Afghanistan
Boston Globe's View on Afghanistan Depends on Who's President
October 3rd, 2009 9:34 AM
Is it possible for a sitting president to ignore a war his own country is waging? According to the Boston Globe, it depends on who that president is.The war in Afghanistan has presented a rare look at two different presidents faced with the same situation in the same theatre. Following initial Allied success, 2003 saw the Taliban regroup for a long-term fight, and by late 2007 Bush had begun to…
Clintonista Dee Dee: Obama Looks 'Indecisive, Pushed Around' On Afghan
September 23rd, 2009 8:28 PM
Has the Dem infighting for 2012 begun? Is Hillary exploiting Pres. Obama's waffling over Afghanistan to launch an offensive against her ostensible boss? The question arises after former senior Clinton aide Dee Dee Myers described PBO as looking "indecisive" and "pushed around" in his handling of Afghanistan, and Hillary herself laid down a heavy marker, describing in graphic terms the dangers of…
New York Times' Tanenhaus: Bill Clinton 'The Last Conservative Preside
September 18th, 2009 5:52 PM
There is an inside joke for the veteran viewers of MSNBC’s morning show, ‘Morning Joe,’ which refers back to a time when Joe Scarborough was in a heated debate with Zbigneiw Brzezinski (Mika’s father) over the behind-the-scenes content of President Clinton’s Camp David accords. The elder Brzezinski grew rather frustrated with being out-shouted by Scarborough, and delivered the following zinger:“…
Crutsinger's Crud, Part 3: AP Again Erroneously Cites Cost of Wars As
September 14th, 2009 11:42 PM
Somebody really needs to find the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger some OCD therapy. It seems that he has a not-magnificent obsession with the two major theaters of the War on Terror (yeah, I still call it that), and that he seemingly won't be able to conquer it without outside intervention. In his report on August's federal budget deficit, the AP reporter continued to cite the wars in Iraq…
Scarborough Attempts To Sedate Delusional Joe Klein
September 11th, 2009 3:11 PM
Is there a doctor within shouting distance of 30 Rockefeller Center? Joe Klein, a guest on this morning’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is suffering from massive historical hallucinations.In fact, just make that general hallucinations.Among the litany of reality-bending ideas he presented were: The overheated rhetoric during the Bush years was much less disturbing than the overheated rhetoric…
George Will Answers Critics Concerning Call to Leave Afghanistan
September 6th, 2009 1:20 PM
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, syndicated columnist and ABC News contributor George Will created quite a firestorm last week with his call for American troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan.Readers are encouraged to review the article in question as well as the criticisms here. On Sunday, at the beginning of the panel segment of ABC's "This Week," Will took on his critics by reading a letter…
MRC/NB's Bozell Slams AP for Publishing Photo of Mortally Wounded Mari
September 4th, 2009 12:53 PM
Reacting to the Associated Press's decision to publish -- against a grieving father's wishes -- a photo of a mortally-wounded Marine, MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell blasted the news wire in a statement today: The Associated Press should be ashamed for even thinking something as preposterous as this. This photo will do nothing but cause great sorrow for the family of a hero.…
Sheehan More Consistent Than Media: She Protests Bush and Obama, Media
August 31st, 2009 11:14 AM
On a Sunday evening in August four summers ago the NBC Nightly News devoted its “In Depth” segment to how Cindy Sheehan was “single-handedly bringing the Iraq debate to Mr. Bush’s doorstep” with her protest in Crawford, Texas. But Sunday night this year, after Sheehan departed Martha's Vineyard without earning any network media coverage as President Barack Obama's wrapped up his vacation there,…
National Geographic TV Debunks 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Monday
August 30th, 2009 9:59 PM
UPDATE: More promo videos at end of post.Calling all 9/11 Truthers: the National Geographic Channel will be airing a program on Monday evening that will debunk many of your conspiracy theories.Aptly named "9/11: Science and Conspiracy," the special aims to address some of the most common connivances espoused by wackos like Rosie O'Donnell.Such theories include (video preview embedded below the…
Reality Check: Will Nets Notice Sheehan's Anti-Obama Protest
August 24th, 2009 3:37 PM
Media Embraced Cindy Sheehan's Anti-Bush Push in 2005; ABC Anchor Now Says: "Enough Already"When Cindy Sheehan arrives on Martha’s Vineyard tomorrow (Tuesday), to protest against President Barack Obama, will the news media be as drawn to her as they were in the summer of 2005 when she was condemning George W. Bush?Last week, ABC anchor Charles Gibson declared “enough already” when asked on…
Flashback: When Gibson was Enthralled by Cindy Sheehan
August 20th, 2009 5:22 PM
As Noel Sheppard noted earlier today in picking up from the Washington Examiner's Byron York how ABC World News anchor Charles Gibson declared “enough already” when asked on Chicago's WLS Radio (audio) about Cindy Sheehan's plan to travel to President Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard vacation spot next week to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. York observed how “that's a remarkably…
Crutsinger's Crud, Part 2: AP Reporter Again Erroneously Cites Cost of
August 12th, 2009 11:38 PM
Does the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger moonlight as a Code Pink operative? There has to be something that explains what I'll call his Iraqnaphobia. Last month (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the AP reporter erroneously cited the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "major factor" explaining why "the deficit has widened." In a quick review of the related June 2009 Monthly…
ABC's Raddatz Questions Hillary from Left; Hypes Obama's 'Thoughtful
July 20th, 2009 2:25 PM
On Monday’s GMA, ABC’s Martha Raddatz pressed Hillary Clinton from the left on the Obama administration’s stance towards North Korea: “From the beginning...the rhetoric seemed almost exactly like the Bush administration’s, and it didn’t do much good. So is it a real shift that you decided to dial back?” Earlier in the month, she also labeled the overall Obama foreign policy “very thoughtful.”The…