White House vs. FOX News: Round Five  —  A new story line is developing in the ongoing war between the White House and the FOX News Channel, which started as a selective fight with a few commentators and has broadened to a contest between an administration and a network.

THE NON-EXISTENT LINE BETWEEN DAYTIME AND PRIMETIME.... For various media figures derisive of the White House's criticism of Fox News, there seems to be some confusion over the nature of the problem.  —  For much of the media establishment, Fox News and MSNBC are somehow bookends, one on the right; one on the left.

Hume Defends Fox Again: Asks How CNN, Others ‘Like Being Patted on the Head and Given the Seal of Approval by the White House’  —  After another round of attacks from the White House, this time from higher levels of the Obama administration, Brit Hume, a senior political analyst for Fox News, went to bat for his network.

Pat Buchanan: White Americans Are “Losing” Their Country.  —  Pat Buchanan knows who America really belongs to.  After a litany of what he sees as white working class grievances in his latest column, Buchanan concludes: (via TPM) … There's been a lot of attention paid …

A Reporter Does His Job  —  My colleague John McCormack called me last night, as I was watching the Phillies-Dodgers game, from his car in a parking lot in Lowville, N.Y. He had attended a Scozzafava campaign event, tried to ask the candidate a few questions — and the Scozzafava campaign had called the police.

‘They Tried to Steal an Election,’ N.Y. Voter Fraud Case Heats Up  —  Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats.