Chris Matthews likes Tom Ridge. Like, a lot. As in, really, really thinks he’s great. At least, one can’t help but draw that conclusion after witnessing the following exchange, which took place during yesterday’s episode of Hardball. Emphasis mine; I dare you not to wince. CHRIS MATTHEWS: With just two weeks now until the Olympics […]

Oh, how clever the media got in describing Obama’s Berlin speech

Fox News has conducted a poll, promisingly entitled, “Does Obama Get Better Treatment by the Press?” Well, we were, of course, in all our media monitor-iness, intrigued. Do people think he does he get better treatment, Fox News? Things start off well. “When asked to rate the objectivity of media coverage of the campaigns,” Fox’s […]

This from National Review Online’ s Jim Geraghty: ‘There comes a time when we heed a certain call.’ There was not a ton to object to, and indeed a lot to like, in Obama’s speech in Berlin. Although I think I preferred it the first time I heard it, when it was sung by all […]

Are the media in the tank for Herr Obama? Jon Stewart says “Ja.”

Robert Novak is feeling a bit glum today. Not, mind you, because of yesterday’s hit-(a pedestrian)-and-(try to)-run accident—“He’s not dead, that’s the main thing,” Novak noted, with characteristic aplomb—but rather because his good friends at Camp McCain have, apparently, used him (grievously) and abused him (egregiously). The tale is a sad one. Remember how this […]

Jake Tapper authors the latest episode of the investigative newsmagazine-meets-serial soap opera that is The Media and Obama: Totally in the Tank?. Obama, Tapper writes, before giving his Speech of Hope in the Symbolic Setting of a Unified Berlin, confided to reporters that he wasn’t sure how many people might, in the end, come out […]

Where are the mainstreamers on McCain’s major mistake?

Who knew? Starchy root vegetables make brilliant literary devices! Well, apparently, David Carr—Times media reporter and, currently, everyone’s favorite rehabilitated drug addict—did! The NY Press‘s David Blum has uncovered a strange pattern of spud-slinging in Carr’s writing—and specifically, a pattern of using the potato as a quirky descriptor of the face. As when, for example, […]

Why "let McCain be McCain" doesn’t wash