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Network Websites Downplay Obama Pledge-breaking on Campaign Finance
Today Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama issued a statement that he will forego the public financing system for the general election. His announcement goes back on a pledge to use public financing if the Republican candidate would do the same.All three broadcast networks' Web sites have the story, but only ABCNews.com noted in its front page tease that Obama is going back on a previous…
AP Ignores B-more Mayor's Party Label, Worries Probe May 'Overshadow H
Charm City has had Republican mayors before, but the last one was Theodore McKeldin, in the mid-1960s. His immediate successor was none other than Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) father, Thomas D'Alesandro III, so for native Marylanders like myself, it's easy to take for granted that the mayor of Baltimore is and ever will be a Democrat, and that mentioning the fact is redundant.But the…
'Evening News' Attacks 'Controversial' $200 Burger
CBS refers to Burger King offering as 'grotesque on a bun' and cites left-wing advocacy group, but downplays that fact that proceeds go to charity.
Morning Joe: Did Axelrod 'Lie' In Denying Michelle Makeover
It's rare to hear an MSM figure flatly suggest that a presidential campaign lied, but Joe Scarborough broke out the the l-word today in wondering whether chief Obama strategist David Axelrod did just that when he emphatically denied, on yesterday's show, that there is a concerted "makeover" of Michelle Obama in the works.View video here.An article in yesterday's New York Times, After Attacks,…
CNN Brings Negative View to 'Issue #1': The Economy
New mid-day show struggles to present economic news fairly, falls into same traps as other biased media.
AP Suggests Christians Oppose Faith-Affirming License Plates
Article quotes three pastors who oppose I Believe license plates in SC, but no pastors in favor.
CNN Portrays The Da Vinci Code Movie as Sin 'Too Grave to be Forgiven
Like ABC, CNN sides with Hollywood against Rome.
CBS Evening News Airs Brief Against Offshore Drilling
ABC's World News and the NBC Nightly News gave plenty of time to left-wing environmentalists and Democrats opposed to President Bush's call to open up oil drilling off the shores of the continental U.S., but unlike the CBS Evening News the two newscasts provided equal time to supporters and experts who predicted it would lower gas prices. CBS reporter Bill Whitaker began with pro and con…
BBC: Report on Blogger Arrests Obscures Most Arrests Are in Non-Democr
Bloggers are being arrested more and more as the importance of the Internet is realized by governments across the world, at least so warns the BBC. It seems an alarming report where community activists and democracy advocates are finding themselves being oppressed by government, arrested, and maybe even tortured because of their blogging. But, one little fact of the story is never really focussed…
Obama Advisor's Dog-Ate-My-Transcript Dodge
The dog ate my transcript. That's roughly what Susan Rice's response to a pointed question from Laura Ingraham amounted to. Give credit to Rice, Obama senior foreign policy advisor, for appearing on Ingraham's "Just In" FNC show today and taking on the host in a freewheeling conversation. But she and her candidate are really going to have to learn to do better than the feeble dodge she offered…
CNN’s Roland Martin: ‘Weak’ Conservative Men ‘Don't Like Stron
[Update, 10:30 am EDT Thursday: Martin's title at CNN is now political analyst, not contributor, according to an e-mail we received earlier this morning. This must be a very recent development, as Mr. Martin was referred to as "contributor" as late as June 17.] CNN contributor Roland Martin, when asked on Tuesday’s "Anderson Cooper 360" if Michelle Obama was being held to a different standard…