Media Ignore Obama's 'Economic Disaster' Declaration

Democratic presidential candidate blasts McCain's criticism of his tax plan with hyperbole; media gloss over exaggerations.
Jeff Poor

Margin of Victory: How the Liberal Media Made Barack Obama the Democra

The Media Research Center has just released a comprehensive study of the broadcast networks coverage of Barack Obama since he arrived on the national stage just four years ago. The bottom line: TV reporters adored Obama, and the celebratory coverage of the “rock star” candidate provided him with a huge advantage and almost certainly the margin of victory in the extremely close Democratic race.…
Rich Noyes

Chgo Sun-Times Omits Daley Party Label in City Worker Purge Story

"Daley scoffs at worries of political purge," reads a August 20 Chicago Sun-Times headline recording the dismissive reaction of the city's Democratic mayor about how his city worker firing spree could turn into a political purge. Only Daley's Democratic Party affiliation was nowhere mentioned in Fran Spielman's nine paragraph story:Mayor Daley on Tuesday scoffed at a federal hiring monitor's…
Ken Shepherd

Greeley IDs The Bad Guys: Veterans, Crackers, Sox Fans

Andrew Greeley's column in today's Chicago Sun-Times is "American warmongers excel at talking a good game."  Greeley's writings are often unintentionally amusing, filled with the sort of kneejerk liberalism we'd expect from a Barack Obama contributor.  This morning's article is typically hilarious:
Mike Bates

Open Thread

NB Staff

Edwards Scandal: Blogosphere Leads Investigation That MSM Neglects

P.J. Gladnick

Web a Leading News Source, Papers, TV Decline, Younger Ignoring ALL Ne

Congratulate yourselves as being among the leading edge in Americans interested in the news. According to a recent Pew survey 37 percent of America's news consumers go to the Internet for their news. But it isn't all good news for our sources of news. For one thing, this survey also shows that many of us are logging on at work. This is the sort of thing that could be hurt if more and more…
Warner Todd Huston

Halperin: McCain Pro-Choice VP Pick Would Be 'Disaster

Don't want to take Rush's word for it?  How about Mark Halperin's? The editor of Time's "The Page" thinks the choice by John McCain of a pro-choice running mate would be nothing short of a "disaster." Halperin expressed his view during an appearance today on CNN's American Morning.KIRAN CHETRY: What about some potential running mates for John McCain?  Because there's been a lot of talk all over…
Mark Finkelstein

Did Ron Suskind Make Stuff Up About Bush's Brain

Tim Graham

Bozell Column: America's Next Trans-formation

Brent Bozell

CNN's Jack Cafferty: McCain 'as Intellectually Shallow' as Bush

Delivering the ultimate liberal insult, in an online commentary posted Tuesday morning on CNNPolitics.com, CNN's Jack Cafferty charged that John McCain is as incompetent and incapable as President George W. Bush. “It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President,” Cafferty felt compelled to share. “Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-…
Brent Baker

University Denies Access to Obama-Ayers Documents

When will the University of Illinois (Chicago) release the Annenberg Challenge documents? This is the question Stanley Kurtz asked in his column yesterday at NRO. Since then, the call has been taken up by various conservative blogs and radio shows. Today, U of I News Bureau Director, Bill Burton, issued a press release.The University Library supports the teaching, research, and service missions…
Jacob S. Lybbert

Maher Calls Christianity the Ultimate Hustle on Larry King Live

Religion-despising comedian promotes his new comedy film, calls Rick Warren pope of the super-Christies
Kristen Fyfe

Media Continue to Ignore Obama Abortion Kerfuffle

All the spin will make you dizzy. Obama digs the hole deeper. After the media ignored the Obama campaign admitting that he lied about a vote he made in 2003 in favor of infanticide, now Obama is accusing others of “attacking” him with “outrageous lies”!“Senator Obama strongly supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose. He believes that there is a moral and ethical element to this issue,…
John Stephenson