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Mark Leibovich's Cover Profile of Paul Ryan for NYT Mag Steeped in His
"Paul Ryan Can't Lose," a 5,000-word cover story by Mark Leibovich, the New York Times magazine's chief national correspondent, conformed to the writer's history of cynical, unsympathetic profiles of Republican candidates.
According to Leibovich, Newt Gingrich is "among the more divisive political figures of recent decade," always threatening to become "Nasty Newt," yet former vice president…
October 23rd, 2012 1:38 PM

Halle Berry on Being Related to Sarah Palin: 'Isn’t That the Worst T
It was revealed last week that movie star Halle Berry is related to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show Monday, Berry said, "Isn’t that the worst thing you can imagine?” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
October 23rd, 2012 1:02 PM

NBC Grills Ryan on Romney's Qualifications; Invites Biden to Slam Romn
At the end of an interview with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie parroted Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's foreign policy credentials: "John Kerry said, 'this is the most inexperienced foreign policy ticket to run in decades,' talking about you and Governor Romney. What specific national security experience qualifies Governor Romney to be…
October 23rd, 2012 12:56 PM

Leno: Obama Halloween Masks Out-Selling Romney's – ‘What's Scarier
Jay Leno took a shot at the President's handling of the economy Monday.
During his Tonight Show monologue, after saying Obama Halloween masks are out-selling Romney masks by 30 percent, Leno quipped, "Well, that makes sense. I mean, what's scarier than four more years of this economy?"
October 23rd, 2012 12:33 PM

Obama: I Don't Want To Lose, Not For Me But For What It Would Mean To
Everybody knows what a humble, self-effacing guy Barack Obama is. So not that we needed any proof, but just check out what President Obama let us members of his campaign email list know in a message he just sent out:
"I don't want to lose this election. Not because of what losing would mean for me -- Michelle and I will be fine no matter what happens. But because of what it would mean for…
October 23rd, 2012 12:25 PM

NB's Graham on Fox Biz: Watch Out for Last Minute Media Bias
NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham appeared on the Fox Business Channel's Varney & Co. earlier this morning to review how the liberal media spun last night's debate, and what to expect over the next two weeks.
Host Stuart Varney suggested media bias could not dislodge the pro-Romney trend now evident in the polls, but Graham offered a warning: "We could see some of the most aggressive…
October 23rd, 2012 11:41 AM

CNN's Jessica Yellin: 'Not Anything Significantly New' In Obama's Just
Appearing at a campaign event in Delray, Florida, Tuesday, President Obama revealed a 20-page booklet called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan For Jobs & Middle-Class Security.”
CNN's Jessica Yellin reporting from the scene amazingly said, "There’s not anything significantly new in here" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
October 23rd, 2012 11:40 AM

Space Jumper Felix Baumgartner to Jimmy Fallon: 'Holy [Bleep], I Can
Space jumper Felix Baumgartner was so excited to be on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Monday that his first words had to be bleeped by censors.
October 23rd, 2012 9:57 AM
Media Debate Fail: Obama, the Auto Bailout and China
In their third Presidential debate analysis, the Jurassic Press Media last night and thus far this morning have failed utterly in their role as fact checker and record-corrector - at least when it comes to what President Barack Obama had to say.
As but one glaring example, there were the President’s absurd assertions regarding the auto bailout and China.
October 23rd, 2012 9:52 AM

ABC and CNN Declare ‘False’ What Krauthammer Touted as Romney’s
“The high point of that debate for Romney is when he devastatingly leveled the charge of Obama going around the world on ‘an apology tour,’” Charles Krauthammer asserted on the Fox News Channel following Monday night’s third presidential debate. But what Krauthammer saw as so powerful for Mitt Romney, ABC and CNN tried to discredit based on the flimsy reasoning that Obama didn’t use the word “…
October 23rd, 2012 8:56 AM

Pat Buchanan: Romney 'Looked Like a Winner,' Obama Seemed 'Petty' and
Count syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan among the commentators that felt Mitt Romney won Monday's presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida.
Speaking on Fox News shortly after the event's conclusion, Buchanan said that by the end of the debate, "Romney was smiling, he was relaxed, he looked like a winner, and the president seemed, was making some petty attacks on him I thought, and seemed…
October 23rd, 2012 8:45 AM

'Mika Made Me Republican
Talk about the law of unintended consequences . . . On today's Morning Joe, Willie Geist interviewed an audience member sporting a T-shirt reading "Mika Made Me Republican."
The good-natured fellow explained that his daughter had made the T-shirt for him, that he was an independent who had voted for Perot, and that he watches Morning Joe daily because he likes to hear what the other side has…
October 23rd, 2012 8:07 AM

Chris Wallace: Romney Looked Like 'President Protecting a Lead,' Obama
Although much of Obama's media thought he won Monday's presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida, Fox News's Chris Wallace saw it much differently.
Speaking moments after the event's conclusion, Wallace said, "I felt in the middle of the debate that if I had been on a desert island for the last four years, and I had just been parachuted into this debate, I would have thought the guy that…
October 23rd, 2012 8:03 AM

Heilemann: Romney Avoided the 'Dangers' of Past 'Harsh' Statements Ins
On PBS's Charlie Rose show on Monday, as the group discussed the night's presidential debate, New York magazine's John Heilemann described Mitt Romney's past statements on foreign policy as "relatively harsh and relatively bellicose," as he argued that Romney had faced political "dangers" in his foreign policy positions "because he's been surrounded by some number of neo-conservative foreign…
October 23rd, 2012 6:48 AM