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Tapper: 'Obama Decries Lobbyist Cash; Biden Has Reaped It In
ABC's Jake Tapper has exposed an interesting campaign finance factoid concerning presumptive Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden that should get a lot of attention if media are going to fairly cover the political history of the Delaware senator.As Tapper posted moments ago at his "Political Punch" blog, Biden doesn't share the same supposed disdain for lobbyist cash as his presumptive…
Biden 1988 Presidential Campaign Wiki Worked Over
Well, well. The portion of Joe Biden's Wikipedia entry relating to his 1988 presidential campaign has been worked over a bit. Specifics relating to his undergraduate grades have strangely disappeared. There are other subtle changes as well.Comparison pics are after the jump.
Will Biden's Racial Slurs be Part of Obama's VP Pick Coverage
As my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported Saturday, the racial slurs/gaffes of Sen. Joe Biden have already been discussed as "one of his strengths."Despite this surprising segment on Saturday's special edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," one has to wonder just how much coverage the various racially insensitive remarks by the Delaware Senator are going to get in the coming days as press members…
Weekend Captionfest II
Original caption: Joe Biden speaks with Barack Obama at the Sisters on Target banquet in Des Moines, Iowa. Oct. 13, 2007 file photo.
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: VP Joe Biden?The Washington Post just released a poll suggesting this pick does nothing for Obama. What do you think?Does Biden's vote for the Iraq War now prevent Obama from pointing his finger at McCain for making the same vote? Finally with the news now out that Obama didn't even vet Hillary as veep, does the choice of Biden further…
Harwood: Biden's Racially-Insensitive Gaffes 'A Strength
You know the old software programmer's excuse: "that's not a bug. That's a feature!" John Harwood of CNBC/NYT has produced a political variation on the theme to buff up Joe Biden. Biden's gaffes, including the racially-insensitive ones, are actually . . . "a strength."Harwood was chatting with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on a special Morning Joe edition today, and the topic of Biden's…
Fineman: Obama Did Hillary Favor by Not Considering Her
That didn't take long. Exactly five minutes before Obama's official text message went out this morning, Howard Fineman had an article up at Newsweek praising the process by which Obama picked his running mate. He even turned lemons into lemonade, claiming Hillary really didn't want to be considered and that Obama "did her a favor" by not doing so. R-i-g-h-h-t.First, the praise:The minute-by-…
George Clooney's Father, Nick Clooney, to Join American University Sta
Democrats love their celebrities, and academia, well, they'll settle for celebrities' fathers. Cinncinatti.com's John Kiesewetter reports that Nick Clooney, George's dad, will be the "distinguished journalist in residence" at the American University in Washington D.C.If George Clooney's dad, Nick Clooney, can be a professor of journalism, maybe I gave George's foreign policy chops short shrift.
NBC Uses Biden to Pursue 'Emblematic' McCain Homes Topic
NBC's Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell on Friday night used their presumption, that Senator Joe Biden is Barack Obama's VP choice, to showcase, for a second straight night, the Obama campaign's attack on John McCain over his inability to say how many homes he owns. In setting up the lead Nightly News story on VP speculation, Williams highlighted how “the Obama camp is telling the McCain…
Is Evan Bayh Obama's VP Pick
An ABC affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri, is reporting that a printing company in Lenexa, Kansas, has already started creating bumper stickers promoting "Obama Bayh '08": After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa.KMBC's Micheal…
Time's Twisted 'Worst Vice Presidents' List
Correction/Author's Clarification: Since I wrote this, Time has added two vice presidents to its list, one of them Henry Wallace. There were originally 13 VPs named; now there are 15. The cache page of the first VP listed, Aaron Burr, shows him as "1 of 13." I don't know for how long that will be shown. Is someone at Time reading NewsBusters? Time Magazine names the "Worst Vice Presidents in…
Fake & Innaccurate: No 'Shared' Pulitzers for LAT's Kevin Roderick
Sometimes simply adding the link to our Editors' Picks sidebar just isn't enough. First reported by Luke Ford and confirmed by ERS News, it looks like LA Observed's Kevin Roderick's didn't actually share two Pulitzer Prizes after all. You see, there's sharing and then there's sharing. In the first sense, we all "shared" in Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor's Olympic Gold medal. In the second…