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Remainders: Rushed

The message board at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park | Reuters/Robert Galbraith Facebook raises $16 billion. The rush is on for TV time. Limbaugh says Biden looked deranged. Weinstein's Bin Laden flick may boost Obama. WSJ figh...

Koch rep: MSNBC attacks ‘lead to death threats’ against Koch brothers

Mark Holden, general counsel to Koch Industries, told MSNBC's Martin Bashir today that billionaire's Charles and David Koch had received death threats because of the way MSNBC and the "far left media" had attacked them. "Mr. B...

Biden camp says Romney ‘ducks the press’

Joe Biden's campaign is accusing Mitt Romney of avoiding the press, following today's reports that the Vice President's staffers -- like Romney's a day earlier -- had restricted reporters from the rope line at a campaign event.&nbs...

NPR losing ad revenue, expecting cuts

The Wasington Post's Paul Farhi reports today on new fears at National Public Radio, where declines in corporate underwriting have led to internal discussions about staff and program cuts: The increasingly bearish climate poses a challenge for ...

NPR losing ad revenue, expecting cuts

The Wasington Post's Paul Farhi reports today on new fears at National Public Radio, where declines in corporate underwriting have led to internal discussions about staff and program cuts: The increasingly bearish climate poses a challenge for ...

Remainders: Rant

President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney voice their frustrations with their common foe: the news media (produced by Madeline Marshall). Half the country wouldn't vote for an atheist. Rachel Maddow goes after Fox News Channel. Harvey Wei...

Huckabee demands fundraising letter pulled

Mike Huckabee is firmly denying that he approved a fundraising letter which refers to President Obama's advisers as "morally repugnant political whores." "This was a complete surprise to me," Gov. Huckabee said in a statement t...

More on Obama and the media

My colleague Glenn Thrush follows up on this morning's report on Romney and Obama's attitudes toward the media with three conclusions about the president's press avails, noting more one-on-one interviews than past presidents and just a...

James Franco defines New York Observer

How actor James Franco defines the New York Observer, the curiously pink newspaper owned by real-estate heir Jared Kushner: "A newspaper owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law that is perhaps best known for publishing a sex column in the mid-1...

Chris Christie, Cory Booker team for video

From that far away galaxy of Garden State biparisanship, a pretty inspired web video from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, presented to reporters at last night's New Jersey Press Asssociation’s din...

Remainders: Cattin’

The newest member of the Bush family is a cat named Bob. | George W. Bush Presidential Center Gay marriage drives the week. Limbuagh rushes to defend J.P. Morgan. David Brooks equates Obama with ESPN. Obama has thin skin when it comes to reporter...

Three Pinocchios for CNN’s Banfield

Quick note on that last post: While CNN's Ashleigh Banfield was grilling Obama campaign press secretary Ben La Bolt over the campaign's latest ad -- the anti-Romney, anti-Bain Capital spot -- she said the Washington Post gave the ad "one P...

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