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Obama's NSA Spying on Congress Not a Story at AP — Until GOP Responds

By Tom Blumer | January 1, 2016, 9:24 PM EST

The Wall Street Journal ran a blockbuster story Tuesday afternoon ("U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress") about how the Obama administration's National Security Agency's "targeting of Israeli leaders swept up the content of pri ...

CNN's Tapper Presses PLO Official on Palestinian Incitement Against Israelis

By Brad Wilmouth | October 22, 2015, 10:55 PM EDT

On Wednesday's The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN host Jake Tapper devoted attention to Palestinian incitement of violence against Israelis in a way rarely seen in the dominant media as he pressed PLO official Maen Rashid Areikat about recent stabbing at ...

What to Expect from the Nov. 9 Obama-Netanyahu Meeting

By Cal Thomas | October 20, 2015, 9:44 PM EDT

When President Obama meets in Washington November 9 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I would imagine Netanyahu's main concern will be to find out exactly what the U.S. means by "infringement" as it applies to the Iran nuclear ...

AP, NY Times Fail to Report Absence of Power, Kerry From Netanyahu UN Speech

By Tom Blumer | October 3, 2015, 10:04 PM EDT

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations. As described by George Jahn at the Associated Press, it was "an impassioned speech interspersed with bouts of dramatic silence." Jahn failed to report the absenc ...

New York Times Headline: Rocks Propelled Themselves, Killing a Jewish Man

By Tom Blumer | September 16, 2015, 11:07 PM EDT

Nowhere is the anti-Israel bias of so much of the establishment press more evident than in its coverage of terror attacks and crimes committed by Palestinians. One such example occurred almost a year ago in the Associated Press. In that instance, the stor ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski Dismisses Bibi's Criticism of Iran Deal: 'Not a Serious Person'

By Mark Finkelstein | July 15, 2015, 11:29 AM EDT

Zbigniew Brzezinki is the man who infamously advised President Obama to shoot down Israeli warplanes should they attempt to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. So when David Ignatius asked him on today's Morning Joe what he thought of Bibi Netanyahu ...

Thomas Friedman: Obama Can See America From Iran's Perspective

By Mark Finkelstein | April 13, 2015, 9:30 AM EDT

We get that Barack Obama can view American from Iran's perspective.  What we're worried about is whether he can view Iran from American's perspective...  Ronald Reagan: "My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and ...

Bibi's Criticism of Iran Deal Has Mika Making Faces

By Mark Finkelstein | April 1, 2015, 10:11 AM EDT

Sometimes you just want to shake the TV and say "enough with the cutesy facial expressions, already: spit it out, Mika!"   Morning Joe mavens will know what I mean: Mika Brzezinski has the annoying habit of letting a series of sighs, raised eyeb ...

SNL's Violent Opening Skit: Impossible to Imagine If Parties Switched

By Tom Blumer | March 29, 2015, 11:39 PM EDT

One of the first rules of genuine comedy is that to be funny, a joke or skit needs to have some basis in truth. On that primary measurement, the cold open on "Saturday Night Live" last night failed miserably on so many fronts, it's hard to ...

AP: 'Not So Clear' That Israel Is Democratic

By Tom Blumer | March 25, 2015, 10:50 PM EDT

The pundit class in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world is still seething over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral triumph last week. On Monday, Dan Perry at the Associated Press took that hysteria to a new level, in effect attemptin ...

Mika Brzezinski: Netanyahu's a Desperate Race-Baiter; Dick Durbin Was Not

By Bryan Ballas | May 8, 2015, 3:46 PM EDT

Joe Scarborough, MSNBC’s solitary leaner toward the center-right, was unavailable for Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe. Without him to restrain her, Mika Brzezinski proceeded to make a piñata out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election comments, ...

Charles Krauthammer Slams Obama, White House on Reaction to Israel Spying on Iran Deal Negotiations

By Curtis Houck | March 24, 2015, 10:17 PM EDT

Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer appeared on the panel for Fox News’s Special Report on Tuesday evening and blasted President Barack Obama for refusing to directly comment on a Wall Street Journal report that Israel has been spying on the negotiat ...

What Makes Mika So Miffed About Bibi?

By Mark Finkelstein | March 24, 2015, 12:42 PM EDT

Morning Joe went on the air in 2007. Think of all the outrage-provoking people and events that have popped up in the ensuing eight years.  Yet in the memory of this Newsbuster—who's been blogging the show since its debut—rarely has Mika Brzezinski se ...

White House: 'Death To America' Comments in Iran Only Meant For 'Domestic Audience'

By Tom Blumer | March 24, 2015, 12:16 AM EDT

CNN is reporting tonight that the White House considers the "Of course, death to America" comments made by Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as merely statements "intended for a domestic political audience." That clueless ...

Thanks, Hillary! Morning Joe's Middle East a Smoking Ruin

By Mark Finkelstein | March 23, 2015, 6:24 PM EDT

Warning: readers are advised to hide the sharp objects before viewing the clip of Morning Joe' s review of the Middle East today.  The picture painted is one of the utter failure of US foreign policy, leaving a devastated, deadly region in its woeful ...