AP's Big Fat Happy Cuban Familia
August 5th, 2006 8:53 PM
When it comes to toadying up to the Castro regime, it's going to be tough for the Associated Press to top its achievement noted by Clay Waters - Some Cubans Enjoy Comforts of Communism.Even so, the AP - in the person of writer Andrew Selsky - put in a more-than-respectable effort today with the article No Photos of Castro Since His Surgery.Here's the key line: "Most Cubans have insisted that…
CNN Equates Fears of Jewish Americans with Those of Homegrown Hezbo Su
August 5th, 2006 8:33 AM
At CNN, the moral relativism never ends. In the wake of shootings by a Muslim at a Seattle Jewish center that left one person dead and others injured, CNN somehow managed to equate the fears of American Jews that there could be other such incidents . . . with the fears of American supporters of Hezbollah.The focus of the 'Safe at Home?' segment narrated by CNN's Kelli Arena on today's Saturday…
Lauer Longs for Head of Rumsfeld - But Critical of Calculating Clinto
August 4th, 2006 9:07 AM
Was Matt Lauer showing balance in criticizing Hillary Clinton along with Donald Rumsfeld this morning - or was his skepticism about Hillary simply voicing the view of the Murtha/Lamont wing of the Dem party?The focus was yesterday's Senate-hearing mano a mano between Hillary and Rumsfeld and her subsequent call for the president to accept the Defense Secretary's resignation.Interviewing all-…
MSNBC: Hezbollah Helped Qana, But 'No Evidence' It Was Launching Rocke
July 31st, 2006 4:02 PM
NBC reporter Richard Engel sure has some severely selective sources. On the one hand, he's overflowing with information reinforcing the image of Hezbollah as a kindly humanitarian organization that was providing "supplies and relief" to the residents of Qana. On the other hand, he has "no evidence" that Hezbollah was using Qana residents as human shields for purposes of launching rockets.Engel…
When Chris Met Georgie: 'GMA' Interview or DNC Coffee Klatsch
July 31st, 2006 7:57 AM
There was a feeling of surreality this morning in watching the segment on Good Morning America. There was Chris Cuomo [son of Dem ex-NYS Gov. Mario, brother of Andrew, current Dem candidate for NYS Attorney General] chatting with former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos.Was this an ABC 'news' interview between two of its employees - or had I mistakenly tuned to a CSPAN broadcast of a DNC…
Chris Matthews Exhibits Shocking Ignorance of Middle East History
July 30th, 2006 2:01 PM
Without a doubt, Americans who have even a rudimentary understanding of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Islamic terrorism must be amazed by the continued ignorance being exhibited by the mainstream media as hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel exploded in the past three weeks. One of the finest examples of this occurred on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday when the host concluded…
