Sitting around at a kids’ birthday party last night talking with some other parents about the economy, and one of the guys who does some day trading was talking about how there seems to be this desperation to see minor upticks the day after a major sell-off as a “return to normalcy” when in fact […]

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In this week’s forthcoming video, you will hear the assertion that Palin doesn’t take questions from the press. Turns out that for the first time, today, she did:
CNN: On the topic of never letting this happen again, do you agree with the way the Bush administration has handled the war on terrorism, is there anything […]

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My friends, this is what the McCain campaign would have you believe constitutes “change”:
One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge […]

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The thing I like most about Drudge is not his links, it’s the gestalt he betrays with his choice of links. I get a pretty good idea of what the right is thinking - and what the right’s arguments will be - by getting a gander at his lineup.
For example, the pic/main story ever since […]

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Veddy interesting. It had struck me at some point mid-week that we hadn’t really been talking much about the post-hurricane situation in coastal Texas, and for obvious reasons - a global economic meltdown does tend to dominate the headlines.
But apparently one reason we’re not reading more about what happened in and around Galveston is that […]

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So Charles Gibson is the first MSM journalist to get a Sarah Palin interview.
This is, of course, the same Charles Gibson who, along with George Stephanopolous, foisted the most ludicrious Democratic “debate” on the public that I’ve ever had the misfortune to witness.
Remember it?
Early in the debate, ABC’s moderators asked for a pledge that the […]

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Another wingnut talking point bites the dust:
A well-placed source at Us Weekly tells Huffington Post that since Wednesday, there have actually been a little more than 1,000 cancellations. However, there have also been a little more than 1,000 bonus subscriptions from supporters of the magazine, without any efforts on the part of the magazine to […]

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Because Oprah, you know, is just so unfair.
Once she brings Obama on and opens the door to political people [on her show], it’s only fair to bring both Republicans and Democrats on,” she added.
Since WHP radio devotes so much time to conservative talk radio, it’s only fair to bring both liberals and conservatives on.
Chaffins said […]

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All day today my inbox has been filled with missives from right-wingers whining about how the media’s just been so unfair to Sarah Palin. With one saying that - oh sure, Fox has done the “Baby Mama” business and all, but here we have US Magazine with a negative cover on Palin, and that’s in […]

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Oh, the poor, poor Republicans are offended by coverage of the ongoing Palin saga:
“It used to be that a lot of those smears and the crap on the Internet stayed out of the newsrooms of serious journalists,” Schmidt said at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Unless, you know, we’re talking Swift Boats or anything […]

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When no words are necessary.

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So Yahoo/The Politico’s Mike Allen sits down with Condoleeza Rice to discuss Iran, and it’s Condi who comes off sounding sane.
Allen baits her - What’s the nightmare scenario if Iran gets Teh Bomb??? - and he’s obviously wanting her to say that Iran will immediately launch salvos at Israel or maybe even the good old […]

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… except when the media bends over backwards to cut you a break.

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Harsh. Vanity Fair apes the New Yorker, this time with John McCain - dig the walker, the Constitution burning in the fireplace, the prescription drug vials in Cindy McCain’s cupped hands. I might have added some Benjamins protruding from her pockets, but that’s just nitpicking.

 
I await the inevitable howl of outrage from the right, as predictable as […]

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…biased:
Continuing Fox News’ war of words with MSNBC, “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace accused its rival of being “in the tank” for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, while further pressing the news channel’s case that the mainstream press exhibits a liberal bias.
“I think MSNBC’s coverage went so far over the line that it lost […]

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Here’s what I don’t understand about the media, the profession in which I’ve worked these past 19 years:
So today, the price of oil is once more way up - almost at $143 per barrel, $142.91 as of this writing. Another new record. And stocks are down more than 113 points right now - always subject […]

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So I was watching CNN last night as Anderson Cooper talked about the continuing flooding along the Mississippi River. On comes a correspondent who delivers a report in which CNN seems to be saying that it’s all the government’s fault.

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Hilarious. So Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member Fred Hobbs tells the Nashville City Paper that for all he knows, Barack Obama is “terrorist connected.” But then he apologizes to the committee, saying he should have been better-prepared.
Just where did he get his initial impression?
Guess.
I was not as well prepared as I should have been when speaking with […]

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One channel, that is - really, when you come right down to it, one personality (though Dan Abrams is following in the footsteps).
That would be Keith Olbermann, and some “insiders” are apparently P.O.’d that he’d dare do the Fox News thing, from the other side:
“Every Tuesday night Keith is up there as the face of […]

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McClellan goes on Olbermann last night to talk about his book and says something destined to outrage the 28 pecenters, but which makes perfect, unfortunate sense for everyone else:
I think that you would need to take [the administration’s] comments [on Iran] very seriously and be skeptical.

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