Accuracy in Media

Now that Michele Bachmann is no longer running for president, the media have become somewhat wistful, sounding almost as if they would have preferred that she had stayed in the race a little longer. FishBowlDC asked members of the press on both the right and left what they will miss most about covering Bachmann, and […]

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Meghan McCain who was hired by MSNBC to bring a Republican perspective to the network’s campaign coverage may have gotten a little more than they bargained  after McCain expressed how much she loved Michele Bachmann.  McCain interviewed Bachmann for MSNBC and was extremely complimentary during a panel discussion on Now with Alex Wagner. First McCain […]

MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews didn’t mince any words last night during his commentary when he told viewers that the Republican Party nominating process is all about hate and ignoring experience. MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this: The utter confusion in the Republican presidential nominating process results from two discernible facts. One: they hate. […]

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller waded into the GOP presidential candidate debate with his column today in the Sunday Times magazine, centering on asking them tough questions about their faith. But Keller stumbled out of the gate by trying to draw an analogy between believing in space aliens and a candidate’s religious beliefs: […]

Liberal comedian Janeane Garofalo told Keith Olbermann the other night that she thinks somebody is paying Herman Cain to run for president and that because he is black he helps the Republican Party deflect charges that they are racist. Garofalo: In this presidential race, because he deflects the racism that—that  is inherent in the Republican […]

Last Saturday started, perhaps, what could become a vendetta between CNN reporter Don Lemon and the presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann. The Iowa Straw Poll didn’t help much in building a cordial relationship between Lemon and Bachmann, and the coming year and a half will likely only bring more intensified political coverage. The defining incident […]

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who has vacillated between calling Michele Bachmann a “Balloon Head” and “My Hero,” came to her defense again last night over this week’s Newsweek cover which features Bachmann staring into space. Matthews discussed the photo with Lois Romano of Newsweek, who wrote the cover story on Bachmann, and Alex Wagner of the […]

The ever insightful crew On ABC’s The View tackled the subject of hair and makeup expenses for GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, giving Joy Behar another opportunity to mock a Republican. Barbara Walters defended Bachmann, saying that she didn’t see anything wrong with her wanting to look good, sparking this exchange: Behar:  Wait a minute.  […]

In an interview at the RightOnline conference last weekend conservative author and commentator S.E. Cupp said that the recent praise heaped upon Michele Bachmann by the liberal media is part of a plan to make her public enemy number one. Cupp said that she found it worrisome that the media is now realizing how great […]