Back in 1964, Lyndon Johnson and his hatchet man Bill Moyers made the infamous "Daisy" ad charging Barry Goldwater would cause a nuclear war, and it became a massive media story. Reportedly the ad…
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October 21st, 2008 10:31 PM | Brent Baker
After seven weeks of the news media deriding Sarah Palin, Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday night seemed to delight in emphasizing how, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal…
October 21st, 2008 1:25 PM | Kyle Drennen
At the top of Tuesday’s CBS Early Show co-host Harry Smith teased his interview with John McCain: "Exclusive, McCain one-on-one on Sarah Palin...everything from robocalls to his health." During…
October 21st, 2008 12:02 PM | Jeff Poor
When Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama publicly said “spreading the wealth around” was better for the country, it caused some of his critics to cry socialism.
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October 21st, 2008 11:38 AM | Seton Motley
Spreading the WordAs we reported earlier,
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former CBS news anchor Dan Rather noted on today's Morning Joe on MSNBC that the traditional media is largely ignoring Democratic Senator and Vice…
October 20th, 2008 5:12 PM | Ken Shepherd
Forget zombies, vampires, ghosts and goblins. TodayShow.com contributor Marisa Belger is spooked by how eco-unfriendly Halloween is (via Daily Gut):
Halloween can be an especially eco-…
October 20th, 2008 5:06 PM | Jeff Poor
It’s one thing for the media to have a bias for Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, but it’s another thing to be overt about it as MSNBC “Politics of Money” co-host Contessa…
October 19th, 2008 11:11 PM | Brent Baker
Journalists on TV Sunday heralded the importance and impact of Colin Powell's long-expected endorsement of Barack Obama which he made on Meet the Press. Later in that show, NBC reporter Andrea…
October 19th, 2008 4:55 PM | Tim Graham
In the latest wave of defensive fervor against connecting Obama and bomber Bill Ayers, some journalists are emphasizing that "robo-calls" from the RNC could be "illegal," despite the fact that in…
October 19th, 2008 1:16 PM | Noel Sheppard
Whether it's an example of the host's bias or incompetence, potentially one of the most amazing aspects of Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama on Sunday's "Meet the Press" was that Tom…
October 18th, 2008 5:15 PM | Noel Sheppard
Keith Olbermann cowardly responded to the jokes John McCain made about him at Thursday's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner by attacking Gov. Sarah Palin.
After showing some of the…
October 18th, 2008 2:22 PM | Tim Graham
With 18 days to go in the presidential race, Friday’s Today show lurched to the far left and actually devoted five minutes (and space on MSNBC.com) to leftist author Naomi Wolf and her theory that…
October 17th, 2008 3:34 PM | Tim Graham
Not many people still ooze over former tyrant Mikhail Gorbachev as a historical giant who liberated the inhabitants of the Soviet Union. But former NBC anchor and current Meet the Press host Tom…
October 17th, 2008 2:58 PM | Mark Finkelstein
They [the RNC] are calling voters, cold calls, and saying to them, what about William Ayers and the close working relationship he had [with Obama], which is not true by anybody's count . . . It…
October 17th, 2008 7:43 AM | Tim Graham
John McCain and Barack Obama attended the annual white-tie Al Smith dinner in New York last night. CNN carried their attempts to be funny during Larry King Live. McCain launched on MSNBC:
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October 16th, 2008 10:34 AM | Seton Motley
Spreading the WordAs we reported earlier, in an interview for the upcoming New York Times's Sunday Magazine, and again in last night's Presidential debate, Illinois Senator Barack Obama singled out…
October 16th, 2008 3:40 AM | Brent Baker
Recapping Wednesday's presidential debate TV journalists were struck with how Barack Obama conveyed an “appeal to the center” while a “sarcastic” John McCain showed “disdain and contempt” and was…
October 15th, 2008 10:19 PM | Clay Waters
The New York Times posted on its website Wednesday political writer Matt Bai's long profile of Barack Obama, which will be featured in the next edition of the Times Sunday Magazine.
Near…
October 15th, 2008 8:05 PM | Matthew Balan
During Wednesday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez tried to portray that there were many so-called conservatives who were "defecting," in his words, from John McCain over his selection…
October 15th, 2008 8:01 PM | P.J. Gladnick
It is pretty tough to find someone in the media, no matter how liberal, spinning in favor of ACORN which has been widely recognized for perpetrating voter fraud on a mass scale. However, one Glenn…
October 15th, 2008 9:34 AM | Matthew Sheffield
D'oh! In his haste to condemn Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin last night far-left MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann made a particularly elementary reading comprehension error.
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October 14th, 2008 11:20 PM | Tom Blumer
Three weeks out from Election Day, surely more Americans are tuning into the Big 3 networks' evening newscasts, right?
Wrong.
In the past two weeks, Big 3 evening newscast viewership…
October 14th, 2008 4:17 PM | Noel Sheppard
National Review's David Frum on Monday accused MSNBC's Rachel Maddow of intensifying the ugly tone that exists in politics today.
Appearing on "The Rachel Maddow Show," the former Bush…
October 14th, 2008 10:30 AM | Jeff Poor
If you're going base an entire TV show on taking potshots at conservatives and Republicans for anything and everything, you might try to get at least the simple things right - things like grade-…
October 14th, 2008 8:55 AM | P.J. Gladnick
As we have seen before, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the universe when it comes to political smarts. In fact, many blame Newsom's poorly timed push for gay…