Chuck Todd: Numbers Cruncher Turned Body Language Expert

P.J. Gladnick

NBC and MSNBC Join ACORN, Other Leftist Groups In Assuring 'Election P

Amanda Carpenter at Townhall brings our attention to something amazing: NBC and MSNBC are working with ACORN and other left-wing interest groups in a "nonpartisan" effort at "Election Protection." Is that a bad joke, working with ACORN on ballot integrity? An NBC press release on Tuesday announced: With less than 14 days before Election Day, NBC News and Election Protection will be joining forces…
Tim Graham

Columnist Wendi C. Thomas Indulges Her Inner Racist

Wendi C. Thomas, a black journalist that has written for such media outlets as the Charlotte Observer, the Indianapolis Star and the Nashville Tennessean, was recently asked by what she called a "white man in Memphis" if blacks would riot if Barack Obama should lose the upcoming general election. The question made her angry, and I can't blame her for that anger. But, after a brief flash of sanity…
Warner Todd Huston

Williams Hits McCain & Palin with Powell's Charge She's Unqualified

Brent Baker

Pew: McCain Gets Far More Negative Coverage From Media

As if we didn't know already by the evidence of the left-wing media establishment's work, Pew Research unveiled a new survey that showed that John McCain has been on the receiving end of "heavily unfavorable" coverage. In fact, according to Pew, McCain's media coverage has become more negative over time with unfavorable stories about him outweighing favorable ones "by a factor of more than three-…
Warner Todd Huston

TV Station Political Analyst Dismisses Then Takes Seriously Questions

P.J. Gladnick

Fireproof Book The Love Dare Tops NYT Bestseller List

A little (Christian) book featured in a little (Christian) movie is flying off the shelves.
Kristen Fyfe

CBS Scolds McCain's Tactics, Sees Hypocrisy in Palin's 'Six-Figure War

Consistency on the CBS Evening News: Wednesday night Dean Reynolds concluded his piece on Barack Obama's campaign day by asserting “McCain's campaign tactics...have drawn criticism even from some Republicans” and next Chip Reid ended his story on John McCain's day on the trail by highlighting how “Gordon Smith of Oregon,” otherwise unidentified, “today became the fourth Republican to urge John…
Brent Baker

Bully-boy Matthews on Anti-Palin Warpath

How over-the-top was Chris Matthews in his vituperation against Sarah Palin and McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer this evening? So much so that:Matthews twice berated an Obama representative for being insufficiently aggressive in going after Palin; Brian Williams, in the subsequent segment, chided Matthews on his emotionalism.The Hardball host was infuriated by Palin's description, in answer to a…
Mark Finkelstein

Former Newsweek Campaign Reporter: 'Objectivity Is a Fallacy

P.J. Gladnick

Lax Bond Rating Standards: 'It Could Be Structured By Cows and We Woul

Evidence shows instant message between two Standard & Poor's employees with no regard for risk.
Jeff Poor

CNN’s Jack Cafferty Returns to Palin Bashing After Three-Week Hiatus

Regular CNN commentator Jack Cafferty may be "on the mend" after a three-week break for a "unanticipated encounter with a surgeon’s scalpel," as he put it, but he certainly hasn’t recovered from his Palin Derangement Syndrome. He launched a new attack on the Alaska governor on Wednesday’s Situation Room. This time, Cafferty returned to the issue of Trooper/Taser-gate and brought up two additional…
Matthew Balan

Guess Who's Correcting the Record on Medicare 'Cut' Scare

Believe it or not, The Washington Post and CBS News. That's right -- if you've been seeing Obama's ads accusing McCain of cutting Medicare benefits to pay for his health care plan, you're not alone. The Post awarded an Obama ad called "Your Golden Years" three Pinocchios for its "significant factual errors." It even gave the source of Obama's numbers: "How did the Obama campaign come up with the…
Amy Menefee Payne

Sorry, Shuster: It's True Source of Much Obama Funding Undisclosed

When a McCain campaign representative told David Shuster today that the source of much of Barack Obama's fund-raising is unknown, the MSNBC host scoffed, claiming only "right-wing" blogs could believe that and challenging the spokesman to cite a credible source.  Instead of fulminating about the conservative blogosphere, David might want to pick up a copy of Newsweek, which last time I looked had…
Mark Finkelstein