Kate Snow Whines Over 'Illogical,' 'Ridiculous' McCain lipstick Ad

"Good Morning America" weekend anchor Kate Snow on Thursday derided the McCain/Palin ticket for focusing on a comment by Barack Obama that "you can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig." Sympathetically covering the Illinois senator's contention that he wasn't referring to Sarah Palin and her claims to be a lipstick-wearing hockey mom, Snow whined that the topic was "illogical" and…
Scott Whitlock

Covering for Dems: NYT Reporter Certain Obama's 'Pig' Wasn't Palin

New York Times reporter Kate Phillips is absolutely sure that Barack Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment wasn't referring to Sarah Palin, and wishes people would stop talking about it. Here's Phillips's Wednesday evening entry on the Times's political blog, "McCain Ad: The Wolves Are Out Against Palin." Forget how worn that "lipstick on a pig" talk is getting at this point. Let's, uh, put a…
Clay Waters

WaPo Religion Blogger Attacks Sarah Palin's Religion

A Washington Post "On Faith" religion blogger, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, is so affected by PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) that she has launched a hate-filled screed against Palin's religion. This might seem an uncharacteristic thing for an ordained minister to do but not when you find out a bit more about Our Miss Brooks. Her bio on the Washington Post site describes Thistlethwaite's area…
P.J. Gladnick

How Low Will the Pro-Abortionists Go

How about an "interview" with Bristol Palin's unborn baby?And how about the "interview" "revealing" that the baby would rather be aborted?No, I'm really not kidding.
Kristen Fyfe

'Evening News' Spouts Old Attack on Bottled Water, Endorses Regulation

One-sided CBS report prefers tap, showers scrutiny on plastic containers and leaves out industry reps.
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

MRC's Bozell Discusses 'Lipstick' Smear, MSNBC Meltdown on 'Fox & Frie

MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the September 11 "Fox & Friends" to talk about media coverage of Sen. Barack Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig remark and on the continued fallout from MSNBC's biased convention coverage.Bozell noted that the liberal media just "don't get it" about widespread anger over the lipstick remark, but cautioned the Fox News anchors from…
NB Staff

Clinton Impeachment Precluded Forceful Response to Terrorism, Filmmake

Kevin Mooney

Olbermann: Republicans Hijacked

Rusty Weiss

Mitchell: Obama 'Clearly' Wasn't Talking About Palin

Make it a trio of mindreaders at NBC/MSNBC.  As noted here, yesterday Howard Fineman and David Shuster went Carnac on us, emphatically declaring that Barack Obama didn't have Sarah Palin in mind with his lipstick line.  On this morning's Today, Andrea Mitchell joined her network stablemates [no pun intended!] in delving into Barack's brain and assuring us he meant no harm.ANDREA MITCHELL: Barack…
Mark Finkelstein

Joe Klein: 'Obama is the precise opposite of Mountain Man Todd Palin

P.J. Gladnick

Former Time Columnist Unveils New Obama Spokesman: Buckwheat

For many years, Jack E. White worked for Time magazine, and as a Time columnist in the 1990s, he routinely accused conservatives and Republicans of race-baiting, or simply being racist. In an article Wednesday on TheRoot.com, an online black magazine started earlier this year by The Washington Post, White attacked John McCain for unveiling what he described as this year’s Willie Horton ad and…
Tim Graham

Newest Palin Attack: Son Vandalized Buses, Forced to Join Military (NY

It seems like the rumors, innuendo and smears thrown by the left against Governor Sarah Palin and her family will never stop. Apparently, the newest lie being casually thrown about by the DemocraticUnderground and the National Enquirer is that Palin's soldier son Track was involved as an unidentified vandal of Wasilla school buses in 2005. Worse, the rumormongers are denigrating Track's…
Warner Todd Huston

By 5-to-1 Public Thinks Most Journalists Trying to Help Elect Obama

A week after a Rasmussen Reports survey discovered that by a ten-to-one margin the public believes the media are trying to hurt Sarah Palin, a new Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely voters, briefly highlighted Wednesday night on FNC's Hannity & Colmes, determined “69 percent remain convinced that reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and this year by a nearly five-to-one margin…
Brent Baker