Hillary: Forgetful at 11, Fierce at
April 11th, 2008 8:34 AM
Must be something about midnight. Sometime between 11 PM and 3 AM, Hillary Clinton is transformed from a sleepy sexagenarian who can't keep her facts straight into a bold Commander-in-Chief dealing decisively with the crisis of the moment.We all know about Hillary's 3 AM mastery. As for 11 PM, Bill Clinton went on the campaign trail in Indiana yesterday and chalked up his wife's problems with the…
Morning Shows Ignore Rockefeller Smear of McCain, Military Pilots
April 9th, 2008 5:45 PM
Our news analysts at the MRC have combed through the April 9 editions of ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS's "The Early Show," and NBC's "Today," and found zero mentions of the comments that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) made smearing McCain and military pilots past and present.[See a related NewsBusters item by Clay Waters here.]Yesterday I noted how news agencies were slow to cover the story,…
Olbermann Smears Iraq Vet, McCain as Racists
April 9th, 2008 4:29 PM
On his April 8 "Countdown," host Keith Olbermann smeared Iraq war veteran David Bellavia as a racist:OLBERMANN, from the April 8 "Countdown" opening credits: Nothing obscure about this: Racism as a Republican campaign plank. Sen. McCain introduced at a rally on Capitol Hill."BELLAVIA, introducing then hugging McCain: You can have your Tiger Woods. We've got Sen. McCain.OLBERMANN: Did he actually…
CBS Reporter: NewsBusters Prompted Story on Bosnia 'Sniper Fire
April 9th, 2008 2:06 PM
Confirming the important role that NewsBusters played in exposing Hillary Clinton’s bogus “sniper fire” story, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson told the Los Angeles Times’s “Web Scout” blog that it was in fact our March 18 NewsBusters item that prompted her to debunk Clinton’s claims in a March 24 report for the CBS Evening News.According to the April 8 posting by David Sarno, the Times’…
ABC Spins Elizabeth Edwards as 'Passionate Voice' for Change
April 9th, 2008 1:08 PM
During an interview with Elizabeth Edwards, "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts spun the wife of the former Democratic presidential candidate as a non-partisan advocate for change on the issue of health care. She lauded her fellow cancer survivor as a "passionate voice in the debate" over the subject. Roberts also nonchalantly explained that a new chapter in Edwards's life includes "…
Dowd: Condi 'Instrumental in 9/11 Blunder
April 9th, 2008 6:27 AM
As accusations against Americans go, surely there's none more serious than that of responsibility for 9/11. Yet Maureen Dowd has seen fit to level just such a charge against Condi Rice en passant: as a simple afterthought, no explanation offered.There I was this morning reading Maureen's musings on yesterday's hearings with Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. Pretty standard Dowd fare: a…
NBC Stacks Deck Against Petraeus -- and Takes a Shot at McCain Too
April 8th, 2008 11:14 PM
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams led Tuesday's newscast by listing the burden of the Iraq war in years, troops, deaths and cost before Jim Miklaszewski, unlike reporters on ABC and CBS, found it newsworthy to show a man, in the Senate hearing for General David Petraeus, shouting “bring them home!” In the next story, Andrea Mitchell decided to highlight, again unlike ABC or CBS, how John…
Elizabeth Edwards to Blog for Lib Think Tank, Time's Carney Lauds the
April 8th, 2008 4:01 PM
Elizabeth Edwards, I'm sure, is a smart, capable woman. A well-educated lawyer, seasoned politician's wife, and mother of three, her battle against cancer is laudable no matter what your politics are. But in all honestly, is she really that much of a scholarly health care policy or health care finance expert?Time's Jay Carney apparently thinks so. Witness his recent pat on the back for the…
ABC's Sawyer Touts Rosie O'Donnell's 'Singular Take' on the World
April 8th, 2008 2:13 PM
"Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer featured 9/11 conspiracy theorist Rosie O'Donnell for over 15 minutes on Tuesday and failed to ask about any of her numerous controversial statements. Despite this, Sawyer did find the time to laud the former talk show host's "singular take on the world" and to make crafts with the hard core leftist who once asserted that "radical Christianity is just as…
CBS’s Smith Uses Democratic Talking Points on Iraq
April 8th, 2008 12:43 PM
In an interview with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," about the upcoming congressional testimony of General David Petraeus on the Iraq war, co-host Harry Smith began by asking a question that perfectly toed the Democratic Party line: "David Petraeus is going to come before this committee this morning. He's going to say in more -- you know, more elaborate words than I will right now…
The AP Tries to Spin Truth Out of Clinton Fabrication
April 8th, 2008 10:28 AM
The Associated Press launched a farcical defense of Hillary Clinton’s discredited account of a “health care horror story” that involved a pregnant woman who died weeks after losing her baby. The article, Clinton’s Tale Part Truth, Part Errors, by Charles Babington (or is it Babblington?) is a classic journey down Libsteria Lane where no good lie goes undefended. The AP one-ups the Hillary Clinton…
