Jimmy Carter, 'Man of Peace, Great American' -- and Massive Ego

The Washington Post topped off its Style section today by interviewing filmmaker Jonathan Demme on his documentary following around Jimmy Carter on the book tour of his tome Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. When asked if he worried that Carter's book was "too tedious" as a film subject, Demme suggested Carter as The Answer to the War on Terrorism:Whether we want to admit it or not, most of us…
Tim Graham

Obama, Goner? Scarborough Seems to Think So

Obama, goner? Joe Scarborough seems to think so. Here's what the MSNBC host had to say on today's "Morning Joe":JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yesterday, way too late in the afternoon, I did an hour on "Super Tuesday" [MSNBC's weekly Election 2008 special] and was interviewing A.B. Stoddard, journalist of "The Hill," and I asked her about Barack Obama, was he going to step forward? And she gave a great…
Mark Finkelstein

AP's Chet Brokaw Has Double Standard on Politicians Accused of Sex Cri

Democrats never get "outed" as Democrats by the MSM if they are accused of crimes and corruption, but if they are Republicans... well, that party affiliation is rarely held back by that same media. Some may have scoffed at this claim that GOPers are always outed while Dems are always shielded, but here is so perfect an example of it that it almost seems that we wrote it ourselves as a Halloween…
Warner Todd Huston

Seattle PI Columnist: 'I Understand' Burning 'Oppressive' Churches

**WITH UPDATE** Dorothy Parvaz, a columnist, blogger and member of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board, posted a short P-I blog post in which she sympathetically says she understands how someone would want to burn a church down because it is "an oppressive institution." And she isn't just shrugging her shoulders over the threatened arson of a church, but the planned arson of San…
Warner Todd Huston

NBC's Williams Suggests Obama Likely to Be 'Swift-Boating' Victim

During Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate on MSNBC, NBC anchor Brian Williams posed a question to Barack Obama which managed to simultaneously impugn Republicans as executors of disreputable campaign practices and portray Obama as a likely victim of it -- all based on Mitt Romney flubbing Obama's name and memories of the Bush campaign's attacks on John McCain in 2000. Explaining that…
Brent Baker

When the Buzz Drowns Out the Music

Britney Spears mocks the Catholic confessional to sell her latest album.
Colleen Raezler

ABC: Iraqis Adapt to 'New Normal' as 'Violence on Downward Trend

Both NBC and ABC on Tuesday night noted the smallest number of American servicemen killed in Iraq since March of 2006, but while NBC's Brian Williams stressed the total number killed since the war began, ABC's Charles Gibson segued to a story about “booming” markets and significantly improving life in Baghdad. Eight days ago, ABC uniquely highlighted Fallujah's “extraordinary comeback story.” […
Brent Baker

AP/ABC Ignore Party Affiliation of Disgraced New Orleans DA

We know that the mainstream media love to report on all of the following: 1) the mass firing of prosecutors for political reasons; 2) anything about New Orleans; 3) and race issues in Lousiana. So what happens when you have one story that covers all three topics? The answer is almost nothing when the story involves an embattled Democratic official.
Jason Aslinger

Study: Media Elite's Campaign News More Biased than Talk Radio

Rich Noyes

Bozell Column: 'Peace' Movement Pass

If the "peace" movement holds a protest and no one in the press covers it, does it still exist? If Americans are sick of the war, they’re also sick of the "anti-war." Even the media have grown anti-war-weary. Rallies on October 27 drew only perfunctory news mentions.The peaceniks have now become a bipartisan political problem, now that the Democrats who control Congress haven’t dared to placate…
Brent Bozell

Would Norah Dare Get as Personal With Hillary as She Did With Mrs. Kuc

What's a good-looking young girl like you doing with a weird old guy like him? And what's up with the tongue-ring?Norah O'Donnell all but asked the first question of Elizabeth Kucinich this afternoon, and did ask the second one.View video here.
Mark Finkelstein

Lesley Stahl Goes Personal on Sarkozy: Did Your Wife Leave You

Tim Graham

WaPo Writer Waxes Poetic for Castro Regime Control Mechanism

Imagine the ire the media would have, rightfully so, if George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney (and Sean Hannity and whatever other liberal bogeymen the ultra-left fear) could even dream of, much less institute, a block-by-block patriotism patrol answerable to the U.S. government. Of course that would not and could not ever happen under our Constitution. But the same essential thing was a…
Ken Shepherd

Brokaw and Buffett: The Rich Don't Pay Enough

World's third-richest man insists he and other wealthy people aren't paying their fair share when it comes to taxes.
Jeff Poor