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MSM Ignoring Obama's 'Leadership At Its Best' Boast?
September 11th, 2014 8:38 AM
President Obama is a great leader. Really. Just ask him. Seemingly ignored in the coverage of the president's ISIS speech last night was the moment when President Obama claimed that the ISIS threat was being met with "strength and resolve," then boasted that his strategy—and by extension he himself—represented "American leadership at its best."
Can anyone imagine truly great American leaders--…
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NBC’s Richard Engel Pans Obama’s ISIS Speech As ‘Wildly Off-Base’
September 11th, 2014 7:07 AM
After President Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel what he thought of President Obama’s analogy that the U.S. strategy in fighting terrorism in Yemen and Somalia would carry over to dealing with the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. Needless to say, Engel was not at all pleased with…
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Carney, McCain Engage in Epic Battle on CNN Over Obama and Iraq
September 11th, 2014 2:28 AM
After President Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday night, CNN brought on its newly-minted senior political commenator and former Obama White House press secretary Jay Carney and Republican Senator John McCain (Ariz.) to comment on what the President’s speech regarding U.S policy in dealing withy the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. However, the next eight minutes instantly evolved into a…
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CBS’s Schieffer Gushes Over Obama’s ISIS Speech
September 10th, 2014 11:27 PM
After President Obama’s speech on confronting the Islamic terrorist group ISIS on Wednesday night, each of the major broadcast networks offered some brief analysis before returning to regularly scheduled programming. Over on CBS, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer anchored that network’s coverage and had nothing but good things to say in the few minutes before CBS’s coverage concluded.
Schieffer…
Mother Jones Blogger Lauds Obama’s Lack of ‘Blood Lust’ Toward ISIS
September 10th, 2014 12:59 PM
For now, President Obama’s “no-drama” handling of the ISIS situation counters both Americans’ fondness for “the same kind of bloody-shirt waving that got us into” Iraq and “the usual gang of conservative jingoists” now pushing for war.
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Scarborough Scoffs at Friedman's Idea To Stop ISIS: A Carbon Tax
September 8th, 2014 10:51 AM
Joe Scarborough scoffs at Thomas Friedman's suggestion that the way to confront ISIS is for the US to adopt a carbon tax and permit oil exports.
AP, LA Times and USA Today All Avoid Naming Obama in Stories on Libya
September 4th, 2014 3:38 PM
The establishment press is working mightily to shield President Barack Obama from blame for, or even association with, decisions he has made and actions he has taken — unilaterally and with dubious constitutional authority in many instances.
One particularly egregious example is Libya. When Obama decided on his own to engage in "kinetic miliitary action" to topple Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the…
‘Big Three’ Continue To Ignore Report Saying Obama Briefed On ISIS
September 3rd, 2014 11:45 AM
For the second day in a row, the “big three” networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) all ignored a new report from a former Pentagon official which claims that President Obama received briefings on the terrorist group ISIS “for at least a year before the group seized large swaths of territory over the summer.”
Following the “big three” ignoring the report on their Tuesday night broadcasts, on Wednesday…
Nets Skip Report Obama Briefed on ISIS Going Back ‘at Least a Year’
September 3rd, 2014 12:05 AM
On Tuesday night, the three major broadcast networks omitted from their coverage on the Islamic group ISIS a report that President Barack Obama has received briefings on the terrorist organization “for at least a year before the group seized large swaths of territory over the summer.” ABC, CBS, and NBC all led their evening newscasts with multiple segments on the gruesome murder of American…
Terror-Supporting Islamist Finds 'Humor' in Saying '9-11, 7-7, 3-11' D
August 31st, 2014 10:55 PM
When last seen in coverage at NewsBusters, Anjem Choudary was sparring with Sean Hannity while claiming that ISIS atrocities are a Western "falsehood" and that Islamic Sharia law will be implemented "in the whole world one day."
Before getting to his latest stunt on CNN's Reliable Sources program with host Brian Stelter, it's important to provide some context, simply because Choudary, described…
MSNBC’s Krystal Ball, Guest Blame ISIS Waterboarding on Abu Ghraib
August 29th, 2014 4:30 PM
MSNBC’s Krystal Ball substituted for Ronan Farrow as host of his MSNBC show on Friday and remarked with a guest during a segment on the Islamic terror group ISIS that their reported waterboarding of their captives, including the late James Foley, can be blamed on the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and what happened at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
After shifting gears from talking…
Politico's Gerstein: Obama's 'No Strategy' Statement Just a 'Misfire
August 29th, 2014 1:06 PM
Politico's Josh Gerstein was in top keister-covering mode last night in dealing with President Barack Obama's latest stated indication that U.S. foreign policy is adrift.
To him, the President's admission that “We don’t have a strategy yet” was just an "awkward choice of words" and an "inartful phrase." (By the way, over six years after after one of Obama's flaks first used it to defend the…
Networks Defend Obama as ‘Critics Pounced’ and Took 'Too Literally
August 29th, 2014 12:50 PM
On Friday morning, the major broadcast networks were out in full force to defend President Obama after his remarks at a press conference Thursday afternoon in which he said that “we don’t have a strategy yet” in how to militarily address the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in Syria.
Leading the way was NBC’s Today, where co-host Matt Lauer told NBC News political director and moderator of Meet…
Scarborough Defends 'No Strategy' Obama: 'Straight Out of The Art of
August 29th, 2014 9:17 AM
Alexander the Great. Stonewall Jackson. George S. Patton. To this list of some of history's greatest military strategists, a new name must be added: that of Barack Obama. That is, if you agree with Joe Scarborough's take on President Obama's statement at yesterday's press conference that "we don't have a strategy yet" regarding possible attacks on ISIS in Syria.
According to Scarborough,…