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The New York Times reported Democratic NY state assemblyman Brian McLaughlin pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges on Friday. As usual, no party identification in the headline, picture, caption or article, but there's a twist in this March 8 piece. The NYT also didn't report that he was in office at the time the crimes were committed. In the lede, the Times described McLaughlin as the “…

Hillary Clinton talks with a patron at Herrera's restaurant in Dallas, TX on the day of the Texas presidential primary election, March 4, 2008. Photo Reuters/Mike Stone

You know, it's one thing when liberal bloggers and folks with absolutely no understanding of civics claim that George W. Bush stole the 2000 presidential election from Nobel Laureate Al Gore.And, of course, one expects this type of drivel from leftist publications like The Nation, and clueless shills such as Keith Olbermann.But, one really isn't prepared to see such nonsense at the nation's…

There's no denying the economy is slowing, and may have either entered a recession, or is on the brink of one. Maybe.However, the media's hysterical response to Friday's February jobs report lacked any historical reference to how the labor market behaved in previous recessions.Instead, press outlet after press outlet decided that the loss of 63,000 jobs in February was a clear signal the…

NewsBusters has frequently reported the deplorable connection between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Clinton front-organizations Media Matters and Think Progress.On Friday, conservative radio host Glenn Beck marvelously illustrated just how this liberal alliance works, and showed how a few sentences transcribed by Olbermann's minions and taken out of context can easily be used to completely…

Forget about Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year for many Americans is March Madness, baby! And, it's right around the corner.Is today's matchup between #1 UNC and #5 Duke a possible preview of the NCAA Championship game weeks from now? Are people enjoying the intrigue surrounding these two great teams? Louisville (13) vs. Georgetown (10) should be exciting just hours from now.ESPN.…

With its <sarcasm> crucial, earth-shattering work regarding steroids in baseball close to finished </sarcasm>, the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations has refocused its attention on that <sarcasm> crucial, earth-shattering issue of executive pay </sarcasm>:The questioning mainly fell along party lines, with Republicans apologizing for hauling such distinguished…

Yours truly had a memorable series of exchanges with MarketWatch Washington Bureau Chief Rex Nutting roughly 18 months ago. At one point, he appeared to reveal an expectation (otherwise, why provide a graph of it?) that home prices might actually fall like the NASDAQ did from 2000-2002 -- which, for the record, was almost 78%, from a peak of 5048 in March 2000 to a trough of 1114 in October…

It's turning into quite the morning for, uh, outing double-standards in the media. First was my item mentioning that Bob Herbert of the NYT had accused Hillary Clinton of "opening a trap door" under Obama. Readers are invited to imagine the PC outrage if a conservative had expressed the desire to do the same to the Illinois senator.Now comes Mike Allen of the Politico. In his Playbook column of…

"The opening of a trapdoor and the sudden snap of a hangman's noose at dawn yesterday brought an extraordinary end to a political era in Iraq." -- Opening line from The Guardian's report of the execution of Saddam, Dec. 31, 2006 "Senator Clinton never gave a second thought to opening the trap door beneath her fellow Democrat." -- Bob Herbert of the NYT, Confronting the Kitchen Sink, March 8, 2008…

Question: What do you get when you help terrorists seek dirty bombs, give sanctuary to Hezbollah and Hamas, taunt America, and threaten war on U.S. ally Colombia? Answer: Hugs and kisses from members of Congress like Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, academics like Cornel West, and Hollywood celebrities like Danny Glover - and a pass from the press.And what's there not to love…

.... for what I believe is a painfully obvious reason. It is reports like the one written up by Shobhana Chandra at Bloomberg yesterday on household net worth that make you wonder if everyday US citizens will ever get the information needed to accurately evaluate what's going on in the economy without doing more digging than they have time for -- or that they should even have to do. Chandra's…