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"The Media," Now Perpetually in Scare Quotes

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Sarah Palin Vice President, Media, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Media News

If influential blogs -- say, Drudge, Daily Kos, National Review Online or Talking Points Memo -- go out and say "X, Y and Z," it's now assumed then "the media" is saying "X, Y and Z".

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The Outrage Campaign

John McQuaid | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, News Cycle, John McCain, Media, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Media News

The McCain campaign is violating what were considered immutable political laws, and it amounts to a giant and risky bet that those laws are no longer operative.

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You Can't Fool All the People All the Time

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, John McCain Lies, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Politics News

What's the best strategy when your opponent lies? The obvious move is to call them on it, but analyses of viewers reveals that "he said, she said" arguments leave observers confused and apathetic.

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Palin's Lip Synching Will Soon Have To End

Charles Kozierok | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, Hype, Psychology, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin; Palin Mccain; Milli Vanilli; Palin Mccain; John Mccain; Palin Interviews; Palin Press; Palin Charlie Gibson, Home News

Like Milli Vanilli, Sarah Palin's candidacy and current image is built entirely on marketing, media manipulation, performance and deceit. Palin has done little more than the political version of lip-synching: reading someone else's speeches over and over again.

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An Expat's View of the Conventions: End of Summer in America and Back "Home" to Europe

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Europe, Alaska, Democratic Convention, Gustav, Secede, Expat, Mccain, Obama, Billionaires, Republican Convention, Election, Biden, Mainstream Media, Michelle Shocked, Politics, Education, Summer, Hillary, Palin, Protests, Martial Law, Health Care, Democracy Now, John McCain, Expats, United States, Politics News

I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?

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Close Presidential Race? Don't Blame the Media, Blame the Voters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Qualifications, Iraq Surge, Success in Iraq, John McCain, Bush Surge, Obama Muslim, Success of the Surge, Palin Investigation, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Independent Voters, Michael Dukakis, McCain Offshore Drilling, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, 2008 Presidential Election, Mainstream Media, Al Gore 2008, 2006 Election, Palin Independence Party, 60 Minutes, Palin National Guard, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, John Kerry, Sarah Palin, Willie Horton Dukakis, Proximate Cause, Politics News

Voters have (or could have) all the information they need to make a choice this year. They're just making a choice that those on the left would consider a bad one.

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McCain's Bush Transformation Complete

Hal Donahue | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, McCain Maverick, Leadership, John McCain, Karl Rove Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Mccain, Obama, Country First, Republican Convention, Republican National Convention, Elitist, Bush, Politics News

From the minute John McCain first implied that Barack Obama would rather lose a war and win an election, John McCain compromised all that was strong and good in his resume.

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Beating the Press -- Literally

Rory O'Connor | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Mccain, Republican Convention, Palin, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Change, John McCain 2008, Media News

Only in America could a man who is a longtime Republican stalwart run against his own party, which has governed while controlling most of the institutional levers of power.

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"I Just Think I'm Gonna Barf."

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

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"Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf...."-- Marge Gunderson (Francis McDormand), from Fargo I open today with that Fargo quote for many reasons. T...

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GOP Sez: Clintons' Personal Lives Fair Game, Asking Anything Critical Of Sarah Palin "Sleazy"

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Bill Clinton, Karl Rove, John McCain, Thomas Eagleton, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Ken Starr, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News

The McCain campaign angrily derided the Democratic Party, mainstream media and liberal blogs today for vetting Sarah Palin when the McCain camp's own ...

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Leaving The Addictive Community That's Killing Us: The Real Story of the 2008 Election

Steven G. Brant | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Democratic Convention, Voting Integrity, John McCain, Voting Rights, Sarah Palin, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Politics News

During his acceptance speech, Barack Obama offered a list of what the change he represents consists of. However - because we all know elections are n...

