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CNN's Cuomo Unsure About Bin Laden 'Having to Lose [His] Life'

By Matthew Balan | November 10, 2014, 2:55 PM EST

CNN's Chris Cuomo expressed his nagging doubt on Monday's New Day about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Cuomo, along with co-anchors Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira, devoted a segment to the controversy over the Navy SEAL who claims t ...

O'Reilly: Obama Resumé on Terror 'Is About As Weak As You Can Get'

By Tom Blumer | October 1, 2014, 6:12 AM EDT

Bill O'Reilly's opening talking points on his show tonight went after President Obama's claim that the intelligence community underestimated and did not adequately communicate the dangers of ISIS/ISIL in Iraq and Syria with both barrels. As ...

Once Again Chris Matthews Blames al Qaeda, Islamist Violence on First Gulf War

By Ken Shepherd | September 15, 2014, 10:11 PM EDT

Yet again MSNBC's Chris Matthews has blamed Islamist terrorism on the stationing of U.S. troops in "the holy land" of Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, essentially parroting the justification that Osama bin Laden gave in the late 1990 ...

Ex-Bill Clinton Aide George Stephanopoulos Spins for His Old Boss on Bin Laden

By Scott Whitlock | August 1, 2014, 12:52 PM EDT

Former Bill Clinton operative turned Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos on Friday spun for his ex-boss in the wake of newly released audio about Osama bin Laden. In the recording from September 10, 2001, Bill Clinton justified not ordering th ...

Thom Hartmann: Elder Bush 'Murdered' Iraqi Soldiers Fleeing Kuwait

By Jack Coleman | July 5, 2014, 12:06 PM EDT

Fortunately, there might still be time for the show trial that Thom Hartmann craves. Hartmann, long atop the decidedly short list of popular liberal radio hosts, has again lapsed into the language of fringe leftist, this time while talking about the horri ...

MSNBC's Wolffe Contradicted by NBC As He Wrongly Claims No Al-Qaeda in Iraq Before Invasion

By Brad Wilmouth | June 19, 2014, 9:22 AM EDT

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe mocked former Vice President Dick Cheney for his recent criticism of President Obama, and inaccurately claimed that "there ...

Good One, John!: On Comedy Central, Al Jazeera's Seigenthaler Insists Network Is Unbiased

By Paul Bremmer | January 14, 2014, 6:49 PM EST

John Seigenthaler, the former NBC news anchor who now reads the news on Al Jazeera America, showed up on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report Tuesday night to undergo a faux-grilling from Stephen Colbert about his new employer. While explaining how he came ...

Letterman Plays Video of People Destroying Computers After Trying to Sign Up for ObamaCare

By Noel Sheppard | October 12, 2013, 2:34 PM EDT

Has President Obama lost David Letterman? On the CBS Late Show Friday, the host aired a video he called "This Day In Obamacare Enrollment" in which people from different parts of the country were shown destroying their computers (video follows w ...

After Gauzy Promotion of Bin Laden Raid, NBC Scolds Obama Aide for Revealing President's Card Game

By Kyle Drennen | August 15, 2013, 11:27 PM EDT

While NBC marked the one-year anniversary of the Bin Laden killing with a fawning Inside the Situation Room profile of President Obama, on Thursday, the cast of Today chided former White House aide Reggie Love for revealing that he and the President " ...

Not Establishment Press News: Iconic Ground Zero Photo Seen as Too 'Rah-rah' American, Almost Excluded From Museum

By Tom Blumer | July 30, 2013, 12:53 AM EDT

It has been almost 48 hours since the New York Post's Melissa Klein first reported that "This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum," beca ...

Hillary Clinton: 'F--k The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner'

By Noel Sheppard | July 4, 2013, 2:11 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton has long been rumored to be a rather vulgar conversationalist when cameras aren't rolling. According to a Washington Post piece about Mark Leibovich's new book “This Town,” then Secretary of State Clinton once said, “[Expletive] ...

Letterman: 'Obama's in So Much Trouble Politically He's Thinking of Killing Bin Laden Again'

By Noel Sheppard | May 22, 2013, 11:53 AM EDT

As NewsBusters reported last week, even David Letterman is now telling jokes about Barack Obama. The CBS Late Show host continued to do so Tuesday saying, "He's in so much trouble politically, the President, he's thinking about killing bin ...

George W. Bush: The World Is Safer Today Than When 9/11 Hit

By Noel Sheppard | April 19, 2013, 10:16 AM EDT

George W. Bush thinks the world is safer today than it was when 9/11 happened. In an interview with Parade magazine, the former president also said that he doesn't believe the Republican Party is doomed forever: Is the world safer today than it was 1 ...

Matthews Trashes Republicans With New Conspiracy Theory Poll, Ignores Democrat Responses

By Noel Sheppard | April 25, 2015, 12:02 AM EDT

When I saw the recently released PPP poll concerning America's belief in "conspiracy theories," I knew someone in the media would cherry-pick it to trash conservatives. Living down to my lowest expectations was MSNBC's Chris Matthews w ...

Eleanor Clift Howler: 'Clinton Administration Was Focused on al Qaeda in the ’90s'

By Noel Sheppard | March 31, 2013, 9:28 AM EDT

Warning: Please remove all flammables, fluids, and food from proximity to your computer as the following statement by Newsweek's Eleanor Clift on PBS's McLaughlin Group Friday could result in a potentially hazardous fit of laughter. " The c ...