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Biden Misleads That Al Qaeda Forced His Helicopter Down in Afghanistan
Back on September 10 in a visit to Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden seemed to hint that al Qaeda forced down a helicopter he was traveling in when he was visiting Afghanistan in February of 2008. He made the claim again on September 22 in a campaign stop at the National Guard Association. The truth, however, is not exactly what Biden may be trying to allege.…
Boston Globe Likes Mass. Plan, but Reports Patients Waiting 100 Days t
Tried reading the Boston Globe two days in a row? One day its editorial page says Obama's health care plan is superior to McCain's; after all, it's sort of like the Massachusetts plan, and look at the state's high rate of insurance coverage now! Next day: Mass. residents waiting 100 days for primary care. Unfortunately, coverage mandates don't solve the underlying problems in the health sector,…
Cokie Roberts Links McCain's Fannie Mae Plans to Herbert Hoover
On Sunday's edition of "This Week," journalist Cokie Roberts indicated that, in regards to John McCain's reaction to the ongoing financial problems on Wall Street, "...He's a Republican and whenever Republicans get into this kind of mess, everybody, even people who were not born or close to being born, the specter of Herbert Hoover comes out to, to haunt them." Roberts didn't clarify just who the…
Newsweek Hits 'Pipeline to Nowhere'; Suggests Palin Too 'Optimistic' A
Borrowing from the nickname for a federal earmark that would have built a multi-million dollar bridge for an Alaska town of 50 people, Newsweek's Mark Hosenball offers readers of the September 29 print magazine a look at "[Gov. Sarah] Palin's Pipeline to Nowhere." Hosenball suggests that Palin's $500-million "principal achievement" as governor "might never be built after all." But while the…
CNBC: Obama Says Race Might Be Factor to 'Overcome
Democratic presidential candidate says people will ask 'Can this guy help me' achieve American dream; repeats medias Great Depression theme.
CBS 'Early Show' Advances Misleading Results of Race Poll
On Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed BET Tonight host Ed Gordon about a recently released Associated Press-Yahoo! poll which found that forty percent of white Americans and one-third of Democrats and Independents harbor negative feelings about African Americans. The segment did not include any critique of the poll or the suggestion that such a large amount of people…
CNN’s Jim Acosta: Palin ‘Still Very Much on Script, Teleprompter
On Monday’s American Morning, CNN correspondent Jim Acosta tried to throw a bit of cold water on the news that tens of thousands showed up in central Florida for a Sarah Palin camapign rally on Sunday. When co-host John Roberts asked about the high turnout, Acosta replied, "[T]his was an enormous crowd out here in Florida. She is still very much on script, John -- still very much on that…
David Brooks vs. Liberal Wife and Kids
Howard Kurtz offered a profile of New York Times columnist/PBS house "conservative" David Brooks on Monday. It efficiently explained criticism of Brooks from both sides, and noted that Brooks also finds critics in his own home: After Brooks gave a lukewarm review of Obama's convention speech on PBS, his wife, Sarah, texted him from their Bethesda home: "You are crazy. That was great." What was…
WaPo Article on Northern Va. McCain Rally Mostly Focuses on Dems, Obam
Washington Post staffer Christopher Twaroski's 18-pargraph September 21 story on how John McCain was "Seeking Minority Groups' Support" in Northern Virginia quickly morphed from a rehash of former Sen. George Allen's "macaca" moment to a gauzy focus on Sen. Barack Obama's campaigning efforts in the Old Dominion. Twaroski opened his article noting that the former Republican senator from Virginia…
'Comedienne' Says Satan-Chuck Norris Is Better Ticket Than McCain-Pali
From the Sandra Bernhard file of trashing Republicans in the hope of re-energizing a sad career, there's Margaret Cho. In addition to the usual liberal trope that McCain wasn't a good "soldier" since he was captured, she's now suggesting that voting for Satan is better than voting McCain-Palin:
I am not voting for McCain. I hope that is obvious. I am sick of everyone saying – "He was a…
'Sexist' Men Make More Money Than 'Feminist' Men
In a year when a feminist female candidate didn't make it on her party's presidential ticket while a woman with more traditional views about gender differences did, the results of a new study indicating that so-called "sexist" men make more money than their "egalitarian" counterparts should evoke interesting responses from a liberal media assuming it gets much coverage at all.In fact, the opening…