Allahpundit finds the latest effort from Media Matters to convince people that the establishment media is biased in favor of John McCain over Barack Obama to be “[s]o unspeakably lame is this that I can’t even work up a good head of schadenfreude over it.” But let us speak of it for a moment.  Allah does not mention it, but folks on the Left are citing the latest content analysis

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.  And it has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way. Courtesy of the local CBS affiliate: Retired “The Price is Right” game show host and animal activist Bob Barker is scheduled to testify Tuesday morning at City Hall in favor of legislation which would require all Chicago dog and

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen issued an obvious challenge: “Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire,” I asked a prominent Democrat. He paused and then said that he admired Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention in 2004. I agreed. It was a hell of a speech, but it was just a speech. However, Cohen then spends almost all of his column on various shifts in

An article in Knox News states baldly that there’s no reason to suspect that the church shooter was anti-Christian, per se: “It appears that church had received some publicity regarding its liberal stance,” the chief said. The church has a “gays welcome” sign and regularly runs announcements in the News Sentinel about meetings of the Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays meetings at the church. Owen said Adkisson’s

The latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, showing Barack Obama ahead by 3% among registered voters, but John McCain ahead by 4% among likely voters is topping Memeorandum at the moment, in no small part because the numbers do not gibe exactly with the 8% Obama lead in the regular Gallup tracking poll for the same period.  It becomes the occasion for all sorts of ill-informed venting about polling generally, even though

Former tabloid big Bonnie Fuller notes that Camp Obama is using popular mass-media vehicles such as People, Us Weekly, The View, Access Hollywood and The Colbert Report to “present Michelle and Barack as the beloved Brangelina of the political world.”  Regular pw readers will recall that Dan and I took note of the Us Weekly cover. This strategy is worth viewing in the context of Jay Cost’s argument that the portrayal of Obama as a Messiaianic

Those are the analogies of the new ad for Mr. Hopeyness from MoveOn, which is spending $150,000 to air the ad on MTV and Comedy Central, according to a spokesman. Reportedly, the success of Comedy Central’s flagship Daily Show is based on the idea of “funny because it’s true.”  The ad seems like a natural fit.  At the very least, it is closer to the truth than MoveOn’s “General Betray Us” ad.  No wonder

Although it looks like Human Events broke the story, the Chicago Sun-Times has more details (so consider this an update to Dan’s post): Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak said today he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor but says that, “God willing,” he plans to be back at work soon. Novak said he was diagnosed Sunday with a tumor and will soon begin treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Novak was admitted yesterday to a Boston hospital where he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  In a written statement given to his publisher, Novak said: “On Sunday, July 27, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  I have been admitted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where doctors will soon begin appropriate treatment. “I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not

The Wall Street Journal editorial board notices that Big Labor is oppressing the proletariat — and they are not the only ones noticing: The mighty Service Employees International Union (SEIU) plans to spend some $150 million in this year’s election, most of it to get Barack Obama and other Democrats elected. Where’d they get that much money? That’s a question the Departments of Labor and Justice are being asked to