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What if they gave an election – and the Media was Wrong? I know this election is over. I first heard the election was over last year. Fortunately, ABCCNNNBCCBS let me know that it was the year of the Democrat and that there would be no need for the Republicans to take the field. This year, they crowned Obama the “one,” the “messiah,” and some other names indicating that there was no need to believe in ideas, it was enough to believe in a person. Oh, and they also reaffirmed that the election was over. I realize that there was...

The Los Angeles Times has been a huge part of Barack Obama's rocketing to fame and power. It was the Los Angeles Times that sued, persisted and insisted that Jack and Jeri Ryan's child custody files be unsealed in 2004. It was the the Los Angeles Times that insisted their family records be made public against the wishes of both the Ryans, whose agreed-upon intention was to protect their special needs son. Ryan volunteered their divorce records for public scrutiny. It's a totally different story today. Jack Ryan, you'll remember, had emerged from a tough IL GOP primary as the...

McCain stays on Khalidi, L.A. Times My colleague Lisa Lerer reports that in a morning interview with a Hispanic radio station in Florida, McCain compared Palestinian-American activist Rashid Khalidi to a "neo-Nazi" and sugggested that Bill Ayers attended a 2003 going-away party for a prominent Palestinian-American activist with Obama. “I think the whole issue of the relationship with Bill Ayers needs to be known by the American people. Sen. Obama said it was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know much more than that. I don’t care much about an old, washed-up, unrepentant terrorist, and his wife who was...

BOWLING GREEN, OH - Sarah Palin joined her running mate's attacks against Barack Obama and the media Wednesday, suggesting the Los Angeles Times is withholding a videotape that shows Obama watching as a former Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman bashed Israel. Palin departed from her stump speech to talk about Obama's "assortment of friends from Chicago." She described Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO spokesman, as "another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years." She said Obama was at a party for Khalidi in 2003, when he described Israel as the...

Let's see. ACORN has been submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registrations and is being investigated by the FBI. However, if you are John McCain you should just keep your mouth shut and not complain about it. That is the absurd assertion of an editorial in today's Los Angeles Times (emphasis mine): John McCain committed a malicious misrepresentation in the last presidential debate when he claimed that ACORN, the liberal activist group, "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." As ACORN acknowledges, it...