Angry Democrats Threaten Boycott of Maryland Hotel with McCain Sign

The Colony South Hotel & Conference Center in Clinton, Md., has hosted fundraisers for Barack Obama, held a prayer breakfast for a local Democrat, hosted a meeting for the African-American Democratic club and hosted a home foreclosure program for Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer. But now that they had the audacity to put up a McCain-Palin campaign sign on their front lawn they are being threatened…
Terry Trippany

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: "W".How will Oliver Stone's hit piece do this weekend? With roughly two weeks until Election Day, and roughly three months to go before the presidential baton is passed, will people actually fork over $10 to see this Bush-bash?
NB Staff

Chgo Trib: Internet Makes Politics 'Obnoxious

The dead tree media, the dinosaur media, the Old Media has spoken. It's officially worse than ever! The Chicago Tribune has pronounced political discourse worse than ever before and it's all because of that "obnoxious" Internet. So, you folks reading this should know that the Trib blames these rancorous times on you. Of course, what the Trib and its "experts" suffer from is My-Lifeitis, that well…
Warner Todd Huston

Mitchell Measures the Drapes: 'I Think You're Going to See a Bipartisa

You might know Barack Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate, a hyper-partisan who toed the Harry Reid line an amazing 97% of the time. But Andrea Mitchell sees in Obama a bipartisan president in the making. Appearing on Morning Joe today, Mitchell came close to speaking of an Obama presidency as a given, just managing to curb her enthusiasm. And wait till you see the people she cited…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC News: Obama Holds 'A Double-Digit Lead in Most National Polls

Mike Bates

ABC Uses Obama Talking Point to Counter 'Joe the Plumber

'World News' claims 95 percent of 'small businesses' make less than $200,000 a year, though IRS says those figures are wrong.
Jeff Poor

Lib Talker Schultz Storms Out of Joe the Plumber Debate on 'Fox & Frie

Liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz stormed out of a "Fox & Friends" debate Friday morning with conservative talk radio host Steve Malzberg that involved Barack Obama's tax plan and the now famous Joe the Plumber.After discussing the state of the current presidential campaign, the issue of Joe Wurzelbacher -- the Ohio man who recently challenged Obama over how the candidate's tax plan would…
Noel Sheppard

CNN’s Polls Are Grade A – Or Else

CNN's Presidential Debate Report Card echoes most polls offered by the main stream media.  It involves 60% Democrats as a sample group, and if your response doesn't agree with their agenda, then some ‘alterations' are made.  In other words, the results are weighted to provide liberals with an edge.  The Web site's latest report card allows the viewer to rate the performance of both…
Rusty Weiss

No American Flag? Then You’re Probably for Obama

The latest Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP daily tracking poll finds Barack Obama leading John McCain by 3 percentage points, 45% to 42%. But there’s an interesting nugget inside the data: among those who display the American flag, McCain leads by 48% to 39%. Among those who do not display the flag, Obama has a more than two-to-one lead: 61% to 27%.Why do I doubt that the ordinarily poll-hungry…
Rich Noyes

Bill Maher: Obama Is 'Jackie Robinson of American Politics

Leftist HBO host Bill Maher was the only guest on Larry King Live last night, in between the live broadcast of Smith dinner speeches by McCain and Obama. Maher declared that Obama is the Jackie Robinson of presidential politics: he has to stay calm and cool and even punctual, or America will tell him the presidency isn't for "colored" people: MAHER: Well, I think Obama always wins when he does…
Tim Graham

NewsBusted

Topics in today's show: Oil go below $80 a barrel, American CEOs say Barack Obama dangerous for the economy, John McCain advisers worried about "grumpy" perception, 4,000 dead people discovered on voter rolls in Houston. Watch by clicking the play button in orange box to the right.
NB Staff

'World News' Rediscovers Global Warming

Despite being overshadowed by financial crisis, ABC blames 'climate change' for melting ice in Greenland.
Jeff Poor

McCain Mocks Matthews, Olbermann and ACORN at Smith Dinner

Tim Graham

Barnicle: Palin Candidacy 'An Insult to Intelligence

Has Mike Barnicle called Sarah Palin stupid?  Seems that way.  In a Huffington Post column that Mika Brzezinski read on today's Morning Joe, Barnicle, referring to Palin, wrote of the:preposterous pronouncements of a woman whose candidacy is an insult to intelligence.Let's deconstruct.  The normal formulation is an "insult to our intelligence," used to describe an assertion that is obviously…
Mark Finkelstein