The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: June 2 to
"What Isn’t His Fault?"On Wednesday’s "Situation Room," liberal anchor Jack Cafferty argued that, perhaps, it's President Bush, not Vladimir Putin, who is attempting to reignite the Cold War. However, Cafferty might want to consider the fact that fewer pesky journalists seem to mysteriously disappear in the United States than they do in Russia. A Left Wing GOP? That’s the Ticket to Success!…
CBSNews.com Salutes Pace Exit with Grainy Photo Illustration
Update added below foldThe Secretary of Defense has decided to recommend a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rather than re-nominate General Peter Pace. Reporting this development, this CBS/AP story noted that the Pentagon personnel move by Secretary Robert Gates was done to avoid a contentious Senate circus, more so than with dissatisfaction with Pace's performance. "It would be a…
AP Reporter Sees 9-11 As 'Bush Administration Conspiracy Hung on Al-Qa
With no shortage of items documenting how the American media are liberally biased, it’s often easy to forget how the European media are so much more dominated by the hard left. In his cover story on the war in Afghanistan in the June 11 Weekly Standard, Michael Fumento recounted his experience embedded with the U.S. military at Forward Operating Base Lagman in the Zabul province of Afghanistan.…
NYT Answers Questions Concerning Placing JFK Terror Plot Story Off Fro
As NewsBusters reported Monday, although a terrorist plot to destroy the leading airport in the region was thwarted, the leading newspaper in the area, the New York Times, chose to place the article about the incident off of the paper’s front page Sunday.This has created a bit of a backlash around the nation, and from readers who sent questions to the Times’ national editor Suzanne Daley about…
‘Sleepless in Seattle’ Director Nora Ephron Shamefully Mocks Foile
The reader is warned to proceed with caution, for the piece of…"journalism" to be addressed here is truly one of the most vile and disgraceful examples of Bush Derangement Syndrome I’ve seen.In fact, it is so much so that I will not copy one single sentence of this detritus beyond the headline which appeared at the Huffington Post early Monday morning, and is still prominently featured there 58…
Hitchens Tears Apart Hedges in Debate on War and Religion
A battle of wits between two men named Christopher took place in Berkeley, California, on May 24. Unfortunately, one contestant came embarrassingly unequipped, so much so that by the end, he chose to not even respond.Break out the cashews and your favorite libation, sports fans, because this debate between former New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, and the never at a loss for words…
AP: Foiled JFK Terror Plot Isn't Chilling, It's 'Chilling
A plot to blow up a major airport and with it a huge fuel pipeline running under densely-populated residential neighborhoods is, safe to say, an objectively devastating and horrific prospect were it executed to fruition. So why the editorial version of air quotes in this June 2 AP story (h/t DailyGut.com) for the word "chilling"?:NEW YORK - Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken…
ABCNews.com: ‘Murtha Ties Foiled JFK Plot to U.S. in Iraq
On Saturday, a NewsBusters headline asked the following question: “JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrests?”Well, Sunday morning, ABCNews.com actually went one better by using a statement made by John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania) on “This Week” as the headline for the video of George Stephanopoulos’ interview with the Congressman: “Murtha Ties Foiled JFK Plot to U.S. in…
JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrest
Anybody that has been watching television or listening to the radio today is aware that a major terrorist plot to blow up JFK airport in New York has been thwarted.*****Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this story.*****Update II: LGF identifies Netroots' silence on this event.*****Update III: Read entire DOJ press release here. As reported by the Associated Press:Three people were arrested and…
