ABC Not Interested in Whether Enhanced Interrogation Helped Kill Bin L

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, ABC has shown very little interest in whether enhanced interrogation, such as waterboarding, led to the terrorist's ultimate demise. NBC, however, dealt with the subject in an in-depth manner and CBS at least mentioned it. While interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday never…
Scott Whitlock
May 3rd, 2011 12:44 PM

NBC's Richard Engel Rants: Iraq War a 'Distraction' From Getting Bin L

On NBC's Nightly News on Monday, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel used a report on the history of the war on terror to attack the Bush administration for going to war in Iraq: "...when civil war in Iraq broke out, American troops were stuck....it was a distraction from the United States' original mission to find Bin Laden, stop Al Qaeda, and prevent another 9/11." [Audio available here…
Kyle Drennen
May 3rd, 2011 12:43 PM

2012 Is the Republicans' Election to Lose

We are living in strange times indeed when it's not laughable to suggest that President Obama will be difficult to beat in 2012. Well, I'm not buying it, even considering any positive (but inevitably temporary) surge Obama may receive with Osama bin Laden's death. In 2008, as an economic crisis played into his hands, Obama ran against an uninspiring opponent in John McCain, campaigned on…
David Limbaugh
May 3rd, 2011 10:47 AM

NewsBusted for Tuesday

Lots of great material for today's all-new episode of NewsBusted. Remember, if you've got a comedic side, you can submit your own jokes to the 'Busted crew - and get paid for it! Check for details below the video. And remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
NB Staff
May 3rd, 2011 10:20 AM

Fineman: Obama Killing Bin Laden Proves 'In Almost Biblical Terms' He

As we watched President Obama tell us Sunday evening of Osama bin Laden's death, we knew the media would be starting the Mother of all victory laps. Not surprisingly out ahead of the cheering throngs was Huffington Post's senior politics editor Howard Fineman with his Monday love letter "Obama Gets Osama: Goodbye Vietnam":
Noel Sheppard
May 3rd, 2011 9:29 AM

Cindy Sheehan Thinks 'Empire' Faked Osama Takedown: Will Chris Matthew

Remember back in 2005, when the major media turned Cindy Sheehan into their anti-Bush heroine of the moment? They never seemed to notice her statements made her sound like a very anti-American radical fruitcake. On August 15, 2005 (video here), Sheehan went on Hardball and told Chris Matthews the U.S. was using Iraq "as a base for spreading imperialism." An impressed Matthews suggested: "You…
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2011 8:29 AM

Liberal Policies Lose on a Day America Wins

Sunday was an historic day for America, an historic victory in the War on Terror - Usama Bin Laden, the man who had ordered the death of over 3,000 Americans on 9/11, had finally been  killed.   It was also an historic revelation that, conducting the war according to far-left liberal policies would have prevented this day from ever happening.
Rusty Weiss
May 3rd, 2011 5:41 AM

Al Gore Tells Time Magazine Global Warming Skeptics Just As Dim As Bir

Former vice president Al Gore is as eager as your average liberal on the street in wanting to explore resistance to the persuasiveness of global warming theories. The first problem? If conservatives are so thick in the head, why does the rest of the public need pictures, not just mere words? In a supportive interview with Bryan Walsh in Time magazine, Gore explained "Years ago I shifted from…
Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2011 10:49 PM

Suddenly, Cenk Wants People To Chant 'USA, USA

What does it take to make a lefty MSMer go all Chuck Norris?  A war-on-terrorism success during a Dem presidency, of course. On his MSNBC show tonight, Cenk Uygur, of all people, regretted that more Americans aren't chanting "USA, USA!" View video after the break.
Mark Finkelstein
May 2nd, 2011 9:26 PM

Mainstream Media Try to Pour Cold Water on John Paul II Beatification

Several media outlets on Sunday did their best to cast doubt on the legacy of Pope John Paul II as the Catholic Church beatified the late pontiff. NPR highlighted how the pope apparently "alienated many Catholics who began leaving the church in droves." CNN brought on a liberal theologian who claimed that John Paul II "led us backwards rather than forward." NBC played up the "avalanche of…
Matthew Balan
May 2nd, 2011 7:04 PM

On Osama's Death Day, Chris Matthews Waits Just 43 Seconds to Launch I

Chris Matthews' obsession with birthers didn't take a break on the day after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Only 43 seconds into Monday's show on the terrorist, the Hardball anchor connected, "Barack Obama. The cool hand directs the operation step by step. All this time, the crazies were talking birth certificates, he was working." Politicizing the death of the man who murdered 3000 people…
Scott Whitlock
May 2nd, 2011 6:13 PM

Joe Klein: President Bush 'Deserves Both Credit and Blame' for bin Lad

In his May 2 Swampland blog post "Osama Gone, and Now...", Time's Joe Klein makes some arguably contradictory assertions in his thoughts on the role former President Bush played in ultimately finding and killing Osama bin Laden:
Ken Shepherd
May 2nd, 2011 4:50 PM

AP: Secret Prisons and Harsh Interrogation Techniques Worked; Will TV

Update (17:38 EDT on May 4): Rush Limbaugh mentioned this post on his May 3 program. You can listen to that by clicking here. Well, this should be interesting. The AP is reporting (preserved here in case the report devolves, as such things very often do) that "secret prisons" and "harsh interrogation techniques" were involved in getting the "first strands of information" that ultimately led…
Tom Blumer
May 2nd, 2011 4:43 PM

CNN In 2002: 'Al Qaeda Leader Is Dead or Alive

CNN is finally vindicated, sort of. Nearly nine years ago, the network emphatically declared of Osama bin Laden: "Experts Agree: Al Qaeda Leader Is Dead or Alive." Which would pretty much cover all of the available possibilities. Now we know -- he was alive back then, and he's dead today. Here's the item from the September 4, 2002 CyberAlert (as written at the time by MRC's Brent Baker)…
Rich Noyes
May 2nd, 2011 4:35 PM