NYT: Constitution? Schmonstitution

At least they're open about it: the New York Times disdains Supreme Court justices who hew to the principles upon which this country was founded. The Times's admission came in the course of an editorial calling on Obama and Clinton to put aside their bickering and focus on beating John McCain. That is vital, in the Times's view, given McCain's pledge to nominate Supreme Court justices in the…
Mark Finkelstein

As Steph Says It's 'Over,' Sawyer Proclaims 'It Was a Great Night

See Bonus Coverage at foot: Morning Joe Mocks Whopper-Telling WolfsonWhat kind of night is one on which Hillary Clinton, in the eyes of many, lost her shot at the nomination? "A great night"—according to Diane Sawyer.Sawyer made her remark at the opening of today's GMA. She started with some shtick with co-anchor Robin Roberts, displaying a series of cards explaining she was losing her voice,…
Mark Finkelstein

Olbermann Accuses FNC of Overcovering Jeremiah Wright

Brad Wilmouth

Will Media Ignore Bad Wright News in the Exit Polls

Tim Graham

SFChron Spreads False Immigration Raids Story With 'ICE Raids Frighten

The San Francisco Chronicle and the various demagogue politicians of Berkeley and Oakland, California should really be ashamed of themselves for ginning up into sensational "raids" a few arrests by ICE agents and making of them actions designed to empty those community's schools of children. In reality a few routine U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in those cities occurred…
Warner Todd Huston

Matthews: Shame on All Who Participated in Rush's 'Operation Chaos

Rush Limbaugh's “Operation Chaos,” the effort to urge conservatives and Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the Democratic nomination battle, certainly annoys MSNBC's Chris Matthews who, during primary coverage Tuesday night, denounced the “mischief-making” by “a talk jock.” In the 11:30 PM EDT half hour, Matthews offered a “Keith [Olbermann]-style special comment” about…
Brent Baker

Walters Makes Light of Adultery in Autobiography

News of Barbara Walters' cheating past gets a free pass from Oprah and The Washington Post.
Colleen Raezler

Applauding 'Grand Theft

Yes, young lads, you can visit strip clubs and get lap dances, pick up prostitutes, go on assassination missions and conduct gangland-style executions. The New York Times applauded the game's winsome procession of grifters, hustlers, drug peddlers and other gloriously unrepentant lowlifes.
L. Brent Bozell III

Stars and Stripes, Newsweek Tut-Tut Concerns about Porn on Military Ba

The big newsweekly suggests Congressman's motive for proposing a ban is re-election, not the welfare of the troops.
Kristen Fyfe

AP: 'Far Right' Realizes McCain Judicial Nominees Anti-Roe v. Wade

Those opposed to the Roe v Wade abortion decision are “the far right” in the vernacular of the Associated Press. In a dispatch datelined from Winston-Salem, North Carolina where John McCain delivered an address Tuesday castigating Barack Obama for voting against the confirmations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, as he pledged to name non-activist judges, reporter Libby Quaid…
Brent Baker

ABC Adds to Parade of Hapless Economic Victims, Now No Electricity

Four days after NBC centered a story around an elderly couple forced to move “into their van, sleeping on a mattress in the back” while “high food costs have meant” they've “gone hungry,” ABC's World News caught up Tuesday night with a nearly as silly anecdotal report on how families in Minnesota can no longer afford electricity. In the first of two families she showcased, reporter Gigi Stone…
Brent Baker

Media Misreport Nun Voter ID Story

If you have been watching the primary election coverage tonight you've probably seen at least one story about elderly nuns from South Bend, Indiana, who were "denied the right to vote" for lack of a photo ID.It's a shame when the mainstream media, bear false witness. Even more so when they exploit the nun angle to carry water for left-wing groups that opposed the law all the way up to the U.S.…
Ken Shepherd

AP: 'Stephen King Fires Back After [NewsBusters] Blogger Attacks Remar

The battle between NewsBusters and horror novelist Stephen King went national Tuesday when the Associated Press picked up the story.For those that haven't been following this, on Monday, NewsBusters reported King's disgraceful comments -- made in front of a group of high school students at the Library of Congress in April -- about people who can't read having few options other than to enlist in…
Noel Sheppard

Final Tuesday

Is it crunch time for Hillary? Discuss the North Carolina and Indiana reports here...
NB Staff