A good test case of the media cycle.

1. Dem candidate speaks
2. So-called journalists, constituting the so-called 'liberal media' attack candidate in a fact-free manner by mindlessly repeating GOP talking points
3. The facts later vindicate Dem candidate. Unfortunately they are published on page A32
4. Repeat, until government is dominated by nihilistic criminals in the mold of Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, etc.

Hotline deserves kudos for presenting the truth, thanks!

Reporters are not just supposed to report anything that they come across, instead they need to do research and then present the facts.

His real mistake is in suggesting that his plan will cure the the health care woes facing the Big Three. From Daniel Howes at the Detroit News:
"For DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group, which spends $1.56 billion on retiree health care, the federal help [prposed by Obama] would amount to $78 million a year or $29 per vehicle, according to company calculations. Yippee."

It's kinda sick.

The media is quick to attack Obama, even with lies, and slow to correct themselves.

Meanwhile they give Hillary a clean pass.

Even post debate they scold Obama for saying he'd focus on disaster relief and intelligence concerns after a terrorist attack, before revenge, and praise Hillary for using the word retaliate. Even more odd is that any president, even Bush focused on disaster relief post 9/11. Then they disreguard any polling that shows Obama won the event, and continue to praise Hillary's performance.

He's not right. Do you really think Toyota would deny having higher-MPG cars if it were true?

Toyota sells different cars in the US than they do in Japan (more SUVs, for example).

The bottom line is that Obama is talking about raising CAFE standards to levels equal to the rest of the developed world and that will address the global climate change issue. Good for him.

you gotta be kidding goethean! "liberal media' attack candidate in a fact-free manner by mindlessly repeating GOP talking points."

What planet are you on. This is the case of the slime liar liberal press smearing a Conservative columnist in Chicago. It turns out that the figures Obama was quoting from (a liberal foundation) are bogus. Power line blog has just documented how the figures were jimmied read there for the truth. Really all of these sleazy, dirty, lying liberal media types needed to do was Google fuel efficiency and they would know that Obama's figures are balderdash. The Pew foundation has the only figures that say something like that. All the other figures show that Obamas statements are a sloppy staff or a lying one. And that goes for the people at Pew and their scummy liberal media buddies.

Try gooogle before you open your mouth.

What planet are you one. this is the case of the slime liar liberal press smearing a Conservative columnist in Chicago. it turns out that the figures Obama was quoting from (a liberal foundation) are bogus. Power line blog has just documented how the figures were jimmied read there for the truth. Really all of these sleazy, dirty, lieng liberal media types needed to do was Google fuel effieceincy and they would know that Obama's figures are balderdash.

An example of the problem with internet comments:

"...Powerline blog has just documented..."

Excuse me folks but Powerline did not document anything, they just gave an opinion. Unfortunately, the mentally challenged readers like Bill take this as documentation. Believe me Bill, the Pew Center has a much stronger reputation for accuracy than Powerline (who by the way, is sponsored by the rightwing Claremont Foundation. I guess Bill only has trouble with certain partisan foundations)