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Die-Hard Hillary Supporters Play To Win At Democratic Convention

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Puma, Obama Delegates, Hillary 2008, Hillary Supporters, Grassroots, State Delegations, Democratic National Convention, Roll Call, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Howard Dean, Lapel Pin, Superdelegates, Will Bower, Petition, Home News

"We're here to see Clinton emerge as the party's nominee... We now have well over the required 300 delegate signatures." Each delegate who signed the petition will wear a green lapel pin featuring the number 300 skewered by a ball-point pen."

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Media Ownership for All: Citizen Journalism Grows Up

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.21.2008 | Media

Independent photojournalists, NGO workers and citizens are part of this important movement to take back the news from those who focus on profits.

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Is Jon Stewart The Most Trusted Man In America?

New York Times | MICHIKO KAKUTANI | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Jon Stewart Daily Show, Mainstream Media, Daily Show, Jon Stewart Trust, Jon Stewart, Media News

IT'S been more than eight years since "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Ind...

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Oil's Well That Ends Well In Media, Politics

Vanessa Edwards Foster | Posted 09.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Mainstream Media, Energy, U.S. Economy, Politics, John McCain, Presidential Politics, Nancy Pelosi, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Home News

The economic crisis is not just a product of high oil prices but that's what we're served up. Meanwhile, the middle class, lower class, and the poor pay the consequences.

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The Media's Problem Of "False Balance" Showing Itself In Electoral Map Analyses

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).

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No Name for the River -- Dumbing Down American Politics

Robert Koehler | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Mccain Race Card, Obama Race Card, Race Card, Politics News

What astounds me about the "race card" -- which either did or didn't get played in the presidential race recently -- is its thinness.

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Is John McCain Responsible for His Own Negative Campaign?

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hardball, Msm, Mainstream Media, John McCain, John McCain Attack Ads, Mark Salter, Steve Schmidt, Politics News

It's McCain's campaign, not Steve Schmidt's or Mark Salter's or anyone else's. We might joke otherwise, but John McCain does take credit for his bizarre ads.

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Why Americans Hate Journalism, Part 62

Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Chuck Todd, Msnbc, Iraq WMD, Wmd, Cia, Ron Suskind, Super Tuesday, Ron Suskind New Book, Iraq, Media News

In less time than it takes to say "Dick Cheney," the secret Iraq letter -- what would be one of the most outrageous violations of the Constitution in the history of the Republic -- is made into a left/right issue.

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Are We Suffering from a Climate Change Information Overload?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Mainstream Media, Climate Change, News, Green News

The main problem with climate change coverage, as far as I can tell, has much more to do with the sheer quality of it, rather than the quantity.

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More Big Macs for Barack, Part II

John McQuaid | Posted 08.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, 2008 Campaign, Maureen Dowd, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Home News

The Wall Street Journal's notion that Americans are fat slobs who will reject a candidate who eats right and is fit is an elitist view in itself, and flat-out insulting to American voters.

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Why the Media Fears John McCain

Ben Cohen | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iraq Surge, John McCain, Iraq, Success of the Surge, Barack Obama, Media News

The mainstream media is doing exactly what it did before the build up to the Iraq War -- sucking up to McCain's perceived power and not asking relevant questions because it's fearful of being labeled unpatriotic.

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Obama Is Just Not A Good Negro

Earnest Harris | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, Elitist, Racism, Mccain, Obama, Barack Obama, Arrogant, Barack Obama European Trip, Home News

This constant cry that Obama is presumptuous, arrogant, elitist -- they're all ways to say he's not acting the way well-behaved minorities are supposed to act. He is acting independently and that's unacceptable.

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Edwards Love Child, Yawn

John McQuaid | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, National Enquirer, Edwards Love Child, Edwards, John Edwards Scandal, John Edwards Affair, Media News

It sure looks like Edwards is a hypocrite who misrepresented himself by showcasing his wife and kids so prominently in the campaign.

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Critics of New Yorker Cover Ignore Depth and Substance of Racism

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Michelle Obama, John McCain, Arabs, Ethnic Minority Media, Muslims, Racism, Barack Obama, Bigotry, Journalists of Color, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Media News

The media never looked at the cover as racist on its face, exploiting a stereotype that is only denounced when it is wrapped around a popular presidential candidate and a minority.

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