CNN Lets Clintonista Denounce McCain’s ‘Hypocrisy’ on Hamas, But
May 16th, 2008 4:56 PM
Twenty-four hours after CNN started giving covering fire for Barack Obama in response to President Bush’s "appeasement" remark, the network has now aided the Democratic spin machine in attacking John McCain as a hypocrite with regards to Hamas, based on a 2006 video clip provided by Clinton adviser James Rubin. In the excerpt, the Arizona Senator appeared to be endorsing negiotiations with the…
CNN Continues Hypersensitive Approach to 'Appeasement' Remark
May 16th, 2008 1:55 PM
Throughout the day on Thursday, CNN carried the water for the Democrats and portayed President Bush’s "appeasement" remarks before the Knesset in Israel as an attack on Barack Obama. "The Situation Room" host Wolf Blitzer began his program by stating that "President Bush slams Barack Obama from Israel." Senior political analyst Gloria Borger quipped, "I know that the White House press secretary…
Media Disgrace America, Israel and Themselves
May 16th, 2008 12:41 PM
Thursday May 15, 2008, American media hit a new low. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, I have never been less proud of my country.On the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary, President George W. Bush gave one of the greatest speeches of his career.Yet, America's media could only see this event through the tiny prism of the upcoming presidential election, and thereby totally ignored virtually…
Morning Joe's All Bush-Bashing Lineup
May 16th, 2008 6:35 AM
The big story this morning is President Bush's remarks to the Israeli Knesset invoking the example of Hitler to warn against the appeasement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the opening segment, from Mika Brzezinski [subbing as host for Joe Scarborough this week] to Willie Geist to Pat Buchanan to Mike Barnicle to David Shuster, nary a word in defense of Bush was heard, with Shuster twice referring to…
Chris Matthews: Bush Sucker Punched Obama
May 15th, 2008 6:31 PM
On Thursday's "Hardball" Chris Matthews accused George W. Bush of delivering "a sucker punch" to Barack Obama in his speech to the Knesset. In the speech Bush warned against appeasing enemies, which Matthews took to be a cheap shot at the Illinois senator's willingness to talk to the leaders of hostile nations like Iran. [audio available here] Matthews made the "sucker punch" remark on the May…
Matthews Rips Guest For Ignorance of History, Then Claims Cole Attack
May 15th, 2008 6:26 PM
A Hardball epic . . . Message to Chris Matthews: when ripping a guest for his lack of historical knowledge, try to avoid making a history mistake of your own in the same segment.It happened on this afternoon's Hardball. After lambasting a guest for not knowing his Neville Chamberlain history, Matthews surmised that the attack on the USS Cole in October, 2000 happened under . . . President Bush.…
MSNBC's Brzezinski: Bush Speech a 'Stinging Criticism' of Obama
May 15th, 2008 4:38 PM
Over a graphic which read “Pres. Bush Invokes Nazis While Criticizing Obama’s Foreign Policy,” MSNBC sought to hype Democratic reaction to President Bush’s speech in Israel. During the 9a.m. hour of Thursday’s “MSNBC News Live,” host Mika Brzezinski reported: “President Bush issued a stinging criticism of Barack Obama today suggesting that his plans to hold talks with Iran is the same as…
White House Denies CNN's Claim Bush Bashed Obama in Israel
May 15th, 2008 2:24 PM
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino has refuted assertions by CNN that President Bush, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, "[suggested] that Senator Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of appeasing terrorists in the same way that U.S. leaders appeased the Nazis in the run-up to World War II."As my colleague Matthew Balan reported less than two hours ago, CNN's "American…
CBS’s Plante: President Bush Takes ‘Slap at Barack Obama
May 15th, 2008 1:32 PM
On Thursday’s CBS "Early Show" correspondent Bill Plante reported on President Bush’s speech before the Israeli Knesset and suggested the president was going after Barack Obama: "The president today is slamming Iran, embracing the Israelis, barely mentioning the Palestinians, and he's suggesting, without naming any names, that anyone who's in favor of talking to Iran, like say, Barack Obama, is…
CNN’s Hypersensitive Reaction to Bush ‘Appeasement’ Comments
May 15th, 2008 12:48 PM
Minutes after President Bush began his speech to the Israeli Knesset, CNN quickly channeled outraged Democratic reaction to his "false comfort of appeasement" remark. "American Morning" co-host John Roberts, in a brief on the speech, claimed the President was "suggesting that Senator Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of appeasing terrorists in the same way that U.S. leaders appeased…
CNN’s Blitzer to Obama: ‘You Ready to Handle’ the ‘Assault
May 8th, 2008 6:54 PM
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, during a much hyped interview of Barack Obama on Thursday’s "The Situation Room," tried to dismiss facts about the Illinois Senator’s as mere opinions. First, the CNN host made a prediction about the upcoming general election campaign: "You know they're going to paint you -- the McCain camp, Republicans -- as a classic tax and spend liberal Democrat, that you are going to…
U.S. News Sees 'Catastrophe' on Israel's 60th Anniversary
May 1st, 2008 11:31 AM
The State of Israel turns 60 years old this May, but rather than highlighting the nation's survival in a hostile region over six decades, U.S. News & World Report aimed to focus on discontent from Israeli Arabs, and to suggest that Israel's sovereignty was in and of itself the cause of "six ensuing decades of bloody conflicts." "On the Eve of Israel's 60th Birthday, Little Cheer Among Its…
