Hillary's Time Machine: Wouldn't Have Started War if She Were Prez in
Hillary has gone John Kerry one better. The junior senator from Massachusetts of baleful Gallic mien merely voted for the $87 billion . . . before he voted against it.That's nothing. Hillary Clinton fired up the Time Machine, travelled back to 2002, and assured her fellow Dems that had she been president, the war in Iraq would never have happened.On this afternoon's Hardball, Chris Matthews…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: January 27 to February
When it comes to the subject of global warming, members of the media have lost all restraint. CNN’s Larry King nervously wondered if climate change might "really kill us all?" Could it "submerge cities like New York and Washington and San Francisco under floods from melting Arctic ice caps?" Not to be outdone, "Good Morning America’s" weatherman warned of the dire threat of global warming. The…
Biden Comments Rate 'Oops' from NY Times, No Front-Page Mention by Glo
In our continuing calvalcade of coverage of the Biden "clean and articulate" comments, we thought it would be interesting to see how three of the leading liberal newspapers treated the story on their respective front pages this morning.At the New York Times, the headline on the smallish front-page article brought a dash of downplaying humor to the story: "Biden Unwraps His Bid for ’08 With an…
MSM Forgive-a-thon Continues: Olbermann Calls Biden Comments 'A Slip
I'm feeling a lot of love out there. Directed by the MSM toward Joe Biden, that is, for having called Barack Obama the first "clean" and "articulate" black presidential candidate. Earlier this evening, as noted here, Chris Matthews, joined by MSMers Jay Carney and Anne Kornblut, cut Biden mucho slack.The forgive-a-thon continued on Countdown. First, Keith Olbermann declared Biden's comments "a…
Defending Biden's Blooper, Matthews Ignores 'Clean' Crack
Let's play one of our favorite parlor games: "WIARHSI?" You know: "What if a Republican Had Said It?" In today's game, let's imagine what would happen if a Republican presidential candidate had said that Barack Obama was the first "clean" and "articulate" African-American presidential candidate? Which paper would be first to call for the Republican's withdrawal from the race: the NY Times,…
Vieira Shocker: 'Can We Afford to Leave Iraq if Iran Will Take Over
This one could make waves.When a NBC military analyst made the case that US withdrawal from Iraq would have very harmful consequences, you might have expected Meredith Vieira to argue the point. But not only did the NBC host seem to buy into his logic, she took it a significant step farther toward its logical conclusion.Retired LTC Rick Francona was Meredith's guest on this morning's "Today."…
Carville Slams Journalists For Not Appreciating Hillary’s ‘Sophist
CNN analyst, author, and former Clinton operative James Carville appeared on Monday’s "Good Morning America" and complained that journalists are too tough on Hillary Clinton. Referring to the comment made by the New York Senator and 2008 presidential candidate that she has experience dealing with "evil and bad men," Carville asserted that members of the media should be lauding her strong sense of…
