What Does 'Family Friendly' Mean

Apparently in today's TV landscape it includes bloody murders and dialogue filled with sexual slang.
L. Brent Bozell III
 

Did FNC's Gretchen Carlson Throw 'Digs' and 'Disses' at McAuliffe

The leftist Fox News Channel-monitoring bloggers at News Hounds are quite sensitive about how fiercely the Democrats are questioned. On Wednesday, "Donna" was thrilled at how well former DNC chairman and Hillary campaign operative Terry McAuliffe did on Fox & Friends. (Well, she kept calling him "McCauliffe.") He was a spin-control role model, apparently. But FNC’s Gretchen Carlson was…
Tim Graham
 

Matthews: Obama Win Will Send Message that 'Despised' America is Ready

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses Chris Matthews seemed to be issuing marching orders to Democratic voters as he declared that only a Barack Obama victory would send the message to the world that a "despised" America was truly ready to "change." In the event of an Obama win Matthews offered the following preview of his election night spin on the January 2 edition of MSNBC's "Hardball":
Geoffrey Dickens
 

CBS ‘Early Show’ Discusses Obama's ‘Priceless Publicity’ in Io

In a quick round of team coverage of top Democratic and Republican candidates in Iowa on Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show, " Political Correspondent Dean Reynolds led the segment with this glowing assessment of Barack Obama’s campaign:Well, it's all about momentum now, and thanks to a promising poll from an influential newspaper, Barack Obama seems to have it and the others don't. Obama flew across…
Kyle Drennen
 

Iowa: 'Media Ready to Take 3rd-Place McCain Finish and Catapult Him to

Credit Chuck Todd for candor. The NBC News Political Director has acknowledged that the media is poised to take a third-place finish by John McCain in Iowa, declare him the winner and catapult the Arizona senator to victory in New Hampshire. Todd appeared with the Politico's Roger Simon on this afternoon's Hardball.View video here.
Mark Finkelstein
 

Cramer Blasts Fed for ‘Punishing’ Borrowers, Later Compares Fed to

Jeff Poor
 

Meredith Vieira Touts Hillary as Natural, Warm, and Genuine

Tim Graham
 

NY Times Editorial Accuses Bush of Being in ‘Denial’ about U.S. Ec

The economy is about to dive off a cliff and it's all President George W. Bush's fault, according to The New York Times editorial board. A January 2 Times editorial was pretty pessimistic about the economy in 2008, mocking Bush and forecasting doom. "As 2008 begins, house prices are still skidding, bank losses are still mounting, oil is again flirting with $100 a barrel and consumers are…
Jeff Poor
 

NY Times Says Free Market a False Idol

Clay Waters
 

Liberal WaPo Columnist Resurrects Lament About Redskins Name

Update/Related Post link added below.First, it goes without saying that Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy is entitled to his opinion as well, a columnist. So my gripe here isn't so much about liberal bias as it is about Milloy's insistence on projecting a politically correct pall, in the heat of playoff season, over the ONE thing that can unite Washingtonians across party lines. Our…
Ken Shepherd
 

Cramer: The Fed 'Wants a Recession

CNBC 'Mad Money' host accuses Fed of 'punishing' public with gradual rate cuts.
Jeff Poor
 

CNN Hypes Christian Symbolism in Another Huckabee Ad

Secularized networks keep making mountains out of Christian-symbol molehills on the campaign trail. At CNN.com on Monday, reporter Rebecca Sinderbrand highlighted how a new Mike Huckabee ad has a Christian ichthys or fish symbol in it, on a banner for the Iowa Christian Alliance: "For the second time in two weeks, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has aired a commercial in which a Christian…
Tim Graham
 

Faulty Media Polls Fuel Iowa 'Expectations' Game

As you’ve already been told a thousand times, with only a day to go before the Iowa caucuses, the polls are showing a statistical three-way tie between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards atop the Democratic field, and a similarly close two-way race between Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.But the polls are probably wrong. Or maybe they’re right -- we won’t really know until…
Rich Noyes
 

ABC's Cuomo Again Frets About Racist American Voters

For the second time in less than a month, "Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo asked a Democratic presidential candidate to speculate about the inherent racism of American voters. Talking with John Edwards on Wednesday's edition of the program, the ABC journalist wondered about Thursday's Iowa caucus. He inquired, "When you think people get into the room, do you think race or gender may…
Scott Whitlock