Weekend Captionfest: Cuckoo for Castro

Original AP caption: "Cuba's President Fidel Castro, back center, talks to press during a Mercosur summit in Cordoba, Argentina."
Matthew Sheffield
 

Media Fill in for Incompetent Left as Bush's 'Loyal Opposition

Greg Sheffield
 

To Leftists, the Press Is 'Vital,' Whereas 'Right Assaults Journalism

Tom Johnson
 

CNN.com Headline: 'Cussing, Spitting, Open-Mouth Chewing Bush

They forgot to call him a "stinky poopyhead." Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee.
Bob Owens
 

Media Shocker: Newsweek Tells Truth About Budget Deficits

Nothing can put a bigger smile on an old cynic’s face than the normally predictable throwing a twelve to six curveball. Such is what occurred this morning when I opened up a Newsweek article by Robert Samuelson entitled: “Utterly Shameless; How could President Bush publicly brag about a federal budget with a $296 billion deficit?”After seeing that head and sub-line, I prepared to do battle with…
Noel Sheppard
 

Hollywood Fearful for Its Industry

Greg Sheffield
 

GMA's Vargas: When Will US Get on Euro/UN Bandwagon and Condemn Israel

Everyone knows that when it comes to winning wars and achieving peace, the model to follow is that laid out by France, other Europeans, and the UN.Elizabeth Vargas, steadfast Euro-UN-ophile, is savvy enough to recognize that the US needs to fall in line behind wiser heads and 'condemn or rebuke' Israel. Sadly, an obdurate Bush administration, in the person of spokesman Tony Snow, just wasn't…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Another Thief Steals Military Valor

Tom Segel
 

Open Thread Friday

Have at it...
Open Thread
 

Former NY Times Editor Says Murdoch Pushes Myth of Media 'Liberal Con

Greg Sheffield
 

David, Is That You

'Today' never showed us just who was holding that placard. But judging from his comments this morning, just how surprised would we be to find it was NBC's David Gregory himself?Did David perhaps rev up for his appearance by reading this all-out assault on Bush foreign policy from in the LA Times? In any case, he came loaded for Bush bear with a totally bleak tour d'horizon that included these…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Condemning Bush Foreign Policy, LA Times Columnist Manages to Overlook

Can you detect the leap in time and logic in these two passages from today's Bush's Burned Bridges by LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks?:"Things fell apart so quickly. At the beginning of this millennium, the Cold War was over, the prosperous United States was the sole remaining superpower and global opinion was largely sympathetic to U.S. aims. In the wake of brutal ethnic wars in Central Europe…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Palestinian Advocate Hosts Washington Post Web Forum

Eric Arr
 

Nets Stress How Bush Rejected NAACP Invitations, But Skip Group's Vici

Brent Baker