Battle of the Clinton Campaign Metaphors: 'Scorched Earth' vs 'Tonya H

P.J. Gladnick

Hillary Down to the 'Tonya Harding Option

Time to lace up the skates and cut some rhetorical figure-eights. GMA has quoted a Dem official as saying that in her desperate quest for the nomination, Hillary Clinton is down to "the Tonya Harding option." ABC senior political correspondent Jake Tapper cited the skating simile in his Good Morning America segment this morning.JAKE TAPPER: It is mathematically possible, improbable yes, but…
Mark Finkelstein

Washington Post Swoons over Hollywood Leftists Come to D.C

News media help entertainment media 'progressives' spread message about separating church and state.
Kristen Fyfe

All They Need Is Love

ABC's Good Morning America fails to ask hard questions when a transgendered 'man' announces 'his' pregnancy.
Colleen Raezler

MRC's Bozell on Hannity & Colmes Tuesday Night Re: Hillary/Bosnia

Brent Bozell, President of the MRC which runs NewsBusters, appeared Tuesday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes. Topic: The delay in the media covering Hillary Clinton's inaccurate boast of coming under sniper fire when arriving in Bosnia in 1996. Sean Hannity also raised media coverage of Jeremiah Wright.Prompted by Hillary Clinton's comments today, Tuesday's ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts…
NB Staff

CBS Hits Hillary Again

John Stephenson

Flashback: Hillary's Daring Bosnia Mission w/ Sinbad Amuses Beckel

Brad Wilmouth

So Dangerous, Bill Sent . . . Chelsea

Hardball had some fun this evening at Hillary's expense over the mystery of The Sniper Who Didn't Fire. Credit Politico's Roger Simon with the most devastating remark.Hillary's heroic claim has been that "we used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady." Simon said what in retrospect might be obvious but something I hadn't previously…
Mark Finkelstein

Russert Marvels at How Clinton Visits 'Godfather' of VRWC's Paper

Asked by anchor Brian Williams why Hillary Clinton chose Tuesday to assert that Reverend Jeremiah Wright “would not have been my pastor,” Tim Russert declared “the setting in which she did this is particularly striking.” The Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News proceeded to marvel at how she made her comments in an interview with reporters and editors at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by…
Brent Baker

CNN: Video ‘Seemingly Contradicts’ Clinton’s Account of Bosnia T

CNN’s Dan Lothian, during a report on Tuesday’s "The Situation Room," downplayed Hillary Clinton’s "sniper fire" statement on her trip to Tuzla, Bosnia during her time as First Lady, referring to it as a "misstep." Lothian, in his introduction to the report, referenced the "dangerous 1996 visit to Bosnia" and played Clinton’s now-famous false account of her arrival in the war-torn country. As…
Matthew Balan

Daily Kos Flashback -- or -- Memo to Dan Abrams

On Monday night, we were privy to Round II of Dan Abrams' (of MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams pseudo-fame) lukewarm game show, "Rush Limbaugh -- UnAmerican".Both times Abrams levied said assertion in response to Limbaugh's apparently effective (at least at tweaking the likes of Abrams) Operation CHAOS. Which is what Limbaugh has dubbed his call for Republicans to cross over -- where legal -- to…
Seton Motley

WaPo's Magazine Mocks O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Even Olbermann

Tim Graham

Will Media Pay Attention to Obama Girl's New Video Highly Critical of

When Obama Girl's "I Got a Crush...On Obama" video hit YouTube on June 13, 2007, the mainstream media went nuts.In the next two weeks, there were over 100 press reports, including television features about the video and its star on ABC, CBS, CNN, FNC, NBC, and MSNBC.As a result, to date, there have been over 7 million views of this piece at YouTube.On Tuesday, the producers, Barely Political,…
Noel Sheppard

New Special Report: Apostles of Atheism

In all the brouhaha last week over the incendiary comments made by Barack Obama's pastor the media seemed to forget to partake in their traditional Holy Week Christian-bashing excercise.  There were a few entries in the "Easter Hit Parade," like the Comedy Central show "Root of All Evil" which my boss, Brent Bozell, wrote about in a column recently, and an episode of "Law and Order" which…
Kristen Fyfe