Daily Kos Week in Review: The Grand Old Party of Rape

In the real world, Republicans don't believe that "sex is only okay when God's forcing a woman to have it against her will," but in Kosland, such a breathtaking and grotesque allegation seems plausible, and one of the site's featured feminist writers made it this past week. As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
November 2nd, 2012 11:10 PM

Chicago Tribune Touts Obama's Foreign Support

President Barack Obama's campaign may well be in trouble in the United States, but he still is adored by many foreigners.  The mainstream media want us to know that and today's Chicago Tribune print edition carries two separate pieces to emphasize it.  One, appearing on page 3, is "The American way, seen through English eyes," an interview with a British reporter covering the election from…
Mike Bates
November 2nd, 2012 10:43 PM

ABC Gives New Unemployment Rate 18 Seconds, CBS Finds ‘Flourishing

ABC, CBS and NBC did their part Friday night to minimize the negative impact to the Obama campaign from the rise in the unemployment rate from 7.8 to 7.9 percent in October. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer allocated a piddling 18 seconds to the news as she characterized the 171,000 jobs growth as “beating predictions,” NBC’s Brian Williams stressed how the 171,000 additional jobs number “was better…
Brent Baker
November 2nd, 2012 8:12 PM

Paul Begala: 'California, Illinois and New Jersey - Places Where They

Imagine the media outrage if a conservative commentator listed states where Barack Obama would be hunted down with dogs. On CNN's OutFront Friday, liberal contributor Paul Begala said, "When Bush Sr. carried Pennsylvania, he also carried California and Illinois and New Jersey, places where they would hunt Romney down with dogs" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2012 8:01 PM

Gay XM Radio Host Apologizes For Death Wishes, Repeats Voting Conserva

After being exposed across the Internet for telling a Romney supporter to drink arsenic, gay XM Radio host Michelangelo Signorile apologized, admitting that he didn't see that what he said was wrong until he was called by fellow gay leftist Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan argued "imagine if it had been Limbaugh. Wouldn't every gay group be assailing him for hate speech? Why the advice to commit…
Tim Graham
November 2nd, 2012 7:28 PM

Shocking HuffPo Headline: 'Anger Grows In Outer NY Boroughs, NJ Over S

With just four days to go before the elections, and Obama's media doing everything within their power to ignore the subject of Benghazi, Libya, you would think they'd also be turning a blind eye to disaster relief problems in areas hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. That's why I was shocked to see this headline at the Huffington Post a few hours ago: "Anger Grows In Outer NY Boroughs, NJ Over…
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2012 6:57 PM

Misleading? People Magazine's 'Election Cheat Sheet' Tilts In Favor of

The brand new (November 17) People magazine just arrived in mailboxes (like ours), and it contains a two-page “Election Cheat Sheet.” Under “Vital Stats,” it lists “Barack Hussein Obama, 51: A.K.A. ‘Barry’ to his childhood friends. ‘[My father] probably used Barry because it was easier to pronounce,’ Obama has written.” Now for low-information voters, couldn’t this be misconstrued as (a)…
Tim Graham
November 2nd, 2012 6:47 PM

Scott Rasmussen Column: An Unpredictable End to a Predictable Election

Election 2012 has had few surprises. So it's somewhat surprising that heading into the final weekend of the election season, we are unable to confidently project who is likely to win the White House. All year long, the economy has been the No. 1 issue of the campaign. That hasn't changed. While Mitt Romney has a slight advantage when it comes to handling the economy, neither candidate has…
Scott Rasmussen
November 2nd, 2012 5:45 PM

PBS's ‘Moyers & Company’ Publishes Lefty Voting Guide

PBS’s “Moyers & Company” released a series of articles in which his writers answer a question that “matters today” to answer. Both the selection and wording of the questions and the answers provided by Moyers’s staff strongly favor President Obama over challenger Mitt Romney. Moyers’s status as a journalist has not kept him out of liberal politics. As the president of the Schumann Center…
Mike Ciandella
November 2nd, 2012 5:39 PM

MSNBC President Apologizes For Matthews Calling Koch Brothers 'Pigs' B

Phil Griffin, the President of MSNBC, apologized Thursday for Chris Matthews calling the Koch brothers “pigs,” but Matthews has refused and MSNBC won’t require him to do so. As NewsBusters reported, this disgusting incident took place on Tuesday’s Hardball as Matthews talked to Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) about Hurricane Sandy’s connection to global warming.
Noel Sheppard
November 2nd, 2012 5:26 PM

In Wake of Sandy, NBC Reporter Blames Defense Spending for Lack of Inf

Reporting for Thursday's NBC Rock Center, chief foreign affairs correspondent Richard Engel ranted over the lack of infrastructure spending to protect against Hurricane Sandy and tried to blame it on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: "...the thing we've spent the most money on, a trillion-plus dollars, the most American lives on, and that has been bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan,…
Kyle Drennen
November 2nd, 2012 5:18 PM

PBS's ‘Moyers & Company’ Publishes Lefty Voting Guide

Series of articles entitled ‘What Matters Today‘ with questions, answers that favor Obama.
Mike Ciandella
November 2nd, 2012 5:07 PM

Bloomberg Business: 'It’s Global Warming, Stupid

Bloomberg Business never lets an opportunity to push global warming pass by. On the Nov. 1 edition of BusinessWeek, the cover story was titled “It’s Global Warming, Stupid” which appeared in huge black letters with a red background on the cover. Underneath the title was a picture of flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy. The article, written by assistant managing editor and senior writer Paul…
Liz Thatcher
November 2nd, 2012 5:05 PM

ABC News Targets Group Fighting Voter Fraud, Hints at Racial Motive

Nightline correspondent Dan Harris on Thursday profiled an organization fighting voter fraud, suggesting that the non-partisan group might have a racial motive for targeting certain neighborhoods. Talking to True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrect, Harris offered this loaded question: "Is your goal really to end voter fraud or is your goal really to intimidate voters who disagree with you…
Scott Whitlock
November 2nd, 2012 5:02 PM