top of the 8am hour of Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased an upcoming segment on an ethics investigation into Sarah Palin’s firing of an Alaska public safety official: "Sarah Palin and troopergate – why the Alaska governor makes an about-face on this issue and why it could haunt her on the campaign trail." Later, correspondent Chip Reid remarked: "Palin may be back…
Kyle Drennen
 

AP Sanitizes Sebelius Racism Accusations Against GOP

Tom Blumer
 

The End of an Affair: McCain Realizes Media Dislike Him

John McCain's early love affair with the press has been well-chronicled. He was a "maverick" most loved because he went against his own party--best loved, in fact, when he produced legislation like McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform. As Rich Lowry points out, they liked him for more than just that, they liked him because he gave them such extensive access.Since 2000, John McCain had thrived…
Jacob S. Lybbert
 

Olbermann: Limbaugh, O’Reilly ‘Inducers to Violence,’ ‘Sick

On Tuesday’s Countdown show, Keith Olbermann referred to Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly as "inducers to violence" as the MSNBC host, during the show's "Worst Person" segment, attacked conservative talk radio host Eddie Burke of Anchorage, Alaska, for making inflammatory remarks calling two women who organized a protest against Governor Palin "socialist, baby-killing maggots," and for giving out…
Brad Wilmouth
 

NBC Takes Dig at McCain Tech-Savvy, Distorts Adviser’s Blackberry Co

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, Ariz., has acknowledged his technological shortcomings, but some in the media continue to portray him as a techno-phobe with no meaningful contributions to that sector of the economy. The September 16 "NBC Nightly News" examined McCain's rhetoric on the campaign trail in the wake of a serious banking crisis.  Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell…
Jeff Poor
 

CNBC Analysts: Wall Street Bailouts Mean 'Socialism,' 'Communists

'Mad Money' host Cramer says government has engaged in Marxist philosophies after AIG bailout.
Jeff Poor
 

AP, Chgo Sun-Times: Hillary 'Blindsided' by Palin Invite to Iran Prote

Ken Shepherd
 

CBS Checks Obama on Distortion of McCain Health Plan

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) continues to accuse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) of hitting middle-class Americans with a tax increase. The frightening warning: "He wants to tax your health benefits." As with any distortion by omission, that leaves out the second half of the proposal: to give you a tax credit as an offset. McCain's plan is not a massive middle-class tax hike as Obama portrays it;…
Amy Menefee Payne
 

Marcus Recycles the Halperin Memo

Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides "equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that. -- memo from Mark Halperin, then the ABC News Political Director, to his staff…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Lou Dobbs Bashes Dana Bash Over Palin 'Carefully Scripted' Slam

P.J. Gladnick
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

'Nightly News' Jabs McCain's Tech-Savvy

NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell ignores McCain's work on Senate Commerce committee in segment similar to a recent Obama ad.
Jeff Poor
 

Happy When America's Hurting, Gloomy When It Wins

Of course we all know that it's absolutely wrong and mean-spirited to suggest that anyone on the left could conceivably be unpatriotic [though an exception might be made for unrepentant terrorist friends of Barack Obama who accept from Vietnamese communists rings made from downed US planes.]  So while we won't be using the u-word here, two recent MSNBC shows offer a remarkable contrast. Let's…
Mark Finkelstein