LIBERAL GROUP TARGETS TIM RUSSERT

The liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America has gone on the attack against longtime “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, saying he has “regularly smeared” Democrats on a variety of issues.

SAWYER FRETS: PRESS USING 'BOXING GLOVES' ON HILLARY

ABC discovered media bias Thursday morning as Good Morning America took up not liberal bias against conservatives but Hillary Clinton's complaint that the media are too tough on her and too soft on Barack Obama. Diane Sawyer fretted: "Have all of us in the media used boxing gloves on Clinton and kid gloves on Obama? Have we been unfair?"

FEWER U.S. DEAD = LESS TV COVERAGE OF IRAQ

One year ago, liberal journalists depicted the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq as a certain failure. “A lot of people are going to go to bed tonight terrified,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews opined just minutes after President Bush announced the policy on January 10, 2007. Other journalists were only slightly more subtle. “Many experts warn, it’s too little, too late,” NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski argued on the January 8, 2007 Nightly News. The next morning on NBC’s Today, the network’s graphic describing Iraq was “Lost Cause?”

PBS, THE COMMUNIST FOLK SINGER TRIBUTE CHANNEL?

To those who make public fools of themselves saying that one-sided left-wing programming on PBS is an illusion, we suggest they open the Sunday Washington Post to the TV Week magazine.

JOURNALISM'S LAZY LIE PROTECTORS

Media Bias: Left-wing activists claim "at least 935 false statements" by the Bush administration on Iraq, and the charge gets reported as if it were a scientific finding. Doesn't it follow that top Democrats also lied about Iraq?

OUTLETS DISGUISE AGENDA OF EX-REPORTER'S GROUP, HYPE IRAQ 'LIES'

AP, MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times on Wednesday all promoted a "study" by a couple of affiliated far-left groups, supposedly documenting "935 false statements" about Iraq made by Bush officials, but in hyping the proof of "lies" which led to war, the news outlets disguised the ideology of the groups -- led by a former ABC and CBS reporter/producer

CANADIAN FREE-SPEECH SUPPRESSION IGNORED BY US MEDIA

Their virtual silence on the CHRC, and how it has been co-opted to intimidate and silence critics, should cause one to question Old Media's claim that they are champions of free speech and expression.

68% OF MICHIGAN BLACKS PREFER ‘MR. UNCOMMITTED’ OVER HILLARY

A funny thing happened on the way to the wife of America's first black president being coronated: more than twice as many African-Americans voted for "Mr. Uncommitted" as Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in Tuesday's Michigan primary.

CNN IMPLIES BLOOMBERG IS A REPUBLICAN

Bloomberg, a lifelong member of the Democratic Party, decided to run for mayor as a member of the Republican Party ticket.

MSNBC BLAMES VOTERS FOR BAD NH POLLS

During MSNBC's live New Hampshire primary night coverage, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw warned that poll results getting ahead of the voters could turn the public against the media, but then blamed the inaccurate polling on how "people probably are not as honest with pollsters." Chris Matthews, who urged an "inquest" on the polls which all had Barack Obama well ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Granite state when Clinton actually won, saw "an ethnic factor here." Matthews extrapolated on his theory involving "Archie Bunker," the bigoted 1970s TV character:

Hillary Boycotted Meet the Press

Said Russert: "Last week we had Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee on 'Meet the Press.' This week we had John McCain. We invited Senator Clinton, she declined our invitation. Doing very few media interviews. I am told she might be doing 'Access Hollywood' on Monday."

CHARLES GIBSON PROVIDES BALANCED DEBATE AGENDA

ABC News and Charles Gibson are no CNN and Anderson Cooper when it comes to skewing the agenda of presidential debates. In the back-to-back Republican followed by Democratic debates from New Hampshire aired between 7 and 11 PM EST Saturday night on ABC, moderator Gibson challenged the presumptions of both sets of candidates with a key talking point being pushed by the other party: He hit Republicans on the lack of national health care and Democrats on the success of the surge in Iraq.

NBC HIGHLIGHTS 'LIFE-LONG REPUBLICAN'

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell showcased "a lifelong Republican, who twice voted for George Bush, now canvassing for Obama" as a "precinct captain" in Iowa. In an interview two months ago, however, Monica Green listed Ronald Reagan as the last Republican President with whom she "identified" and, asked whether she'd vote for Reagan if he were running against Barack Obama today, she equivocated as she implied Reagan was too anti-communist.

AIR AMERICA HOST CHEERS TEEN-MAULING TIGER, STEVE IRWIN'S DEATH

The talk-radio host known simply as "Lionel" joined the Air America team in May, and he has demonstrated he belongs on the exotic fringe with the rest of the network. Most people don’t take sides when a zoo tiger mauls a teenager to death. "Lionel" favored the tiger. His blog declared: "If you shoot a tiger with a sling-shot, you deserve to get mauled. That’s just how it works." The New York Post reported several teenagers that were victimized by the tiger had slingshots, but that has not been confirmed by San Francisco zoo officials. On his show Wednesday, "Lionel" was even more explicit:

MEDIA REDEFINE 'FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY'

Want to ensure the growth of government? Forever?

The media does, and they have with Liberals devised the perfect way to do it. It is the "pay-as-you-go" Congressional budgeting rule -- Pay-Go. It requires every move that Congress makes be "budget neutral"; every new spending initiative must be paid for - no more deficit spending.

ABC: OBAMA HURT BY 'AMERICA'S INHERENT RACISM'

Presuming the United States is an inherently racist nation, an assumption Barack Obama's frontrunner status in the presidential contest would seem to belie, ABC's Chris Cuomo wrapped up a Thursday Good Morning America interview by asking the Democratic candidate: "What do you think the bigger obstacle is for you in becoming President, the Clinton campaign machine or America's inherent racism?"

CBS RIPS RUSH: ‘SEXISM HITS THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL’

Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show" led with co-host Julie Chen exclaiming: "Sexism hits the campaign trail as Rush Limbaugh asks if voters want to stare at an aging woman as president." This harsh accusation was in reference to comments made by Limbaugh during his radio show on Monday, in which he said: "Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis? And that woman, by the way, is not going to want to look like she's getting older because it'll impact poll numbers, it'll impact perceptions."

TIME'S TOP CARTOONS TARGET ONLY CONSERVATIVES

What do you know? Time magazine ran a list of the Top Ten Editorial Cartoons of 2007, and the only American political figures coming in for lampooning were . . . conservatives.

GOOD NEWS = LESS NEWS ON IRAQ WAR

MRC Study: As Surge Succeeds and Casualty Rates Fall, ABC, CBS and NBC Lose Interest In Iraq War

NYT EDITOR: IRAQ 'GOING VERY BADLY'

In a speech last week in London, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller charged the war in Iraq is "going very badly," insisted that at his paper "we do not work in the service of a party, or an industry, or even a country" and contended the "American electorate has gravitated to angry and intolerant fringes" because of "hate-mongering radio" and Karl Rove.