Powerline

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ethnicity and politics get a jab from rightwing blogger Paul Mirengoff, who at Powerline relates a comment by a “friend” that Sotomayor is “Che Guevara in robes.” (The friend’s “joking, I think,” writes Mirengoff, who gets attention — although a misspelled last name — from the New York Times’ Opinionator [...]

More newspapers, online media outlets and political pundits are offering former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman free advice — mainly that he look in the mirror and see that he’s toast.

There’s a divide opening in how the media is covering the story of Norm Coleman’s vulnerable donor database: Some outlets blame shoddy security practices by the campaign, others blame “hackers.” The latter group — which includes Politico, MinnPost and right-wing blog Power Line, among others — echoes the campaign’s assertion that the exposure of donors’ [...]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went after Minnesota conservative blog Powerline for criticizing Krugman’s 2005 column warning of a housing bubble that was about to burst.
Powerline’s John Hinderaker wrote at the time: “[T]here is little reason to fear a catastrophic collapse in home prices. Krugman will have to come up with something much better, [...]

Quoting the once and future Hindrocket:
The AP says the McCain camp “hopes the announcement of his running mate will stunt any momentum that Democratic rival Barack Obama might get from the just concluded Democratic National Convention.” If it really is Palin, I’m afraid the opposite will happen. Press reaction will be 100% negative; the emphasis [...]

Strib to adopt conflict of interest policy? Word on the street, says Charlie Quimby, is that the Star Tribune is working on an ethics policy governing conflicts of interest, but it has nothing to do with Par Ridder. It would bar ex-Stribbers from penning opinion pieces for the paper for a year after their exits. [...]

The impertinence of tenacious journalism:  When U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Rachel Paulose stepped up to the podium on Monday for a press conference about the recent prostitution busts in the Twin Cities and Austin, Minn., she laid out her ground rules: she’d only accept questions on that topic. Most reporters toed the line, writes Powerline’s [...]