The Bush Plan: Networks Prepared Audiences With Week of Badmouthing 'S

Rich Noyes
 

GMA's Sam Champion Loves Those 'Very Sexy Cool Green' Liberal Celebrit

Justin McCarthy
 

On 'The View,' Barbara Seeks the Middle, Rosie Says Troops Far Braver

ABC's "The View" cast was split over the President's surge speech. Elisabeth Hasselbeck said "this is the last shot...this better work." Barbara Walters said she was torn, since ABC News employees "try hard not to give our political opinions" [!], and that she wanted to give the new strategy a chance, but wondered about why it mattered that Bush said he took responsibility for the war's mistakes…
Tim Graham
 

CNN Observes Fifth ‘Anniversary’ of Guantanamo Bay And Repeats Tor

On the day after President Bush announced a troop surge in Iraq, CNN chose to commemorate an odd "anniversary." As of January 11, it has now been five years since the first terrorist suspects arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The cable network’s "Your World Today" program used this date to highlight the "allegations of mistreatment amounting to torture" at the facility. On Thursday, the hour-long…
Scott Whitlock
 

ABC's Gibson: Min Wage Hike a Long-Needed 'Raise' for 'Millions of Ame

Chances are if you hate what you make at your job, you either ask the boss for a raise or seek a job that pays more. Chances are you don't wait 10 years for your pay to increase. But ABC's Charles Gibson apparently thinks millions of Americans are mired in a decade-long drought of minimum wage pay. "After years of waiting, millions of Americans have reason tonight to plan on a pay raise. The…
Ken Shepherd
 

Another 14 Carter Center Members Resign in Protest Over President Cart

Despite the media's fawning over Jimmy Carter and the publication of his new book as reported by NewsBusters here, here, here, and here, the former president has suffered even further embarrassment as another fourteen members of The Carter Center have resigned. As reported by the Associated Press (hat tip to Drudge, emphasis mine throughout):Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter's…
Noel Sheppard
 

ABC Says 'Millions of Americans' Have Been 'Waiting' For Congress to B

But fewer than 500,000 make minimum wage, and research shows two-thirds of workers earn more than the minimum within a year of starting their jobs.
Ken Shepherd
 

NYT Reporter: 'Installed' Bush 'Ignoring the Results of the November E

Bush stubbornly refuses to give up on the Iraq war, despite what New York Times reporters insists was the message delivered by the voters in November, and they're peeved at him. Congressional correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg reacts to Bush's Iraq speech last night outlining his plan for more troops in Iraq in her Thursday "news analysis," "Bush's Strategy for Iraq Risks Confrontations on Many…
Clay Waters
 

CBS Precedes Bush Speech with 'Criminal Minds' Announcement

Greg Sheffield
 

During Iraq War Discussion, Off Topic CBS Graphic Declares Durbin Supp

Michael Rule
 

Hannity Creates Rival Countdown Clock

Greg Sheffield
 

US-Iraqi Liaison: Jamil Hussein Is Pseudonym

Bob Owens
 

Matthews: 'Cheney, Who Always Wants to Kill

Appearing on this morning's Imus show, Chris Matthews [file photo] painted a portrait of a bloodthirsty VP Cheney.Matthews: "I don't think we should get deeper and deeper into the sands of Arabia with more troops. I think these decisions to keep going forward, which is what he’s doing, is getting us into a quicksand situation where the more you struggle, the more you sink. I think that's where we…
Mark Finkelstein
 

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