John Edwards Claims He 'Calmed' Pakistan; NBC's Gregory Unfazed
January 3rd, 2008 3:03 PM
On this morning’s Today show, NBC’s David Gregory challenged Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards about his vote for the Iraq war, his relative lack of experience, and his divisive us-vs-them rhetoric. But Gregory had absolutely no reaction when Edwards grandly claimed that his phone call to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the hours after the assassination of former Prime…
Iowa: 'Media Ready to Take 3rd-Place McCain Finish and Catapult Him to
January 2nd, 2008 6:06 PM
Credit Chuck Todd for candor. The NBC News Political Director has acknowledged that the media is poised to take a third-place finish by John McCain in Iowa, declare him the winner and catapult the Arizona senator to victory in New Hampshire. Todd appeared with the Politico's Roger Simon on this afternoon's Hardball.View video here.
Faulty Media Polls Fuel Iowa 'Expectations' Game
January 2nd, 2008 2:52 PM
As you’ve already been told a thousand times, with only a day to go before the Iowa caucuses, the polls are showing a statistical three-way tie between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards atop the Democratic field, and a similarly close two-way race between Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.But the polls are probably wrong. Or maybe they’re right -- we won’t really know until…
NBC's 'ER' Fills Rx for Liberal Preachiness with New Episode, Old Char
January 2nd, 2008 12:08 PM
Out: Green Week on NBC. In: preachy AIDS activism on the peacock network's "ER." Reports Los Angeles Times writer Greg Braxton in the the January 2 paper (emphasis mine): Gloria Reuben raised more than a few eyebrows in 2000 when she went from the front lines of NBC's acclaimed "ER" to the back line of Tina Turner's rock 'n' roll tour. Now she's starting the new year by stepping forward into…
Chris Matthews: GOP Candidates Want to Kill Bugs Bunny
December 31st, 2007 12:07 PM
On Sunday’s The Chris Matthews Show, the host used one of Mike Huckabee’s Iowa photo-ops as an excuse to launch into an elitist attack on Republicans and hunters. “Who made killing small animals the test of Republican manhood?” Matthews challenged at the top of his show. Over a clip of a vintage Looney Tunes cartoon, Matthews further upped the ante: “Who declared war on Bugs Bunny?!”Later with…
Holt To Huck: Wish You Had a 'Do-over' on Pakistan Comments
December 29th, 2007 8:53 AM
Could it have been just a couple days ago that Chris Matthews claimed that the media had made a "mascot" out of Mike Huckabee? You wouldn't know it from this morning's Today show. Weekend host Lester Holt kicked off the show's political segment by implying that among presidential candidates, Huckabee was the big loser in his handling of the Pakistani situation.LESTER HOLT: The murder of Benazir…
The Worst 'Notable Quotables' of
December 28th, 2007 10:14 AM
Before we ring in 2008, it's worth taking a look back at some of the liberal media's goofiest or most outrageous moments, courtesy of the Media Research Center's Best Notable Quotables of 2007: The Twentieth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting. The awards were determined by a panel of 53 distinguished media observers, including radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, editorial writers…
Media Can't Decide If 2.4 Percent Is Dramatic or Ho-Hum
December 26th, 2007 3:59 PM
The media are always trying to find a way to report the bad side of economic news, so it's shouldn't come as a terrible surprise to anyone that they managed to make positive holiday sales growth a bad thing.According to MasterCard SpendingPulse, retail sales were up 3.6 percent during the holiday season - 2.4 percent excluding gas prices. But because it's not as big an increase as recent years…
