Atlantic Mag: McCain-Slandering Photographer Fired by Her Own Rep Agen

Jeffery Goldberg from The Atlantic Magazine is reporting that underhanded, leftist photographer Jill Greenberg has just been let go by her Representing Agency, the Vaughan Hannigan photo agency. This is a perfect example of a lesson of consequences. When Greenberg admitted that she lied and tricked John McCain so that she could manipulate his image to slander him and did so in the employ of The…
Warner Todd Huston

'Mindless Christian Lemmings' Columnist Uses Obscenity to Bash Conserv

This kind of language is acceptable in a major newspaper?
Kristen Fyfe

NPR Reports: 'Non-Partisan' NOW Endorses Obama

Lazy journalism at NPR typically causes a return to their default position: liberal bias. Such was the case yesterday. In the morning edition, NPR reported on the recent and unsurprising announcement that NOW--the National Organization For Women, an ideological & partisan group--would endorse Barack Obama.Rarely does the National Organization For Women endorse a presidential candidate. On…
Jacob S. Lybbert

Media Report Re-Warmed Obama Campaign Talking Points as Fact

As Culture and Media Institute Director Robert Knight has noted, the media are still presenting Obama campaign spin on the McCain sex ed ad as hard facts. Last week the McCain campaign released an ad charging Senator Obama with supporting sex education for kindergarten children when he was an Illinois state senator.  According to the Obama campaign and the media the legislation in question "was…
Colleen Raezler

NBC's 'Fact Check' on Palin's False Claims Not So Convincing

Two weeks after Sarah Palin's convention speech “reporters are still fact-checking what they hear from her, as our own Savannah Guthrie does for us tonight,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced Wednesday evening. But of Guthrie's five presumed misstatements by Palin, two were remarks made by Palin “aides,” not Palin herself; one, the “Bridge to Nowhere,” was already dissected eight…
Brent Baker

Ralph Nader Complains About Lack of Media Coverage to Cardozo the Parr

P.J. Gladnick

Look Who's Condescending

On this evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews began his teaser for a segment about Sarah Palin's pending press interview and plans to field questions at a town hall by exclaiming "look who's talking" as an image of Palin [see screencap] appeared bearing the same graphic."Look who's talking" is of course the title of a 1989 hit movie in which the person doing the talking was . . . an infant.  View…
Mark Finkelstein

CNN Continues to Push Line that McCain Lied about Sex Ed

On last night's Election Center, CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger and CNN Anchor Campbell Brown continued to promote the Obama talking point that John McCain had lied in an ad about Barack Obama's record on a sex education bill in the Illinois state Senate. McCain's ad says Barack Obama's "one accomplishment" as a state senator was "legislation to teach ‘…
Robert Knight

Roland Martin & Jeffrey Toobin: CNN’s Resident Obama Spokesmen

Two segments on CNN’s Election Center program on Monday and Tuesday evenings which aimed to fact-check political ads by the McCain and Obama campaigns were followed by panel discussions in which contributor Roland Martin (on Monday) and senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (on Tuesday) took active roles in denouncing the McCain ads as being filled with "lies" and "falsehoods." Martin accused…
Matthew Balan

Olbermann Falsely Accuses Palin of Cutting Special Olympics Funds

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Tuesday of cutting in half her state's funding for the Special Olympics.Not only is this categorically false, it appears likely Olbermann got this erroneous information from the far-left website ThinkProgress which NewsBusters has shown in the past to be a source for some of the "Countdown" host's material…
Noel Sheppard

ABC Train Trip Finds Economic Misery, Desperation

Beginning on September 15 and continuing through the 19th, "Good Morning America" has been touring America via train and finding economic misery and despair along the way. During the three special shows that have aired so far, which ABC has dubbed the "Whistle-Stop Tour '08," the program traveled to struggling towns in Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. On Monday, while talking with an elderly man…
Scott Whitlock

Obama, NYT Reporter Take 'Cheap Shot' at McCain's 'Strong' Economy

New York Times-MSNBC contributor John Harwood took his usual Tuesday afternoon slot on the cable network to interview Elisabeth Bumiller, the Times's lead reporter on the McCain campaign beat. Bumiller has a history of hostile coverage of McCain and Republicans, and did nothing to shake that perception on Tuesday, passing along as fact Barack Obama's out-of-context assault on the comment McCain…
Clay Waters

‘Objectivist’ Writer: Trig Palin a Financial Burden Who Should Ha

Rusty Weiss

Networks Help Obama Bridge Gap on Earmarks

Journalists race to 'check' Palin claims, ignore Democrats' billion dollars in earmarks.
Julia A. Seymour