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Newsweek Gives Chavez Quite a Stage to Voice Anti-Americanisms
In March 2003, in the midst of the lead-up to the war in Iraq, CBS’s Dan Rather sat down with Saddam Hussein to allow the Iraqi leader to present his side of the story to the American people. This week, Newsweek and Lally Weymouth gave one of the world’s foremost despots, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, a similar opportunity. The following is a sample of the exchange, with Weymouth's…
ABC’s Stephanopoulos: Anti-War Rallies and Polls Should Dictate Pol
On ABC’s “This Week”, host George Stephanopoulos cherry-picked a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll, and referenced yesterday’s anti-war rally, to press Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) on how to pay for New Orleans reconstruction:“Seems like the American people disagree with you across the board. Let me show you this poll from 'USA Today'/CNN/Gallup poll. How should we pay? 54% say cut Iraq spending, 17…
Alec Baldwin: Bush Let in "Hooligans" to “Rape” and "Plunder" the
Actor Alec Baldwin, on Thursday night's Too Late with Adam Corolla on Comedy Central, denigrated President Bush as "the little guy that snuck into the theater and he popped the window open so that all these other hooligans could come in and just rape and rip off and plunder the government." Baldwin's attack on Bush followed his explanation that the only reason he can't be President himself is…
NBC’s Brian Williams Misses Irony in His Own Comments
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams wrote an op-ed for the New York Times this morning. In a lot of respects, it praised former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, while certainly not flattering George W. Bush. In fact, the purpose of the piece appears to be to chastise president Bush for not going to Texas ahead of Rita by relaying what Johnson did forty years ago when Hurricane Betsy hit…
Totenberg Urges Tax Hike on Rich, Thomas Recalls How Reagan and 41 Rai
A week after NPR’s Nina Totenberg, on Inside Washington, urged imposition of a “Katrina tax,” on the same show this weekend she dismissed the idea of cancelling $24 billion of transportation bill earmarks as small change and suggested that “if you canceled the tax cuts, you'd get $225 billion." She rejected the contention that would hurt the economy and forwarded the standard liberal class…
New York Times STILL Silent on FBI Probe of Democratic Staffers
Two staffers from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), chaired by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), are under investigation by the FBI. The two are alleged to have illegally obtained the credit report of the Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland, Michael Steele, who may eventually run for Senate. The two were reportedly working on "opposition research." The Washington Times reported the…