NBC's David Gregory and Matt Lauer Advance Democratic Talking Points

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Leftists Deriving Political Inspiration From Simplistic Fantasy Flick

P.J. Gladnick
 

Open Thread

Open and ready for discussion. Today's starter: Mexico's leftists are refusing to concede their electoral loss. Are they taking a page from Al Gore?
NB Staff
 

Bozell Column: ABC's Compelling 'Path to

Brent Bozell
 

MRC and NB, Your Katie Couric Resource

To mark Katie Couric's debut in the Dan Rather chair in media bias at the "CBS Evening News," please consult "Meet the Real Katie Couric," MRC's new Special Report on Couric's very tilted career.And see our topic page dedicated to all our Couric blogs, including Brent Baker's report from a rebroadcast of the Aspen Ideas Festival, where she declared, without the laugh track she deserved, "I know…
Tim Graham
 

The Smear Campaign Against ABC’s ‘The Path to

As the fifth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11 approaches, Americans are once again facing the horrors surrounding this event, and the ominous portent it conveyed. Yet, for some reason, one group of citizens has chosen to commemorate this solemn occasion by protesting an ABC miniseries documenting the history of this calamity.As amazing as it might seem, the top brass in the liberal blogosphere’…
Noel Sheppard
 

WashPost Suggests 'Nonpartisans' Find George Allen a Hollywood Hypocri

Tim Graham
 

What Me, Worry? For Dowd, Radical Islamist 'Threat' Worthy Only of Sca

There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from her column of this morning: Maureen Dowd does not take seriously the threat to our security and civilization that radical Islam poses.The putative focus of New Themes for the Same Old Songs [subscription required] was a two-for-one snipe at W and Katie Couric. Straining to find some kind of parallel between the two on the occasion of Couric's…
Mark Finkelstein
 

MSNBC Declines to Include Olbermann in News Team Promotion

Matthew Sheffield
 

The Incredible Re-Burning Car of Rafah

Bob Owens
 

LA Times Goes to Texas, Alaska Seeking Church Abuse Scandals

Is the Los Angeles Times "piling on" when it comes to covering sex abuse by Christians? Have they misled their readers again?In the front section of today's Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, September 5, 2006) is an article, "Sex Charges Shadow a Local Curiosity in Texas: Five monks at the Christ of the Hills Monastery are accused of abusing boys. Police also say the church's famous crying icon was 'a…
Dave Pierre
 

The Employment Numbers and the Unreported 4 Million Jobs

I described the August employment news as "good, not great" on Friday. Larry Kudlow was more upbeat, and has a point: The August jobs report should put to rest any fears that the economy is burning out. Following upwardly revised increases for June (134,000) and July (121,000), companies added 128,000 nonfarm payrolls last month. Meanwhile, the all-important but rarely mentioned household…
Tom Blumer
 

Now That's Censorship

For all the false cries of censorship when the marketplace and not the government marginalizes a voice, or point of view, this is blatant censorship enacted by our government through McCain-Feingold. h/t Instapundit. Bloggers should consider coming together from both sides to challenge this un-democratic law by developing a series of podcast or YouTube commercials pointing out what they…
Dan Riehl
 

Couric's News: Clunky Segmentation; Asks 'Back to Drawing Board' in Wa

The new CBS Evening News with Katie Couric showcased her over correspondents (in a change from Schieffer's day she handled the opening plugs for upcoming stories), spotlighted her legs (at the top of the show, as she sat with an interviewee and stood in front of the anchor desk at the end of the program) and marked the Early Show-ization of the evening newscast with stories crammed into gimmicky…
Brent Baker