'Early Show' Host Harry Smith Pounds Tony Snow With Pullout 'Majority

April 30th, 2007 11:56 AM

Brokaw Wonders Why Tenet Didn't Resign Given 'Rogue' Pentagon Operatio

April 30th, 2007 8:33 AM
The Bush administration: a bigger threat to national security than a foreign spy. That was Tom Brokaw's implicit assumption in his interview with former CIA Director George Tenet on this morning's "Today." Along the way, Brokaw accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of running a "rogue" intelligence operation.BROKAW: In the opening passage you describe conversations in the Clinton…

Former Head of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit: Don’t Buy Tenet’s Blame Gam

April 29th, 2007 10:17 PM
On Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” ex-CIA Director George Tenet told CBS’ Scott Pelley the Bush administration misrepresented his now famous “slam dunk” reference to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (video available here).However, one of Tenet’s former employees, Michael Scheuer, published an op-ed (h/t Captain Ed) in the Washington Post Sunday cautioning that “the former director of central…

Washington Post Again Critical of Speaker Pelosi: ‘No Results in Dam

April 29th, 2007 8:14 PM
For at least the second time this month, the Washington Post went after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) for meeting with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. For those that have forgotten, the Post was harshly critical of the Speaker’s trip at the time, calling it “foolish” and “ludicrous.”On Friday, the Post editorial staff, in a piece entitled “No Results in Damascus,” chronicled what’s…

Government Warned WaPo in Original Article of 'Lynch's Heroics

April 29th, 2007 12:07 PM
Because of Tuesday’s testimony by former Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch, the media have renewed the stories about the government “lying” about Lynch’s heroism and only correcting it later, but the conservative blog American Thinker dug up that first article which supposedly gave the details of Lynch’s rescue and found the “government warned against this fight-to-the-death story line… at the time of the…

Few Elite Reporters Protest Moyers Portraying Them As Pro-Bush Patsies

April 28th, 2007 10:27 PM

CNN's Softball Cleland Interview, Bush with 'Blood on Hands

April 28th, 2007 10:10 PM

What the President Actually Said on May

April 28th, 2007 7:59 PM

Richard Belzer Emulates ‘Rosie O’Donnell School of Foreign Policy

April 28th, 2007 5:18 PM
Despite being the lone Conservative on Friday’s “Real Time,” National Review contributor Lisa Schiffren might have had the best line of the evening when she accused comedian and actor Richard Belzer of emulating the “Rosie O’Donnell School of Foreign Policy.”As the discussion moved to Iraq, Belzer advanced the common liberal meme that the war was all about oil:And now the Democrats are…

Bill Maher Says President Bush and his Followers Are Paranoid Schizoph

April 28th, 2007 4:26 PM
On April 22, I praised Bill Maher for doing something right:Friday’s “Real Time” was actually a fabulous installment, as Maher’s panel for a change included two conservatives – National Review’s John O’Sullivan, and Republican strategist Amy Holmes, along with Montana’s Democrat Governor Brian Schweitzer. Maher ought to try this format of having two liberals (including himself) and two…

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: April 21 to

April 28th, 2007 10:35 AM
MSNBC: Fair and BalancedAccording to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani committed "terrorism" when he suggested that the country would be "playing defense" if a Democrat was elected president in 2008. And this is the network that’s hosting a Republican presidential debate? Americans Making Lots of Money: Good or Bad? On Monday, an ABC graphic provided a shining example…

NBC's Brokaw Distorts 'Slam Dunk' Usage by Conservatives

April 27th, 2007 8:49 PM

Paul Begala Calls WaPo's Liberal Broder a 'Venomous' 'Gasbag

April 27th, 2007 5:49 PM
One of the most marvelous aspects of today’s liberal media is how members of “the club” better not say or write anything bad about another member or risk excommunication.Such is clearly the mantra of CNN’s Paul Begala, who published a scathing rebuke of the Washington Post’s David Broder on Thursday. In it, he referred to the clearly left-of-center columnist as “a gasbag,” “the Hindenburg of…

How to Learn about Events in Iraq If You're a Regular LA Times Reader

April 27th, 2007 8:12 AM