The Daily Kos Bile Fest

How can politicians cooperate across the aisle when their backers are hurling hateful, shocking language at political adversaries?
David Niedrauer
 

Time.com: Are Baseball Umpires Racist

In its August 13 article, Time.com asks the question: "Are Baseball Umpires Racist?" As you can imagine, the title itself suggests the answer. The article begins with this ominous opening: Bad calls by the ump are as much a part of baseball as home run records, rabid fans and watery beer, but a new study shows that an umpire's decision may have a disturbing ulterior motive: racism.
Jason Aslinger
 

More See 'Surge' Success, But CBS Buries Poll Finding 20 Minutes Into

When a CBS News poll in July found 73 percent believed the surge of troops in Iraq was making the situation “worse” or having “no impact,” the CBS Evening News led with that number. But on Monday, when a new CBS poll discovered that percent had fallen 12 points to 61 percent, as the percent who think the surge is making the situation “better” jumped ten points from 19 to 29 percent, CBS gave it…
Brent Baker
 

Chris Matthews Denounces 'Bum' Karl Rove

Chris Matthews' "Hardball" producers let the host down, as neither Sen. Pat Leahy or Rep. Henry Waxman accepted Matthews' invitation to grill Karl Rove on tonight's 5pm edition of Hardball. However that didn't stop Matthews from taking a few shots of his own at the President's adviser, as he called Rove a "bum," and sarcastically commented on Rove's genius as he greeted viewers of the August 13th…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

ABC: Stock Market 'Crashing,' 'Legalized Gambling' Ruins Family's Mort

Chris Cuomo says 'hard-working' Americans may never 'live the American dream.'
Stuart James
 

Strange Bedfellows: NYT Supporting Agribusiness to Help Illegals

Clay Waters
 

CBS Blames Recently Bankrupt Airline for Being Stingy

'Evening News' uses nightmare U.S. Customs delay to chide airlines.
Paul Detrick
 

Leaked Document Shows Britain Can’t Meet EU’s Renewable Energy Tar

As Congress debates ways to combat climate change, a leaked internal briefing to officials in Great Britain (PDF available here) showed members of that government backtracking on renewable energy targets set forth by the European Union and agreed upon by former Prime Minister Tony Blair. As reported by England's Guardian Monday (emphasis added throughout, h/t Benny Peiser): In contrast to the…
Noel Sheppard
 

CBS's Julie Chen Endorses Leonardo DiCaprio's Alarmist Film

Justin McCarthy
 

CBS ‘Evening News’ Accuses Recently Bankrupt Airline of Being Stin

Paul Detrick
 

Meredith Vieira Blames Lack of Health Insurance for Americans' Shorten

Geoffrey Dickens
 

ABC's Cuomo Bemoans 'Crashing' of Stock Market – er, 'Legalized Gamb

Julia A. Seymour
 

Blogger Takes on WashPost's Juvenile Style Section Item on Fred Thomps

I saw this yesterday but didn't work up anything on it. Basically it's a lame Style section front-pager from Sunday that fixates on how dull/boring/lame/stupid-sounding the name "Fred" is, and what that means for presumptive GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Fortunately Myra Langerhas of "Snarking Dawg" worked up a snarky blog post and so I thought I'd share that with you. Below is the…
Ken Shepherd
 

NYT's Poster Child for Islamic Moderates Falls off the Poster

NYT May 4: "The principal, Debbie Almontaser...has been vilified on Web sites as having an 'Islamist agenda.'" NYT August 11: Almontaser "resigned under pressure after she was quoted defending the use of the word 'intifada' as a T-shirt slogan."
Clay Waters