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Balance Too Taxing for Mainstream Media
When they need tax information, America's top news sources often turn left.
Obama-Brokaw? Caroline Kennedy Said NBC Anchor Made Obama's Short VP L
In a Thursday night appearance on the PBS show Charlie Rose, it was revealed that the Democratic ticket could have been Obama-Brokaw. Rose reported: "I think it was Caroline Kennedy who said that when they have the short [running mate] list for Barack Obama, there was a name down there somewhere?" Tom Brokaw replied: "My name was on it." Rose pestered Brokaw to go into public service after his…
Open Thread II
Polls are still open, the voters are voting, and the cablers are rehashing.Heard anything interesting in your neck of the woods?We're doing multiple chats tonight as well. If you want to talk politics, click over to this room, if you want non-politics, try this room. Note: You must sign up with our third-party chat supplier Chatzy in order to participate. Check below the fold for news as we hear…
Juan Williams: Loss of Republican Senators Will Make GOP More Radical
Fox News political commentator Juan Williams appeared on a panel for Tuesday's "Good Morning America" to predict that a decrease of Republicans in the Senate could actually make the legislative body more contentious and that a "hard right" minority might be reined in by a defeated John McCain. After mentioning the possible losses of Senators Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John Sununu of New…
NYT: If Obama Wins Red States, It's Bad for McCain. If McCain Wins PA
New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye set the Election Day scene in her front-page story "Election Night (Popcorn Included)," an hour-by-hour guide for interpreting tonight's electoral results. It contained several dire predictions for McCain and the future of the GOP if various states (including Indiana, Virginia, and New Mexico) go for Obama. On the other hand, Seelye warned that if McCain…
USA Today: This 'Economic Crisis' Has Nothing on the Great Depression
Perhaps this is coming a little late with the election already underway, but the idea the current economy is as threatened as it was during the Great Depression is unfounded, according to the Nov. 4 USA Today. "Failed banks. Panicked markets. Rising unemployment. For students of history, or people of a certain age, it all has an all-too-familiar ring. Is this another Great Depression? Not yet,"…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Fawns Over Obama Casting Ballot
In the 8:30AM half hour of Tuesday’s CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez led live coverage of Barack Obama voting in Chicago and asked Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer: "Bob, how must he be feeling right now?" A choked up Schieffer replied: "Well, I mean, this is a -- this is a remarkable moment in American history. Stop and think about this, 150 years ago there were 31 million people who…
Whoopi Goldberg: 'I Cussed Out This Country
Whoopi Goldberg, in defending Reverend Wright, admitted to, at times "cuss[ing] out America." On the November 4 (Election Day) edition of "The View," a conversation about Sarah Palin’s clearance in the "Troopergate" probe quickly morphed into a fight (three on one) over Reverend Wright. In justifying Wright’s "God damn America" remark, Whoopi confessed "I have been guilty of cussing this country…
Obama Thanks The Tanks, Media Was ‘Gracious’ For Barack
**Update**I've Been Scolded...
It’s always nice to see someone thank another for their hard work, isn’t it? Well, here at the end of this long, long presidential campaign (it’s been going on since 2004 for Barack and the Old Media, after all), Barack Obama has thanked his fellow campaign members in the Old Media for their hard work as they’ve fronted for him, pushed for him, and willingly dived…
CNN Provides 'Election Edition' Exception to Media's Pro-Obama Coverag
'Your $$$$$' co-hosts go out of their way in attempt to balance air time for Democrat and Republican analysts.
Chris Matthews Will Be ‘Emotional’ Tonight: We’re ‘Leaping Tow
On his syndicated Chris Matthews Show on Sunday, the conspicuously pro-Obama MSNBC host announced how he expected that “election night is going to be emotional for all of us....Particularly if it goes in that historic direction, it’s going to be very emotional for everybody. I mean, everybody.”A few minutes later, in his closing commentary about the election, Matthews (a potential Democratic…
WaPo Ombudsman: Okay, So Maybe, Just Maybe, We Are Biased
Dismissing the notion as "simplistic" that her paper is liberally biased, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote on Sunday that there is "a grain of truth" to the lament from conservatives that the Post skews leftward (emphases mine):Neither the hard-core right nor left will ever be satisfied by Post coverage -- and that's as it should be. But it's true that The Post, as well as much of…