Bill and Hillary's Unfavorable Ratings Skyrocket, Media Mostly Mum
April 20th, 2008 4:46 PM
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported results of a new poll it undertook with ABC News wherein Hillary Clinton's unfavorable rating skyrocketed to its highest point ever.In the same poll, her husband Bill's unfavorable rating rose above 50 percent for the first time since August 1998 when he was embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.Although some media outlets other than the Post did…
WaPo Hypes Sen. Boxer Comment, Ignores Bigger Story In Bush Global War
April 17th, 2008 12:44 PM
I already knew Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wasn't a clear thinker, but I still had to chuckle at her quote in today's Washington Post article on climate change: The president's plan to have America stand by while greenhouse gases reach dangerous levels and threaten America and the world is worse than doing nothing -- it is the height of irresponsibility. What's the difference between "standing…
NYT: Papal Spectators 'Residents, Tourists,' or 'the Simply Curious
April 17th, 2008 12:33 PM
NYT Reported 750K Saw Mandela in 1990; Similar Papal Estimates on Way? It's early in the papal visit, but I have to wonder if Old Media will get into the level of detail found in the New York Times's June 21, 1990 coverage of Nelson Mandela's visit to New York City: The police estimated that 750,000 people saw Mr. Mandela at one point or another - 50,000 in Queens at Kennedy International Airport…
WaPo TV Critic Feels Wednesday's Debate 'Slanted Against Obama
April 17th, 2008 10:11 AM
Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos actually asked some tough questions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during Wednesday's Democrat presidential debate on ABC.Yet, the Washington Post's television critic Tom Shales wasn't happy about this, and actually felt the event represented "another step downward for network news" wherein the moderators "turned in shoddy, despicable performances."…
WaPo: Obama's 'Small Town' Slam Framed as Republican Attack
April 12th, 2008 1:48 PM
Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post's "The Fix" blog executed an example of political gymnastics so amazing for its twisting of reality that it boggles the mind. He actually turned comments by Barack Obama from a dissing of "small town" America to one highlighting how mean Republicans are. You heard me right. Obama's comments had absolutely nothing to do with the GOP, yet Cillizza was somehow…
Doom and Gloom Opining Wins WashPo Columnist a Pulitzer Prize
April 7th, 2008 6:30 PM
Congratulations to The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein - being on the "economy is destined for calamity" bandwagon early. It has won you a Pulitzer Prize. Pearlstein was named as one of the recipients of the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes, for his columns on the nation's economic problems. Granted, Pearlstein called the fundamental problems with some of the shenanigans going on in the home mortgage…
Will Media Pounce on Hillary's Lie About Dead 'Uninsured' Pregnant Wom
April 5th, 2008 2:41 PM
The New York Times on Saturday exposed another lie that Hillary Clinton has been telling on the campaign trail about a pregnant woman in Ohio that supposedly died because she was refused care at a hospital due to being uninsured (embedded video of her related speech right, h/t Hot Air).The hospital in question is now refuting these claims, and asking the junior senator from New York to "…
