Howard Kurtz: Media Drumbeating War Again, Not Asking Skeptical Questi

March 20th, 2011 4:28 PM
Howard Kurtz on Sunday scolded the media for drumbeating war "again" and not asking any skeptical questions about America's goals in Libya. On CNN's "Reliable Sources," Kurtz repeated his previously made assertion that this is what happened before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Tea Partier Dana Loesch Smacks Down Paul Begala on HBO's 'Real Time

March 12th, 2011 1:22 AM
Former Clinton advisor and current CNN contributor Paul Begala thought he was being clever Friday evening when he took a cheap shot at George W. Bush on HBO's "Real Time." Without skipping a beat, St. Louis Tea Party founder and Big Government editor Dana Loesch smacked down her CNN colleague with a delicious jab at his former boss (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MSNBC Hypes Intl. Women's Day, Mostly Ignores Obama Administration Bac

March 8th, 2011 4:17 PM
In its daytime programming today, MSNBC has been hyping today's 100th anniversary of  International Women's Day. On her 1 p.m. Eastern program, anchor Andrea Mitchell noted how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled the International Women of Courage Awards to "ten women rights leaders from around the world." While Mitchell then noted the lack of progress…

CBS, NBC Newscasts Give Scant Coverage to Muslim Terror Attack at Germ

March 3rd, 2011 12:45 PM
Two US airmen were killed by a Muslim terrorist in Germany yesterday, but neither CBS nor NBC thought it worthy of more than 30 seconds of coverage on their evening newscasts Wednesday night. While ABC devoted a full segment of the March 2 "World News" to the issue, the CBS "Evening News" and the NBC "Nightly News" offered only scant news briefs and buried the story deep into their broadcasts…

Mainstream Media Fail to Highlight Plight of Afghan Convert to Christi

February 22nd, 2011 11:08 AM
The Taliban is no longer in power, but the U.S.-supported government in Afghanistan has a long way to go towards supporting freedom of conscience for its people. Take the plight of one Said Musa, who faces a death sentence for daring to be an ex-Muslim. The convert to Christianity most likely will suffer the death penalty for the capital crime of "apostasy." Paul Marshall at National Review…

Mark Shields Wrongly Claims 'There Was a Plurality of Democratic Senat

February 5th, 2011 2:28 PM
There was some fascinating historical revisionism that took place on Friday's "Inside Washington" as almost the entire panel made the case that Democrats were largely opposed to the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002 and that the decision to invade was mostly George W. Bush's. This included PBS's Mark Shields who completely misrepresented the historic vote in the Senate that month (video…

Matthews: Were Neocons Right About Middle East; Was Bush Better Equipp

January 30th, 2011 3:10 PM
Chris Matthews on Friday asked the panelists on the syndicated program bearing his name two questions about the crisis in Egypt that must have made his liberal viewers gasp. Moments after surprisingly asking NBC's Andrea Mitchell if "neo-conservatives who believe in really trying to push democracy" were right all along, Matthews asked David Sanger of the New York Times if George W. Bush was "…

Olbermann Signs Off from MSNBC’s Countdown for Last Time

January 21st, 2011 9:58 PM
 On Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, host Keith Olbermann announced that the episode would be his last, and spent a few minutes near the end of the show saying goodbye. He mentioned a number of infamous and pivotal points in his show’s history when he went after the Bush administration: The show gradually established its position as anti-establishment from the stagecraft of "Mission…

Sy Hersh Disappointed Obama Isn't an 'Angry Black Man

January 18th, 2011 5:20 PM
Liberal journalist Seymour Hersh unleashed on President Obama in a speech in Qatar on Monday, voicing his extreme disappointment with his foreign policy: "Just when we needed an angry black man, we didn't get one." Hersh also revealed his Dan Brown-style conspiracy theory about how "neo-conservative radicals" in the military's special operations community "overthrew the American government…

AP's Crutsinger Fails to Explain Why U.S. Spending Continues to Increa

January 13th, 2011 3:30 PM
Two paragraphs don't seem to belong together in Martin Crutsinger's Associated Press dispatch on the government's Monthly Treasury Statement for December. But there they are. Here's the first paragraph of interest in Martin's missive ("Federal budget deficit narrows to $80B in December"): Government spending during this period totaled $902.6 billion, an increase of 3.1 percent over the same…

Sachs Calls Victor Davis Hanson An 'Extremist Who Has Done More Harm T

December 23rd, 2010 8:44 AM
Jeffrey Sachs has attacked distinguished military historian Victor Davis Hanson as an "extremist" who "has done more harm to the American people" than any other commentator. Sachs, a Columbia prof and income redistributionist supreme, launched his surprising verbal assault in commenting on Hanson's National Review Online column, "The Obamites' About-Face."  Hanson there makes the case…

Andrea Mitchell Plays Press-Sec-For-A-Day For Napolitano, Biden

December 21st, 2010 7:36 AM
Amidst all the talk of Robert Gibbs' imminent departure as White House press secretary, could Andrea Mitchell be gunning for the gig?  NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent certainly gave a strong audition on today's Morning Joe, doing her best to paper over the latest stumbles by two gaffe-prone Obamaoids. Mitchell first tried to paint an innocent gloss on Napolitano's curious boast…

Joe Scarborough Lobbies Dick Durbin From the Left to End Wasteful Afgh

December 20th, 2010 5:25 PM
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough left no doubts on where he stands on the conflict in Afghanistan Monday – but he also pressed liberal Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to stand up to President Obama on the issue of troop withdrawal. "It's distressing to me to see how this war continues," Scarborough complained, noting that the deadline for troop withdrawal has been pushed back to 2014 and possibly even further…

Is Obama Destined to be a Footnote in Presidential History

December 17th, 2010 4:25 PM
For all of the bluster and glory, for all of the pomp and circumstance and yes, for all of the anticipated hope and the promised change, the whirlwind of hype and expectation surrounding the President a mere two years earlier has virtually dissolved, and Barack Obama has set a course that will leave his legacy as no more than a footnote in American Presidential history.