ABC Fails to Note Bush-Bashing “Constitutional Scholar” Writes for
December 30th, 2005 9:38 PM
Without identifying David Cole as the “legal affairs correspondent” for the far-left magazine The Nation, Friday’s World News Tonight on ABC featured his denigration of the probe into who leaked the secret eavesdropping story to the New York Times and his expert declaration that “the President of the United States violated a clear criminal prohibition on warrantless wiretapping.” Reporter Pierre…
Red Shirt Repents
December 30th, 2005 5:04 PM
The Chairman Mao book requesting student speaks out to the public through the duped newspaper that is valiantly protecting his fragile identity. "The fact is that my being panicked about this hole (sic) event led me to unfortunately prop up my story (i.e., fabricate it), for that I have to apologize to you and to my professors. I have spoken to my family about the whole issue and the fact is that…
NYT Takes Another Shot at NSA Spy Story
December 25th, 2005 1:54 AM
The New York Times has a follow up on the NSA spy story. It's written in NYTease (pronounced new-yor-tease), so I will translate it for you. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11,…
AP Distorts Record on Lobby Gifts to Republicans
December 22nd, 2005 1:36 PM
The Associated Press is very good at what it does. It's just a shame that straight news reporting isn't it.
They've run a piece this morning (Lawmakers Hasten to Return Abramoff Gifts) dealing with lobbyist and equal-opportunity crook Jack Abramoff. Regular AP readers will remember that when Abramoff was indicted back in August the AP story mentioned one congressman by name, Republican Tom…
Kudos to CBS's Roberts for Picking Up Democrat Harman's Defense of Bus
December 21st, 2005 9:14 PM
Though Bob Schieffer introduced Wednesday's CBS Evening News by using loaded language as he pointed out how, “to protest the President's decision to continue spying on American citizens, a federal judge took the unprecedented step of resigning from the court that issues warrants in such cases,” an event also highlighted by ABC and NBC, unlike those networks, CBS White House correspondent John…
CNN's Cafferty: “If You Listen Carefully, You Can Hear the Word Impe
December 20th, 2005 10:21 PM
CNN on Tuesday afternoon gave credibility to the ruminations from a few hardcore leftists that President Bush should be impeached over authorizing, without prior court approval, eavesdropping on people within U.S. borders communicating with those abroad who have ties to al-Qaeda. Both Jack Cafferty and anchor Wolf Blitzer raised the subject during the 4pm EST hour of The Situation Room. Cafferty'…
Times Furor Sounds Vaguely Familiar, Like.....Rather
December 20th, 2005 5:36 PM
Editor and Puiblisher story about the Times Spy article: But while most urged the paper to better explain what went into the decision-making process, others praised the Times' journalistic effort and stressed that the onus should be on what the Bush administration is doing, not the paper. ...Some noted a weariness over the paper continuing to be hammered for its actions, while others were angry…
