The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: February 3 to
This week, Chris Matthews' anti-Bush bigotry spilled over into a profanity laden rant. The "Hardball" host dropped the F-bomb during a live interview with Don Imus. Meanwhile, CNN’s Paula Zahn connected opposition of illegal immigration to, you guessed it, the Ku Klux Klan. This is the same network, however, that tried to downplay proven religious bigotry by a blogger for the John Edwards…
British Newspaper Headline: Anti-Americanism in Europe ‘Helps Al-Qa
Just imagine if you opened up tomorrow’s paper and saw a headline “Anti-Americanism ‘Helps Al-Qa’eda.’” Would have to be the Washington Times, or the New York Post, right?Well, The Daily Telegraph ran a story Thursday entitled “Anti-Americanism in Europe ‘Helps Al-Qa’eda,’” and frankly, the American media along with the politicians they so revere could learn how a strong U.S. ally feels about…
On CNN, Ralph Nader Again Promotes Moyers for President; Blitzer Gushe
On Sunday’s "Late Edition," CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer conducted a syrupy interview with consumer advocate and frequent presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Blitzer allowed the former Green Party standard-bearer to once again promote left-wing PBS host Bill Moyers for President in 2008. The CNN anchor also gushed over Nader’s new work of non-fiction, "The 17 Traditions," a liberal tome about rasing…
Matthews: 'Rajiv, Tell Me What a Loser Paul Bremer Was
Talk about leading the witness . . . Rajiv Chandrasekaran was the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post during the tenure of Paul Bremer as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the period succeeding the removal of Saddam Hussein. Chandrasekaran is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a book generally critical of Bremer's administration -- but apparently not critical…
WashPost Reporter Quickly Sidesteps Hardball Online Question on Arkin
Never let it be said that politicians are the only ones who side-step the hardball questions in Washington. In today's Post Politics Hour chat at washingtonpost.com, reporter Peter Baker had a no-comment answer on WashPost blogger William Arkin's anti-troops fulminating: Greenville, S.C.: Yo Peter -- you got any problems with your colleague William Arkin writing an entire column based on the…
Bill O’Reilly Slams NBC News, GE, and Washington Post for William Ar
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly was on the warpath Monday evening, and with good reason. The targets of his disaffection were NBC News, GE, and most vehemently, the Washington Post and William Arkin for the latter’s disgracefully disrespectful article about America’s troops published on January 30.O’Reilly began (video available here, hat tips to Hot Air and LGF): “In a stunning display of hatred, NBC…
Katie Couric Highlights 4th Anniversary of Powell's 'Embarrassment' at
CBS's news judgment: Monday's CBS Evening News devoted a first segment story to, as anchor Katie Couric put it, the “irony” that the Senate debate over resolutions on the Iraqi surge occurred “four years to the day” after Colin Powell made his presentation at the UN which “became an embarrassment.” Couric asked and answered: “And how's this for irony? Today's Capitol Hill confrontation began…
