By: Suzanne Rosenberg In today's news from newspaper campaign blogs: Obama called a socialist at BBQ, also called "Un-American" and Powell rejects ?anti-Muslim" bias as he endorses Obama for president. Meanwhile, ?SNL? enjoys its highest ratings in 14 years.
Sarah Palin on SNLThe Caucus
The New York Times
By Bill Carter
Gov. Sarah Palin's highly anticipated visit to Saturday Night Live on Saturday gave it the highest overnight ratings the three-decade old NBC late-night show has had in 14 years. According to Bill Carter, the numbers translate into more than 14 million viewers. The last time "SNL" had overnight ratings this high was March 12, 1994, when the host was Nancy Kerrigan, the figure skater who had been attacked by thugs associated with Tonya Harding.
Obama: ?Socialist??The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
By Christi Parsons
At a North Carolina BBQ this weekend, 54-year-old Sam's Club employee Diane Fanning called out at Barack Obama, yelling, "socialist, socialist, socialist ? get out of here." The tone and subject of the election are summed up in the reaction to Ms. Fanning's outburst. A gentleman at the BBQ next to Fanning flashed her an angry look saying "be civil, be courteous,? while another woman yelled back at Fanning "At least he's not a warmonger!"
Obama: Un-American?By Frank James
Perhaps Diane Fanning's idea that Barack Obama is a socialist and thereby somehow a terrorist or unpatriotic, lay in part in the increasingly ideological tenor of the election campaign. Case in point, Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann made an appearance on "Hardball with Chris Mathews" Friday night and accused Barack Obama and other congressional democrats of "harboring anti-American views." Bachman even suggested that she wants the news media to become something of a new House Un-American Committee, which led to the Hollywood Blacklist among other violations of the First Amendment. As Frank James points out in The Swamp, ?that is a notion which would seem to place her even to the right of a very right-leaning House Republican Conference." The Obama campaign is using Rep. Bachman's statements as an opportunity to fund-raise.
The Sunday talk showsTop of the Ticket
The Los Angeles Times
By Andrew Malcolm
One of Andrew Malcolm's favorite Web sites, MediaBistro.com, is taking nominations for a permanent replacement for "Meet the Press," noting that the Sunday shows all have one thing in common, and that is aging white males. MediaBistro suggests Andrea Mitchell, Gwen Ifill, Gloria Borger ? and Malcolm is taking your suggestions at Top of the Ticket.
Colin Powell gives a lesson on biasPoltical Intelligence
Boston Globe
By Foon Rhee
During retired Gen. Colin Powell's ?Meet the Press? endorsement of Barack Obama, he makes the point ? echoing CNN?s Campbell Brown ? that the real answer to all the questions about Obama's middle name and his being a "Muslim" is "And what if he was?" This is a question Hillary Clinton and many in the media might have asked long ago. Powell said, "Though Obama is a Christian, his or any other candidate's faith is irrelevant, if you're an American, you're an American. We have got to stop this kind of nonsense and pull ourselves together and realize the strength of this country is our diversity and unity."
Obama breaks his own fund-raising record, againThe Trail
Washington Post
By Mathew Mosk
Since the announcement that it broke its own campaign record, the Obama campaign has broken it again. The campaign pulled in $150 million in the month of September alone and 632,000 new donors for a total of 3.1 million donors to date, Mathew Most says the campaign announced.
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