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Media Double Standard: Omission Of The Day
The following incident happened Friday. I guess I missed the media coverage of this...
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'5 Reasons Republicans Could Do Even Better Than Expected
FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver published a New York Times blog Sunday evening guaranteed to scare the heck out of liberal media members:
Pre-Election Notable Quotables: 'The GOP's Agenda Has to Be Stopped
One day before Election Day, the MRC has a fresh new edition of Notable Quotables posted over at MRC.org. Topics this week include: the liberal media’s pre-election meltdown, with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann frothing that the election of “unqualified, unstable” Tea Party Republicans “would destroy America from within,” and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter engaging in open electioneering: “The GOP’s agenda…
Open Thread: Election Fever
Let's use this space for any discussion related to tomorrow's midterms. If you're looking for a fantastic summery of some of the key races, check out George Will's column in the Washington Post.
Otherwise, share your own thoughts. What races will you be watching? Who are your favorite dark horses? Are the polls overstating the GOP's position? House results? Senate? Debate and discuss!
ABC Highlights Black Republicans Running for Congress
ABC’s World News Sunday gave attention to black Republicans who have a good chance of getting elected in this year’s congressional elections, focusing on Tim Scott of South Carolina and Ryan Frazier of Colorado, and even showing a clip of Allen West of Florida. Anchor Dan Harris set up the report: "Two years after the historic election of America's first African-American President, there is…
60 Minutes Promotes Washington’s 1098 Income Tax Initiative, Stahl H
Barely 36 hours before Washington State voters go to the polls, CBS News aired a 14-minute unregulated in-kind campaign expenditure on behalf of “Yes on 1098" and its chief cheerleader, Bill Gates Sr, sandwiched by Lesley Stahl hailing rogue Reagan adviser David Stockman as “brave” for advocating the end to the Bush tax rates and imposition of a 15 percent national income surtax. Stahl…
John Stewart's 'Million Moderate March' was Not Very Moderate
Protest signs blasted Tea-Tards, Fox News Channel, Sarah Palin
NBC Sees ‘Conservative’ Toomey, But No Label for Sestak; Gearing U
On Sunday’s NBC Nightly News, during a roundup of several reporters covering a number of high-profile Senate races, correspondent Ron Allen was upfront in labeling Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Pat Toomey as a "conservative," but an ideological label for liberal Democratic nominee Joe Sestak was absent: "Conservative Pat Toomey, a former Congressman and businessman, has been…
Liberals at War With Liberty
Why were liberals were so insanely paranoid about the alleged nefarious activities of President George W. Bush? Projection, anyone? They were mortified at Bush's alleged encroachment on our individual liberties, but now that they're in control, we see where liberty ranks on their list of priorities.
We've always known that the term "liberal," in modern parlance, is an oxymoron. Today's…
Hannity Notes Restoring Sanity Rally Singer Cat Stevens Supported Murd
On a special edition of Sunday’s Hannity show, FNC host Sean Hannity informed viewers that Restoring Sanity Rally participant and singer Cat Stevens - who converted to Islam in the 1970s and changed his name to Yusuf Islam - several times declared that Salman Rushdie should be killed after Iranian leader, the Ayatollah Khomeni, issued a fatwa on the British author in 1989 for publishing his…
Failed Miami Herald Editor Rewarded With McClatchy Promotion
Call it the Peter Principle 2.0.
Instead of just promoting someone to the level of his incompetence, McClatchy Newspapers has actually promoted failed Miami Herald executive editor, Anders Gyllenhaal, beyond the level of his incompetence. Is your humble correspondent being a bit too harsh in his assessment of Anders Gyllenhaal's capabilities? Allow me to enter into the record the judgement in…
Heilemann and O'Donnell: Obama Will Demonize Victorious Republicans Ju
If the Republicans are victorious at the polls next Tuesday, President Obama will demonize them the same way Bill Clinton did after the 1994 midterm elections.
So said New York magazine's John Heilemann and NBC News's Norah O'Donnell on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
After NPR's Williams Purge, WaPo Proposes 'Why Fox News Should Help Fu
Do NPR's actions in the Juan Williams firing underline how they deserve a massive new infusion of public money? The Washington Post's Sunday Outlook section clearly wanted a provocative take on NPR's firing of Juan Williams. They found it in their former managing editor, Steve Coll, with an article headlined “Why Fox News should help fund NPR.”
Coll tried to claim the “teachable moment” out…
