CBS Sees Both Sides Extreme in Iran, NBC Sees Mousavi as Moderate

Brad Wilmouth
June 19th, 2009 2:05 AM
On Thursday evening, the CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News presented opposite takes on whether Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is really a moderate, or whether he is actually about as extreme and dangerous as current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. CBS’s Mark Phillips argued that Mousavi is merely more moderate in "tone" than Ahmadinejad while taking similar policy…
 

Politico Headline: 'Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It

P.J. Gladnick
June 16th, 2009 9:19 AM
"Ahmadinejad won. Get Over It."That was both the headline and the theme of an astounding story written for Politico by the former foreign policy husband and wife team of Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett.  Their shtick while at the Bush White House was that we needed to "engage" Iran and left their jobs  "with a growing sense of alarm" that we were headed towards war with that Islamic…
 

CBS Publishes New Republic Piece Comparing Bush to Ahmadinejad

Noel Sheppard
June 14th, 2009 9:43 PM
In today's "Will Bush Derangement Syndrome Ever End" segment, CBSNews.com published an article from The New Republic comparing Iran's crazed leader who believes the holocaust never happened and Israel should be wiped off the face of the planet to -- wait for it! -- America's 43rd president.Isn't that special?In a piece hysterically titled "Meet Iran's George W. Bush," author Laura Secor said Iran…