Iraq
Masochistic ABC Touts Moore Attack: ‘Media Is Complicit’ in Troop
June 13th, 2007 12:40 PM
Does "Good Morning America" have a masochistic streak? On Wednesday, GMA host Chris Cuomo allowed liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to claim that due to the failure of journalists in challenging President Bush’s claims about pre-war Iraq intelligence, ABC and other networks are "complicit" in the deaths of American soldiers: Video (2:22): Real (1.73 MB) or Windows (1.46 MB), plus MP3 audio (686 kB)
Why Have Media Ignored 1992 Gore Speech That Blasted Iraq As Terror Sp
June 12th, 2007 3:59 PM
Most Americans are aware that former Vice President Al Gore has been an outspoken opponent of President George W. Bush’s policies concerning Iraq.Yet, as Gore has traveled the nation and the world speaking against this war, the media have chosen to ignore a major policy speech given by vice presidential candidate Gore at the Hyatt Regency Hotel/Capitol Hill to the Center on National Policy on…
CNN Reporter Admits Paying to Stage Story, Capping Nearly a Decade of
June 12th, 2007 10:11 AM
So, what is CNN?
THIS is CNN in 1998; the link is to a story debunking the network's Peter Arnett and April Oliver, who accused Vietnam soldiers of war crimes in Operation Tailwind.
This is from 2003. The network's Eason Jordan confessed that the network twisted the news out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, thereby giving false impressions of the regime to the world so that it could maintain its access…
The Consequences of Failure
June 12th, 2007 8:39 AM
Big tip of the hat to Scott Johnson at Power Line for tipping me off to an excellent op-ed in the New York Times which makes one of the few correct comparisons of Iraq to Vietnam: that withdrawal before the task is done diminishes American credibility abroad.Here's an excerpt from "Defeat's Killing Fields:"Today, in Iraq, there should be no illusion that defeat would come
at an acceptable price…
Rather Attacks Couric: 'Dumb It Down, Tart It Up
June 11th, 2007 3:24 PM
As already noted on NewsBusters, former CBS anchor Dan Rather appeared on Monday’s edition of "Morning Joe" and lobbied for a "a strategic withdrawal from Iraq." He also found time to twice bash his "Evening News" successor Katie Couric for dumbing down and tarting up the news. After giving the standard caveat that Couric is a "nice person," he went in for kill. Speculating on the program’s…
'Today' Tags W's Warm Welcome in Eastern Europe 'Over the Top
June 11th, 2007 7:54 AM
Can you remember the last time you heard "Today" or other MSM outlets describe, in terms such as "over the top," rabid anti-Bush protests by the likes of the Cindy Sheehan crowd, the Code Pink girls, or the folks pictured below ? Neither can I. Conversely, when Bill Clinton receives enthusiastic receptions overseas, the MSM breaks out the "rock-star" analogies, with no sarcasm in sight.But let…
