Another Day, Another Republican Attacking "Obama's Patriotism

The Times claims John McCain "initiated a series of attacks on Senator Barack Obama's patriotism..." - but again fails to back up the charge with a single example.
Clay Waters
 

MRC/NB's Bozell on FNC Discussing Palin Bias

MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" Thursday morning to discuss the outrageous media bias against Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Regarding the attacks on Palin's experience, Bozell claimed: For two years Republicans, conservatives, have been saying that Barack Obama was perhaps the arguably…
Lyndsi Thomas
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Sarah!How'd she do, folks? In the Xcel Energy Center, the evening was a HUGE success, as was her speech. I couldn't find any critics (photo courtesy Reuters). What did you think? Did she accomplish what she needed to? How are you feeling about the race now?
NB Staff
 

Google CEO: We Need Gov't Regulation of Internet Service Providers

Chairman of search engine Eric Schmidt says government must prevent service providers from crowding out competition.
Jeff Poor
 

Olbermann In a Better Suit: Did Williams Suggest Palin Appeal Rooted i

Subtract the subdued demeanor and the good tailoring, and how much difference is there between Brian Williams and Keith Olbermann?  Take Williams' post-Palin speech analysis.  Was the Nightly News anchor suggesting Palin's appeal is rooted in racism? He certainly made a clarion call to his fellow MSMers to keep up the good fight against her. Ann Curry interviewed a woman delegate who described…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Will Newsweek Eat This Headline? 'Why Sarah Palin Is Likely to Belly-F

Tim Graham
 

Oops! South Florida Newspapers Miss Big Biden Story in Own Backyard

P.J. Gladnick
 

Stephanopoulos on Giuliani and Palin: 'A Little Too Ugly? A Little Too

Sarah Palin's Wednesday night Republican convention speech was widely greeted with praise from television commentators and the short break between her address and Rudy Giuliani's beforehand didn't leave much time for analysis of Giuliani's, but ABC's George Stephanopoulos managed to find a dark side to both while ABC's Nightline devoted a six-minute story to “new details tonight on a brewing…
Brent Baker
 

AP Next Going After Palin's 'Derided' Religion

The Associated Press takes the attacks against Sarah Palin to the next level by saying that in her released bio Palin's religion was "obscured." The AP is suggesting that Palin's ostensibly secret religion is really Pentecostalism which, they note, is a sect that is "derided by outsiders and Bible-believers alike." So, the AP is saying here that the McCain campaign is trying to cover up Palin's…
Warner Todd Huston
 

'Dr. Phil' Chastises Letterman's Deriding of Palin's Bad Parenting

Guest “Dr. Phil” on Wednesday night chastised David Letterman's misunderstanding of teenage sexual behavior and parental influence after Letterman sarcastically complained that if a President McCain “drops dead...don't you want your President to have had the presence of mind to have chatted to her teenaged kids for five minutes about birth control?” (Letterman delivered the same belittling joke…
Brent Baker
 

CNN Runs Graphic on McCain’s History of Cancer After Palin Speech

Matthew Balan
 

CNN Graphics Flub: McCain 'Officially Wins Democratic Nomination

For a Thursday funny, the grown-ups at CNN must have been napping when they allowed a half informed intern to type up their screen graphic on Wednesday. As the CNN "Sky View" camera roamed the audience during the Republican Convention the screen graphic helpfully informed the viewer that McCain "Officially wins Democratic Nomination." Psst, CNN. It's McCain wins the Republican nomination. Just…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Matthews, Olbermann, Brokaw Scoff at Palin's Slams on Media

During MSNBC's Wednesday night live coverage of the Republican National Convention Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Tom Brokaw and others scoffed at the idea they had an anti-Sarah Palin agenda. Brokaw depicted the charge of liberal bias as a mere "tactic," by the GOP, Matthews played it off as just "an old, old conflict," and even tried to write off the media's fascination of Obama, as just a…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

CNN’s John King Self-Criticizes Media’s ‘Language’ About GOP

During the two minutes between Roland Martin and Jeffrey Toobin’s two attacks on Sarah Palin after her speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday night, veteran journalist Carl Bernstein also criticized Republicans, since in his view, the Alaska governor’s speech demonstrated "that the Republican Right is running this election." CNN correspondent John King then reacted to Bernstein’s…
Matthew Balan