Dowd: Hillary a 'Feral' Bully

Did Maureen really mean to call Hillary "feral"? As in: "a domestic animal that has returned to the wild and lives without human attention"? Is there something about Hillary that brought to Dowd's mind the famed razorback from the senator's erstwhile state of Arkansas? In any case, we'll take Maureen at her word. In Where’s His Right Hook? this morning, Dowd describes Barack Obama as being "…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Al Gore's 'Scientific' Media Study Isn't Scientific, And 'Dissent' Aut

In an address in Oklahoma Thursday, Al "Balance Is Bias" Gore repeated his reference made at a "media ethics" seminar in Tennessee, that "a survey of 636 articles in the 'popular press' showed that 53 percent of the stories contended that it was still unproved."  But Al Gore isn't really relying on a scientific study of media coverage. This matches an article by Jules and Maxwell Boykoff titled "…
Tim Graham
 

Whistling Past Graveyard: Some in MSM Cling to Belief GOP Won't Suppo

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS's Axelrod on Walter Reed: 'Last Thing Administration Can Afford is

Checking in on Friday's CBS Evening News with how the administration is reacting to the Walter Reed scandal, White House correspondent Jim Axelrod gratuitously brought up Katrina as he asserted that “the White House is well aware of the PR nightmare that it faces. The last thing this administration can afford is another Katrina.”Following the lead story on how Secretary of Defense Gates forced…
Brent Baker
 

MRC's Graham On 'Your World with Neil Cavuto

NB Staff
 

The New York Times Selectively Reports Health Insurance Poll Results

Julia A. Seymour
 

CBS Parks Oil-For-Food Story on 'Primary Source' Blog

Ken Shepherd
 

Reuters Downplays Gaddafi's History of Terrorist Activity

Paul Detrick
 

NY Times' 'Serious' Polling Problem Pushes National Health Care

Front-page story presents data supporting government-run health insurance, but excludes contrary findings.
Amy Menefee
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original caption: In this photo provided by CBS, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives to appear on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007.
NB Staff
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Beloved Liberal Historian Is 'Austin Powers, International Man of Hist

The Washington Post lovingly remembered liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr in Friday’s editions, including a front-page obituary by Adam Bernstein. But the most notable line came in the Linton Weeks appreciation on the front of the Style section, where his article carried the gooey headline "A Historian Who Made the Ivory Tower Glisten." Weeks declared the historian had an air of…
Tim Graham
 

CBS Blogger to Conservatives: Stop the Ward Churchill-ing of the Left

CBS News "PublicEye" editor Brian Montopoli suggested in a recent blog post that conservatives are unfairly attacking liberal Web sites for comments posted by readers that lament that a terrorists attack in Afghanistan did not succeed in killing Vice President Cheney. Montopoli says that both right and left-wing sites have their share of nutty commenters, which, to some degree is a fair point.…
Ken Shepherd
 

Disparate Coverage At LA Times Continues: McCain Vs. Obama

Dave Pierre