Until tomorrow
The Philadelphia Inquirer Blog - American Debate
Until tomorrow
Dick Polman, Inquirer National Political Columnist
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this special bulletin:
The Friday piece will be posted on Saturday morning. Hope to see you here then.
Comments (67)
NEPhilly : I'll keep saying it. Source material. Source material. Source material. That's the same pew report (from 2008) you and I went back and forth about a few blogs ago. That was NOT their conclusion. They found that MSNBC was very biased against McCain, and FoxNews was very biased for McCain. In fact, they call MSNBC and FoxNews "Mirror images" of each other. They found that CNN was pretty much in the middle. What they point out is that much of the "negative" abd "positive" stories had to do with polling. Sine Obama led in the polls, he had more "positive" coverage. They even found McCain's numbers to be very close to Al Gore's in 2000. ... "Things look much better for Barack Obama—and much worse for John McCain—on MSNBC than in most other news outlets. On the Fox News Channel, the coverage of the presidential candidates is something of a mirror image of that seen on MSNBC. The tone of CNN’s coverage, meanwhile, lay somewhere in the middle of the cable spectrum, and was generally more negative than the press overall." .... http://www.journalism.org/node/13436— still_independent- liberal- you said " I would be willing to bet that republicans would sweep many elections in the Northeast if they could run on a Nelson Rockefeller-ish program, traditional republicanism." And what exactly is that ?
- Imagine if government didn't conviscate wages from both you and your employer for social security. You could use that money to provide better for your own retirement. Imgaine if government didn't conviscate wages for medicare . You could use that money and buy your own healthcare in retirement. These are wild concepts that somehow got lost over time in this country. Imagine if you went to the doctor and asked how much does that cost? We have allowed liberals to take of this country . Now each political campaign is a pathetically hopeless joust in who can deliver government services more efficiently. I think its time to get back to the self reliancy this country was built on. Why is it that liberals insist we teach Darwinism in schools but will have none of it in their own life ?
- Liberal- It is most amusing to see you accuse Republicans of being the party of no ideas while the Teleprompter reader and " plugs" Biden are touting the number of jobs they created or saved in an economy that is hemmoraging jobs. Furthermore the only jobs they can say they created are public sector jobs. Jobs that rely on tax payer money for their salary. How stupid is that? That just further bankrupts the treasury.
- "My opinion is that we should be all in or all out. No half measures. Go in get the job done and get out. At this pace we will be in Afghanistan in peptuity." 2 points: 1) You would assume that people who talk like this are either enlisting or if no longer of age, are encouraging their children to enlist 2) What the h-ll is "peptuity"?— the stupid does burn
- "Imagine if government didn't conviscate.........." Conviscate??? It really does burn.— the stupid does burn
- i hear ya.— jimy_max
Popular Posts
About this blog
Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters, and lauded by the ABC News political website as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation," Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "writer in residence." Dick has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC. He covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns.
ARCHIVES
All commentaries posted before April 18, 2008, can be accessed at www.dickpolman.blogspot.com.
Search this blog:
Blog Roll
- American Spectator
- David Limbaugh
- Free Republic
- Glenn Reynolds
- Hugh Hewitt
- Human Events
- John Hawkins
- Matt Lewis
- Michelle Malkin
- National Review
- Opinion Journal
- Power Line
- Red State
- The Brody File
- The Daily Caller
- Town Hall
- Weekly Standard
- Center for American Progress
- Crooks and Liars
- Daily Kos
- David Corn
- Huffington Post
- Media Matters
- Mojoblog (Mother Jones)
- Open Left
- Political Animal
- Salon's War Room
- Talking Points Memo
- Tapped
- The Democratic Strategist
- The Grey Matter
- Unclaimed Territory
- Andrew Sullivan
- Attytood
- Chi Tribune's The Swamp
- CJR's Campaign Desk
- CNN's Political Ticker
- CQ Politics
- FactCheck.org
- Gail Collins
- Howard Kurtz
- Mickey Kaus
- NBC's First Read
- Obit
- Political Wire
- Politico
- Politics Daily
- Pollster.com
- Real Clear Politics
- The Atlantic Wire
- The Fix
- The Moderate Voice
- The Plank
- USA Today On Politics
- Wonkette
Classifieds:
Site Services:
Partners: