Miami Herald columnist, Andres Oppenheimer, is like a high school football player who just scored a touchdown. You can spot him in the end zone triumphantly spiking the football and performing his…
The sudden and shocking death of NBC's Tim Russert brought an outpouring of kindness and generosity. The deluge of coverage suggested Russert had become a very central figure in the media-…
With oil prices approaching $150 a barrel, and gas now over $4 a gallon (approaching $5 where I live!), Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future has launched a campaign to force…
It seems not everyone in the liberal blogosphere is smitten with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
Take for example Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar who on Thursday called out the insufferably…
Watch this video where Chris Matthews displays his utter lack of class with Keith Olbermann. While almost every other journalist and blogger on both sides of the political spectrum are giving…
Here's an interesting little experiment from Vanity Fair: A guide to the blogosphere that isn't broken down by left and right but by news/opinion and high/low-brow.
Click image above to view…
A very active sports weekend ahead of us:
Tiger on the prowl at Torrey Pines: Can he really win his first tournament after rehab? Did the Celtics show Thursday night that they are just flat out…For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: who will replace Tim Russert as NBC's Washington bureau chief and "Meet the Press" moderator?
As you might imagine, the Kossacks…
The Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger got out the gloom-and-doom paint in his report on the Consumer Price Index on Friday morning.
Here are his opening paragraphs:
Inflation…
NBC will air a special tonight on Tim Russert at 10 PM EDT/PDT (9PM CDT), taking the place of the second hour of the scheduled Dateline.The hour, to be hosted Tom Brokaw, is titled: 'Remembering…
ABC's Marcus Baram is reporting that Democratic Senators Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.) "had their home loans handled by [Countrywide Financial's] VIP desk, where a team of loan…
CNN contributor Roland Martin, a known Barack Obama sympathizer, surprisingly isn’t buying the argument that conservatives/Republicans are behind the rumored Michelle Obama "whitey" comment.…
Another mainstream media outlet is taking another stab at solving high gas prices.
The latest incarnation appeared in the June 13 USA Today – evaluating what could be done…
A few moments ago, NBC News reported that "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert passed away this afternoon. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Russert family and his extended family at NBC News.…
Hillary Clinton bears have been marked down at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company in Shelburne, VT. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
In case there was any doubt left about how CBS’s Dave Price feels about “going green,” he told viewers June 13 that it’s the “right way” to live.
“It is remarkable – you know,…
Picking up on the media's meme that a vast right-wing hate machine is going at full-tilt against Michelle Obama, ABCNews.com wants readers to know that the Illinois senator's wife is "more Jackie…
Has NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory turned over a new leaf?
Gregory, who has earned a lot of critics for having an anti-Bush/liberal bias, made it seem that way during a…
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday urging him to drop recent proposals which amount to "a sweeping…
Now that Jim Johnson has quit Barack Obama's vice-presidential candidate selection team, maybe somebody, anybody, in the media, instead of making "He's havng a bad day" excuses, might focus on the…
Mike Barnicle managed the Daily Double today with his…