AP: Michael J. Fox 'Powerfully Vulnerable' Advocate for Dems

Speaking of the esteemed Mr. Fox...The AP appears to be star struck by Michael J. Fox with the debut of his campaign ad for Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill and several other Dems this week. So star struck that the AP has pronounced him a great success in a puff piece today. But how can they possibly know for sure if his ads are working?Michael J. Fox Makes Stem Cell Vote Push, by Jake Coyle.…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Jonathan Alter Prepares Democrats For Disappointment

What a difference a few weeks make. Three weeks after Newsweek writers, Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift, gloatingly declared the End of GOP Dominance and just a week after that same magazine announced that the Republicans were losing its evangelical base, a sharp note of electoral caution has popped up in that periodical. Jonathan Alter is now cautioning Newsweek readers that the Democrats might…
P.J. Gladnick
 

Washington Post Hits 'Offensive' Limbaugh on Parkinson's, Fails to Cri

Tim Graham
 

Meredith's Cat-Out-of-Bag Moment: 'Looking Pretty Good' For Dems To Wi

Mark Finkelstein
 

Globe Cartoon Clings to Phony Study of Iraqi Civilian Deaths

A study - released by its anti-war partisan authors just in time for the election - claiming that more than 650,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war has been debunked more times than Paris Hilton has been . . . well, let's just say the study has been debunked often and thoroughly, as noted here and here.But that doesn't prevent a member-in-good-standing of the MSM from…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Media Prepares For Unreliable Voting Machines in Upcoming Election

Terry Trippany
 

Limbaugh, Levin Seize on CNS News Scoop on Ted Kennedy's Soviet 'Peace

Tim Graham
 

Putting Dem Majority Above All, Times Ditches Chris Shays

Mark Finkelstein
 

China Moves to Ban Anonymous Blogging

This story from the PRC's propaganda wire, Xinhua won't likely get much play in the leftist world which believes that Chimpybushitlerhalliburtonfoleyisgay is the real threat to world-wide free speech. China is continuing its crackdown on opposing free speech, this time, signaling that it will move toward forcing anyone who wants to make a blog do so under their real names, making it easier to…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Bozell Column: CNN, Stenographer to Terror

Brent Bozell
 

NBC Tries to Discredit GOP Ad as Racist, Condemns Limbaugh's Slap at M

Another campaign, another opportunity for the mainstream media to discredit a Republican campaign ad as racist. On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams declared: “Tonight some are saying that one commercial in particular in one very close Senate race has now crossed a racial line.” Andrea Mitchell proceeded to critique the RNC ad attacking Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford and…
Brent Baker
 

Journalists' Misbegotten Sense of Duty

When media outlets publish militarily significant information and make it known to a wider audience (something they seem to do with more frequency during Republican administrations), they generally excuse their actions with claims that they are fulfilling an obligation to the public's "right to know."Aside from the question of whether the public has a right not to know something, another…
Matthew Sheffield
 

'Non-Partisan' Matthews Condemns 'Mehlman Cesspool' Over RNC Harold Fo

Mark Finkelstein
 

CNN Special Advocates For Divided Government; Features Dan Rostenkowsk

CNN’s latest political special, "Broken Government: The Do Nothing Congress," featured Dan Rostenkowski as a quasi-ethics expert, agitation for divided government, and general trashing of the Republicans in Congress. Rostenkowski, for those too young to remember is the former Democratic Congressman who ended up being expelled from the House after being accused of, among other things, charging…
Scott Whitlock