Edwards silence was not necessarily bias

Westword, Denver’s altweekly, had a great post last week debunking a sort of semi-official convention rumor–one that made it as far as the august pages of the New York Post. Apparently, someone told someone that someone had been asked to piss in a pail as part of pre-convention protest prep. Three months ago. And that […]

A Dart to the television news industry

A North Carolina paper covers the Edwards allegation. Carefully.

I’m a little late in seeing this, but the Wall Street Journal had a fantastic article this past weekend looking at various research suggesting that people don’t tell the truth to pollsters, on a whole range of issues. Including their opinions on race. A timely subject, to say the least, as people debate how solid […]

Over the last several weeks I’ve been making phone calls here and there, tracking the slow progress of the National Enquirer’s allegations against Democratic heavyweight John Edwards (namely that he has fathered a child with Rielle Hunter, a high paid former campaign consultant, and engineered hush money and an elaborate cover up of said child) […]

Sometimes candidate bios are too good for our own good

Ben Smith links this hot-‘n-heavy behind the scenes report from Bild, a German tabloid, wherein writer Judith Bonesky describes the workout she shared yesterday in a Berlin hotel gym with Barack Obama. Some samples from the article: Barack Obama is wearing a grey t-shirt, black tracksuit bottoms – and a great smile! “Hi, how’s it […]

Over at The New Republic Noam Scheiber writes this of recent Mitt Romney as veep nominee speculation: What I don’t understand is this idea that Romney helps McCain on the economy, which everyone concedes will be the nominee’s greatest vulnerability. The basis for this claim is that Romney was a very successful consultant and private-equity […]

The Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum predicted last Friday that either the National Review or The Weekly Standard would headline their Obama coverage “The Innocent Abroad.” And what’s the headline on ex-National Review and Weekly Standard staffer David Brooks’s column today? “Playing Innocent Abroad” Close enough for me. Well done, Kevin.