Writer Claims Edwards Scandal Story Has Finally 'Trickled Out' Into MS

P.J. Gladnick

Shuster Plays Dumb on Race Card

David Shuster surely knows better. Wherever you come down on the issue of who's playing the race card, one thing is glaringly, blindingly, incandescently obvious: when Barack Obama says McCain will point out Obama doesn't look like the other guys on the currency, the Dem candidate is doing much more than making the innocuous point that he is the first black major-party presidential nominee. Yet…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Scolds McCain for 'Infamous' Ad; Empathizes with Obama

ABC, CBS and NBC all aired stories Thursday night about McCain's Britney Spears/Paris Hilton anti-Obama TV ad as well as John McCain's charge that Barack Obama is playing the race card, but only Katie Couric characterized the McCain spot as “infamous” before Dean Reynolds empathized with Obama by citing his “exasperation” with McCain's ad, based on headlines over liberal newspaper editorials…
Brent Baker

Obama's and Media's Silence on Racist Attacks on Tenn. Dem

Barack Obama is again unfairly throwing out the race card at an opponent. This week Obama was warning that his Republican opponents will assault him with racist attacks, but is dropping this warning even though no one has yet done so. On July 30th, Obama said at three different campaign stops in Missouri that McCain and his backers will attack him because he "doesn't look like all those other…
Warner Todd Huston

Only ABC Runs Full Iraq Status Story After Fewest U.S. Deaths Ever

Not surprisingly given the past pattern, of the broadcast networks evening newscasts on Thursday, only ABC's World News devoted a full story to the fewest Americans killed in Iraq in any month since the war began. CBS and NBC gave the great news a few seconds before pivoting to full stories on the rise of female suicide bombers and the sexual assault problem in the military. ABC anchor Charles…
Brent Baker

ABC's Whoopi Goldberg Declares Married Men 'Fair Game

If a husband says it's ok to come on to him, The View's cohost has no problem with having a little fling.
Colleen Raezler

Hushing Rush after 20 Years

Liberals in Congress view talk radio as a profound threat to their power. They intend to do whatever they can to reduce the impact of conservative talkers, First Amendment be damned.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Jerry Springer, Opera Man

L. Brent Bozell III

Media Near-Secret: Exxon's Taxes Almost 3x As Much As Profits

Just heard Mark Levin mention this point on his show tonight. The item he referred to is from Mark Perry at istockanalyst.com, who commented on CNNMoney.com's coverage of Exxon Mobil's profit report today: According to CNN, Exxon Mobil once again reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history Thursday, posting net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter.…
Tom Blumer

NBC Complains McCain's Ad 'Much More Personal and Demeaning' Than Hill

Tim Graham

CBS Turns Doubled GDP into 'Disappointing' News, ABC & NBC Silent

Second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled to 1.9 percent, up from 0.9 percent in the first quarter, the Commerce Department announced Thursday morning as consumer spending rose 1.5 percent in the quarter ending June 30, up from 0.9 percent in the first quarter, and U.S. exports soared 9.2 percent, way up from 5.1 percent in the first three months of 2008. Yet the CBS Evening News…
Brent Baker

New York Times Says McCain's Playing the Race Card

The good folks at MSNBC's "Hardball" might be pointing fingers at presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama for playing the race card with his response to a new ad by the McCain campaign, but the editorial board of the New York Times ain't buyin' it!Forgive the obvious pun, but color me -- amongst other things! -- unsurprised. In a posting at the Times' blog "The Board" published…
Noel Sheppard

Unanimous: Hardball Panel Agrees Obama Playing Race Card

You might say nothing could be more unsurprising than a panel of political pundits admitting the obvious: that Barack Obama is playing the race card when he accuses John McCain of saying the Dem candidate "doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency."But what makes the punditry panel's unanimity notable is that no one would accuse them of being McCain backers, and what's more, that…
Mark Finkelstein

BusinessWeek 'Recession Blog' Inactive a Whole Month as GDP Jumps

Posts few and far between three months after magazine debuts 'stories of how individuals are coping with the downturn.'
Jeff Poor