Morning Joe: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Hillary

Hillary Clinton, Queen of Soul? Barack Obama, All-American teenaged girl?  That's precisely the analogy that Joe Scarborough made this morning in trying to explain why many Hillary supporters haven't swung to Obama.  Hillary was a guest on today's Morning Joe, and the interview offered a number of other interesting tidbits:Hillary dodged the question of whether Bill was telling the truth when he…
Mark Finkelstein

'World News' Cites Anti-Corporate Flicks in Banking Report

Segment includes populist angle bashing wealthy lifestyles, quotes 'Bonfire of the Vanities' and 'Wall Street.'
Jeff Poor

NY Times Plays Debate Expectations Game

P.J. Gladnick

NewsBusted

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NB Staff

WaPo Insists: Don't Trust WaPo

Tim Graham

Another 'Non-Obama Voters are Racists' Story

The single most common current explanation for a possible Obama loss posited today by the left is that America is filled with racists. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review political reporter Selena Zito uses this charge to the hilt in a September 21 opinion piece on union members voting McCain. Naturally, the only reason Zito can come up with for this phenomenon is because these McCain supporting union…
Warner Todd Huston

AP Writer Spins on Troopergate; Ignores Obvious Bias in Legislative Pr

Jason Aslinger

Reagan's Rebuke of Carter Missing in Debate Commission's Transcript

Is it an editing error or a dose of political correctness?
Robert Knight

SF Chronicle Glosses Over Reality in Listing for Folsom Street Fair

City's newspaper uses euphemism to sanitize a sadomasochistic, pornographic event.
Kristen Fyfe

Not the Catholic Church? (Part II): L.A. School Sex Abuse Scandal Cont

Let's ask again: Where is the national media? The sex abuse scandals at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) continue to grow. Just since May of this year:A high school athletic coach was charged with 12 felony counts of sexually assaulting an underage girl, including "five counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object while the victim was unconscious and one count of possession…
Dave Pierre

Sex Ed for 5 Year Olds a 'Hot Topic' on The View

Sex education for kindergartners is certainly a hot topic.  It's also the subject of a McCain campaign ad that many in the media have called a "lie."  In the Hot Topic segment of ABC's The View on Monday (Sept. 22), token conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck  explained that the ad is NOT a lie and Barack Obama did in fact support legislation establishing sex education for kindergartners. There is an…
Kristen Fyfe

NYT Editors: Palin 'Petty,' McCain Guilty of 'Demonstrable Falsehoods

New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt evaluated two tough political stories in the Sunday Week in Review, one anti-McCain, the other anti-Palin. While he found the McCain piece fair, he faulted the anti-Palin piece. In both cases, Times reporters and editors rallied to the defense of the pieces, finding McCain guilty of "demonstrable falsehoods" and Palin of "sometimes petty, peremptory"…
Clay Waters

Couric Has Cushy Chat with Biden, Will She Be as Warm with Palin

If Katie Couric is to be consistent and treat Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whom Couric is scheduled to interview this week, as gently as she did Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden in her day with him Thursday in Ohio which became a story on the Monday night CBS Evening News, she will (Couric quotes from the Biden story in the parentheses):
Brent Baker

Why Doesn't the Media Report the Facts on Where the Blame Belongs on F

John Stephenson