AP, Chgo Sun-Times: Hillary 'Blindsided' by Palin Invite to Iran Prote

Ken Shepherd
 

CBS Checks Obama on Distortion of McCain Health Plan

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) continues to accuse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) of hitting middle-class Americans with a tax increase. The frightening warning: "He wants to tax your health benefits." As with any distortion by omission, that leaves out the second half of the proposal: to give you a tax credit as an offset. McCain's plan is not a massive middle-class tax hike as Obama portrays it;…
Amy Menefee Payne
 

Marcus Recycles the Halperin Memo

Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides "equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that. -- memo from Mark Halperin, then the ABC News Political Director, to his staff…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Lou Dobbs Bashes Dana Bash Over Palin 'Carefully Scripted' Slam

P.J. Gladnick
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

'Nightly News' Jabs McCain's Tech-Savvy

NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell ignores McCain's work on Senate Commerce committee in segment similar to a recent Obama ad.
Jeff Poor
 

Happy When America's Hurting, Gloomy When It Wins

Of course we all know that it's absolutely wrong and mean-spirited to suggest that anyone on the left could conceivably be unpatriotic [though an exception might be made for unrepentant terrorist friends of Barack Obama who accept from Vietnamese communists rings made from downed US planes.]  So while we won't be using the u-word here, two recent MSNBC shows offer a remarkable contrast. Let's…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Journalists Convinced Government Bailouts Better Solution

Politicians, media concur, 'we had no choice' to intervene in almost everything.
Dan Gainor
 

Break Out Santeria Rooster: Miami Herald Cuts Another 119 Jobs

P.J. Gladnick
 

Baltimore Sun Critic: 'MSNBC Paying For Its Olbermann Sins

Tim Graham
 

CNN's Cafferty: Not Voting Obama? You're a Racist

To show the empty "logic" that Jack Cafferty of CNN employs in his political commentary all one need do is check out his September 16 Political Ticker blog post on why the race for the White House is so tight in the polls. Reason: the country is filled with racists. Yes, folks, if you are voting against Obama (and no matter who or what you are actually supporting and why) it must be because you…
Warner Todd Huston
 

CNNPolitics.com: 'McCain Adviser Fiorina: Palin Not Ready to Run a Cor

Mike Bates
 

TIME Gives Distorted View of McCain's, Obama's Character

The GOP presidential nominee is manipulating public opinion, the Democratic nominee is a victim. But is it really vice versa?
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

Odyssey Networks Seek to Bring Wholesome Programming to a Wider Audien

Is Hollywood overlooking the demand for inoffensive entertainment?
Kristen Fyfe