Bill Press, former host of “Crossfire” (and, last I checked, not a card-carrying member of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy), argues that the media (in its aggregate, which is, at least if one counts political self-identification of reporters as a factor toward selection bias, overwhelmingly “liberal”) has changed from reporting on the primaries to deciding the primaries. They pick their favorites, they give them preferential treatment, they tear down their opponents,

Ray Robison emails: The media has decided that the Taliban is winning and they are running with the “resurgent Taliban” lie no matter how much NATO says the Taliban is not “resurgent”. They are burying US success to help the democrat nominee. Are they? Or is such spin actually more helpful to the candidate seen as most likely to prosecute the war vigourously, John McCain. — Oh, wait. I guess

back in the news, advocating the installation of Shari’a law.  He ought to stop abusing his archbishopric in public, in my opinion.

Give Admiral Michael McConnell credit for trying to walk back the cat. Questioned this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Director of National Intelligence defended the “integrity and the professionalism” of the process that produced last December’s stunning National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear program. Yet his testimony amounts to a reversal of the previous judgment. ****** Admiral McConnell’s belated damage repair ought to refocus world attention on

There are plenty of people offering theories as to why Mitt Romney’s quest for the presidency fizzled to an end yesterday, but two are particularly worth highlighting, for different reasons. RCP’s Jay Cost presents the circumstantial evidence that the general electorate, and a sizable minority of Republican voters, came to dislike Romney due to his negative attacks on McCain and Huckabee. At Newsweek, Howard Fineman argues that Romney failed because he

From Bender in the comments: The English One: Barry, that was an absolutely atrocious audition. Very stiff and karaoke. It made me wish I had Cat AIDS. The Fat One: Yo, for me, it was a little pitchy, dawg. I just waddn’t feelin’ it. Yo. Dawg. Paula Abdul: Smer durpity holifer doopter, shrablurpely. (Begins weeping) The English One: Exactly, Paula. It’s a “no,” then. Next! The English One: Hillary Clinton.

MSNBC’s program listings turn out to be more fair and balanced than the network’s actual programming.