Networks Tout Biden’s ‘Experience,’ ‘Accomplishment,’; CNN

CBS’s Early Show and NBC’s Today on Monday morning touted, without offering specifics, what CBS reporter Dean Reynolds called Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden’s “wealth of experience” and “long record of accomplishment” on foreign policy; NBC’s David Gregory asserted that Biden had “deep foreign policy experience.” On Sunday’s Good Morning America, reporter John Berman also…
Rich Noyes

Newsweek's Alter: No One Ever Accused Biden of Racism

Joe Biden's insulting remark about Indian-Americans and Dunkin' Donuts franchises didn't indelibly taint the Delaware senator not because the media don't hype Democratic race gaffes but because "no one ever accused Biden of being a racist."That according to Newsweek's Jonathan Alter in an August 23 column exploring why some politicians' gaffes stick and go on to practically define them -- Dan…
Ken Shepherd

NBC's Matt Lauer Highlights Biden's Past Gushing Over McCain

To kick off coverage of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, "Today" host Matt Lauer actually posed some challenging questions to Barack Obama's communications director, Robert Gibbs. The NBC host cited examples of newly minted vice presidential candidate Joe Biden praising John McCain's leadership and pointedly asked, "So, now, if Joe Biden goes on the attack against John McCain, isn't…
Scott Whitlock

Biden's 1988 Campaign Plagiarism Goes Well Beyond What Wiki Reveals

Joe Biden's 1987 stump-speech plagiarism of Neil Kinnock likely occurred more than once. Additionally, according to contemporaneous New York Times reports, including an editorial, Biden's orations featured unattributed speech-lifting from John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey. That's a lot more than Joe Biden's defenders and two of his Wikipedia entries have thus far revealed.…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

NB Staff

Lou Dobbs: 'My Colleagues in the Media Are Absolutely Biased

An astonishing thing happened on CNN Sunday evening: Lou Dobbs told his guests, "My colleagues in the national media are absolutely biased, in the tank supporting the Obama candidacy while claiming the mantle of objectivity," and they agreed.I kid you not. [audio clip available here]Joining Dobbs in this extraordinary discussion about liberal bias at America's leading press outlets were…
Noel Sheppard

Web Scoops MSM: Edwards Refunds Contributions to One of His Americas

P.J. Gladnick

Rather Pressed Obama: Do You Pray? Read Fiction or Nonfiction

Tim Graham

Celebrities Decamp Hollywood for Denver & DNC

As the city of Denver prepares for this week's Democratic convention, numerous Hollywood celebs are planning to attend in support of Barack Obama and to advocate for pet issues. Gushes Variety, When Barack Obama accepts the nomination before some 75,000 people at a Denver stadium on Thursday, he'll be surrounded by a contingent of average Americans from all walks of life --- just not Hollywood…
Jacob S. Lybbert

CNN Backtracks on Clinton Releasing Delegates Wednesday

CNN is suddenly backtracking from a report it made early Sunday evening concerning Hillary Clinton releasing her delegates to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday.During the 6PM EDT installment of "CNN Newsroom," Rick Sanchez announced the "breaking news" that was later posted at the network's website under the headline "Clinton to Release Her Delegates to Obama."Yet, just…
Noel Sheppard

Brokaw Gives Pelosi a Chance to Help Obama on Question of When Life Be

Obama's above my pay grade statement prompts pro-abortion Speaker of the House to spin the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Kristen Fyfe

Newsweek Editor Touts Democratic 'Two Prize Fighter' Ticket

On the roundtable segment of Sunday’s Meet the Press, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham exclaimed that the Democratic Party should be elated that for years, the Democrats "wanted a prize fighter. And they have two right now." The NBC show was discussing Meacham's  interview with Obama in the September 1 Newsweek, in which Meacham supportively volunteered to Obama that while some worry he won’t be tough…
Tim Graham

AP: 'Mexicans Deported From U.S. Face Shattered Lives

Mike Bates

Schieffer: Can Biden Be Obama's Spear Chucker

Employing the usual liberal assumption that Republicans are always nastier at attack politics, CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer suggested on Sunday morning that Barack Obama has yet to "go negative" in this campaign and "some" say he needs to "climb off the mountaintop and get down here and mix it up." Did he miss all Obama's talk of Bush-induced "economic disaster" on Saturday? But then…
Tim Graham