Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Front Page, Media Watch
Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) also believe the GOP vice presidential nominee has better experience to be president of the United [...]
Terry Trippany on Aug 31 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
And as expected, Barack Obama’s groupies in the mainstream media are distorting the facts concerning a supposed abuse of power investigation over the firing of Alaskan State Trooper Mike Wooten. Stop by Flopping Aces to get the whole rundown. Here’s a few key points from Mata Harley’s Flopping Aces post.
Palin was not Governor of the [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
The AP does it again, serving as Obama’s water carrier. Here’s the set up: Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, instantly shot to number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Panic ensued. First, the New York Times attacked it, pointing to three minor errors, along with [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
The answer to the above question: When it’s impossible to distinguish the satire from the real thing.
I received several emails today alerting me to a post at Power Line that purported to reprint a directive from a powerful person at a major media outlet, describing how to cover the upcoming Republican Convention. Here, [...]
Teri O'Brien on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
It was the late film critic Pauline Kael who famously reacted with amazement to the 1972 Nixon landslide by saying “I don’t know anybody who voted for him.” I think about that comment a lot lately. Every time I hear one of the dino-media gasbags expressing their mystification over recent polls, some of which actually [...]
Terry Trippany on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Media Watch
If the mainstream media isn’t yet embarrassed by their over the top coverage of a junior Senator from Illinois with nary an accomplishment minus their personal obsession over his skin color then they should be. Many in the American public and even some media people themselves are starting to mock the MSM contingent that is [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iraq, Liberalism Watch, Politicians at Work
There is an absolutely staggering editorial in today’s Washington Post — it admits that, John Rockefeller’s “official” indictment to the contrary, Bush did not lie. If anything, Rockefeller, in his official Senate Intelligence Committee report is lying by reaching conclusions at odds with his own evidence:
Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you will [...]
Terry Trippany on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article
It didn’t take long for the Reuters image that Warner Todd Huston wrote about yesterday to show up in another MSM newspaper. The Obamamessiah image of his photo superimposed on top of an out of focus campaign logo just made its next stop in the UK where it is featured prominently in the Times Online.
The [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on May 21 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Media Watch
A Rasmussen poll, about which we learn via Boortz.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 62% of voters would prefer fewer government services with lower taxes. Nearly a third (29%) disagrees and would rather have a bigger government with higher taxes. Ten percent (10%) are not sure.
Kinda funny. When President Bush’s approval rating [...]
Terry Trippany on May 10 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
Ever wonder why the newspaper you pick up is so devoid of substance when it comes to Barack Obama? Do you often find your self scratching your head in wonderment when the talking heads on MSNBC or CNN do one puff piece after another on the Junior Senator from Illinois; rarely explaining anything relevant about [...]
