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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2012 112 Comments

It's very difficult in Ithaca or Rhode Island to get a sense of how the presidential contest is playing out. Because both New York and Rhode Island are sure winners for Obama, there is virtually no advertising on television in these markets for the presidential race. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2012 16 Comments

Obama attended an anti-Israel conference with Rashid Khalidi.  The L.A. Times will not release the video. Obama was caught on an open mic calling federal employees "slugs."  CBS News will not release the tape. Obama was caught on an open mic promising the Russians to be more flexible if re-elected, and CBS...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 76 Comments

What will the media do?  It has invested everything in the tape. But there is a pretty fierce counterpunch being delivered on talk radio, on Twitter, in the blogosphere, and even on television when allowed. There is good reason to believe that Obama's post-convention bounce already is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 82 Comments

An American Ambassador and three American security guards were butchered, anti-American riots broke out across the Middle East, a U.S. Embassy both before and after being stormed issued apologies for the exercise of our constitutional rights, our Secretary of State practically prostrated herself, the President had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 29 Comments

And who knows, maybe it was: "A former very senior Republican insider, who requested anonymity so that he could speak freely, told us that he has serious doubts as to Mitt Romney's precipitous decision to criticize the President, and that Romney's actions were his 'Lehman moment'...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 10, 2012 24 Comments

So is the panic over yet? It shoud be, because there never was a reason for panic to begin with.  Operation Demoralize went viral at the urging of the mainstream media, some Republicans and conservatives caught the fever, and for a weekend people lost their minds. Remember...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 09, 2012 68 Comments

It's November 7.  Barack Obama has won.  The Republican presidential strategy has failed.  The media is jubilant.  The right-blogosphere is going through a serious introspection.  The left-blogosphere is dancing on our graves and shoving it down our throats.  Four years of fighting the Obama agenda...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2012 48 Comments

The impossibility of changing the liberal bias in the mainstream media is almost a daily topic here. Reader Brian sent this email with some pertinent thoughts on the topic, which I thought I'd pass along: I've had your blog in my RSS feed for awhile and find...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 62 Comments

If you have been following the internets, you can see an anaphylactic reaction among supposed "fact checkers" over Paul Ryan's brilliantly effective speech last night. The section about the closing of a GM plant in Janesville during the Obama administration has been a particular area of attention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2012 54 Comments

The title isn't about the Middle East, although it could be. It's John Nolte's persuasive analysis of the mainstream media in light of the hot mic comment initially thought to come from an ABC News staff member that the Romneys are "happy to party while black...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 44 Comments

whether a Republican congressman one year ago jumped in Lake Kinneret, also known as the Sea of Galilee, without his swim trunks on. A year ago. An f-in year ago.  Skinny dipping.  One person.  And some others who -- wait for it -- got drunk. Actually the subject...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2012 21 Comments

Via Scott Whitlock at Newsbusters: Over eight hours of broadcast time, Thursday, the network morning shows devoted a scant two minutes and 57 seconds to Wednesday's shooting at the conservative Family Research Council (FRC). Good Morning America on ABC offered the most time, a still tiny...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 112 Comments

Whether the pick of Paul Ryan for Veep was a good pick or a bad pick or something in between is irrelevant at this point. Ryan was the pick. The left-wing writers and bloggers are all over it, portraying the pick as extremist and a cave to...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 09, 2012 20 Comments

Jack Fowler of National Review Online writes about the double standard perpetuated by the media, recently at-play in coverage of the anti-Chick-fil-A activists we videotaped this week. Fowler points out that if the situation had been reversed, there is a distinct possibility that this *might* have made the mainstream...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 63 Comments

The Rachels built America. The Sandras just feed off of it. The Sandras get calls from this President, the Rachels don't. Via DailyRushbo: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2012 45 Comments

The Romney campaign has started a Twitter rapid response user account @RomneyResponse and associated Tumblr site. Given how Twitter can move an issue in minutes, Team Romney is smart to get more active. John Nolte at Breitbart.com has some good advice, much of which centers upon hunting the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 34 Comments

Romney's foreign trip is the mainstream media's coming out party in favor of Obama this electoral season, an obsessive nit-picking the likes of which Obama has not seen since ever. John Hinderaker has it right: The Most Striking Thing About Mitt Romney’s Overseas Trip… …has been the press coverage....

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