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Biden Comments Rate 'Oops' from NY Times, No Front-Page Mention by Glo
In our continuing calvalcade of coverage of the Biden "clean and articulate" comments, we thought it would be interesting to see how three of the leading liberal newspapers treated the story on their respective front pages this morning.At the New York Times, the headline on the smallish front-page article brought a dash of downplaying humor to the story: "Biden Unwraps His Bid for ’08 With an…
Obama Freezes Out Fox News as a Result of Madrassa Story
Does Barack Obama have a thick enough skin to survive another nineteen months of constant media attention and scrutiny on the presidential campaign trail?An article by the Washington Post’s Mary Ann Akers has to make one wonder (emphasis mine throughout):Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has "frozen out" Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network's major screw-up in…
While Congress and the Media Slept
The House Democrats got big media publicity for a huff-and-puff committee session on global warming this week, yet no one seems to have noticed that on the hot-button issue of Iraq, the congress which has been clamoring for "oversight" opportunities wasn't as interested Wednesday morning:Though
all 435 members of the House were invited to participate in a
classified briefing Wednesday morning…
MSM Forgive-a-thon Continues: Olbermann Calls Biden Comments 'A Slip
I'm feeling a lot of love out there. Directed by the MSM toward Joe Biden, that is, for having called Barack Obama the first "clean" and "articulate" black presidential candidate. Earlier this evening, as noted here, Chris Matthews, joined by MSMers Jay Carney and Anne Kornblut, cut Biden mucho slack.The forgive-a-thon continued on Countdown. First, Keith Olbermann declared Biden's comments "a…
Defending Biden's Blooper, Matthews Ignores 'Clean' Crack
Let's play one of our favorite parlor games: "WIARHSI?" You know: "What if a Republican Had Said It?" In today's game, let's imagine what would happen if a Republican presidential candidate had said that Barack Obama was the first "clean" and "articulate" African-American presidential candidate? Which paper would be first to call for the Republican's withdrawal from the race: the NY Times,…