Bloomberg Columnist Defends Bergdahl Deal: 'The President Managed to G

June 3rd, 2014 9:01 AM
Who the hell was President Obama rescuing: Bowe Bergdahl or the Taliban terrorists themselves?   The questions arises out of the mind-boggling defense of the Bergdahl deal proferred on today's Morning Joe by Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg, who argued that by dint of the deal, "the President managed to get five guys out of Gitmo, which is a goal."  Well, at least President Obama didn't…

NBC and CBS Hosts See Prisoner Swap As 'Good Sign' of 'Diplomatic Brea

June 2nd, 2014 3:44 PM
While all three broadcast networks provided critical coverage of the Obama administration's decision to exchange five Taliban terrorists for American soldier Bowe Bergdahl, Meet the Press host David Gregory and CBS This Morning co-host Norah O'Donnell both attempted to spin the controversial deal as brilliant diplomacy. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Interviewing…

ABC’s Stephanopoulos Spins for Obama After White House Fails to Noti

June 1st, 2014 10:40 AM
On Saturday, May 31, both the CBS Evening News and ABC World News with David Muir failed to report that President Obama may have violated U.S. law by failing to notify Congress prior to the release of five terrorists from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier held captive by the Taliban.  While CBS and ABC ignored the controversy in their coverage of the release of Sergeant Bowe…

Only NBC Nightly News Highlights Obama’s Failure to Notify Congress

June 1st, 2014 9:57 AM
The United States negotiated the release of five Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the Taliban freeing an American sergeant from captivity yet President Obama may have violated U.S. law by failing to notify Congress of his actions.  Despite the potential legal problems with releasing prisoners without notifying Congress, NBC Nightly News was the only evening news program on…

Obama's Latest Moves to Close Gitmo A Mere Blip On Networks' Radar

October 10th, 2013 3:50 PM
Charlie Rose's 18-second news brief on Thursday's CBS This Morning is the sole Big Three network mention so far of the Obama administration's decision to review the cases of dozens of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay in preparation for the possible release. Both ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today ignored this latest development in the ongoing controversy over the Islamist detainees at…

Unhinged Movie-Disrupting Dem Strategist to Judge Jeanine: Weekend Emb

August 4th, 2013 12:56 PM
Saturday evening, a friend suggested that I watch the midnight rerun of Judge Jeanine Pirro's Fox News program for her interview segment with a Democrat and a Republican about this weekend's closing of 22 embassies overseas in response to terrorist threats. Ryan Clayton was the Democrat whose arguments blaming George W. Bush's administration for the current level of threats in the Middle East…

Press Fails to Contrast Medea Benjamin's Civility With Obama With Disr

May 25th, 2013 6:41 PM
Code Pink's Media Benjamin managed to break into another presidential event on Thursday, namely Barack Obama's speech at the National Defense University. The topic was "U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy," meaning that the administration's aversion to the T-word seems to be diminishing as the damaging scandal-related news continues to pour in. Readers will see that Benjamin was relatively civil…

Leno: Obama Can Close Gitmo By Making it a Government-Funded Solar Com

May 25th, 2013 12:38 PM
Jay Leno continued his humorous attacks on the White House Friday. In a series of opening monologue jokes targeting Barack Obama, the NBC Tonight Show host said of the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, “If he really wants to close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors will be shut in a month.”

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball Gushes Over Obama Speech, Claims the President

May 24th, 2013 3:42 PM
In a way you have to hand it to Krystal Ball. The former Democratic congressional candidate-turned-MSNBC co-host is always hard at work spinning for the Obama administration, come what may. Appearing on Thursday's Politics Nation, the co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle raved about President Obama’s May 23 national security speech, claiming the president is “reining in his own power,” a “remarkable…

CNN's Amanpour Mocks 'Roughty-Toughty' Rumsfeld, Calls Gitmo 'Not Amer

May 3rd, 2013 5:09 PM
CNN's Christiane Amanpour and Jeffrey Toobin continued to push for Guantanamo Bay to be closed on Thursday's 10 p.m. ET hour of Anderson Cooper 360. "It's just not American," Amanpour insisted. Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, knocked the "roughty-toughty Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld decided no Geneva Conventions" for the detainees. Toobin, CNN's senior legal analyst,…

Arrogant Christiane Amanpour Sneers at Conservative Guests, Wants Gitm

May 2nd, 2013 3:01 PM
Insisting that Guantanamo Bay has become a recruitment tool for future terrorists and must be closed, CNN's Christiane Amanpour arrogantly scoffed at opinions to the contrary on Wednesday's special edition of Anderson Cooper 360. Amanpour knocked Rudy Giuliani's concern of "I can't imagine where you would put these people," by jeering, "Come on." Later on, when The Blaze TV anchor Amy Holmes…

That Hunger Strike at Gitmo is a 'Real Crisis', Rachel Maddow Worries

May 1st, 2013 7:58 PM
More potential jihadist attacks against American civilians in the wake of the Boston bombings? Not worthy of further attention from Rachel Maddow. Instead, Maddow is more concerned with that "real crisis" down at Guantanamo, of prisoners starving themselves. If future media critics ever want a quintessential example of the Maddow show, they could do worse than watch her program from April 30…

NBC Ignores Todd Grilling President Over ObamaCare 'Train Wreck' to Hi

May 1st, 2013 2:43 PM
While NBC's chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd pressed President Obama during a Tuesday news conference on the possibility of ObamaCare being a "train wreck," the network coverage of the presser completely avoided any mention of the question, instead seizing on Obama being pressured from the left to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Anchor Brian Williams lead…

Leno Tells Obama How to Close Gitmo: 'Declare it a Small Business and

May 1st, 2013 9:05 AM
Barack Obama during his Tuesday press conference said once again that he wants to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay. NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno offered the President some advice Tuesday saying, "He should do what he always does: declare it a small business and tax it out of existence":