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As if we needed any more evidence of the moral decay of the MSM and their blatant bias towards Obama and away from McCain, ABC's "20/20" special on the Candidate's made even Al Jazeera seem far more "Fair and balanced" than Fox. It was so bad that ABC ought to think about creating a spin-off of "UGly Betty" and call it "Dumb Dianne" as Sawyer pitched a lot of fluff balls to Michele OBama while throwing rocks at Cindy McCain. We heard extensive coverage of McCain's infidelity, the Keating Five scandal with maximum innuendoes about McCain and minimal mention of...

Of course the AP couldn't syndicate an article without inserting a lil' spin. They coulda said she earned all her tax deductions the old fashioned way....by birthing them.....

Back in the 1980s, one of the top-level swimmers in California adopted a rather unusual method of getting himself psyched up for his events. Half an hour before his race, he'd start chanting softly to himself, “I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win.” His chants gradually got louder and louder, and, from the time he entered the ready area until he took his place on the starting block, everyone around him was treated to his constant mantra, “I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win.” The strategy worked to a certain extent. His chanting often threw competitors...

Gwen Ifill was a true journalist: fair Critics had feared she would favor Biden because she's written a book that spotlights Obama. Those fears were unjustified. At least one figure on the stage for Thursday night's vice presidential debate reached a high standard for reason, fairness and class. Gwen Ifill of PBS demonstrated abundant dignity as referee of the much-anticipated debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.

After the vice presidential debate Chris Matthews criticized Sarah Palin for, of all things, looking into the camera because it made her look like a "dolt." In fact, the "Hardball," host took several stylistic shots at Palin that implied the Alaska Governor wasn't very intelligent. Audio here When guest panelist Roger Simon noted Palin looked directly into the camera, Matthews observed: You know what I think of people when they come on "Hardball," and they look at the camera, I think they're dolts. In addition to the "dolt," remark Matthews viewed Palin's performance as "so reciting," and "automatic," "like a...

UPDATED CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's vice presidential debate. After the first presidential debate, a similar survey showed that more uncommitted voters identified Barack Obama as the winner Final numbers from tonight's poll have yet to come in, but we do have some early results. (These numbers may change as more respondents complete the survey.) They suggest that once again more voters have responded favorably to the Democratic candidate. Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate,...

The Obamas: Portrait of an American Family Gwen Ifill Soon we will vote for our next president, and for the first time in history, one of the two candidates is a Black man. For a year, Essence pursued an interview with the entire Obama family to no avail. Finally, this summer ESSENCE became the only Black media outlet allowed a glimpse into the lives of Barack, Michelle and their two girls, Malia and Sasha, when we were invited to their South Side Chicago home. Weeks later, veteran political journalist Gwen Ifill was with the family as they campaigned in a...

I've been an FR reader since 2002.This is my first vanity post. For months, conservatives have been complaining about the unprecedented favoritism that the media has been showing Obama, which goes well beyond the normal amount of favoritism that the media shows towards Democrats during an election year. But we need to take a step back and realize that the media's reluctance to pin the blame for this financial crisis squaurely on the shoulders of the culprits who are responsible for it is not just part and parcel of the their desire to help Obama get elected. It is a...

While Congress grapples with a $700 billion dollar financial backstop package to salvage the credit markets, Democrat Barack Obama (46 percent) leads Republican John McCain (42 percent), in the state of Florida, according to a Suffolk University/WSVN-7News Miami poll released today.

NEW YORK - PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, moderator of the upcoming vice presidential debate, dismissed conservative questions about her impartiality because she is writing a book that includes material on Barack Obama. Ifill said Wednesday that she hasn't even written her chapter on Obama for the book "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," which is to be published by Doubleday on Jan. 20, 2009, the day a new president is inaugurated. "I've got a pretty long track record covering politics and news, so I'm not particularly worried that one-day blog chatter is going to destroy my...

When the Dow was down 777, they had it in big graphics, but when it went up 485 the next day, it was nowhere to be seen. Today, they showed the Dow until it started going back up, and then it was gone.

My first syndicated column of the week, filed this afternoon, shines light on PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who will moderate Thursday’s only vice presidential debate. Try as she might to deflect questions about her impartiality, her biases — and her conflict of interest — are clear. But don’t you dare breathe a word about any of this. You know what will happen if you do… RACIST! Sidenote: TVNewser reports that Ifill has broken her ankle, but she’s still going to do the debate. But will she disclose her conflict of interest? Inquiring minds want to know. Ask the Commission on...

