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(Video at source)MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace invited presidential contender Beto O’Rourke to “play media critic,” asking him about what reporters covering the 2020 campaign trail could do better. “Play media critic: What can we do better for those of us covering your candidacies far away from where the first votes will be cast?” Wallace asked. The former Texas congressman initially shrugged off the question, saying “it is what it is” on Wallace’s show Deadline: White House Friday afternoon. When asked again he spoke more substantively on the subject. “We’ll have incredibly powerful town hall meeting, 10 or 12 amazing questions, people...

Dennis Prager was on the air last week on the day Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was named to the Republican ticket, and without missing a beat, the conservative radio host pronounced her "an American Margaret Thatcher." Her speech to the convention, Prager said Thursday during a break in his program, "just reconfirmed my love at first sight." Across the table, Sen. Orrin Hatch was slipping on the headphones to join him and immediately went on offense when he went on the air. "I've really been offended by how the mainstream media have tried to smear her by attacking, in essence,...

Two things took place recently that were, in a strange way, interconnected. The good thing was that Dan Rather announced his resignation; the bad thing was that Reed Irvine died. The odd thing is that I was saddened by the news of Mr. Irvine’s passing even though, until I’d read his obituary, I had never even heard of the man. It seems that until he was 47 years old, Reed Irvine had been an economist with the Federal Reserve. Then, at an age when so many men are content to work on their slice, perfect their fly-casting skills or start...