Just Facts: Exposing the Media’s Election-Year Economic Games
Writing at JustFacts.com, James Agresti has a fascinating article documenting how the media spin the economy during Democratic and Republican administrations and during election years. “With another presidential election upon us and a Republican in the White House, negatively skewed economic reporting is climaxing,” Agresti writes. After detailing how the media castigated George W. Bush for…
Weekend Captionfest II
Sarah Palin [left] and Tina Fey cross paths on the set of Saturday Night Live, October 18, 2008.
Tuned In To See Sarah, And Nasty Clarence Thomas Joke Broke Out
I thought Sarah Palin did more than fine on Saturday Night Live [Noel's got the video here]. In particular, during her Weekend Update appearance Palin displayed a speaking poise and polish exceeding that of the other candidates on both tickets. But Republicans who agree to appear on such shows put themselves in the lap of the liberal media gods. And those lesser deities abused their power last…
Sarah Palin's Guest Appearance on Saturday Night Live
Video of Palin's second appearance -- on the "Weekend Update" segment -- follows below the fold:
Cindy McCain's Attorney Sends Complaint Letter to NYT's Keller
Before the New York Times published Saturday's 2500-word, front-page hit piece about Cindy McCain, an attorney representing the wife of the Arizona senator sent a letter to executive editor Bill Keller appealing to his "sense of fairness, balance and decency" to not run "another story about her."In the correspondence, which has been posted in full by Time magazine's Mark Halperin (h/t NBer Bob Mc…
Olbermann Responds to McCain's Charity Roasting by Bashing Palin
Keith Olbermann cowardly responded to the jokes John McCain made about him at Thursday's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner by attacking Gov. Sarah Palin.After showing some of the hysterical jibes made at the charity event by McCain and Barack Obama, the "Countdown" host on Friday picked up a microphone, and while doing an astoundingly poor impersonation of a nightclub comic, launched…
GMA Robo-Reports Against McCain
Someone should explain to ABC: it ain't "dirty" if it's true. GMA got the collective vapors this morning over the robo-calls the RNC and McCain campaign are making, informing voters of Barack Obama's close association with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. In GMA's book, there's no real difference between these calls—which Cokie Roberts alluded to as "dirtier" tactics—and the calls made against…
NBC: 'If World Had a Vote, Barack Obama Would Win in a Landslide
Friday's NBC Nightly News devoted a story to how around the world “people want to turn a page on the Bush years” and, as if it's relevant, “if the world had a vote, Barack Obama would win in a landslide.” A suggestion to viewers on what they must do to restore America's honor? Reporter Dawna Friesen warned that the next President “faces a grim reality: Much of the world deeply distrusts, even…
Couric Trumpets Chicago Tribune's Obama Endorsement
“The Chicago Tribune did something today it had never done before -- it had not endorsed a Democrat for President, not even Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson in his two runs,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric touted Friday night before heralding the endorsement of the candidate from the paper's circulation area: “But today, the Trib endorsed Illinois Senator Barack Obama. It said he's better…