WND Exclusive ELECTION 2008 VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama book Focuses on blacks who are 'forging a bold new path to political power' Posted: Bob Unruh 8:35 pm Eastern September 30, 2008 By Bob Unruh © 2008 WorldNetDaily Gwen Ifill The moderator of Thursday's vice presidential debate between Democrat Sen. Joe Biden and GOP Gov. Sarah Palin is writing a book, to come out about the time the next president takes the oath of office, to "shed new light" on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other "emerging young African American politicians" who are "forging a bold new path to...

And not just speculation and a "feeling," either, but hard evidence. Last month, JB Williams wrote an article using donations as an indication of just how biased the media (and other sectors) truly are. The results are not a surprise to those who know them, but astonishing nonetheless, especially when you see them listed all in one place: The Media Sectors and their to-date 2008 Political Investments Computer & Internet - $24,255,207 (62% to Democrats) Books, Magazines & Papers - $12,187,548 (78% to Democrats)Computer Software - $8,922,053 (61% to Democrats)Motion Picture Industry - $7,523,136 (88% to Democrats)Cable & Satellite...

Glenn Reynolds has this from a media newsroom: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers

At the union this morning.... My daughter was at the union this morning for the media event....CBS was shooting live.... Many students showed up with pro McCain signs mostly made of posterboard and magic markers.... CBS was selectively 'removing' certain signs prior to the broadcast...then a few minutes later.....someone started handing out professionally made Obama signs. As this woman got near my daughter the nametag came into view.....the CBS producer was stacking the deck for Obama by personally passing out the signs..... Then the camera angles were set to cover the maximum number of those signs.....making the crowd look MUCH...

CBS News anchor Katie Couric defended her policy of refusing to include the term “Governor” when referring to Republican vice-presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin (Alaska). “Alaska’s not even one of the 57 states, Senator Obama campaigned in,” Couric pointed out. “Obviously, it’s not a very important area. ‘Ms. Palin’ or, if you prefer, ‘Sarah,’ is lucky to get any attention at all. There is no need for us to take up precious air time enunciating a title that is of little consequence to voters.” Couric derided GOP complaints as “bullying aimed at forcing the media to use a word that...

On his Sunday show today, Blitzer interviewed the new President of Pakistan. He showed bias in his choice of only a film clip of Palin's interview statement on Pakistan. No similar clip from Obama.

McCain was sabotaged electronically in the debate tonight. In each and every view actross many broadcast venues, Mc Cain's responses came across electronically as harsh in the audio range with siblants whistling into unpleasant ranges while such was with few exceptions not the case for Obama.

Higher (Priced) EducationBy Burt Prelutsky Oscar Wilde once described a cynic as a man who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. It makes me wonder, were he alive today, if he would characterize us as a country of cynics or merely dismiss us as a nation of fools. I mean, how is it that Americans who lived hardscrabble lives 150 years ago could read, write, do math problems, and quote at length from Shakespeare and the Bible, while today, in spite of “Sesame Street,� pre-school, Operation Head Start, computers, and mind-numbing hours of homework, millions...

OP-ED: The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly and even half way...

Obama remains unknown Tony Blankley Wednesday, September 24, 2008 The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who...

David Broder, the Washington Post political editor who is considered the Dean of American political reporters told Trinity University students here that there is no such thing as 'media bias,' 1200 WOAI's Michael Board reports. "I have spent almost fifty years of my life covering campaigns with other people," Broder told 1200 WOAI news. "I don't think there is a serious problem with ideological or political bias." Broder's comments come as the issue of media bias has become a key issue in the Presidential race. John McCain's campaign manager called out the New York Times earlier this week, saying the...

In March, 1778, MSNBC ran one of their famous non-biased television segments on Valley Forge. The transcript follows.

Superb, lightning fast rebuttal by the McCain campaign to a vicious smear job masquerading as journalism in today's New York Times. A must read!

It just kills these guys to even think that Obama could lose this election. McCain is up, 47% - 44%, over Obama in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, and he retakes the lead in the RCP Average by 0.8%. Listen in the video where Chuck Todd says the lead is "somewhat good" for McCain. Actually Chuck, 3 points is a win in November, jackass. Why don't we hear that Obama's losing by 3 points is "somewhat bad" for him? Listen to the desperate cheerleading by Matt Lauer and Todd hoping that the vast number of new young black voters in...

