The Chicago media is having trouble picking a winner out of the line-up of likely suspects for the Machine’s chosen candidate for Barack Obama’s old, hardly even used U.S. Senate seat. The dragnet doesn’t include anyone with an impressive rap
From AirAmerica.com: It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter
Fans of the First Amendment can rejoice. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down large portions of the abomination known as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, especially those aspects of the law that imposed restrictions on
A lot of pigs have been taking to the air since Scott Brown’s historic — maybe this time the word actually means something — win in the Massachusetts special election for “Teddy Kennedy’s seat” on Tuesday night. The balance of
Last night– which likely will be seen by future historians as the beginning of the end of the Obama Administration — seems as good a time as any to reach back into ancient history ( that would be Monday, when
Well, the cat is finally out of the bag and guess who let him out? None other than Morning Joe‘s own resident heartthrob, Mika Brzezinski. In an interview with TV Newser’s Julie Menin, promoting her new book, All Things At
Is this the Boston Globe‘s “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment? (See Big Journalism’s header, above, for the memorable Chicago Tribune goof.) The Hub’s ultra-liberal broadsheet today “inadvertently” posted an interactive election-results dummy on its website, boston.com — which, amazingly, forecast a
Will the Chicago Machine corruption story break wide open in 2010? If you think Chicago crook and long-time Obama buddy Antoin Rezko is serving out his jail sentence, think again. Antoin “Tony” Rezko is a forgotten man. During the presidential
From the Daily Caller: The following was written by a well-known news anchor from a top-10, big city station: For the last 30 years, I’ve devoted the better part of my life to frightening you, trying my best to make
A revealing report released today by Rasmussen regarding voters’ perception of media bias: 67% say Media has Too Much Influence on Government 20% say most reporters try to offer unbiased campaign coverage 72% say they try to help their candidate
From the U.K. Telegraph: 2009 was the breakout year for the irrepressible Andrew Breitbart, 40, a conservative firebrand operating deep in enemy territory in Los Angeles, and the sky will be his limit in 2010. A regular presence on Fox
The latest: Michael Meehan, the Coakley staffer involved in last night’s scuffle, no make that a stumble, let’s try it one more time, the shoving incident with a Weekly Standard reporter, has now apologized: Last evening I was a little
Terrorist sympathizer and convicted felon Lynn Stewart can now add one more item to her c.v.: board member of a radio station The New York Post Reports: WBAI-FM listeners have elected disbarred civil-rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to the radical radio
We’ve all heard it — the screech of the Fox News haters who feel perfectly free to share their low opinion of the cable-news channel with everyone within ear shot. Normally, well-bred and well-mannered people don’t feel compelled to challenge
The president of the United States is a “light-skinned” man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” That, at least, is the carefully considered opinion of soon-to-be-former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, quoted in a forthcoming book
