Ifill Chastises 'Excessive' Security for Bush in Baghdad; Totenberg: T
June 16th, 2006 9:59 PM
Friday night PBS chat shows delivered a couple of slams from journalists at President Bush over his surprise trip to Baghdad early this week. After Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, who accompanied the President’s entourage, described some of the security precautions taken, Washington Week host Gwen Ifill cited “excessive security” as she derided the trip: “I wonder to what degree anybody in the…
Weekend Captionfest
June 16th, 2006 5:55 PM
Original Reuters caption: "Journalists put on their bullet-proof vests aboard Air Force One before
touching down with U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad for a
surprise visit June 13, 2006."
Al-Zarqawi the Journalist
June 15th, 2006 12:40 PM
I'm reading the text of the document that al-Zarqawi was caught with and I have to say it's a more accurate portrayal of what is really going on in Iraq than the average New York Times article. The situation and conditions of the resistance in Iraq have reached a point that requires a review of the events and of the work being done inside Iraq. Such a study is needed in order to show the best…
On Hume’s Show, Barnes and Kondracke Castigate Press Corps’ Questi
June 14th, 2006 9:46 PM
During the panel segment on Wednesday’s Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC, Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke criticized and ridiculed the questions posed by the White House press corps during the morning’s presidential press conference in the Rose Garden. Kondracke pointed out how “there was hardly any question, critical question from the right,” such as about how Bush was following a…
