Troop Withdrawal: McCaffrey Muffs MSM Message

There could be an NBC intern out of work by lunch-time. Somebody failed to get the DNC/MSM talking points to Barry McCaffrey. A guest on this morning's Today show, the retired general obstinately refused to go along with the party line in reacting to the news that a drawdown of US troops in Iraq is in the works. Didn't Barry at least watch Carl Levin over the weekend? The Dem senator from…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Newsweek Gives CNN's Soledad O'Brien An Award for Post-Katrina Passion

Tim Graham
 

Another Cheap Slap at Catholics by the Los Angeles Times

Today's Los Angeles Times (Sunday, June 25, 2006) features coverage of Erotica LA (warning: adult content), an adult X-rated retail expo, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In a page B1 article entitled "More Couples, Women Turn On to Erotica Expo," Times staffer Robin Abcarian begins by relaying a lesson in "spanking" being taught by a "dominatrix" by the name of Georgia Payne. (The subject…
Dave Pierre
 

All the Anti-Terror Disclosures That Fit: Specter Defends NY Times

As Brit Hume put it, "Senator Specter, who gets worked up over anything, doesn't seem bothered by the NY Times disclosure of [the anti-terror banking program]. He's going to 'look into it'."Indeed. Specter, who began his political career as a prosecutor, played defense lawyer for the Gray Lady on this morning's Fox News Sunday.  Host Chris Wallace asked the senior senator from PA "do you think…
Mark Finkelstein
 

NYT’s Brooks Slams Daily Kos, Its Proprietor, and Its Loyal Follower

Moderately conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed Sunday (available at TimesSelect for those interested) without much good things to say about the uber-liberal blog Daily Kos. Brooks didn’t have much positive things to say about its proprietor, or its automaton devotees either. Brooks began:“They say that the great leaders are gone and politics has become the realm of…
Noel Sheppard
 

Bill Blakemore, ABC's Resident Global-Warming Salesman, Set Up Al Gore

Tim Graham
 

Stephanopoulos Retired From Politics? 'I'm In It Every Week

Tim Graham
 

PBS Chat Between Jim Lehrer and Ben Bradlee Touched on Janet Cooke, JF

Tim Graham
 

Newsweek's Thomas Dubious About Talk Radio's 'Anger' Now Centered on I

Brent Baker
 

Chicago Sun-Times: Judges' Party Affiliation Relevant, But Only Someti

Mike Bates
 

Press Elected Bush by Bashing Gore, Opponents of Gay, Women Bishops 'H

Mark Finkelstein
 

NPR Game Show Host Jokes Rove Wants Murtha Dead, Cheney Lives In Rove

Tim Graham
 

Weekend Captionfest

Original AP caption: "NBC 'Today' show co-host Matt Lauer, and Campbell Brown, the show's weekend co-host, leave the set after a segment, in New York's Rockefeller Center, Thursday June 22, 2006."
Matthew Sheffield
 

On 'Hardball,' NBC's Norah O'Donnell Laughs At Santorum, New WMD Revel

Tim Graham