The above headline isn’t even half of it. After the attacks were known to all, James Carville told assembled Washington reporters at a hotel conference room breakfast where Carville and Democratice pollster Stanley Greenberg spoke(photo is from the May 20, 2004 Christian Science Monitor) to &#...

You’ve got to hand it to Jim Provance of the Toledo Blade. He managed only to identify the party of a Republican in a story that is primarily about a Democratic administration’s failure to produce timely financial statements. Democratic Governor Ted Strickland, his administration, and hi...

Two polls on President Barack Obama’s popularity reach conclusions that could hardly be more different. A New York Times/CBS News poll says that Obama is “benefiting from remarkably high levels of optimism and confidence among Americans about his leadership.” But a Gallup poll repo...

Well, isn’t THIS interesting. In a December post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I reviewed ABC’s online “The Faces of Political Scandal” slideshow, which featured mini-profiles of 14 politicians in recent years who have been tainted by scandal and/or crime. At the time, I no...

Rick Santelli for President (since he turns down replacing Ray Burris for Senator in the vid): Also note the sniping inside the studio about “putty in his hand,” “mob rule,” and “I’m getting scared,” as if the people in the trading pit can’t think for ...

A 1993 Heritage Foundation Executive Memorandum made points (HT to Jay Ott at Maggie Thurber’s blog) that have seldom been made in media discussions, like this really weak front-page article a week ago at the Toledo Blade, about reinstating the so-called Fairness Doctrine. The Blade’s Ki...

The battle between New London, Connecticut and the residents of its Fort Trumbull neighborhood began in 1998 when the City decided that it would redevelop the area for ultimate ownership by others and, if necessary, take the residents’ properties for that “public purpose” — n...

Newsweek Magazine, referred to frequently by yours truly as “Newsweak,” is deliberately shrinking its circulation base by half, in effect giving up on its formerly mass audience, and going through a top-to-bottom redesign. As is the case with its fellow declining competitor Time, it neve...

Have you ever wondered how the geniuses who report business news know why the stock market opens or closes up or down on any given day — especially when they venture into political explanations? I received this e-mail from CNN just after the markets opened: Gosh, those e-mail drafters at CNN a...

On January 25, as noted by yours truly, (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Jonathan Martin at Politico.com reported that President Obama “is moving to create perhaps the most powerful staff in modern history – a sort of West Wing on steroids that places no less than a half-dozen of his top init...