Networks Interview Biden, Bash Palin For Not Showing Up

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows interviewed Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden and offered no Republican counterpoint, punishing the McCain campaign for Sarah Palin declining to make similar appearances. On ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host Diane Sawyer concluded her interview with Biden by declaring: "And we want you to know that we have asked Governor Palin to come…
Kyle Drennen

Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs: Hannity, Fox News ‘Anti-Semitic

On Tuesday’s Hannity and Colmes program top Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs displayed the latest example of the Democratic campaign attempting to whitewash their opponents. When co-host Sean Hannity asked him about Obama’s connections to William Ayers, Gibbs shot back, "Are you anti-Semitic?" He then changed the entire subject of the discussion to whether Hannity was anti-Semitic for recently…
Matthew Balan

Media Endorse $700 Billion Economic 'Rescue

Networks cheer market intervention, supply 'doomsday' predictions about economy without a bailout and claim it could turn a profit.
Julia A. Seymour

Joy Behar: France, Denmark, and England 'Solved' Healthcare

If only the United States were more like Europe, Joy Behar laments. Recapping the previous night’s debate on the October 9 edition of "The View," the panel discussed John McCain’s healthcare plan. In the midst of the conversation Joy Behar wondered why the United States can not "solve" health care like quasi-socialist governments in Europe."What they haven’t discussed in any of these debates is…
Justin McCarthy

ChiTrib Columnist: Ayers Wasn't Terrorist But 'Guerrilla' Protester

Liberal Chicago Tribune columnist and blogger Eric Zorn argued today that while Bill Ayers violent past must be condemned, it is improper to label him as a domestic terrorist (emphases mine):My view is that one can unequivocally condemn the campaign of destruction and bomb-setting waged by the Weather Underground and still ask whether "terrorism" is or was the right word to describe that form of…
Ken Shepherd

Media Endorse $700 Billion Economic 'Rescue

BMI Staff

MRC's Bozell: Brokaw Moderated a Balanced Debate

NB Staff

Jon Stewart Can't Make Bomber Bill Ayers Funny

Tim Graham

Biden: Mentioning Ayers 'Mildly Dangerous, Incitement

As noted here earlier, Joe Biden agreed with Ann Curry this morning that mentioning Obama's connections with Rev. Wright and William Ayers constituted an "ugly" tactic.  Biden raised the stakes during his Early Show appearance, telling Harry Smith that daring to breathe Ayers's last name, or using Obama's middle one, is "mildly dangerous" and an "incitement." Biden also managed work in the boast…
Mark Finkelstein

Slate Writer Already Celebrating Obama Election Victory

P.J. Gladnick

ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson, 15 Years of Shilling for Universal Health Care

ABC's liberal medical editor, Dr. Tim Johnson, appeared on Wednesday's "Good Morning America to boost Barack Obama's universal health care plan and critique the more market oriented proposals of John McCain. Co-host Robin Roberts began the segment by seriously asserting, "We're not endorsing one plan over the other. We're just showing the differences between the two." But after she mentioned…
Scott Whitlock

Media Gives Obama Pass on 'Deregulation' Smear

One of Barack Obama's biggest lines, which he repeats at every campaign event and delivered in Tuesday night's Town Hall Debate in Nashville, is that the Wall Street financial crisis was created by deregulation - deregulation, he hastens to add, is the policy of George W. Bush, John McCain and the Republicans.He made the charge in response to the first question in the debate (transcript) last…
Bill Hobbs

Networks Quick on AIG Scandal, Not on Fannie, Freddie

ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts highlight $440,000 executive retreat, but don't scrutinize government-sponsored boondoggles.
Jeff Poor

CNBC's Gasparino: Obama's Tax Plan 'Throwing Gasoline on the Fire

Network's on-air editor blasts Democratic presidential nominee on spending, tax policy.
Jeff Poor