Daily Archives: September 29th, 2008 «

 

Media bias and Barack Obama

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2008 at 10:30 pm » 11 Comments

Glenn Reynolds posts an email he rec’d from someone who works in a major network’s newsroom: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into [...]

 

“Fact checkers” aren’t always reliable

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2008 at 7:14 pm » 4 Comments

Last week, Patterico comprehensively smacked down FactCheck.org for a piece they put out claiming that the NRA ad run against Obama was “false.” They were also wrong about the McCain ad targeting Obama for supporting sex education for children. The Washington Post fact check team were wrong as well about the NRA ad, and if [...]

 

Billout bill fails in the House

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2008 at 1:58 pm » 16 Comments

Via AP: WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout today following extended debate where many members, including some who brokered the deal with it, was highly unpopular. The preliminary vote was 185-197. Members had a limited amount of time to change their votes. Following the deadline, the margin was growing for [...]

 

John Hawkins interviews David Freddoso

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2008 at 9:54 am » 1 Comment

Fellow blogger and North Carolinian John Hawkins has interviewed NRO’s David Freddoso, author of the book The Case Against Barack Obama. Freddoso, I’m sure you’ll recall, is another conservative writer who, in addition to Stanley Kurtz, has been targeted by Obama’s goon squad in Chi-town, which tells you all you need to know about Freddoso [...]

 

Barack Obama’s role in the subprime lending mess

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2008 at 9:15 am » 3 Comments

This Stanley Kurtz piece is something that will get little to no traction in the pro-Obama mainstream press, but it’s well-worth the read. In talking about what “community organizers” like ACORN do, the must-be-stopped Kurtz writes: In other words, community organizers help to undermine the US economy by pushing the banking system into a sinkhole [...]