60 Minutes's Kroft Lobs Them Nice and Easy to Obama and Biden

Yikes. The only thing missing from Steve Kroft's interview with Barack Obama and Joe Biden on CBS's 60 Minutes (Sun. 8/31/08) was an "Obama/Biden '08" button on Kroft's lapel. As NB's Brent Baker has already noted, Kroft teed one up for Obama by presuming Sarah Palin had "less experience" than he did. But take a look at some of the softball questions Kroft lobbed at Obama and Biden:(To Obama…
Dave Pierre

NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Only Hillary's Uneducated Voters will Vote For

**Video Below the Fold** Tom Brokaw's Meet the Press this week was as prosaic as ever, but for one little line uttered by the increasingly partisan Andrea Mitchell. In a discussion about the McCain VP pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, guest Doris Kerns Goodwin, plagiarist/historian, said that the choice of Palin is a "very strange choice," showing how little she bothered to even think about…
Warner Todd Huston

Dr. Laurie Gregg, Democrat? Also a Democratic Operative

So how did Anchorage Daily News reporter Lisa Demer end up speaking with a California doctor and getting her allegedly expert opinion concerning the circumstances surrounding Sarah Palin's pregnancy and birth? Obviously, I don't know. But it's not like Dr. Laurie Gregg was a local phone call away. Here is what Dr. Gregg had to say about Palin's decision to fly home from Texas (full circumstances…
Tom Blumer

Kroft Cues Up Obama to Agree Palin 'Has Less Experience than You

CBS's 60 Minutes led Sunday night with a taped interview with the Democratic ticket and in the piece Steve Kroft, who couldn't resist labeling Sarah Palin as a “conservative” while never tagging Joe Biden, presumed as fact that Palin “has less experience” than Obama and cued up Obama to agree with his own campaign's rhetoric about how Palin undermines McCain's experience argument: Does the fact…
Brent Baker

South Florida Newspapers Terminate Competition

P.J. Gladnick

Sarah Palin on 'Glenn Beck

Presumptive Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin was on "Glenn Beck" in June to discuss things like oil, ANWR, and polar bears.As media have been bludgeoning voters for the past 48 hours with the Governor not being qualified to be vice president -- this despite Barack Obama's limited accomplishments -- I encourage readers to watch the following video and read the full transcript:
Noel Sheppard

Sunday Funnies: Hill Snubs Bill to Kiss Barack

This is way too funny, and deserves no intro. Just watch it (h/t NBer Blazer):
Noel Sheppard

San Jose Mercury News Calls Palin 'Clearly Unqualified

P.J. Gladnick

Jon Alter's Biased Parade: Conservatives vs. 'Change-Hungry Voters

Tim Graham

Classless Alan Colmes: OMG, the Palins Eloped

Alan Colmes has been on a downward spiral for the ages since John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his presumptive Vice-Presidential nominee. Fellow NewsBuster Warner Todd Huston caught Colmes scraping bottom at his Liberaland web site last night, as the lefty talker and Sean Hannity piñata asked "Did Palin Take Proper Pre-Natal Care?" in connection with Palin's pregnancy and childbirth earlier…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Gustav...how bad is this going to be?Should the GOP delay events at the RNC? Should Bush not show? Prayers and thoughts to all in this monster's path.
NB Staff

Clift Reveals: In 'Many Newsrooms' Palin Greeted by 'Laughter

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift disclosed on the McLaughlin Group -- seemingly without any compunction for how she was outing her fellow journalists as behaving the same way as Barack Obama's campaign staff, but I suppose we already knew that intuitively -- that John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for VP was greeted by “literally laughter” in “very many newsrooms.” From the show taped…
Brent Baker

Stooping to Lowest Level: Democratic Claim of Palin's 'Faked Pregnancy

As I reported earlier, the scurrilous claim that McCain vice presidential pick Governor Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with a Down's Syndrome child is beginning to spread among the lowest of the nutrooters. Now, the unhinged, smear site DemocraticUnderground.com has boosted this lie to their front pages. Naturally, since these hate sites feed into each other, the spurious source of the DU story…
Warner Todd Huston

Another Fake 'Lifelong Republican' Exposed

This is a favorite meme of the left. In fact, apart from Ace's parody of the same, I've never seen a "lifelong Democrat" claim to be, for the first time ever (!) voting Republican in an election. Probably because it's lame and fools no one. It certainly won't keep them from trying. Over and over and over again. The latest example is  "lifelong Republican," Tony Dean. Courtesy the Buckeye Firearms…
Jacob S. Lybbert