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McCain says Obama didn’t call Palin a pig

There you have it, folks. The failure of the mainstream media to report and analyze news for voters is epitomized for all of us to see. After a historically brutal day on Wall Street and with millions of residents of the State of Texas struggling [...]

Back To Reality

Welcome to Washington Hotlist, the site for serious discussion about this presidential election. For the many of you that are concerned about the way Senator Obama used bad analogies involving lipstick and other such nonsense, feel free to pick up any mainstream media newspaper or turn on the television. With so many serious [...]

If It Takes The Media To Unify Your Party…

…than your party is not that excited about its nominee for President.

Besides, just because your party is united does not mean that voters will support four more years of failed policies.

Think Obama Has â€œVarying Positions?â€

Letâ€™s do a fact-check on â€œStraight-Talkâ€ McCain:

1. He embraced Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson AFTER earlier calling them â€œagents of intolerance.â€

2. He supported making Bushâ€™s tax cuts for the rich permanent AFTER he had voted against them at their inception.

3. He voted against an anti-torture bill AFTER he had been a vocal opponent of torture [...]

John Edwards Makes Me Sick

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker…his wife’s cancer was in remission when he began the affair…

It’s official: the National Enquirer is on par with the mainstream media when it comes to investigative journalism. The MSM tried burying this item for months, providing ample [...]

The Media Should Report News, Not Be News

I think I have had about enough of various mainstream media outlets (the New York Times is frequently guilty of this practice) talking about itself or other mainstream media outlets as if it is somehow newsworthy. It isn’t. The New York Times is just a newspaper. There are many newspapers. There [...]