Carlson Convenes Bunny Ranch Workers to Discuss Oldest Profession's Et
May 3rd, 2007 8:52 AM
Tucker Carlson is a self-described libertarian who mentioned more than once this morning that in he has in the past supported fellow libertarian Ron Paul for president. Little wonder, then, that Carlson takes a live-and-let-love attitude toward the escort-service scandal that is threatening to rock Washington. For those who have not been following the case, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called…
Howard Kurtz and Arianna Huffington Aren’t Buying Tenet’s Line Eit
May 1st, 2007 6:17 PM
CBS might have bought the line of baloney former CIA Director George Tenet was selling on “60 Minutes” Sunday. However, according to the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, not many others are (emphasis mine throughout, h/t Glenn Reynolds):Somewhere out there, there must be someone defending George Tenet. I'm just having trouble finding that person (or persons).Let's see: Liberals are ticked off.…
ABC Makes Hooker Headlines, But Scorned Dick Morris Story as 'Nasty Li
April 30th, 2007 3:41 PM
On the heels of his award-winning destruction of Congressman Mark Foley over inappropriate instant messages to teenaged House pages, ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross is on the sex beat again. On Monday's Good Morning America, Ross highlighted ABC’s plans to rummage through a D.C. madam’s list of prostitution clients for "people in the Bush administration." But in 1996, when the tabloid…
Harold Ford’s Uncle Convicted, Media Bury Relationship and Party Aff
April 29th, 2007 2:59 PM
Assume for a moment that a prominent Republican’s uncle that happened to be a former state senator was convicted of accepting bribes. Do you think: This would have been headline/front-page newsThe family relationship would have been in the lede and/or headlineHis party affiliation would have been in the lede and/or headline?Well, on Friday, the uncle of former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (D),…
Pseudo-scandals for an 'Objective' Press
April 28th, 2007 8:19 PM
During the latter part of the Clinton admin, the left media often tossed around the phrase "scandal fatigue," a term of art to explain that certain portions of the public had become upset at the Republican party for going after then-president Clinton over trivial things. Politicians and their allies do have this tendency. But it's not just Republicans who have it. Democrats do as well. Since…
Will Hillary Clinton’s Post at Lieberman-Blackfacing Blog Backfire
April 27th, 2007 10:28 AM
Assume for a moment that you were the frontrunner for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2008, and that one of your competitors had recently created a bit of a brouhaha for having hired a couple of liberal bloggers with "tainted" records. Would you want to post an article at a website that got itself in some trouble of its own last year when it featured an offensive, Photoshopped picture of…
