Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO 6th) really shouldn’t have approved this message…

As noted elsewhere, this almost seems like a parody of a Republican ad.
(h/t: Ambinder)

The media chains are are at it again, and this time it’s affecting people in my hometown.
From Associated Content:
Plenty of Kansas Citians are up in arms over a recent announcement that The Kansas City Star is outsourcing all of the jobs of those who are in the advertising services department - in fact, their entire [...]

Good catch from Hot Air…

While I still think it was hacky for McCain to raise money off of Hamas’ “endorsement” of Obama, it’s clear his 2006 statements square with his current stance.
What’s also clear is that James Rubin was clearly mischaracterizing McCain’s statement and likes to play fast and loose with the facts. I mean, [...]

I’ve always been of the belief that the more consolidated the media becomes, the less diverse the news gets. Recently the FCC ruled that media organizations could own a TV station and a newspaper in the same town in the top 20 media markets, thereby controlling a significant portion of the news.
Troubling? I think [...]

Politico reports there’s progress on the “partisan hack” front…
John McCain’s campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley’s dual role consulting for the campaign and for an independent “527″ group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The campaign also released a new conflict [...]

Bush apparently doesn’t know.
Neither does Lieberman.
And tonight Chris Matthews ran into one of these well studied right-wing radio hosts and asked him if he knew the difference.
Watch the results…

Moving on…

I wouldn’t just post a clip of O’Reilly acting like, well, O’Reilly, but when Stephen Colbert gets his hooks into him…

By the way, does anybody really take O’Reilly seriously anymore? Because between his bogus “no spin” position, that sexual harassment payout and stuff that demonstrates he’s been always been a loud mouthed hack, my guess [...]

That’s the question circling around the left-o-sphere.
It started because Arianna Huffington said she was at a dinner with the McCains after the 2000 election and they had some unkind things to say about Bush, including that they didn’t vote for him.
Then a couple more Democrats who were at the dinner backed up Huffington’s [...]

They say Obama has 267 and Clinton has 265.
See, this is the problem with the DNC not having an official tally, because all of these news organizations have different counts.
Here’s their reasoning…
Every news organization’s superdelegate count is a little different because it is an imperfect science. Since October 2007, the Political Unit has continuously reached [...]

Lots of long interviews today.
Part One:

Part Two:

Lots of topics covered. What did you think?

He said we now know who the nominee is.
I kid you not.

Let’s see if this works…

Fingers crossed.
UPDATE:
Nice! It works!

Keith Olbermann made sure to say it’s “too early” to call instead of “too close” to call.
Do they know something and aren’t telling us?
In any event, my prediction is she’ll win it, but it’ll be single digits.
UPDATE:
Now there’s 33% in and she’s maintaining the 14% lead.

Handily…
ABC [Hillary] THIS WEEK 1.3 rating/4 share
NBC [Obama] MEET THE PRESS 8.5 rating/21 share
Via Drudge.

A bit of dead-on humor about our media.
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This weekend Barack Obama appeared on Fox News in an interview with Chris Wallace. Liberal bloggers are not happy. Many on the activist left see Fox as the enemy and some have accused Obama of legitimizing the rightwing press.
I don’t watch Fox because I feel they too often cross the line between news and editorial [...]

He broke the news today on Fox News. No debates between now and May 6. It’s at the very end of the video.

Here’s the thing…she isn’t getting out of this thing anytime soon, so he’s going to have to agree to a debate at some point in the next month or look like he’s just [...]

This from Clinton’s ironically titled “The Fact Hub” blog:
After last night’s decisive victory in Pennsylvania, more people have voted for Hillary than any other candidate, including Sen. Obama.
Estimates vary slightly, but according to Real Clear Politics, Hillary has received 15,095,663 votes to Sen. Obama’s 14,973,720, a margin of more than 120,000 votes. ABC News reported [...]

To be fair, I haven’t read My Beautiful Mommy, but still…that title is pretty bad.
If this is just a book about the idea that “mommy” is going to have some work done and how to explain it to a kid, that’s one thing. But if it’s more of a story about “transformation” from normal [...]