The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: April 28 to May 4

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By Scott Whitlock (Bio | Archive)
May 5, 2007 - 09:05 ET

You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone

Now that Rosie O’Donnell has announced she’s leaving "The View," her left-wing rhetoric seems to have gotten even more extreme. This week, the liberal comedienne smeared U.S. troops by saying they only join the military because they’re mostly uneducated and poor. (This isn’t true, but why bring facts into the debate?)

Meredith Vieira in: The I Word

While discussing the troop surge plan with Democrat John Murtha, "Today" host Meredith Vieira revealed where her mind is. She asked, "Is impeachment really off the table?"

What Was He Doing Before?

This week, "Good Morning America’s" weatherman (and liberal environmentalist) Sam Champion touted the left-wing advocacy of actor Robert Redford. Oddly, he tried to persuade GMA viewers that Redford’s positions were somehow new. According to Champion, "Now, he’s a pioneer for the environment." An ABC graphic exclaimed, "Redford Goes Green: Hollywood Legend Saves the Planet." Now, he’s a pioneer? Redford goes green?

Oops

Speaking of "Good Morning America," the ABC program used the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s "mission accomplished" speech to retroactively smear the event as "naive" and an example of "Bushian bravado." However, a look back to May of ‘03 finds that GMA assigned an A grade to the speech.

The Blessed Leader Returns

Finally, on the "CBS Evening News," correspondent Laura Logan filed a report on Cuban leader Fidel Castro. According to Ms. Logan, residents of that country are "hoping" for his return and "enraged" by U.S. "hypocrisy."

—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.


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And NB's own sarcasmo bruta

May 5, 2007 - 09:43 ET by sarcasmo

And NB's own sarcasmo brutally-busted another blatant case of antilibertarian bias, this time at MSNBC, while Ron Paul kicked-ass in MSNBC's own unintentionally-ironic post-debate polls. Slammus dunkus, if I do say so myself...
JMR

First time I've ever seen Ron

May 5, 2007 - 09:47 ET by newstalkmachine

First time I've ever seen Ron Paul debate, let me say I was not impressed, not a good speaker, and looked like he had stayed up all night..

I disagree. Take a look at

May 5, 2007 - 09:59 ET by sarcasmo

I disagree. Take a look at this cut of the debate for why he's kickin' ass despite the bias. The only part I didn't like was when he tried to answer the crisis question first with medicine & then with politics, but even that wasn't terrible. And I totally stand by my brutal bust of MSNBC's bias no matter HOW Dr. Paul did, as that's a separate (and much less open to debate!) issue.
JMR

May 5, 2007 - 10:04 ET by

first time for me also, once

May 5, 2007 - 10:07 ET by

(i keep replying to newstalkmachine, but it ends up here)

first time for me also, once is enough, (his position on national security)

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmous test for President.   

Something's wrong with decl

May 5, 2007 - 10:12 ET by sarcasmo

Something's wrong with declaring/actually-winning wars and a traditional Republican foreign policy instead of Clinton-style failed nation-building? Please expand!
JMR

PS It's still "litmus," and your creative spelling makes what you say seem unintentionally-funny, so you still might want to correct your tagline...

sarc i agree with a non-inter

May 5, 2007 - 10:24 ET by

sarc i agree with a non-intervention policy.  We both know the history of the terrorists attacks going back WTT one, the Cole, and etc.  I believe intervention was necessary here and leave method to the generals.  For now i'm supporting Duncan Hunter.

as to your other comment   "o" , thanks.

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmous test for President.   

Intervention due to 9/11 wa

May 6, 2007 - 06:04 ET by sarcasmo

Intervention due to 9/11 was already happening when the expensive Iraq-mistake was made, against the counsel of many people like me who were ignored & ridiculed. This has nothing to do with leaving wars to generals, it has to do with the naturally reduced abilities of a military when tasked with multiple wars at once and thereby denied (by strategy-impaired politicians) possible concentration of force strategic advantages. I'll say it again, go find 2 chess sets, 2 opponents, and 2 chess clocks, and then try to play both at once to see why. Oh, and I STILL stand by my brutal bust of MSNBC's antilibertarian bias in post#1, because it's still a slam-dunk bias-bust, featuring plenty of proof provided on the link...
JMR

SarcFree Stinker has a forum

May 6, 2007 - 09:09 ET by

Sarc

Free Stinker has a forum listing justification for Iraq it's been gone over here at/in NB many many times; there is no need to re-hash.   If i have a 2000 rating and my opponents all have ratings of 1200 i could easily play 20 games at a time!  (there are those masters who do these exhibitions) 

i went to your link and did not see a rate the candidates, but did notice that Duncan was not on your list.  (Either you left him off as unimportant to making your point which is valid, OR mslsd left him off also which could mean they only list those with enough support making your case special-pleading.  I doubt the second option since you had so many dems listed)

Hey did you note on the forum for improvements to the site that spell-check for comments was mentioned?

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.   

" I think this global

May 5, 2007 - 16:39 ET by MilesD

" I think this global warming thing and Gore are fraudulent,

I think you war critics are losers and parasites on a society that has to pay for your upkeep (everybody has to pay for upkeep of criminals in jails, and it probably costs more for each of you)

and I think the biggest US mistake in 50 years was not to get rid of Fidel when we had the chance"

If he said these words how long would Robert Redford last. How long before people didn't burn his "movies" in groups of shouting crowds

Since Rosie O' Donnell has be

May 5, 2007 - 18:58 ET by ferrarimanf355

Since Rosie O' Donnell has been brought up, I might as well bring this up:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/some-cake-joke/ea-taps-rosie-odonnell-for-charity-257910.php

Uzumaki/Ayanami '08. Because a ninja and an Eva pilot can govern the nation better that what we have now...

why ferretman?

May 5, 2007 - 19:17 ET by RJ

And you brought it up, ferretman, because.......

RJcheck that link again, go t

May 5, 2007 - 19:27 ET by

RJ

check that link again, go to the comments at the end of the article, they total bag on Rosie  example: "i wouldn't tap Rosie for a million bucks"

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.   

Hi botg.  I was getting on

May 5, 2007 - 19:35 ET by RJ

Hi botg.  I was getting on ferretman's case for doing one of his usual ambiguous dump-a-link-and-run posts.  

But I went back and checked out the comments, just for chuckles....    ;^>

HAH2 chuckles for the price o

May 5, 2007 - 19:37 ET by

HAH

2 chuckles for the price of 1

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.   

Oh, and if anyone thinks that

May 6, 2007 - 17:48 ET by ferrarimanf355

Oh, and if anyone thinks that I'm a fan of Rosie, I'm not. I find her to be as annoying as the rest of the populace, and I avoided comment on her simply because I might go into a blind rage. And yes, I do find most of the comments there to be at least chuckle-worthy.

Uzumaki/Ayanami '08. Because a ninja and an Eva pilot can govern the nation better that what we have now...