Howard Kurtz in Lara Logan Segment Says Schlussel's Conservative, Does

Noel Sheppard
February 20th, 2011 7:01 PM
Howard Kurtz devoted a good part of "Reliable Sources" Sunday to the attack on CBS's Lara Logan when Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned as President. As he addressed some disgraceful comments made about the incident by members of the media, Kurtz made it clear to viewers that Debbie Schlussel was a conservative, better never once depicted Nir Rosen as a liberal (video follows with transcript and…
 

ABC's Banfield on CNN: 'I'm Not Going to Cast Aspersions' on Rosen

Matthew Balan
February 17th, 2011 6:27 PM
On Wednesday's AC360 on CNN, ABC's Ashleigh Banfield punted on Nir Rosen's offensive Tweets against CBS's Lara Logan and tried to explain them away: "We're using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can nowadays before we can really digest the ramifications of what we say...And so, I'm certainly not going to cast aspersions on Mr. Rosen. Let he who is without sin cast the…
 

On CNN, Rosen Falsely Claims He Didn't Know Logan Was Sexually Assault

Matthew Balan
February 17th, 2011 3:42 PM
Disgraced journalist Nir Rosen claimed on Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360 that he didn't know Lara Logan was sexually assaulted when she was attacked by protesters in Egypt. However, Rosen's own Tweets, which he subsequently deleted, revealed that he indeed know about the nature of the attack and tried to downplay it: "Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women." CNN anchor…
 

Nir Rosen, Per AP: 'Tweets about Egypt assault (of Lara Logan) not ser

Tom Blumer
February 17th, 2011 1:55 PM
A brief unbylined Associated Press item today with a 9:15 a.m. time stamp, which appears to be based solely on an e-mail to an AP reporter (no other source for the quotes are cited), tells us that Nir Rosen seems to be backtracking from his Twitter claim of being "ashamed of how I have hurt others" in his comments about CBS reporter Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted by a Cairo mob on…
 

Lawrence O'Donnell Rips Schlussel's Comments About Lara Logan, Ignores

Noel Sheppard
February 17th, 2011 12:13 AM
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell was disgusted by "many intemperate" comments made about the news that CBS's Lara Logan had been brutally and apparently sexually assaulted while covering the Egyptian celebration that followed President Hosni Mubarak's resignation last Friday. Not at all surprising, the only one he bothered to read on Wednesday's "The Last Word" was written by a conservative (video…
 

Leftist Journalism Prof Nir Rosen Resigns After Insulting Sexual Assau

Matthew Sheffield
February 16th, 2011 5:09 PM
Nir Rosen, one of the more rabidly left-wing foreign policy commentators out there has finally gotten some just desserts after he ridiculed CBS News correspondent Lara Logan after she was assaulted by a mob in Egypt. After learning the news of the attack on Logan, Rosen took to Twitter to ridicule her and in the process revealed his deep anti-Iraq war bias. "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson.…