As I reported yesterday, the media sharks are circling Countdown, hoping for a quick meal. Since then, Newsbusters and the NY Post joined the dogpile, prompting another rebuttal from host Keith Olbermann. The message? Countdown is doing just fine, thank you, and these critics are just part of the right-wing noise machine. He's mostly right, but that doesn't mean he should ignore them. (more...)

video Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to trial at a New York City courthouse was received with mixed reaction Friday, both on the political spectrum and in the media world. There are many parts to this story and so as a service to you, let's review where this story has been and where its likely to go, at least in the world of the opinion press. (more...)

Yesterday, Rep. Barney Frank got in a heated exchange with a questioner at a Massachusetts Town Hall, who held up a poster of President Barack Obama overlaid prominently with a Hitler mustache. “Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?” she demanded. His response: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Great sound bite, but actually, it's this one — and she shares it with LaRouchePac, the political action committee run by Lyndon LaRouche. Which just happens to be mass-manufacturing those Obama-as-Hitler posters. (more...)

In a Newsbusters piece just picked up by the Wall Street Journal titled "Shhh! Gallup Reports That Conservatives Outnumber Libs in All 50 States; Media Plays Dumb," Tom Blumer fumes at the wicked mainstream media for not paying enough attention to a recent Gallup poll that purportedly says that conservatives outnumber liberals in all 50 states: "you know this is important polling news, because the establishment media is pretending it doesn't exist." Did the media really drop the ball on a story this big?

Upon closer reflection, this is a misleading claim at best, and bogus at worst. (more...)