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In covering forthcoming anti-Obama books, will media repeat Swift Boat coverage mistakes?

07/30/08 3:17 PM EDT
Playing cards in the dark

07/30/08 1:57 PM EDT
Blitzer ignored facts undermining “tough” McCain attack ad, Castellanos' reported link to McCain campaign

07/29/08 4:15 PM EDT
Girls in their summer clothes ...

07/29/08 1:22 PM EDT
NY Times reported McCain's criticism of Obama plan without noting McCain recently said 16 months is “a pretty good timetable”

07/28/08 7:44 PM EDT
Blitzer did not challenge McCain on his own war-funding vote

07/27/08 5:07 PM EDT
CNN's Bash declared as fact McCain view that Obama “stumble[d]” in Landstuhl decision, not noting CNN analysts' position that he was in no-win situation

07/27/08 12:42 PM EDT
There'll be a hot time in the town of Berlin when the Brooklyn boys begin ...

07/24/08 2:42 PM EDT
Stein on Obama's convention speech: “Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that's something the Fuehrer would have done”

07/24/08 12:09 PM EDT
Toobin: "[I]f there is one public figure in America who has gotten better press over the years than John McCain, I don't know who it is"

07/23/08 7:27 PM EDT
Jonah Goldberg the latest to falsely claim McCain called for Rumsfeld's resignation

07/23/08 1:49 PM EDT
Get it right the first time, that's the main thing

07/22/08 1:52 PM EDT
CNN's Situation Room aired McCain's ad attacking Obama, but ignored McCain's own record on issues highlighted in ad

07/18/08 8:07 PM EDT
Levin attacks “Jon Leibowitz, a.k.a Jon Stewart”: “I'm really tired of these phony intellectuals ... arrogantly looking down their sizable noses at our armed forces”

07/18/08 7:27 PM EDT
Following network's lead, CNN.com uncritically aired McCain's false attack on Obama's health care plan

07/18/08 4:34 PM EDT
Media report McCain “mocking” Obama for laying out Iraq, Afghanistan policy before visiting, but McCain has done the same

07/17/08 7:39 PM EDT
Scarborough repeats McCain's falsehood that he called for Rumsfeld's resignation, despite MSNBC's previous correction

07/17/08 6:02 PM EDT
CNN's Bash cited McCain's Afghanistan plan as “proof” that he knows “how to win wars”

07/17/08 5:01 PM EDT

In covering forthcoming anti-Obama books, will media repeat Swift Boat coverage mistakes?

Playing cards in the dark

Blitzer ignored facts undermining “tough” McCain attack ad, Castellanos' reported link to McCain campaign

Girls in their summer clothes ...

NY Times reported McCain's criticism of Obama plan without noting McCain recently said 16 months is “a pretty good timetable”

Blitzer did not challenge McCain on his own war-funding vote

CNN's Bash declared as fact McCain view that Obama “stumble[d]” in Landstuhl decision, not noting CNN analysts' position that he was in no-win situation

There'll be a hot time in the town of Berlin when the Brooklyn boys begin ...

Stein on Obama's convention speech: “Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that's something the Fuehrer would have done”

Toobin: "[I]f there is one public figure in America who has gotten better press over the years than John McCain, I don't know who it is"

Jonah Goldberg the latest to falsely claim McCain called for Rumsfeld's resignation

Get it right the first time, that's the main thing

CNN's Situation Room aired McCain's ad attacking Obama, but ignored McCain's own record on issues highlighted in ad

Levin attacks “Jon Leibowitz, a.k.a Jon Stewart”: “I'm really tired of these phony intellectuals ... arrogantly looking down their sizable noses at our armed forces”

Following network's lead, CNN.com uncritically aired McCain's false attack on Obama's health care plan

Media report McCain “mocking” Obama for laying out Iraq, Afghanistan policy before visiting, but McCain has done the same

Scarborough repeats McCain's falsehood that he called for Rumsfeld's resignation, despite MSNBC's previous correction

CNN's Bash cited McCain's Afghanistan plan as “proof” that he knows “how to win wars”

Stephen Miller: “We all want to go after the big corporate media, but you have to write laws to actually go after the enemy”

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MSNBC's Joy Reid says the embryo ruling in Alabama has thrown open the “doors to the theocratic future that MAGA fascists want”

Newsmax host: “Artificial intelligence is racist toward white people”

NBC Nightly News interviewed a CPAC attendee. There was no mention that she is a convicted January 6 rioter who threatened to murder Nancy Pelosi.