Democrats are mostly not interested in brining it back, but con talk radio is whipping up a frenzy about it.
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The myth will never die.
Among the materials that money has shaken free for Mr. Rather are internal CBS memorandums turned over to his lawyers, showing that network executives used Republican operatives to vet the names of potential members of a panel that had been billed as independent and charged with investigating the ‘60 Minutes’ [...]
Seriously, this is a serious crush rivaling Chris Matthews unrequited love for Sen. McCain.
* 1950s-80s: Right feels put out by the “liberal consensus” and communicate via direct mail and media connected to the church, this becomes a considerable tool in fighting for Reagan and Bush I.
* 1990s: In opposition, con talk radio comes into its own led by Rush. Drudge joins in and Fox revs up.
* Early 2000s: [...]
Oh, come on. Does anyone actually believe this story? Attractive young Disney starlet just happens to have nude and semi-nude photos of herself on her laptop, and this laptop is stolen at the airport. And then the nude photos are held for ransom.
Really, is there anyone who actually believes this? The release of nude photos [...]
Here’s hoping he joins Darva Conger, Sanjaya, and William Hung in the circular file of history.
This just keeps getting juicier.
Fox News correspondent Major Garrett shot back in defense of Barack Obama against the network’s morning show’s effort to suggest that he has ignored Fox News throughout the campaign. In an internal email obtained by the Huffington Post, Garrett — who has been Fox News’ correspondent following the Obama campaign — [...]
For most of the campaign I’ve watched MSNBC because its the only network with major voices from the left like Olbermann and Maddow, but election night I think I might watch Fox News because of the likely outcome and my obsession with schadenfreude. How about you?
Watch the McCain operatives and conservative pundits on TV. The hope they are peddling in these last few hours sounds a lot like the Democrats in the past with happy talk about turning out the vote among young people (cue Terry McAuliffe in 2002). Your Fred Barneses, Bill Kristols, and the like are now pushed [...]
That was quite simply one of the funniest skits of the year. Ben Affleck perfectly nailed K.O., especially during the Special Comment of Miss Kitty being denied by the co-op.
SIR, I DEMAND YOU RESIGN!
Republican pollster Frank Luntz on Media Matters:
At the least, the organization has succeeded in proving nettlesome to Republicans, as well as the mainstream press at times. “I think they are one of the most destructive organizations associated with American politics today,” said Frank Luntz, a pollster for Rudolph W. Giuliani and Newt Gingrich who this [...]
OMG!!! Obama’s half-aunt may be in America illegally! This irrelevant bit of material brought to you via a leak from the Bush administration and blared across the world by the Ron Fournier led AP. Or something.
MSNBC beat CNN in October. That never happened until they added liberal Rachel Maddow to the lineup.
Shocker.
Of course, considering how NBC News allows the right-wing to dictate things, no doubt they’ll cancel Maddow and Olbermann in light of their success.
Matt Drudge has finally lost his damn mind.
So funny. If this is a prelude to the future, I’m going to love seeing the Obama folks smack Fox in the nose. Megyn Kelly: cute but crazy.
Reader S.M. caught this one.
NY Post has to remove story attacking Obamas because it was made up. Keith Olbermann is familiar with the NY Post’s tactics on this.
You know the Powell endorsement is of significance if Rush Limbaugh rushes out an email to attack it on a Sunday. And of course he goes right for the racial attack.
Hey Rush, I hear they’re selling Oxycontin in bulk.
Matt Drudge tries to haul McCain over the finish line using bogus polls.
David Letterman is the first national media figure to ask John McCain about his multi-decade relationship with convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy. Letterman!
Nowadays you get more journalism from the Daily Show, Colbert, and Letterman than from an entire week of the twenty-four hour “news” networks.
At this point in the campaign it has become abundantly clear that the conservative media will believe anything about Sen. Obama if it seems even slightly negative. Check out this insane story with made up quotes from Michelle Obama - plainly fabricated to even the casual observer - and look at how the con media [...]
This one is not even a competition folks.
This is the guy Fox News and Sean Hannity used to go after Sen. Obama. And this is the guy who has pushed the phony Obama is a Muslim story. This guy.
The Chicago man credited with launching the Barack Obama-is-a-Muslim smear campaign once pledged to ‘exterminate Jew Power in America,’ and claimed that ‘Jew babies [...]
ABC is refusing to run an ad from Al Gore’s “We” campaign that’s pretty innocuous when you compare it to the swill they run from the oil industry 24/7.
Rupert Murdoch & Co. are doing their damndest to win back this election for John McCain. But I don’t think it will work. This isn’t 2002 or 2004.
We’re at the phase of the election where Glenn Reynolds apparently just makes stuff up. Although it frankly always feels like we’re at that phase.
