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CBN's David Brody Fails The Integrity Test

By Erick Erickson | August 29, 2008 | 18:18

originally posted at RedState at 12:55 p.m. EDT

CBN's David Brody is on the phone with CNN right now getting himself drummed out of the conservative movement.

Why?

Well, he's on peddling what happened at a private meeting at the Council For National Policy with regards to Palin. This is a huge no-no, guests are invited under the condition that meetings remain private to keep conversations candid and open.

Bashing McCain on Russia, AP Fails to Disclose Dem Analyst's Ties

By Erick Erickson | August 13, 2008 | 20:38

This is so typical.

John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Yes, it is the same talking point Obama and the Russians have been using all week.

This time they kicked it up a notch with a law professor, Stephen Gillers, willing to comment:

Media's Double Standard on Race-based Voting

By Erick Erickson | July 30, 2008 | 16:43

Is it okay to vote against a candidate because of his race? The answer to the question is no. It is, in fact, the only acceptable answer. But I ask the question because it raises an important point about the media, the Democrats, and Barack Obama himself.

We are, each year, treated to national media reports on race relations in this country and they invariably discuss white America coming to terms with other races in this country. Very, very rarely does the media ever report on other races coming to terms with white America.

It is not really relevant, frankly, to point out that most black voters are going to vote in droves for Barack Obama. Regardless of his race, black voters would vote for the Democrat. But when you read about Congressman Steve Cohen's race in Tennessee's Ninth Congressional District, you really are confronted by both racism and anti-Semitism in a way we rarely think about in this country. And the media is silent. Barack Obama is silent.

Steve Cohen just might lose his re-election not because he has been ineffective in representing his district, but because he is white. And a number of black members of Congress are happy about that.