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On ABC, Newt Gingrich Slams Media's Lack of Fairness to McCain/Palin
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday strongly challenged "Good Morning America" host Diane Sawyer about the media's lack of fairness towards the McCain/Palin presidential ticket. The exchange came after the ABC journalist followed up on negative Gingrich remarks about the Obama tax plan by asserting, "for fairness," Obama talking points on middle class tax cuts.An irritated Gingrich…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Looks at ‘The Real Joe the Plumber
On Friday’s CBS Early Show, correspondent Jeff Glor reported on the role of Joe the Plumber, a.k.a. Joe Wurzelbacher, in the presidential campaign: "The McCain campaign is using Wurzelbacher to say their opponent would raise taxes. Though it turns out, Wurzelbacher himself owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes and his annual tax bill would actually go down under Obama's plan." Glor then added: "Obama…
WaPo Sloppy Reporting on Conservative Episcopalians
Frank Lockwood of Bible Belt Blogger spotted a "glaring error" on the front page of the Washington Post the other day. File this in the "media don't get religion" department (emphasis mine):Can you spot the mistake? It's in this story about parishes and dioceses that have split from the Episcopal Church since the ordination of a practicing homosexual as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003:"They say…
Angry Democrats Threaten Boycott of Maryland Hotel with McCain Sign
The Colony South Hotel & Conference Center in Clinton, Md., has hosted fundraisers for Barack Obama, held a prayer breakfast for a local Democrat, hosted a meeting for the African-American Democratic club and hosted a home foreclosure program for Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer. But now that they had the audacity to put up a McCain-Palin campaign sign on their front lawn they are being threatened…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: "W".How will Oliver Stone's hit piece do this weekend? With roughly two weeks until Election Day, and roughly three months to go before the presidential baton is passed, will people actually fork over $10 to see this Bush-bash?
Chgo Trib: Internet Makes Politics 'Obnoxious
The dead tree media, the dinosaur media, the Old Media has spoken. It's officially worse than ever! The Chicago Tribune has pronounced political discourse worse than ever before and it's all because of that "obnoxious" Internet. So, you folks reading this should know that the Trib blames these rancorous times on you. Of course, what the Trib and its "experts" suffer from is My-Lifeitis, that well…
Mitchell Measures the Drapes: 'I Think You're Going to See a Bipartisa
You might know Barack Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate, a hyper-partisan who toed the Harry Reid line an amazing 97% of the time. But Andrea Mitchell sees in Obama a bipartisan president in the making. Appearing on Morning Joe today, Mitchell came close to speaking of an Obama presidency as a given, just managing to curb her enthusiasm. And wait till you see the people she cited…
ABC Uses Obama Talking Point to Counter 'Joe the Plumber
'World News' claims 95 percent of 'small businesses' make less than $200,000 a year, though IRS says those figures are wrong.
Lib Talker Schultz Storms Out of Joe the Plumber Debate on 'Fox & Frie
Liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz stormed out of a "Fox & Friends" debate Friday morning with conservative talk radio host Steve Malzberg that involved Barack Obama's tax plan and the now famous Joe the Plumber.After discussing the state of the current presidential campaign, the issue of Joe Wurzelbacher -- the Ohio man who recently challenged Obama over how the candidate's tax plan would…
CNN’s Polls Are Grade A – Or Else
CNN's Presidential Debate Report Card echoes most polls offered by the main stream media. It involves 60% Democrats as a sample group, and if your response doesn't agree with their agenda, then some ‘alterations' are made. In other words, the results are weighted to provide liberals with an edge. The Web site's latest report card allows the viewer to rate the performance of both…
No American Flag? Then You’re Probably for Obama
The latest Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP daily tracking poll finds Barack Obama leading John McCain by 3 percentage points, 45% to 42%. But there’s an interesting nugget inside the data: among those who display the American flag, McCain leads by 48% to 39%. Among those who do not display the flag, Obama has a more than two-to-one lead: 61% to 27%.Why do I doubt that the ordinarily poll-hungry…
Bill Maher: Obama Is 'Jackie Robinson of American Politics
Leftist HBO host Bill Maher was the only guest on Larry King Live last night, in between the live broadcast of Smith dinner speeches by McCain and Obama. Maher declared that Obama is the Jackie Robinson of presidential politics: he has to stay calm and cool and even punctual, or America will tell him the presidency isn't for "colored" people: MAHER: Well, I think Obama always wins when he does…