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I just saw Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post on MSNBC say that the candidates got too wonky on the bailout plan last night. I’m sorry… that’s kind of the whole point. We want our leaders to be wonky. We want them to be detail oriented. Especially after our current leader, who has made clear [...]
New column on HuffPo: America Wants A President, Not A Drama Queen
Goes to Ben Smith of The Politico (who, God knows, I have regularly given a hard time):
“McCain camp attacks Times, doesn’t deny report”
Of course, for the McCain campaign that is a feature, not a bug.
Just wondering. More here.
UPDATE: The AP uses “fumbled” as a nice way of saying “lied”.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday defended two debunked television ads attacking Democrat Barack Obama and claimed erroneously that running mate Sarah Palin never sought money for lawmakers’ pet projects as Alaska governor.
Palin sought $197 million in so-called “earmarks” for [...]
McCain/Palin is turning to Republican propagandist Sean “Talking Points” Hannity for Sarah Palin’s next interview. Sample question: “Governor, whats it like standing up to negative sexist attacks from a secret Muslim terrorist like Barack Obama?”
I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy that day.
I know when I look for an “independent journalist” to corroborate facts, the first person in my Rolodex is Iran Conra liar Oliver North. I’m sure the same is true of most people.
Um… disgusting.
Today there is a story in the Washington Post, discussing the McCain campaign’s fundamental tactic of just lying. Lying about McCain, lying about Palin. If their lips are moving, they are lying. But while the fault does largely lie with McCain and the Republican party for making outright lies one of the legs of the [...]
Yes, lack.
“One of the things Wallace credits with FNC’s success is separation. ‘We’ve been very careful to keep our opinion separate. Our news division takes care of that,’ he says. ‘That’s done us well and I think that’s why you see these numbers. See, when Brit or Shepard Smith are on, that’s our news division [...]
That is how the propaganda show interview with Sarah Palin is shaping up. Of course, this is the school of journalism Gibson is now associating himself with:
Prepare for pattycake, folks.
UPDATE: August discusses the technical impossibilities involved.
The reason MSNBC has fallen to third place every time they get a little head of steam is when they pull moves like this.
After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David [...]
What they really say behind closed doors. Oh, those cons.
The great thing is in Peggy Noonan’s column today, Noonan talks about the Palin pick as a “real and present danger to the American left”. So you know, for all those years of us talking about how they just serve up a load of bull, as [...]
If you’re afraid to sit for an interview, how the hell can you back up the president in negotiations, preside over the senate, and for Christ’s sake, be commander-in-chief in a time of emergency?
Davis demurred when asked when Palin will sit for interviews with major news organizations, pointing out that now would not be the [...]
It’s clear that Fox is no longer the big bad wolf it was in 2004, but I wonder if their convention coverage will be the same load of nonsense it was in 2004, with Bill O’Reilly wondering if Ted Kennedy would show up to speak as Kennedy spoke right behind him. And will Fox News [...]
Because people like Mark Halperin aren’t just grabbing coffee for people, they’re “senior” level correspondents. According to Halperin, the McCain has 7 houses gaffe is bad… for Obama.
You know that “this is good for John McCain” thing we Democrats have been joking about?
It’s not a joke.
I swear, I would go mad if the blogosphere had [...]
As if it weren’t bad enough that the McCain campaign was poised to hire him, the AP’s Ron Fournier may very well be getting payments from the very same organizations he covers.
OMG an actual liberal on teevee!
Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the long-time host –- and one-time general manager of the network — Dan Abrams from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow, who has emerged as a [...]
Oh, well, that settles it. Stay tuned as Byron York goes in depth to tell us how McCain staffers think that John McCain is the best choice for president while Obama staffers disagree!
The mainstream press scratches its head and can’t figure out why.
Hey, the Democratic convention is coming up… let’s show footage of the 1968 convention, and let’s put on some protesters too (never mind they ignored and ridiculed anti-war protesters in the past). Fair and balanced!
As both the Ron Paul “movement” and the “9/11 truth” jokers have shown us, all you need is a big mouth and a website for the MSM to take a small handful of fringe goofballs somewhat seriously.
From last night’s Larry King Live. This is how you do it.
More here.
Olympic gold and bronze medal winning wrestler Rulon Gardner shows former Giants running back and NBC correspondent who the man really is with a quick lift up on his shoulder during MSNBC’s Olympic coverage. Sweet.
Everything is so awesome in Iraq they’re opening a KFC!!! Did anyone call KFC to verify that? Um… No?
Today’s lineup:
Chuck Todd - NBC Political Director
Judy Woodruff - PBS reporter
Mike Murphy - Republican consultant
Andrea Mitchell - NBC reporter
Apparently every Democrat and Liberal in the area left town for the weekend…