Slate Editor Debate Tip for Joe Biden: Imitate Campbell Brown

P.J. Gladnick
 

Oprah Refuses To Interview Sarah Palin

When I saw this headline at the Drudge Report, I thought it had to be a mistake:OPRAH REFUSES: PALIN WON'T BE ON Are you kidding me? The strongest and most popular voice for women in this country is refusing to interview the first woman nominated to be vice president in 24 years?WHAT? According to ABCNews.com, in an article stunningly titled, "Is Oprah Biased? Host Won't Interview Palin," such…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chgo Sun-Times: Palin 'Shook Up Every Registered Voter in the 'Hood

Mike Bates
 

Convention Reminded NYT of 'Belligerent' Buchanan Speech from

In his Friday "Political Memo," "Firing Up the Faithful With Echoes of Culture War Rhetoric," the New York Times's conservative-beat reporter David Kirkpatrick, watching the Republican Convention, uniquely managed to hear echoes of the GOP's 1992 convention -- specifically what Kirkpatrick called the "belligerence" of Pat Buchanan's "cultural war" speech, widely cited in the media (though not…
Clay Waters
 

Matthews: 'Foul Play' Behind Balloon Drop on Mitchell

Were those evil Republicans attempting to carpet-bomb Andrea Mitchell with balloons at the RNC last night?  Chris Matthews mused about the possibility on Hardball this afternoon.  The footage of Andrea gamely batting away the balloons has received a lot of play.  This morning, the Today show had fun with it.  But Matthews seemed to conceive a more sinister scenario:CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you were…
Mark Finkelstein
 

GOP Senate Leader: Greens Have 'Just Gotten More Nutty

McConnell pushes pro-energy agenda, remarks liberal media bias not as bad as it once was.
Jeff Poor
 

Weekend Captionfest

Piper Palin, preparing to groom brother Trig's hair.
NB Staff
 

Does Obama Regularly Say Surge Succeeded 'Beyond Our Wildest Dreams

Tim Graham
 

Time Rejects Climate Change as Cause of Storm Intensity

Magazine reports disasters worse due to population, not global warming
Julia A. Seymour
 

Convention Acknowledgments From NB's Managing Editor

ATLANTA, Georgia-- As I wait for my plane back to Washington, D.C., I thought I'd take the time to thank those who made our NewsBusters trip to cover the Republican National Convention successful.First off to you, the readers of NewsBusters, for loyally coming back day after day, and many of you hour after hour, to catch our in-depth coverage of the media's liberal bias, thank you. It was an…
Ken Shepherd
 

'American Morning' Fact Checks Palin But Not Obama or Biden

Friday's "American Morning" featured a segment dedicated to fact checking Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech to the Republican National Convention. In introducing the reporter who did the fact checking, co-host Kiran Chetry claimed, "CNN's Deborah Feyerick is here to fact check Palin's speech and I'm sure whenever politics is involved we have to fact check these."…
Lyndsi Thomas
 

CBS Squeezes in Bad Economic News before McCain Speech

Julia A. Seymour
 

'Today' Show Wonders Why McCain Speech Didn't Trash GOP

Scott Whitlock
 

CBS: Sarah Palin ‘Double Standard’ vs. ‘Fair Questions’ About

On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith talked to a panel of working moms about the media questioning Sarah Palin’s duel role as a mother and a vice presidential candidate: "Why is it that every time a woman starts ascending up a certain part of the food chain, we have this conversation all over again?...Now, if Sarah Palin's husband were in her spot, would we have asked that question in…
Kyle Drennen