The lobbying firm of John McCain's campaign manager was paid $15,000 a month for several years until last month by one of two housing companies taken over by the federal government, a person familiar with the financial arrangement said Tuesday night. That money from Freddie Mac to the firm of Rick Davis was on top of more than $30,000 a month that went directly to Davis for five years starting in 2000. The $30,000 a month came from both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the other housing entity now under government control because of the crisis in the financial markets....

Al Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" star now running in a high-profile Senate race in Minnesota, helped craft the opening sketch mocking John McCain that kicked off the NBC comedy show Saturday, according to two well-placed sources inside the network. Franken, who hasn’t been a staff writer on the show for 13 years, “phoned in” a spoof of McCain recording campaign ads in an edit booth, said an NBC source. Seth Meyers, the show’s current head writer, wrote it, but the sketch was hatched by Franken, a longtime liberal satirist and comedian. An SNL insider said that, as of...

Poll: McCain has slight lead in Ohio over Obama By The Associated Press – 1 hour ago THE POLL: The Ohio Newspaper Poll, presidential race, likely Ohio voters (20 electoral votes). THE NUMBERS: John McCain 48 percent, Barack Obama 42 percent. OF INTEREST: Almost half of Ohio voters, or 47 percent, say they are worse off than four years ago. About one-third, 34 percent, said they were the same, while 19 percent said they were better off. The candidates have lined up support within their own party, with 85 percent of Republicans saying they would vote for McCain and 81...

Posted by Dirty Harry on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Most every time you turn on MSNBC or CNN — or click on over to the likes of the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, Factcheck.org, and ABC’s Jake Tapper – they’re constantly proclaiming themselves the high and mighty arbiters of truth with their so-called “Truth Squads,” and I’m telling you this is the single most insidious thing going on in the campaign right now. Obviously they are taking hammer and tong to McCain with much more frequency than Obama, the result of which effectively undercuts both McCain’s legitimate criticisms of Obama and...

CBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups' Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite Marcia Kramer NEW YORK (CBS) ― Hillary Clinton won't be speaking at Monday's anti-Iran rally at the United Nations -- and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter. The reason? A heated behind the scenes tug-of-war. Sources tell CBS 2 HD that a decision to disinvite Palin from the high profile rally after Clinton pulled out in a huff came as the result of intense pressure from Democrats. "This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov....

September 19th, 2008 Singers for Obama release “Yes We Can” album Posted by: Jill Serjeant You’ve heard them at the Obama campaign rallies and speeches for months, andstevie.jpg now all those Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer and Los Lonely Boys songs that warm up the Democratic Party crowds have been put together on one album. Billed as the first-ever presidential campaign compilation, the 18-song disc “Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement” also includes excerpts from speeches given by Barack Obama and goes on sale exclusively on the campaign’s official Web site on Friday. All proceeds from digital...

Right before the 1796 presidential election, Charlie Gibson of ABC interviewed Thomas Jefferson. However, the version that aired and the actual transcript were quite different. Mark Levine got a hold of the original text and released it on his website, where it is faithfully reproduced here.

You... yes, you reading this right now. McClatchy wants you to know you are mean to them, your mistrust of them is merely egged on by a sly political tactic, and you fall for it because you only get your news from an "ideologically tailored" source. In other words, they are telling you that you are misinformed, mean-spirited, easily led... well, they are telling you that you are stupid. And then they wonder why people don't trust them! In "McCain campaign systematically targets the news media," McClatchy writers Steven Thomma and Margaret Talev decided to try and explain why...

McCain video pt 1Obama video pt 1

September 14, 2008 10:07 AM A lot RIGHT and WRONG with the WorldWRONGOne of our farm employees (let's call him "Dylan") is a bright, witty young fellow starting in on his general education requirements at a local junior college. ".. community colleges, and universities in general, are full of pensioned dolts like Dwight...." Now, I am quite certain there are many dedicated, fair-minded people in our community college system, but there's a certain brand of pretentious moron you can only find among the non-empirical disciplines in the "junior college" faculty lounge. (You know the type: the sort of people who...

