Will Biden's Racial Slurs be Part of Obama's VP Pick Coverage
August 23rd, 2008 11:11 AM
As my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported Saturday, the racial slurs/gaffes of Sen. Joe Biden have already been discussed as "one of his strengths."Despite this surprising segment on Saturday's special edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," one has to wonder just how much coverage the various racially insensitive remarks by the Delaware Senator are going to get in the coming days as press members…
Weekend Captionfest II
August 23rd, 2008 11:10 AM
Original caption: Joe Biden speaks with Barack Obama at the Sisters on Target banquet in Des Moines, Iowa. Oct. 13, 2007 file photo.
Harwood: Biden's Racially-Insensitive Gaffes 'A Strength
August 23rd, 2008 9:27 AM
You know the old software programmer's excuse: "that's not a bug. That's a feature!" John Harwood of CNBC/NYT has produced a political variation on the theme to buff up Joe Biden. Biden's gaffes, including the racially-insensitive ones, are actually . . . "a strength."Harwood was chatting with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on a special Morning Joe edition today, and the topic of Biden's…
Fineman: Obama Did Hillary Favor by Not Considering Her
August 23rd, 2008 7:05 AM
That didn't take long. Exactly five minutes before Obama's official text message went out this morning, Howard Fineman had an article up at Newsweek praising the process by which Obama picked his running mate. He even turned lemons into lemonade, claiming Hillary really didn't want to be considered and that Obama "did her a favor" by not doing so. R-i-g-h-h-t.First, the praise:The minute-by-…
NBC Uses Biden to Pursue 'Emblematic' McCain Homes Topic
August 22nd, 2008 8:49 PM
NBC's Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell on Friday night used their presumption, that Senator Joe Biden is Barack Obama's VP choice, to showcase, for a second straight night, the Obama campaign's attack on John McCain over his inability to say how many homes he owns. In setting up the lead Nightly News story on VP speculation, Williams highlighted how “the Obama camp is telling the McCain…
Is Evan Bayh Obama's VP Pick
August 22nd, 2008 8:25 PM
An ABC affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri, is reporting that a printing company in Lenexa, Kansas, has already started creating bumper stickers promoting "Obama Bayh '08": After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa.KMBC's Micheal…
Time's Twisted 'Worst Vice Presidents' List
August 22nd, 2008 5:57 PM
Correction/Author's Clarification: Since I wrote this, Time has added two vice presidents to its list, one of them Henry Wallace. There were originally 13 VPs named; now there are 15. The cache page of the first VP listed, Aaron Burr, shows him as "1 of 13." I don't know for how long that will be shown. Is someone at Time reading NewsBusters? Time Magazine names the "Worst Vice Presidents in…
MSM Ignores Democrat Lawsuit Against Obama
August 22nd, 2008 4:08 PM
Imagine if a prominent Mitt Romney supporter who was a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania as well as former Republican Party chair in Montgomery County in that state had filed a lawsuit against John McCain questioning his eligibility to become president. How many milliseconds after the filing of that lawsuit do you think it would take for that news to be prominently featured on the…
Weekend Captionfest
August 22nd, 2008 4:00 PM
Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Lynchburg, North Carolina, August 20, 2008. Photo Reuters/Jim Young.
Bozell Column: Bracing for the Goo
August 22nd, 2008 11:03 AM
When Sen. John Kerry arrived in Boston for the last Democratic convention, the TV news stars thought they’d died and gone to political heaven. Dan Rather said Kerry’s speech drove the crowd in Boston into “a three-thousand-gallon attack about every three minutes,” and Newsweek’s Jon Meacham was comparing Kerry to Abraham Lincoln on MSNBC. If media liberals can get that excited over Kerry,…
ABC Pushes McCain 'Housing Crisis,' But Just 13 Seconds for Rezko
August 22nd, 2008 10:14 AM
The most important news event in the universe, according to Friday’s Good Morning America, was John McCain’s gaffe about not knowing how many houses he and his wife own, as ABC led off its morning newscast with the story. ABC’s Jake Tapper devoted nearly two minutes to recounting John McCain’s property holdings after snarkily pointing out that he and his wife own just one house — “well, actually…
Smith's Softball: 'McCain's Attacks Condescending—Does It Anger You
August 22nd, 2008 8:03 AM
Even by MSM standards, Harry Smith's "interview" of Barack Obama was a disgrace. How soft were Smith's lobs? Had this been a slow-pitch league, Harry might still have been booted for insufficient MPH. CBS aired Smith's chat with the Dem candidate, conducted yesterday, on this morning's Early Show. After a clip of McCain saying he questioned Obama's judgment, not his patriotism, Smith teed it…
