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David Brooks on McCain's recent ads

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August 3, 10:32 PM

by Dan Spencer, Right Side Politics Examiner

On Face the Nation, David Brooks explains how the media forced McCain to run those recent ads the big media has deemed negative:

For more info: McCain takes Obama to task over troop treatment; Obama started it ♦ McCain camp calls Obama on playing the race card ♦ Obama aide concedes 'dollar bill' remark referred to Obama's race ♦ Media spins Obama's race card - pretends Obama is victim

Topics: 2008 Presidential Campaign , John McCain , Biased Media , Ads

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Media donations favor Dems 100-1

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July 24, 9:56 AM

William Tate proves the legacy media's political bias by examining the campaign contributions made by journalists, reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers. Tate crunches the numbers and concludes the media... Read More
Topics: 2008 Presidential Campaign , Biased Media , Obama Love

Obama fakes it

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July 22, 9:44 PM

Kudos to Andrea Mitchell for outing Obama's audacious fake interviews and staged photo ops in Afghanistan and Iraq."Let me say something about the message management. He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a... Read More
Topics: 2008 Presidential Campaign , Barack Obama , Biased Media , Fake

Most believe reporters are trying to help Obama win

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July 21, 1:06 PM

A new Rasmussen poll finds 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help Obama with their coverage. Only 14% believe most reporters will try to help John McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that... Read More
Topics: Barack Obama , John McCain , Biased Media , 2008 Presidential Election

Tensed Verbs - McCain Campaign Conference Call

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May 30, 4:57 PM

My esteemed RedState colleague, absentee posted a fine write-up about the conference call fight a bunch of reporters had, on behalf of Obama, with Senator Jon Kyl and McCain's senior foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann: The call was regarding... Read More
Topics: Biased Media , 2008 Election

The Times Violates Its Policy on Ethics in Journalism

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May 21, 11:27 PM

As revealed by my RedState colleague Soren Datyon, Ed Morrissey catches the New York Times attempting to extort an invitation to a presser with the McCain campaign: It’s no secret that the McCain campaign believes the Times to be dishonest in... Read More
Topics: John McCain , Biased Media , 2008 Election

Rubin Smears McCain

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May 17, 2:59 AM

In the Washington Post, James Rubin writes an advocacy "article" for Obama, smearing John McCain and misrepresenting what McCain actually says about talking to the terrorist group Hamas. Last night, SkyNews posted the entire video of Rubin's... Read More
Topics: John McCain , Biased Media , 2008 Election

Millbank Continues The Post's War Against Feith

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April 26, 7:50 AM

Dana Milbank continues the Washington Post's campaign against Doug Feith's new book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. The paper's effort to diminish Feith's book began two weeks ago when Thomas E. Ricks and... Read More
Topics: Biased Media , History , Iraq , War and Decison

The Liberal Media's Temperament

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April 21, 1:42 PM

Michael Leahy's Washington Post temperamental hit job on Senator McCain shows just how partisan the mainstream media wing of the Democratic party can be. Coverage of Leahy's hit job, ignores Senator Lieberman's downplaying McCain's temper and focuses... Read More
Topics: Biased Media , Temperament , 2008 Election