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Stephen Colbert Cheers Over Never Having to Watch Bill O'Reilly Again

December 16th, 2014 6:23 PM
During Monday night's edition of The Colbert Report on the Comedy Central cable channel, the faux conservative host celebrated the fact that “no one’s going to pay me to watch” the host of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel “anymore, so f**k that noise!” That comment was made during the final edition of a segment entitled “Formidable Opponent,” in which the blue-tied version of Colbert…
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NBCers Reject Own Poll Showing Americans Support CIA Interrogations

December 16th, 2014 5:24 PM
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell could barely conceal her disgust while reporting on a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing a majority of Americans supported the enhanced interrogation tactics used by the CIA after September 11th: "51% said that the procedures used, the interrogation enhanced tactics, which have been defined as torture, 51% said that…
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Jon Stewart Accuses Cheney of Having A ‘Bronsonlike Torture Boner’

December 16th, 2014 2:41 PM
On Monday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart mercilessly attacked former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program after 9/11. During his opening segment, the Comedy Central host accused Cheney of loving “torture” and asked “what if, hypothetically, this treatment was perpetrated on someone who had been detained wrongly, surely that would soften Cheney’s…
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Schultz to Valerie Plame's Hubby: Didn't Cheney 'Torture' Your Family?

December 15th, 2014 6:40 PM
With 2015 only a couple of weeks away, Ed Schultz just managed to sneak under the wire in the race for Most Inane Question of the Year by an MSNBC Host.  Speaking to Valerie Plame's husband Joe Wilson on the The Ed Show this evening, Schultz suggested: "Your wife was outed by the Vice-President and now he's saying he has no problem with torture. How do you feel about that? I mean isn't it torture…
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CBS: Americans 'Divided' Over CIA Interrogations; Only 36% Oppose

December 15th, 2014 12:22 PM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King claimed that Americans were "divided" over the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques after September 11th. However, the latest CBS News poll she cited "shows that 49% of Americans feel aggressive interrogation techniques like waterboarding are sometimes justified. 36% say they are never justified." The remaining 14% said that it "depends"…
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MRC's Notable Quotables: Are We 'Morally' No Better than Our Enemies?

December 15th, 2014 8:40 AM
This week, journalists seize on a partisan Senate Democratic report to scold the CIA for its conduct of the War on Terror during the Bush era, but deny there's any news value in Jonathan Gruber's admission that ObamaCare was sold using duplicitous tactics, calling it a "nothing burger."
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Dick Cheney Calls Out Chuck Todd For Taking ‘Cheap Shot’ On CIA Report

December 14th, 2014 1:13 PM
On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press hosted former Vice President Dick Cheney to speak on the recent Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation tactics on suspected terrorists. While Cheney spoke out in defense of the program, moderator Chuck Todd asked his guest “when you say waterboarding is not torture, then why did we prosecute Japanese soldiers in…
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NBC Touts China & Russia Slamming U.S. 'Hypocrisy' on 'Torture'

December 12th, 2014 12:25 PM
Wrapping up a report on Friday's NBC Today about CIA Director John Brennan reacting to the Senate Democrats' "torture report" during a Thursday press conference, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell highlighted: "The unveiling of the brutal tactics gave American adversaries a chance to accuse the U.S. of hypocrisy – on International Human Rights Day, no less."
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Hannity: Cooper Compares CIA to Nazis, But What About Obama's Drones?

December 11th, 2014 5:13 PM
Sean Hannity, on Wednesday, pointed out the double-standard the liberal media has when it comes to their condemnation of CIA interrogation techniques versus Barack Obama’s drone strikes. After playing a montage of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley preaching to former CIA directors about interrogation he then went after CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who…
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NBC's Mitchell Uses Presser to Recite 'Torture' Tactics to CIA Chief

December 11th, 2014 4:39 PM
During a Thursday press conference, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell seized the opportunity to lecture CIA Director John Brennan as she rattled over the "torture" techniques detailed in the recently released report by Senate Democrats: "...waterboarding, near drowning, slamming people against the wall, hanging them in stress positions, confining them in small boxes or…
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NBC’s Welker Berates Congressman Peter King Over ‘Torture Report'

December 11th, 2014 2:15 PM
Kristen Welker, NBC News White House Correspondent, served as fill-in host on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports Thursday afternoon and took the opportunity to badger Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.) over the Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Speaking to her Republican guest, Welker asked “some of the…

Limbaugh Cites Actual Examples of Torture That Liberals Can't Fathom

December 10th, 2014 10:16 PM
Over the last decade, liberals have become implacably convinced that harsh interrogation of captured jihadists who planned the slaughter of thousands of innocents on 9/11, and who sought to kill far more if they could acquire the means, constituted "torture." On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh performed an invaluable public service by citing better examples of torture that never seem to…

Pity Party at AP: Obama Still Handicapped by Bush 43's 'Legacy'

December 10th, 2014 6:42 PM
Nearly six years into Barack Obama's presidency, it's still George W. Bush's fault. Early Wednesday morning, Julie Pace at the Associated Press proved yet again why it is more than appropriate to characterize the wire service where she works as the Administration's Press. The headline at Pace's story tells us that poor President Barack Obama still has to confront the "Bush legacy," and is still…
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Hayden Slams NBC on 'Torture Report': 'You're Claiming It To Be News'

December 10th, 2014 12:08 PM
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, former CIA Director Michael Hayden went after the network for hyping the so-called "torture report" released by Senate Democrats on Tuesday. After Hayden denounced the partisan report as something that "reads like a prosecutorial screed rather than an historical document," co-host Savannah Guthrie pressed him on what he disagreed with. Hayden replied: "Well, I…