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So rapped will.i.am, leader of the Black Eyed Peas, as he bounced across the stage in a tent outside of the Colorado Convention Center early Friday morning, hours after Barack Obama delivered his keynote speech to a crowd of over 80,000—including me—at Denver?...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: Faces of the Party | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

For the past week, the campaign has written off much of the skepticism about the qualifications of vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin as the reaction of a biased media establishment out of touch with real Americans. "She's not part of the Washington, D.C., cocktail circuit," Steve Schmidt, one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Bias Claim: Truth or Tactic? | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

Part of the new approach is clearly tactical. Picking fights with the national press typically riles the Republican base. One of the McCain campaign's largest single fund-raising days came in February, the day after the New York Times raised questions about McCain's relationship with a lobbyist, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Bias Claim: Truth or Tactic? | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

Although McCain was one of the last holdouts in his campaign for continuing the signature "Straight Talk" sessions, he now embraces a tightly supervised separation from the media pack. He has not held a press conference since early August, and reporters traveling with him can go days without seeing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Bias Claim: Truth or Tactic? | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

Whether the confusion between news sources is real - which would be understandable, given the dramatic changes in the media landscape between the 2004 and '08 elections - or convenient strategy, there's no question that anger at the press can be effective. It may even help McCain narrow his long-standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Bias Claim: Truth or Tactic? | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

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