Liberals have their boxers in a bunch because the McCain campaign stated the obvious. Yesterday a senior advisor to John McCain, Steve Schmidt, said that the New York Times is “completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank” for Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Well duh! It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that the Northeast, liberal media gang has pitched their tents for Barack Obama. The New York Times is, perhaps, the flagship. The most telling example recently? The New York Times prints a piece written by Barack Obama, but just weeks later it refuses to print...

I wrote a quick post before bed last night giving my off-the-cuff reaction to Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech, arguing that, despite all the talk of “change,” it was basically a speech that Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, or John Kerry could have given. The NYT has a six-page transcript of the speech as delivered.  Let’s skip the biography and gotcha attack lines and go through the policy pronouncements.  These are problems for which he’s blamed George W. Bush and has promised to fix if elected president. [M]ore Americans are out of...

Tonight, the McCain campaign issued the following statement from Tucker Bounds, McCain 2008 spokesman, on Barack Obama‘s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: “Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama. When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American tr...