CBS Channels Liberal Fretting Over Obama: 'Where's the Fight

With “Where's the Fight?” on screen under video of a man in New Hampshire who pushed Barack Obama (“When and how are you going to start fighting back?”), Katie Couric teased Friday's CBS Evening News: “Supporters of Barack Obama are frustrated and letting him know it.” Couric set up the story by highlighting how “an Obama campaign official sent out a memo saying 'today is the first day of the…
Brent Baker
 

Media Double Standard on Foreign Travel Experience

John Stephenson
 

NYT Publishes 3,000-word Palin Hit Piece On Sunday's Front Page

You want to know how scared the liberal media are of John McCain's explosion in the polls since naming Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate?On Sunday, the New York Times will publish a 3100-word, front page hit piece about the Republican vice presidential nominee.Entitled "Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes," the article, now available at the paper's website, attacked Palin…
Noel Sheppard
 

Did ABC & Gibson Use Camera Trickery To Belittle Gov. Palin

Did ABC use particular camera tricks to make Governor Palin look small and powerless in their Charlie Gibson interview? I've been pointed to a blog that makes a compelling case that they did just that. Using still shots of the Gibson interview with Palin compared to similar Gibson interviews with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, it seems this blogger has proven it to be an open and shut case of…
Warner Todd Huston
 

2004 Flashback: Obama Felt He Lacked Experience To Be President

While liberal media members try to make the case that six years as mayor and less than two years as governor isn't enough experience to be vice president, shouldn't they be just as concerned about whether less than two years as senator qualifies one to be president?After all, just days after winning his U.S. Senate seat in 2004, Barack Obama said he didn't have enough experience to sit in the…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN Conjures Up Palin Travel 'Scandal' That Never Was

P.J. Gladnick
 

Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover

UPDATE at end of post: Atlantic editor responds.Media watchers are well-aware that it's not only words that can be used to spread propaganda, but oftentimes it's the pictures involved in the articles.For months, people around the country have been noticing the always flattering photos of Barack Obama, and, by contrast, pictures that make John McCain either look older than what he is, or sickly...…
Noel Sheppard
 

Bozell: Running Purity Rings Around MTV

Tim Graham
 

AP's Choir Service? More Praise for Cuba's Hurricane Response

Tim Graham
 

Chuck Norris Smacks Down Arianna Huffington

Noel Sheppard
 

Saturday Sports Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Krauthammer Debunks Gibson and NYT's Attacks on Palin

ABC's Charlie Gibson continues to receive poor reviews for his obvious attempt to perform a hatchet job on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.One of the harshest assessments of Gibson's performance came from syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer Saturday who also took the opportunity to bash the New York Times for misrepresenting some of the specifics of the interview in order to…
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking points:Our hearts and prayers go out to the folks of Texas in the wake of Hurricane Ike. Our hearts and prayers go out to the folks involved in the horrible train crash in the LA area.
NB Staff
 

Chgo Sun-Times: 'Sarah Palin Makes Me Sick

"Palin should be laughingstock to all feminists" is the title of Mary Mitchell's column in today's Chicago Sun-Times.  In that calm, detached tone readers have come to expect, Mitchell begins:Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that she was able to steal Barack Obama's mojo just by showing up wearing rimless glasses and a skirt.
Mike Bates