Giuliani Scoffs at Blitzer's Claim Obama 'Scrutinized for Months
In the midst of being pounded by Wolf Blitzer and other CNN panelists about Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin's supposedly inadequate experience, Rudy Giuliani wondered late Tuesday afternoon: “Why did Barack Obama get a pass on his experience? And why is Sarah Palin's experience, which from the executive point of view is considerably more than Barack Obama's, under such scrutiny?” Blitzer…
CNN Reveals Anti-Abstinence Bias in Report on Palin's Daughter
CNN correspondent Kyra Phillips used a report on the "hometown reaction" to the news of Sarah Palin's pregnant teenaged daughter during today's "American Morning" to highlight the need for sex-education in schools. Phillips noted, "But to some, the 17-year-old's pregnancy is a political issue. Her mother supports strong family values and teaching abstinence, but not sex education in schools.…
Time's Joe Klein: No Reporter Has Said Bristol Palin Anything But Priv
Updated below.Time's Joe Klein apparently blogs under a rock.:I'm slightly perplexed by the various Republican efforts to express outrage over the press and Democratic reaction to Bristol Palin's pregnancy. Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't heard or read a single journalist--or Democrat--say that this was anything other than a private matter. In fact, Barack Obama, the son of an 18-year-…
NYT Questions Palin's 'Parenting'; Bumiller Flubs Palin's AIP 'Members
Editor's Note: A longer version of this article originally appeared on our affiliated site Times Watch.Bristol Palin's pregnancy made the top of the fold of Tuesday's New York Times in a story by Elisabeth Bumiller, who helpfully summarized all the scandalettes (and at least one fake one) burbling around the Palin pick in "Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process." A series of…
NB's Sheffield on KIRO Live from Radio Row @ the RNC
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- NewsBusters editor Matthew Sheffield appeared on KIRO radio, 710 AM in Seattle and available online streaming right here. Sheffield was a guest on the Dori Monson Show, live from Radio Row at the Republican Convention.Among the topics: the liberal lineup at MSNBC covering the Democratic and Republican conventions versus the more politically balanced staff at Fox News, as well as…
Steele Tells NewsBusters Campaign Coverage 'Has Been a Joke
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Yesterday NewsBusters caught up with GOPAC chairman and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele at the Xcel Center, site of the Republican National Convention.Steele told us the coverage of the campaign so far has "been a joke," and that "if the shoe were on the other foot, [media] would be scrutinizing the heck out of a black Republican or a Hispanic Republican" running for…
Media Hyped Gustav Fizzles Out, Oil and Gas Prices Plummet
For almost a week, practically foaming at the mouth media members scared the heck out of the American people presaging doom and gloom in New Orleans as well as rising oil and gas prices all at the hands of a hurricane that hadn't even entered the Gulf of Mexico yet.Of course, let's not forget the reports about Hurricane Gustav destroying the Republican National Convention thereby damaging John…
Nuthin' MSM Can't Spin Against Sarah: Now She's Too Popular
Is there nothing—nothing?—that the MSM won't try to spin against Sarah Palin? They've turned the matter of her Down syndrome son into a suggestion she will neglect her child. Twisted the news of her daughter's pregnancy into a "damaging revelation" that will cause her image to "suffer." Now, in perhaps the most acrobatic stunt yet, Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the intensity of Palin's…
CBS: Palin Daughter Pregnancy Has ‘Stolen John McCain’s Limelight
Tuesday’s CBS Early Show devoted four separate segments to news that the teenage daughter of McCain running mate Sarah Palin is pregnant, with co-host Maggie Rodriguez declaring: "Private lives, pregnancy, and politics. A stunning start to the Republican convention, as delegates grapple with Sarah Palin's family life. I'm Maggie Rodriguez in St. Paul. The bombshell pregnancy announcement that's…
