CNN's Kyra Phillips Brings Out Kid Gloves for Homosexual Colonel
June 30th, 2009 7:14 PM
[Update, 8 pm Eastern: Screen capture, video link to interview added.] CNN anchor Kyra Phillips sympathized with an outed homosexual army officer on Tuesday’s Newsroom program. Phillips questioned Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach about his recent meeting with President Obama, and asked, “What else did you tell him, because I know this has weighed heavily on your heart for a very long time....What…
Maddow and Guest Indignant That Bush Dares Not Speak Glowingly of Dear
June 24th, 2009 11:12 PM
This must be what it's like to listen to pundits in a country with state-run media.Former president George W. Bush offers what barely passes as criticism of his successor and Obama's media apologists rush to his defense, as if to stanch a wound.Here's Rachel Maddow and Dallas Morning News political reporter Wayne Slater on Maddow's MSNBC show June 18. In the first portion transcribed below,…
Rachel Maddow Condemns 'Bribe' to Palau for Gitmo Prisoners, Then Negl
June 18th, 2009 8:05 AM
For once I was close to agreeing with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. Then she had to ruin it by reverting to herself.Maddow was in self-righteous dudgeon on June 9 about news that the Pacific island nation of Palau agreed to accept Uighur detainees from Guantanamo -- for a whopping $200 million --MADDOW: Well now, today's news, a potential solution. We may be looking at another round of "Survivor:…
Obama Supports Defense of Marriage Act … but You Wouldn’t Know It
June 17th, 2009 10:47 AM
The Obama Administration's Justice Department threw a curve ball at the same-sex marriage movement last week, filing a 54 page-brief on Thursday in support of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The Washington Times reported on June 16 that "Gay activists are fuming ... it represents a break in President Obama's campaign promise to repeal the 1996 legislation. The Justice brief upholding DOMA was…
Kurtz and 'Reliable Sources' Panel Agree: Blaming Shooting Sprees on C
June 14th, 2009 6:52 PM
When four members of the media, only one of them decidely right-leaning, agree on something, viewers should pay heed: blaming conservative talk show hosts whenever someone goes on an unprovoked shooting spree is wrong.Such was the unanimous conclusion reached on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" when host Howard Kurtz and his guests -- Mark Halperin of Time magazine, Ana Marie Cox of Air America Radio…
Rachel Maddow Reveals Flimsy Rationale for Excluding Republican Guests
June 9th, 2009 5:55 AM
There she goes again, revealing more than intended. Hardly a broadcast of her MSNBC cable show passes without Rachel Maddow earnestly claiming to have invited a Republican guest, only to be told, thanks no thanks.But based on Maddow's remarks on her show this past Friday evening, those claims come across as dubious -- given Maddow's censorious rationale for selecting guests. Or more accurately,…
Rachel Maddow's Shabby Deceit Shows Dire Need for Ombudsman at MSNBC
June 1st, 2009 1:40 PM
Wanted: Editor at MSNBC familiar with journalism ethics -- and willingness to ensure that "news" division adheres to them. In the unlikely event such a hiring occurs, MSNBC political analyst Rachel Maddow would soon catch the attention of any ombudsman acting in good faith.I have watched Maddow's television show on a regular basis since it started last September, and listened to her Air America…
MSNBC's Maddow: Sotomayor Is, Isn't An Affirmative Action Nominee
May 26th, 2009 6:00 PM
Norah O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow can't seem to make up their minds. In the same segment, Maddow argues - and O'Donnell fails to question - that Judge Sonia Sotomayor was not picked as an affirmative-action nominee, and follows with the mystifying non-sequitur that opposing "the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice" would be politically damaging for the Republican party.O’Donnell was interviewing…
Left-Wing Ardor for Show Trials, Closing Gitmo Prison Revealed in Need
May 26th, 2009 1:08 PM
Language always gives us away, George Carlin once observed. And it's blowing the cover from liberals unhinged by former vice president Dick Cheney getting the better of an off-balance President Obama.Two recent examples -- the first, Rachel Maddow's MSNBC cable show on May 20 with Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff as one of her guests. Isikoff described an "off the record" meeting…
ChiTrib: Limbaugh, Cheney 'Far Right'; Maddow, Obama 'Left Leaning
May 26th, 2009 1:26 AM
Monday's Chicago Tribune featured the article "Powell 'still a Republican': Rebutting critics, he criticizes party's far right voices." The article starts:Former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Sunday that ideological conservatives, particularly radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, have gained a hold over the Republican Party that risks driving the GOP into an extended exile from power.Powell…
Maddow Guest Jane Mayer: Cheney Became 'Obsessive' About Terrorism Aft
May 24th, 2009 7:07 PM
Just when you thought left-wing criticism of Dick Cheney had climbed over the top, it keeps reaching new heights.Case in point -- New Yorker magazine writer Jane Mayer appearing on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC cable show May 15 --MADDOW: We're trying to figure out the role of vice president Cheney's office here in part on the torture issue, the leadup to the invasion of Iraq. From your reporting, what…