This is not an excerpt: Googles News search engine reveals an incredible hatchet job on Sarah Palin masquerading as journalism. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=palin&btnG=Search+News

Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson was an appalling attempt at smearing her, even to the point that some in the mainstream media even took Gibson and ABC News to task on it. From the outset, it was clear that Gibson planned to paint her as completely inept and unqualified. The very first question, asking Palin if she hesitated when McCain offered her a spot on the ticket, dripped with condescension. Here was Gibson, looking professorial with his glasses down at the end of his nose, eyebrow cocked, as if to portray her as a liar, or so self-assured as...

The Washington Post has outdone itself, managing to insult small towns, small town mayors, small town residents, and Sarah Palin all in one article. There is dripping condescension and bias in nearly every paragraph of this hit piece. And for that, we should be thankful. This is how the liberals will lose this election.

Mainstream media has hit on hard times, and I’m not talking about the severe declines in viewers and readers even the New York Times has reported on. Up until about 25 years ago the media elite shaped the news to fit their agenda. When Walter Cronkite signed off with “And that’s the way it is” he really meant “And that’s the way we’ve made it seem.” Not many noticed as journalists and commentators took a decided turn to the left following the Korean War. From the 1960s through much of the 1980s, what passed for reporting was really the standard...

After getting the shot for The Atlantic cover, "Greenberg asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. “That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.” What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I...

A transcript of the unedited interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson clearly shows that ABC News edited out crucial portions of the interview that showed Palin as knowledgeable or presented her answers out of context. This unedited transcript of the first of the Gibson interviews with Palin is available on radio host Mark Levin's website. The sections edited out by ABC News are in bold. The first edit shows Palin responding about meeting with foreign leaders but this was actually in response to a question Gibson asked several questions earlier: GIBSON: Have you ever met a foreign head of...

Johanna Neuman of the Los Angeles Times yesterday misrepresented First Lady Laura Bush's words to make it seem like she was backing away from GOP veep candidate Sarah Palin's criticism of Senator Barack Obama's community organizing days. Recall, as I noted in the NewsBusters post "Media Freak Out Over Palin and Giuliani's ‘Community Organizer' Jabs" earlier today, that community organizing, in the sense that Obama, a Harvard-educated lawyer uses the term, is Saul Alinsky-style political organizing. It's not about church bake sales, picking up litter, little leagues, or parent-teacher associations. It's about agitation aimed at securing big chunks of government...

But that may be a result of the ham-fisted editing - which seemed to cut her off mid-thought on many answers. ABC should release the entire, unedited interview, so that Americans can judge her more fairly.

CBSNews.com: So you think the media is being uniquely tough on Palin now? Mark Penn: Well, I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they're not doing on the other candidates. And that's going to subject them to people concluding that they're giving her a tougher time. Now, the media defense would be, "Yeah, we looked at these other candidates who have been in public life at an earlier time." What happened here very clearly is that the controversy over Palin led to 37 million Americans tuning into a vice-presidential speech, something that is...

Poll needs freeping before 5PM CST broadcast: Do you believe the country is safer 7 years after 9/11? Yes 48% No 56% Total: 50 votes

Hubris was indeed revealed in the ABC interview with Sarah Palin, and it wasn't coming from Sarah Palin, but Charlie Gibson. But there was more than Charlie's sneering condescending tone, looking down over the rim of his glasses like some snobby intellectual that bothered me. Twisting her words into a fabrication feeding the fear of theocracy was utterly insulting. It was especially insulting to claim that these were her "exact words" after being challenged on it. Watch this video excerpt from the interview to see the exchange. Here is the transcript of the exchange: GIBSON: You said recently, in your...

The media is trying to make hay that Palin did not know what the Bush Doctrine was. Wikipedia is not a great source, but it does provide a consensus of sorts that tells us what terms mean. According to Wikipedia: "The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was...

Think the history your kids are being taught in school is fair and balanced? Think again says Larry Schweikart, University of Dayton professor and author of "48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned In School)." Here are four examples from Schweikart's "worst offenders": • "The American Pageant," by Bailey and David Kennedy Schweikart's take: "One of the most long-running and flawed, of these texts, esp. in the Reagan years. On p. 237, I actually have two charts, one from the book, and one reflecting the REAL data (i.e., "real" dollars as a share of GNP — which...

Here are the headline and the first two paragraphs from an article posted online that apparently will be on the front page of Friday’s Washington Post: