Afghanistan
NBC: 'Quintessential Obama' Doctrine of Talking Leads to Hug
May 7th, 2009 2:32 AM
The leaders of nations who quarreled when George Bush was President now hug each other, thanks to President Barack Obama deigning to take time from his busy schedule to hold a meeting which displayed the “quintessential Obama” and the “Obama doctrine at work” in bringing “two sides together.” Or at least that's how Wednesday's NBC Nightly News gushed over Obama meeting with Afganistan's Hamid…
CIA Expert Who Criticized Bush, Clinton Critiques Obama - Ignored By M
April 28th, 2009 1:03 PM
Nothing in American politics is quite so intriguing as the Central Intelligence Agency. There is a certain mystique surrounding this agency, almost wholly because it has proven to be quite good at keeping secrets. Thus, whenever the actions of the CIA are widely reported in the media, the story typically becomes a fixation for many news outlets - and any former agent who is able to shed light…
AP: CNN Planning Obama 100th Day Special Prime Time Coverage
April 19th, 2009 4:39 PM
Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh says the mainstream media attitude on President Barack Obama is that he is too big to fail. What CNN has planned for the night of April 29 is one of several signs that could be the case. According to an April 19 report from the Associated Press, CNN has a big night of coverage planned for Obama's 100th day in office that will deviate from its normally…
Krauthammer Tells Us What the Establishment Media Ignored or Avoided A
April 10th, 2009 12:21 PM
As was usually the case during Bill Clinton's presidency, the ascendancy of Dear Leader Barack Obama means that we will often have to consult the output of center-right commentators, and of course the Media Research Center and its affiliates, to cut through the establishment media's puffery to pick up even the most basic pieces of news. Charles Krauthammer's column today in the Washington Post on…
Olbermann: ‘Dick Cheney Electrocution Showers’ Killing U.S. Troops
March 31st, 2009 12:40 PM
On Thursday’s Countdown show, while recounting the story of shoddy electrical work done by Halliburton subsidiary KBR which has resulted in several American troops being electrocuted while taking showers in Iraq, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann referred to the dangerous showers as "Dick Cheney electrocution showers," and stated as fact his absurd opinion that the Bush administration decided to invade…
MSNBC Skips ID of Lefty Filmmaker; Grilled Conservative Documentarian
March 30th, 2009 1:03 PM
During the 10am hour of "MSNBC News Live" on Monday, host Tamron Hall completely skipped the ideology of a left-wing documentarian as she talked with him about his new movie "Rethink Afghanistan," which claims that "troops are not the answer" in that country. Hall never identified Director Robert Greenwald, who has made documentaries such as "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," and "…
Schieffer Commiserates with Obama: 'Have You Lost Any Friends Yet
March 29th, 2009 2:34 PM
CBS's Bob Schieffer devoted about half of his Face the Nation interview, with President Barack Obama, to Pakistan and Afghanistan, but on Iraq he failed to point out Obama's opposition to the surge as he hoped: “Are things going well enough there now that you may consider speeding up the withdrawal of troops from Iraq?” On violence in Mexico, Schieffer pushed a blame America first line,…
Award-winning Cartoonist Bashes Obama's New Afghanistan Policy
March 29th, 2009 12:36 PM
President Obama unveiled a new Afghanistan strategy on Friday.As US News reported:The new policy, according to a senior State Department official, places elevated priority on standing up the Afghan government's fledgling civilian capabilities to deliver public services and establish its authority throughout the country.Here's how award-winning British cartoonist Peter Brookes depicted this new…
Missing from Obama's Afghan Escalation: Anti-War Groups Suddenly Say
March 28th, 2009 3:30 PM
The Washington Post's Friday and Saturday front-page reports by Karen DeYoung on President Obama's escalation of war in Afghanistan are curiously missing one political element: objections from the strident anti-war groups on the left. Whatever happened to the protesters that treated Bush as a reckless warmonger? Answer: they're either being marginalized, or they were more interested in getting a…
CBS’s Smith Gives Glowing Review of Book By Soldier/Obama Volunteer
March 27th, 2009 5:45 PM
On Friday’s CBS Early Show co-host Harry Smith interviewed Afghanistan war veteran and Obama campaign volunteer Craig Mullaney, author of "The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education," and praised the book: "What a wonderful story, the arc, blue-collar kid decides to go to West Point, even ends up in Oxford before he ends up in Afghanistan. Ranger school...And look at you, receiving your…
NY Times: OK to Defend American Taliban, But Defending Big Tobacco Ver
March 27th, 2009 3:11 PM
It's enlightening to see what topics New York Times editors find disturbing and newsworthy and which ones they shrug off or ignore.New York's new senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, is a Democrat who is nonetheless under strong suspicions at the liberal Times for her support of gun rights and her previous representation of a white conservative district. On Friday's front page, she came under fire via a…
