The cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing wife Michelle in camo clothes with a rifle and ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a portrait of Osama bin-Laden while the American flag burns in the fireplace — in the presidential Oval Office.
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Anyone who thinks that the treatment Barack Obama has gotten from the media during this campaign is remotely the same as the treatment John McCain has received just has not been paying much attention. Because this pro-McCain prejudice has been both pervasive and unremarked-upon throughout almost the entire news media during the entire campaign season. McCain has even joked that the media is "his base" of support.
Sphere: Related ContentNormally, I wouldn’t waste my time or yours with Sidoti’s nonsense, but there’s an amusing story to tell involving her that’s just too good not to share. It goes back to April 14, when both John McCain and Barack Obama appeared at an event for newspaper editors hosted by the AP.
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After months of negotiations behind closed doors, a supposed compromise has been reached on an extremely controversial spying bill.
Sphere: Related ContentSo much criss-crossing the country; so many carbon fuels consumed, so little learned. After a year of nomination contests, the press corps has wracked up millions of miles, but are we — or they — any wiser about this country of ours? Looking ahead, will the coverage be any more enlightening? It could be, if a gaggle of independent media mavens working together have anything to do with it.
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Talk radio "shock jocks" are fretting publicly about the supposed return of the long-defunct Fairness Doctrine.
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Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of "Meet the Press," died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.
Sphere: Related ContentArmando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation’s news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it.
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FOX News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had first "mistakenly" referred to Obama as "Osama" while discussing theories that Hillary Clinton’s recent comments about the RFK assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone "knock off Osama." When she was corrected and reminded that she meant "Obama," she then said, "Well, both if we could."
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