The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a "firm pledge" not to raise taxes…
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November 12th, 2009 10:12 AM | Julia A. Seymour
November 11th, 2009 3:30 PM | Julia A. Seymour
The media gave President Obama credit during the campaign for promising not to raise taxes on the middle class. He was on the trail in New Hampshire when he made a “firm pledge” not to raise taxes…
November 10th, 2009 12:17 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Only in the mind of a liberal media journalist would Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Sen. Bernie Sanders be considered ideological "polar opposites," but that’s what NBC's Chuck Todd, during a piece…
November 5th, 2009 6:06 PM | Lachlan Markay
Coverage of Tuesday's election night took place during prime time, giving cable news partisans the responsibility of tracking and reporting details on the elections. Many observers, fed up with the…
November 4th, 2009 6:42 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Does the National Journal's Hotline inhabit the same universe as the rest of us? Democrats lost two-out-of-three among last night's big races. But in declaring Winners and Losers among non-…
November 3rd, 2009 1:07 PM | Scott Whitlock
Is there nothing MSNBC can’t spin? A graphic on Tuesday’s Morning Meeting hopefully announced, "NY-23: Win-Win For Dems?" Apparently, even if Democrats lose the special congressional election in…
October 29th, 2009 11:06 PM | Tim Graham
Mark Preston at CNN's Political Ticker reports there's a major Hollywood contingent judging a Health Reform Video Challenge contest for the Democratic Party's Organizing for American campaign. (…
October 28th, 2009 10:20 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Mike Allen has dumped on Doug Hoffmann's candidacy. Again. Yesterday, as noted here, Allen said Republicans would be "crazy" and "suicidal" to support the conservative in the special…
October 26th, 2009 2:17 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Slam dunk, or nothing-but-net three-pointer? Either way, with a line he got off today, Chuck Todd has surely scored some points in the battle over Pres. Obama's all-male White House basketball…
October 21st, 2009 11:36 AM | Dan Gainor
It’s an era of hoaxes and hucksters. Balloons shaped like 1950s UFOs dominate the skies and missing children out their parents for their stupid stunts. TV news shows are filled with made up news…
October 20th, 2009 8:35 PM | Brent Baker
ABC, CBS and NBC on Tuesday night all aired stories on President Barack Obama hobnobbing with the wealthy during a recession, at Manhattan fundraisers to be attended by the very Wall Street players…
October 9th, 2009 12:11 PM | Rich Noyes
Moments after President Obama’s remarks in the Rose Garden this morning, NBC anchor Brian Williams took a weird shot at the blogosphere as the “comic element of our society,” suggesting perhaps that…
October 9th, 2009 10:37 AM | Rich Noyes
Even Barack Obama’s fan club on NBC’s Today were stunned at the President’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-host Matt Lauer found it baffling: “We’re less than a year into the first term of this…
October 2nd, 2009 4:29 PM | Seton Motley
You Have No Idea Who I Am, Do You?
Our own Managing Editor Ken Shepherd delivered earlier NBC's Chuck Todd analyzing the bad news that Chicago finished fourth out of four as a potential…
October 2nd, 2009 1:07 PM | Ken Shepherd
Although he led the full-court press for Chicago, including the first-ever in-person lobbying effort by a sitting U.S. president for the host site for an Olympic Games, Barack Obama wasn't the…
October 1st, 2009 3:58 AM | Julia A. Seymour
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These are tough times. More than 3 million people have lost their jobs just since February 2009 and consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in September. The…
September 24th, 2009 8:32 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams made an observation about the United Nations General Assembly meeting one normally does not expect to hear from the mainstream media, as he…
September 22nd, 2009 6:13 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," ominously warned that the "activists on the radio," are "gonna pay," if "we have violence in this country against our president of any form," for having "…
September 16th, 2009 4:01 PM | Scott Whitlock
The Politico’s Mike Allen appeared on Wednesday’s Morning Joe to both defend the mainstream media’s decision to ignore the ACORN controversy and agree that a double standard is at work. Commenting…
September 15th, 2009 9:48 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Entrapment n. In criminal law, the act of law enforcement officers or government agents inducing or encouraging a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal expresses a desire not to…
September 15th, 2009 8:21 AM | Mark Finkelstein
I've been trying to give Chuck Todd the benefit of the doubt when it comes to classifying him as part of what Rush would call the state-controlled media. But that indulgence was strained to the…
September 12th, 2009 8:59 PM | Rusty Weiss
You would think MSNBC would have learned after getting caught in a deliberately doctored piece of video, which tried to portray town hall protestors as white racists. The video showed a man ‘packing…
September 10th, 2009 2:12 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Talk about an empathetic doctor, someone who really feels her patient's pain . . . On her MSNBC show this afternoon, here's how Dr. Nancy Snyderman described her reaction to Rep. Joe Wilson's "you…
September 9th, 2009 11:16 PM | Brent Baker
Some very friendly assessments of President Barack Obama's health care address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, most gathered from the quick analysis in the short time between Obama…
September 6th, 2009 4:51 PM | Noel Sheppard
Candidate Barack Obama promised a new era of bipartisanship in Washington if Americans put him in the White House.
Less than eight months after Inauguration Day, the New York Times has…