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Post-mortem potpourri (plus the Altercation Book Club)

11/09/06 1:38 PM EST
Before midterms, media downplayed potential Dem gains in House and Senate, touting GOP's “formidable” and “stunning” get-out-the-vote campaign; will they revisit?

11/08/06 7:00 PM EST
Wash. Times reported McCain “gain[ed] political capital in elections,” but offered no explanation

11/08/06 5:12 PM EST
Ignoring widespread agreement on core issues, media suggested wins by “conservative Democrats” will cause intraparty strife

11/08/06 3:52 PM EST
Still dysfunctional: The legend becomes fact

11/08/06 2:13 PM EST
Time's Duffy and Tumulty declare Republicans lost, in part, for “spending like drunken Democrats”

11/08/06 11:16 AM EST
On MSNBC, O'Donnell let conservative guests baselessly dismiss allegations of voter intimidation in Virginia

11/07/06 5:38 PM EST
Rosen: "[M]inority activists" and others “will go to sleep tonight with visions of political sugar plums dancing in their heads if Democrats sweep the field”

11/07/06 5:30 PM EST
Ingraham encourages listeners to jam phone lines of Democratic voter assistance hotline

11/07/06 5:26 PM EST
Chieftain reported Andrews's statements about judicial term limits and Judge Marquez, but included no opposing viewpoints

11/07/06 5:10 PM EST
Fox's MacCallum said, "[L]ook at ... Barack Obama ... he looks young, he looks healthy, he looks strong," over footage of Harold Ford Jr.

11/07/06 4:43 PM EST
Shipman suggested Democratic-controlled Congress would result in “a culture of gridlock,” misled on Democrats' tax position

11/07/06 4:18 PM EST
MSNBC's O'Donnell failed to identify Matalin as Allen campaign adviser, misrepresented recent polls

11/07/06 2:23 PM EST
KMGH uncritically quoted Dennis's statement that Colorado's voting machines have “some of the toughest security right now in the country”

11/07/06 2:17 PM EST
Mitchell baselessly suggested misleading Republican “robocalls” are “the kind of procedure that both parties have used”

11/07/06 2:11 PM EST
How bad are our media? How bad is our democracy?

11/07/06 2:03 PM EST
Rupert Murdoch -- who once predicted Iraq war could lead to $20/barrel oil -- described war casualties as “minute”

11/07/06 1:52 PM EST
ABC, NBC morning shows suggested -- contrary to administration statements -- that Bush will reconsider Iraq policy

11/07/06 1:15 PM EST

Post-mortem potpourri (plus the Altercation Book Club)

Before midterms, media downplayed potential Dem gains in House and Senate, touting GOP's “formidable” and “stunning” get-out-the-vote campaign; will they revisit?

Wash. Times reported McCain “gain[ed] political capital in elections,” but offered no explanation

Ignoring widespread agreement on core issues, media suggested wins by “conservative Democrats” will cause intraparty strife

Still dysfunctional: The legend becomes fact

Time's Duffy and Tumulty declare Republicans lost, in part, for “spending like drunken Democrats”

On MSNBC, O'Donnell let conservative guests baselessly dismiss allegations of voter intimidation in Virginia

Rosen: "[M]inority activists" and others “will go to sleep tonight with visions of political sugar plums dancing in their heads if Democrats sweep the field”

Ingraham encourages listeners to jam phone lines of Democratic voter assistance hotline

Chieftain reported Andrews's statements about judicial term limits and Judge Marquez, but included no opposing viewpoints

Fox's MacCallum said, "[L]ook at ... Barack Obama ... he looks young, he looks healthy, he looks strong," over footage of Harold Ford Jr.

Shipman suggested Democratic-controlled Congress would result in “a culture of gridlock,” misled on Democrats' tax position

MSNBC's O'Donnell failed to identify Matalin as Allen campaign adviser, misrepresented recent polls

KMGH uncritically quoted Dennis's statement that Colorado's voting machines have “some of the toughest security right now in the country”

Mitchell baselessly suggested misleading Republican “robocalls” are “the kind of procedure that both parties have used”

How bad are our media? How bad is our democracy?

Rupert Murdoch -- who once predicted Iraq war could lead to $20/barrel oil -- described war casualties as “minute”

ABC, NBC morning shows suggested -- contrary to administration statements -- that Bush will reconsider Iraq policy

Fox News guest says children should not be given COVID vaccine “under any circumstances”

Tucker Carlson claims Democrats are intentionally killing white people

Tucker Carlson lies about Joe Biden planning to “pay Black people to smoke more crack”

Sean Hannity to struggling Americans: “There are a lot of jobs available for people to take second jobs”

Spotify's Joe Rogan and comedian Akaash Singh mock child sex abuse and claim it's “fine” for boys to have sex with adult women