A $7-Billion Omission

Network newscasts continue to ignore Fannie Mae fiasco's scope, even the final tally of the cost.
Ken Shepherd
 

Press Corps Focuses On Getting Bush To Admit Failure In Iraq

Terry Trippany
 

Confusion on Today: Brokaw Says US Had 'No Allies' in Iraq After Lauer

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Media Ignores $7-Billion Scandal With Clinton Connections

Ken Shepherd
 

Russert and Scarborough Merrily Bash Bush Over ISG Report

Wednesday, December 6, 2006, will certainly go down in history as the day the media used the release of a bipartisan report on the Iraq war as a way to thoroughly lambaste the president of the United States. Though this wasn’t surprising, the glee on the faces of those reporting what should have been bad news was quite striking.For those that were interested in seeing such a merry bashing, MSNBC’…
Noel Sheppard
 

Reporter: 'Context' Trumps Truth

Al Brown
 

Open Thread

Today's starters:Pearl Harbor Day is today. Arab countries are seeing the Iraq Study Group's report as proof President Bush has failed. Arab countries aren't the only ones cheering the report, though. The American press has been positively giddy about it, even though it's been ill-received by conservatives and liberals who actually study foreign policy.Australian women plan "bikini protest" of…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Imams on a Plane: NY Times' Neil MacFarquhar's Grossly Misleading Revi

Pro-Muslim New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar covers the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's attempt at a Muslim sitcom, "Little Mosque on the Prairie," and manages to get what he considers a sad example of life imitating art almost totally wrong."The handsome, clean-cut young man of evidently Pakistani or Indian origin is standing in an airport line, gesticulating emphatically as he says…
Clay Waters
 

CBS's Harry Smith Fearful Iraq Report Will Only Collect 'Dust Bunnies

Michael Rule
 

Iranian Ambassador Follows Democratic Lead to Blame Fox News

Justin McCarthy
 

Tuesday Night Fights: Hannity & Colmes Tag Team Racist Reverend

Regular viewers of Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” know that the two hosts rarely agree on anything, and that when they do, their guests better watch out, because they’re going to be blasted from both sides. Such was the case Tuesday evening when H&C invited the Reverend Paul Scott of the Messianic Afrikan Nation to discuss his bizarre views about race and Christmas (video available here…
Noel Sheppard
 

Huffington Hates On Hillary

I told you that watching the Dems' internecine battles was going to be fun. The slap the NY Times took at the Dem leadership today for backing away from its pledge to reform Congress as part of implementing the 9-11 panel recommendations was just an hors d'ouevre. In a column in today's Los Angeles Times, Arianna Huffington serves up a heaping main course, feasting on Hillary's foibles.All you…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Perle of Wisdom: Lauer Cites Neo-Con to Knock Iran Talks

Mark Finkelstein
 

NY Times Slaps Dems For Reneging On 9-11 Panel Recommendation

Mark Finkelstein