WaPo's Kurtz Defends Plante's 'Smart-assed' Question
August 21st, 2007 5:44 PM
In the appropriately-titled "Media Backtalk" chat on August 21, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz defended a fellow reporter's self-described "smart-assed" remark to President Bush about adviser Karl Rove's political acumen.Kurtz defended CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante's August 13 question as "the Sam Donaldson technique of trying to get the president and top aides to say…
Barnicle to WaPo, Newsweek Reporters: 'Regular People' Like Us Want Ch
August 20th, 2007 5:56 PM
Looking to sample the political opinions of regular Americans? What better cross-section than the denizens of MSM newsrooms! That seems to be Mike Barnicle's attitude, at least. The former Boston Globe columnist-turned-MSNBC contributor is guest-hosting for Chris Matthews on this afternoon's "Hardball."Chatting with guests Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post and Holly Bailey of Newsweek, talk…
WaPo Shilling for 'Peace Mom'... Still
August 20th, 2007 4:30 AM
Michael A. Fletcher of the Washington Post has a little snippet of a story so full of hyperbole about how wonderful and "crystallizing" so-called "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan has been for the country that unintentional comedy is the result -- that or it raises a collective groan for its slobbering sycophancy. He so outlandishly exaggerates the impact of the "antiwar hero" and her protégé in "Camp…
Blogger Takes on WashPost's Juvenile Style Section Item on Fred Thomps
August 13th, 2007 2:42 PM
I saw this yesterday but didn't work up anything on it. Basically it's a lame Style section front-pager from Sunday that fixates on how dull/boring/lame/stupid-sounding the name "Fred" is, and what that means for presumptive GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Fortunately Myra Langerhas of "Snarking Dawg" worked up a snarky blog post and so I thought I'd share that with you. Below is the…
Markos Moulitsas to Debate Harold Ford Jr. on ‘Meet the Press
August 11th, 2007 7:33 PM
After the press spent last weekend gushing over liberal bloggers with nothing but glowing coverage of the YearlyKos convention in Chicago, the media's fascination with the Netroots continued with reckless abandon this weekend. On Saturday, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, to be followed by a debate on Sunday's "Meet the Press" between the head…
Washingtonpost.com Adds NR's Ramesh Ponnuru to Website Lineup
August 6th, 2007 9:01 AM
The Washington Post website is not usually a place someone would go to find conservatives. But the Post has created a new Discussion Groups area, and one of those areas is "Right Matters" -- with National Review writer and deep-thinker Ramesh Ponnuru. Ramesh is also the author of the recent book Party of Death, which has some neat data on abortion and media bias. Liberals still have plenty of…
WashPost Wrongly Claimed US Is Still Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitter
August 5th, 2007 2:55 PM
The media frames America in anthropogenic global warming articles as the evil Earth Killer, and everything from a sparrow flying into a glass window to Darfur's genocide is America's and George Bush's fault, regardless of facts or science. In an August 4 article which stated President Bush invited the world's leading economic powers to participate in a "climate change summit” that intends to set…
