AP Presents Image of Robotic Sarah Palin Who 'Sticks to Script

P.J. Gladnick

Obama's Terrorist Colleague Bill Ayers Makes Cameo in Story on Educati

An education story acknowledged the existence of Bill Ayers, an Obama colleague and cofounder of the violent terrorist group Weather Underground.
Clay Waters

Mitchell Laughs Off the Lipstick: 'He's Not Talking About Palin

An Obama campaign spokeswoman opened today's Morning Joe with an aggressive defense of his lipstick line, arguing that Obama was being criticized "for saying something that John McCain has said before, that Barack Obama frequently says about 'you can dress something up.' He was talking about the Republican change argument."  A bit later, bolstering her argument, the spokeswoman described the…
Mark Finkelstein

NPR Honors 'Highly Organized' Cuba's Avoidance of Hurricane Deaths

Tim Graham

Did Obama Steal his 'Lip Stick on a Pig' Speech from a Political Carto

The folks at FreeRepublic have found an interesting... uh, shall we say coincidence... concerning Barack Obama's widely panned September 9 comments made at a rally in Virginia where he seemed to be saying that Governor Palin was a "pig" by referencing the "lipstick" quote from her acceptance speech at the GOP convention. It is looking like Obama's comments were not off the cuff, but scripted. And…
Warner Todd Huston

A Hero's Story

Tim Graham

Philly Inquirer's New Palin Slam: She Sold her State's Plane? So What

Mario Cattabiani of the Philadelphia Inquirer wants you to know that Governor Sarah Palin's selling of her state's plane is no big deal. Why? Well, because Democrat Governor Ed "Fast Eddie" Rendell sold his state's plane, too, and he got a better deal. So, Palin's plane purveying pales next to Rendell's according to Cattabiani. Only, there are quite a few facts that Cattabiani seems to have…
Warner Todd Huston

Newsweek's Female Columnists Pile on Palin

Writers blast away on religion, abortion and sexism.
Kristen Fyfe

Paglia: Palin Represents New Style of Muscular American Feminism

Last week at the Republican National Convention, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told NewsBusters that if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, she will have "delegitimized the entire left's ability to define what a successful, competent, professional woman is." On Wednesday, feminist author and social critic Camille Paglia published an article at Salon wherein she not only seemed to…
Noel Sheppard

New Line of Attack on Palin from Behar on CNN: 'She's Very Mean to Ani

Joy Behar, one of the hosts of ABC's daytime show "The View," took to CNN's "Larry King Live" Tuesday night and delivered a new line of attack on Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska: Palin's “very mean” in how she treats wildlife because she hunts them and is opposed to putting polar bears on the endangered list. (Didn't John Kerry go hunting during the 2004 campaign?) Behar…
Brent Baker

The Irony of PDS: Anti-Palin Steinem Column Runs in Saudi Paper

Ken Shepherd

Obamirage? Asian Times's 'Spengler' Describes 'Melancholy, Sour, Acrid

On September 3, an Asian Times writer known only as "Spengler" described a radically different scene at Invesco Field during the final night of the Democratic Convention from that conveyed by the networks and pundits. If Spengler's take is accurate, it reveals a media elite more in the tank than even its harshest critics have imagined. Rush Limbaugh mentioned Spengler's column during his show…
Tom Blumer

CBS & NBC React to Palin Bounce with Fact Checks to Discredit Her

With fresh media polls showing Sarah Palin causing a sizable percent of women to shift to support John McCain from Barack Obama, CBS and NBC on Tuesday night devoted full stories to fact check examinations to discredit her, specifically on the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere,” even though all the newscasts have already run stories on how she was for the bridge earmark during her 2006 gubernatorial…
Brent Baker

'Lipstick on a Pig' Open Thread

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama fumbled through what appears to have been a botched joke while campaigning in Lebanon, Virginia, Tuesday:Other than the awful delivery, what do you think about his statement? Some are accusing Obama of implying that Sarah Palin is a pig. Do you agree, or is that a stretch?
NB Staff