Curry Concerned About GOP 'Swiftboating'; Hillary: I'm Like Ginger Rog

Mark Finkelstein
 

Mika: Clinton Campaign 'Pounced Like Lemmings

Granted, there's lots of time to go, but it's not going to be easy to catch Mika Brzezinski, the early clubhouse leader for the Year's Most Inapt Metaphor.Barackophile Brzezinski made her bid for the prize during the opening segment of today's Morning Joe, accusing the Clinton campaign of having pounced on Obama like . . . lemmings.Let's set the stage: the topic was a TV commercial Hillary's…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Olbermann Frets at 'Imperial' Hillary's Pledge to Defend Israel vs. Ir

Brad Wilmouth
 

NBC 'Green with Envy' Over Swedes for 'Showing Kindness to Planet

Monday's NBC Nightly News kicked off “Earth Week” by trumpeting Sweden as an environmental and economic paradise that could point the way for the United States. Anchor Brian William contended Swedes “always seem to be so happy and beautiful” and now “there's another reason to be green with envy about the Swedes. We're told they are living green lives, showing kindness to the planet, and saving a…
Brent Baker
 

'Bigger, Badder and Grosser

MTV brings Tila Tequila back for a second, misnamed Shot at Love.
Kristen Fyfe
 

Media Trot Out Gorbachev to Attack John McCain

If they had a reality show for international politicians called "Biggest Loser" the most popular nominee for the title would be Mikhail Gorbachev, the man that lost his whole country, not merely an election. Yet, every once in a while and for some untenable reason, this communist loser is trotted out by the US media as some sort of expert on international politics. Unsurprisingly, his opinion is…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Time Editor Defends Doctoring Iwo Jima Photo, Calls Objective Journali

Stengel says global warming fight just as important as World War II. On journalism rules: We're 'making it up as we go along.'
Jeff Poor
 

McCain Aide Scours WaPo Anger Story; One Source a 9/11 'Truther

Tim Graham
 

Newsweek's Clift Shows Eco-Elitism on McCain Gas Tax Holiday Proposal

Columnist tells MSNBC's Joe Scarborough gas tax holiday is a bad idea because it 'abandons environmental consciousness.'
Jeff Poor
 

CBS’s Smith on Pennsylvania Primary: ‘Let's Go For the Goose Bump

On Monday’s CBS "Early Show"co-host Harry Smith reported live from the Wilkes University campus in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and talked to college students planning to vote in the upcoming Democratic primary, one of whom, Raquel Wheby, explained: "Tomorrow morning is -- it's very undecided. It's going to be the goose bump moment when you get in there and then you just pick one and go with it."…
Kyle Drennen
 

LAT Blog: Iran Warming Up to Hamas-embracing, Israel-denouncing Carter

Ken Shepherd
 

Tim Robbins Bashes Rush, O'Reilly; Gets Standing Ovation from NAB

Tim Graham
 

Washington Post Faults Catholic Church Teaching for Filipino Poverty

The day after Pope Benedict XVI departed the U.S. after a six-day visit, Blaine Harden of the Washington Post lamented the Catholic Church’s influence in the Philippines, specifically, the government of Philippines "acceding to Catholic doctrine" by "supporting only what it calls ‘natural’ family planning," rejecting "modern contraception" as part of family planning." Throughout his article,…
Matthew Balan
 

Times Scrambles as Murdoch's Journal Prepares Assault

Interesting media news this Monday as Newsweek takes a look at the coming war between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The mag's piece in turn sparked a newspaper industry news boomlet as other publications rushed to find out whether Newsweek's claim that liberal Democrat Republican New York mayor Michael Bloomberg might give the New York Times Company a cash infusion to "protect…
Matthew Sheffield