GMA’s Cuomo Spins Tenet Book as Evidence of Bush Lies: 'Is It Time

Scott Whitlock
 

CNN's Wastler Backs $1 Gas Tax Hike

Reporter suggests how to keep government 'In the Money': with $4-a-gallon gas.
Dan Gainor
 

'Early Show' Host Harry Smith Pounds Tony Snow With Pullout 'Majority

Justin McCarthy
 

Rumors Rise of Roseanne for Rosie Replacement

Matthew Sheffield
 

Big Metro Dailies Continue to Lose Circulation

For the fifth straight year, America's biggest newspapers (especially the left-leaning ones) have experienced big drops in circulation.The Audit Bureau of Circulation released its annual numbers today. Among the findings: Two of the three national newspapers (USA Today and the Wall Street Journal) gained circ while the New York Times fell 2 percent on weekdays and nearly three-and-a-half percent…
Matthew Sheffield
 

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NB Staff
 

Brokaw Wonders Why Tenet Didn't Resign Given 'Rogue' Pentagon Operatio

The Bush administration: a bigger threat to national security than a foreign spy. That was Tom Brokaw's implicit assumption in his interview with former CIA Director George Tenet on this morning's "Today." Along the way, Brokaw accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of running a "rogue" intelligence operation.BROKAW: In the opening passage you describe conversations in the Clinton…
Mark Finkelstein
 

No Sherlock: NPR Anchor Asks If Viet Cong Spy at Time Magazine Cost Am

Tim Graham
 

Media Ignore Conyers's Breathtaking DDT Ignorance

Imagine a conservative congressperson doing something this unhinged and not getting raked over the coals in the press (Wall Street Journal link requires subscription): Tuesday was Africa Malaria Day, and Michigan Representative John Conyers marked the event by inviting something called the Pesticide Action Network to Capitol Hill to denounce DDT as an unsafe malaria intervention. What was he…
Tom Blumer
 

LAT: Falling Home Construction Market in USA Hurts Mexico

Warner Todd Huston
 

Former Head of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit: Don’t Buy Tenet’s Blame Gam

On Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” ex-CIA Director George Tenet told CBS’ Scott Pelley the Bush administration misrepresented his now famous “slam dunk” reference to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (video available here).However, one of Tenet’s former employees, Michael Scheuer, published an op-ed (h/t Captain Ed) in the Washington Post Sunday cautioning that “the former director of central…
Noel Sheppard
 

New Yorker Tagged for 'Falsehoods,' 'Mis-readings,' and 'Errors' in Po

Dave Pierre
 

Washington Post Again Critical of Speaker Pelosi: ‘No Results in Dam

For at least the second time this month, the Washington Post went after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) for meeting with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. For those that have forgotten, the Post was harshly critical of the Speaker’s trip at the time, calling it “foolish” and “ludicrous.”On Friday, the Post editorial staff, in a piece entitled “No Results in Damascus,” chronicled what’s…
Noel Sheppard
 

Harold Ford’s Uncle Convicted, Media Bury Relationship and Party Aff

Assume for a moment that a prominent Republican’s uncle that happened to be a former state senator was convicted of accepting bribes. Do you think: This would have been headline/front-page newsThe family relationship would have been in the lede and/or headlineHis party affiliation would have been in the lede and/or headline?Well, on Friday, the uncle of former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (D),…
Noel Sheppard