McCain vs. Obama Round II
October 7th, 2008 9:04 PM
John McCain and Barack Obama are squaring off tonight at 9pm ET. Will the debate prove influential in the presidential race? Any media bias predictions?Discuss the main event here or join our live chat.
Obama Needs Police Protection from Palin? Couric Suggests So
October 7th, 2008 8:58 PM
Over video simply showing Barack Obama walking down the steps from his airplane, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday night juxtaposed how Obama “was given a police escort to his hotel,” as if that’s anything unusual for a presidential nominee under standard Secret Service protection, with how “in recent days, he's been under a non-stop verbal assault from Sarah Palin.” So the Governor…
NYT Public Editor Ludicrously Argues Paper Tougher on Obama
October 7th, 2008 8:45 PM
In his weekly column, New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt ludicrously argued that Barack Obama has gotten tougher coverage since January 2007 (when Obama entered the race) than John McCain:By my count, The Times has published more tough articles on Obama, 20, than on McCain, 13, since the beginning of last year.The Times has never filed any story targeting Obama that remotely approaches the…
Liberal Media Bias 'Evidence' McCain is Losing
October 7th, 2008 8:05 PM
Taking liberal media audacity to higher levels, John Heilemann would have you believe that the loss of support from liberal journalists is itself evidence the wheels are falling off the McCain campaign. Heilemann recently wrote about a "shift" in the attitudes and opininos of the media away from John McCain and towards Barack Obama. His examples are, well, typical.Jonathan Alter, Joe Klein,…
MRC’s Worst of the Week: Bashing Palin for Daring to Mention Terrori
October 7th, 2008 7:45 PM
Barack Obama received a valuable campaign contribution from the New York Times on Saturday: a front-page piece reviewing Obama's lengthy association with the ’60s and ’70s Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. The Times' key sentence asserted: "The two men do not appear to have been close."The Times' stamp of disapproval was all the rest of the media needed to reject the idea that Obama's…
Checking the Fact-checkers
October 7th, 2008 7:07 PM
Fact-checking politicians seems to be the journalistic "in" thing to do this campaign season. Aside from the self-aggrandizing nature of such pronouncements, there isn't anything necessarily wrong with the concept. The devil is in the details, however. Over at the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto notes that these esoteric fact check stories too often end up as opinion pieces criticizing the…
Mark Levin Interviews Bob Bennett; Bennett Deconstructs the Media Myth
October 7th, 2008 5:41 PM
Note: This serves to at least partially answer ABC's David Wright's idiotic question.Bob Bennett is a man of integrity, and the Democratic half of the political Bennett Brothers. He appeared last night on Mark Levin's nationally syndicated radio show to debunk the media myth built-up around Arizona Senator John McCain's role in the Keating Five mess circa the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Brother…
MSNBC's Shuster Suggests McCain Camp Encouraging Obama As Terrorist Ta
October 7th, 2008 5:38 PM
MSNBC's David Shuster knows how to treat a lady right. Unless that lady is Rep. Marsha Blackburn. Last year we noted how he played a gotcha game with the Tennessee Republican over the death of a soldier he mistakenly thought was from her district. He subsequently apologized. Today the MSNBC anchor put Blackburn on the spot by calling on her to defend the McCain campaign in light of inappropriate…
ABC's David Wright: What's Worse? Bomber Ayers or Keating 5 Scandal
October 7th, 2008 4:41 PM
For the second time on Monday, ABC reporter David Wright continued to spin and justify Barack Obama's relationship with former terrorist bomber William Ayers. On the October 6 edition of "Nightline," he compared the McCain campaign's comments about the ex-domestic terrorist with the Obama team's new ads centering on the Arizona senator and the Keating 5 scandal. Wright (see file photo at right)…
AP: McCain Linked to Iran-Contra, ‘Nazi Collaborators,’ and ‘Rig
October 7th, 2008 4:40 PM
On Tuesday, an Associated Press article featured on MSNBC.com and briefly as a top headline on the popular internet homepage MSN.com was titled: "McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra case." The subtitle read: "Organization had ties to former Nazi collaborators, right-wing death squads." The article attacked a group founded by retired U.S. General John Singlaub: "The U.S. Council for World…
CNN’s Drew Griffin Does a Real Fact-Check on Obama/Ayers Connection
October 7th, 2008 4:21 PM
During a report on Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360 program, CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin presented many of the missing details about the relationship between Barack Obama and left-wing terrorist William Ayers that two earlier "Truth Squad" reports on the network on Sunday and Monday omitted. Griffin stated that despite the spin of the Obama campaign and their mainstream media…
Believing The Worst In NBC
October 7th, 2008 3:45 PM
There's a theory floating around the right side of the blogosphere that NBC removed a "Saturday Night Live" skit from the Internet because the network had second thoughts about making fun of liberals or caught too much heat for doing so.But a new theory has surfaced in the mainstream media. Advertising Age is reporting that the skit may have been pulled for apolitical reasons. "A good guess: The…
Barbara Walters: Stop Discussing William Ayers
October 7th, 2008 3:39 PM
What may possibly be a peek into why the mainstream media has been less than enthusiastic in investigating Barack Obama’s background and associations, Barbara Walters, on the October 7 "View," called on all to "stop slinging mud around" with Obama’s ties and also John McCain’s past ties to Charles Keating. A noticeably distressed Elisabeth Hasselbeck, possibly out of exhaustion from taking on…
