The Wall Street Journal earlier this week ran a correction to a front-page article by reporters Shailagh Murray and Greg Hitt. The sentence being corrected was this one: Mr. Bush believes the key to victory lies in his party's conservative core. He gave a rare interview over the weekend to Fox News, a network sympathetic […]
Best Blogs: The Washington Post announced the winners of its first "Best Blogs" contest and, sadly, Hoystory.com wasn't even nominated. The winners got a cool logo to put on their blogs, and, feeling slightly slighted, I decided to go and make a logo for the rest of us. Other bloggers can feel free to pilfer […]
If you think what appears in The New York Times doesn't have an effect on what you see or hear in your little corner of the country, think again. The Times report on 380 tons of missing high explosive in Iraq appeared in papers across the country. The story has been used by the media […]
I must confess that several years ago I auditioned to be on Bill Maher's show "Politically Incorrect." This was in the late '90s when they were on ABC and they had a period of time that they were having "citizen panelists" on the show once a week. This was long before I started blogging, and […]
MSNBC's Chris Matthews got into a verbal knock-down drag-out with Michelle Malkin a couple of months ago -- something that later influenced Georgia Sen. Zell Miller to challenge Matthews to a duel. Malkin's experience was the Lincoln-Douglas debates compared to last night's "Scarborough Country." Pat Buchanan was sitting in for Joe Scarborough and Swift Boat […]
Newsweek magazine, which employs Evan "15 points" Thomas, has plans for one of those insta-books on the 2004 election. That's not unexpected. What is telling and troubling however, is the synopsis that they chose to publish. An extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the 2004 Kerry presidential victory reported by Newsweek's premier political reporters, including bestselling biographer […]
I must confess, I don't have a copy of those contingency plans, but I'm sure the government has them. The fact that the government has "contingency plans" for anything and everything is not newsworthy. Today's New York Times has an article entitled: "U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers." As I illustrated […]
When I saw Ron Suskind's New York Times Magazine piece "Without a Doubt" come over the wires last week, two thoughts came to mind. First, it makes Public Editor Daniel Okrent's piece the previous week claiming that the Times plays it pretty straight when it comes to covering the presidential campaign look pretty laughable. The […]
I know this will come as a surprise to exactly none of you, but today's New York Times editorial page comes out in support of Sen. John Kerry for president. As should be expected, the editorial isn't really an endorsement of Kerry, but instead is a long list of grievances against President Bush. The editorial […]
Well, it's taken less than 45 minutes and already President Bush has lost the election. A "news analysis" by the Associated Press' Ron Fournier quotes three "average joes" and surprise all of them are going to vote for Sen. John Kerry. Allan Ramsey, 67, an uncommitted voter from Hedgesville, W. Va., said he was more […]