Alterman: Matthews Centrist; Olbermann Merely 'Taken for a Liberal
March 22nd, 2007 6:46 PM
What does it take to be a liberal in Eric Alterman's book? In his current column at The Nation, The Many Man-Crushes of Chris Matthews, Altermann labels Chris Matthews a "centrist" that MSNBC sandwiches between the "right-wing" Tucker Carlson and "taken-for-a-liberal Keith Olbermann.""Taken-for-a-liberal Keith Olbermann"? Sounds like Keith hasn't quite earned his lefty wings in Eric's…
WashPost Front-Pages Mugabe Violence Yet Doesn't Call Him a Dictator
March 17th, 2007 2:17 PM
On the one hand, I have to give the Washington Post credit for frontpaging today's story on longtime Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe's campaign of police thuggery against opposition leaders.Yet when I looked through the article, I found no mention that Mugabe is a socialist or leftist, nor was he labeled a dictator. In fact, the only dictator reference came in a graph that noted that the…
MRC's Bozell on 'Hannity & Colmes
March 14th, 2007 9:59 PM
MRC President Brent Bozell appeared on FNC's "Hannity & Colmes" a few moments ago to talk about the MRC's findings in the March 14 MRC Reality Check: "Mass Amnesia Over Mass Clinton Firings." Former Clinton counsel Lanny Davis also appeared in the same segment to counter Mr. Bozell. [Perhaps former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos* was too busy with his duties at ABC News? *see update at…
Reuters Counts 9/11 Hijackers as 9/11 Victims
March 8th, 2007 6:15 PM
From the March 8 edition of James Taranto's Best of the Web. (H/t: Nathan Burchfiel):Another Man's Victim?Reuters has a cute little human interest story about funny people from Vermont holding "town meetings" where they call for President Bush's impeachment. What caught our eye was not the darling little Vermonters, though, but something in this paragraph:
GMA Highlights ‘Vicious’ Coulter; Ignores Maher Musings About Chen
March 6th, 2007 2:50 PM
Has Ann Coulter gone too far? “Good Morning America” reporter Jake Tapper posed that question on Tuesday’s program. Commenting on Coulter’s use of a slur at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, he used the words “vicious” and “mean spirited” to describe the author. An ABC graphic described the speech as “nasty.” And yet, the ABC program has not aired a single story on prominent…
Syrian Official from Sawyer Interview Actually a Government Propagandi
February 20th, 2007 3:24 PM
On February 8, in the midst of Diane Sawyer’s Dictator ‘07 Tour, a whirlwind trip that saw her offer softball questions to both the dictators of Iran and Syria, the "Good Morning America" anchor sat down to speak with a group of Syrian women. As already noted on NewsBusters, Sawyer portrayed the brutal Syrian regime as a family friendly paradise. An onscreen ABC graphic identified one female,…
