Iraq

Sean Hannity fans know that Friday night marked the much awaited debate between him and Salt Lake City’s outspoken Democrat Mayor Rocky Anderson.The event took place at the University of Utah, and featured multiple barbs by each contestant, and a great deal of fireworks.As reported at the KUTV website:Anderson and Hannity were each given 30 minutes to make a presentation supporting their…

It was guaranteed to be an evening filled with anti-Bush, anti-conservative vitriol on HBO’s “Real Time” Friday with Sean Penn on the roster. After all, just five weeks ago, Penn told an antiwar gathering in Oakland, California, that George W. Bush has "become our country’s and our Constitution’s most devastating enemy.”Surprisingly, it was a mostly civil discussion for about half of the panel…

You’ll Miss Me When I’m GoneNow that Rosie O’Donnell has announced she’s leaving "The View," her left-wing rhetoric seems to have gotten even more extreme. This week, the liberal comedienne smeared U.S. troops by saying they only join the military because they’re mostly uneducated and poor. (This isn’t true, but why bring facts into the debate?)Meredith Vieira in: The I WordWhile discussing the…

Are the media intentionally downplaying or ignoring reports that indicate a growing al Qaeda involvement in Iraq? Late Thursday evening, CNN.com reported (h/t LGF, emphasis added): American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday.”This was a compilation of a report that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer did…

If a high-ranking member of the Taliban told Al-Jazeera that the recent attempted assassination of Vice President Dick Cheney was devised by Osama bin Laden, would you expect the media to report it?In reality, after this interview, the claim was largely discredited. However, one has to wonder why Mullah Dadullah’s (the believed leader of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan) statement made last…

Joan Baez?Yeah, before my time too, but the Vietnam Era folk singer/protester (pictured at right on the washingtonpost.com front page earlier) scored a publicity coup today. In addition to space in the letters-to-the-editor section, the Post dispatched writer Teresa Wiltz to cover Baez. So what was so deserving of giving an aging Vietnam Era folk singer so much attention? Why, a complaint…

One great thing about liberal journalists blogging is that without the constraints of editorial oversight, they can let their hair down even more than usual, unleashing their biases as fast as their fingers fly over the keyboard.Time magazine's Joe Klein is no exception. The journalist and formerly anonymous author of "Primary Colors" shared with readers of the "Swampland" blog today his…

CBS might have bought the line of baloney former CIA Director George Tenet was selling on “60 Minutes” Sunday. However, according to the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, not many others are (emphasis mine throughout, h/t Glenn Reynolds):Somewhere out there, there must be someone defending George Tenet. I'm just having trouble finding that person (or persons).Let's see: Liberals are ticked off.…

Update/Video link at bottom. Update at bottom with other blogs covering story.The May 1 edition of "The View" marked the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s famous "mission accomplished" announcement with Rosie O’Donnell’s predictable rants against the war and the administration. The co-host mysteriously claimed Afghanistan had nothing to do with September 11 and downplayed the Al Qaeda…