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Finger-Wagging Smith Scolds McCain Rep Over NYT Ayers Article

Good thing Nancy Pfotenhauer wasn't in the same studio with Harry Smith this morning. The Early Show anchor might have broken out his hickory stick.  Like a hectoring school marm, Smith scolded McCain adviser Pfotenhauer for what he deemed her insufficient citation of a New York Times article tracing Barack Obama's affiliation with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.Wagging a stern finger at…
Mark Finkelstein

Conservatives Turn the Page on 'Banned Books Week

Tim Graham

Newsweek: Palin Too Common, Too Stupid to be VP, She's 'Dangerous

Newsweek's Jon Meacham thinks that Governor Sarah Palin is too much a commoner and too stupid to be allowed to become vice president of the United States of America and apparently his employer agrees with him. The October 13 cover of Newsweek features a close up photo of the Governor with the headline "She's One of the Folks (And that's the problem)," and Meacham writes the accompanying cover…
Warner Todd Huston

WaPo: 'Nebraska Becomes Unlikely Battleground'; Will Wyoming Be Next

P.J. Gladnick

'Is This Daily Kos or the Associated Press

The Associated Press has long been a bastion of liberal bias. But has it now sunk to the level of a left-wing blog in the throes of Palin Derangement Syndrome?  Yes, suggests the Morning Joe folks.  In a rare bit of unanimity, the panel condemned and ridiculed AP for its "analysis" item, "Palin's words carry racial tinge."  According to Douglass K. Daniel, the item's author, Palin's criticism of…
Mark Finkelstein

Bozell: Mighty Maher Strikes Out

Tim Graham

'Down and Dirty' Palin Like Agnew with 'Nasty' Attack on Obama

A week-and-half before he'll moderate the third and final presidential debate, CBS's Bob Schieffer opened Sunday's Face the Nation by calling a foul on one team as he took sides and denounced Sarah Palin's daring to say, that “our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country,” as a sign of “a campaign that's turned down and…
Brent Baker

Olbermann Goes into PDS During Sunday Night Football

Michelle Malkin is reporting, based on e-mails from several readers, that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is at it again.Last year, Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," parlayed his previous experience as an ESPN SportsCenter anchor to become involved with NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcasts.In April 2007, when asked if he would be apolitical during these broadcasts, Olbermann told Sports…
Tom Blumer

Weekend Box Office: Americans Vote, Maher Loses

Anti-God mockumentary beaten out by movies about faith, love, patriotism … and Chihuahuas.
Kristen Fyfe

'Stunning' News from NYT: Campbell Brown Shifts Towards Commentary

The New York Times has just shocked us with this news: the CNN anchor on Election Center, Campbell Brown, is shifting over to commentary. This is quite hard to believe since Brown conceals her own views so well that it is impossible to detect the slightest trace of bias on her part. The Times informs us of this most unusual transition:
P.J. Gladnick

CNN Ignores Bernardine Dohrn's Terrorist Past While Defending Obama

The mainstream media is going through another one of their meltdown moments as they rush to defend Barack Obama from his relationship with American terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. (plural)John Stephenson of Newsbusters detailed CNN's supposed fact check that came in response to a speech that Sarah Palin gave. In that speech Palin did the job the mainstream media refuses to do by…
Terry Trippany

Ken Burns on McCain: Make Nice and Allow Obama to Defeat You

P.J. Gladnick

'Dateline NBC' Alumna Jane Pauley Again Stumps for Obama: 40 People Sh

Mike Bates