Gary Bauer: ABC Stocked This Week's 'Holy War' Audience with Pro-Islam

October 5th, 2010 9:08 AM
American Values president Gary Bauer on Monday said the audience at ABC's "Holy War" special edition of "This Week" was stocked with people that support radical Islam and the building of the Ground Zero mosque.As NewsBusters reported after Sunday's program, host Christiane Amanpour presented a tremendously skewed view of so-called American Islamophobia cueing up advocates of the premise while…

Malzberg Calls 60 Minutes Pelley a 'Pathetic Fool' for GZ Mosque Puff

September 28th, 2010 5:24 PM
Conservative radio host Steve Malzberg on Monday called Steve Pelley a louse for his puff piece about the Ground Zero mosque aired on CBS's "60 Minutes."As NewsBusters previously reported, "In a Sunday 60 Minutes story that gave a glowing portrayal of the real estate developer and imam behind the Ground Zero mosque, CBS anchor Scott Pelley also used the opportunity to smear opponents of the…

Amanpour Uses ABC’s This Week to Continue Her Crusade to Smear Ameri

September 12th, 2010 4:00 PM
ABC’s Christiane Amanpour used Sunday’s This Week to again shame Americans for their presumed irrational intolerance and Islamophobia as she railed against the ignorance of too many Americans, provided a friendly forum to Iman Faisal Abdul Rauf, whom she prompted to ridicule Sarah Palin, and then brought aboard a group of three “leading thinkers on faith” to “discuss religious tolerance and…

CNN Continues One-Sided Reporting on 'Islamophobia' in America

September 2nd, 2010 10:28 PM
On Thursday's American Morning, CNN's Deborah Feyerick continued her network's promotion of the charge that "Islamophobia" is growing in the U.S. All but one of Feyerick's sound bites during her one-sided report were from those who agree with this charge, with the sole exception being used an example of someone using "Islam...[as] a political wedge issue."Anchor Kiran Chetry and substitute anchor…

Hannity, Bozell Take On MSM Ground Zero Mosque Bias on 'Media Mash

August 27th, 2010 11:47 AM
"This is one of those ever more obnoxious teaching moments that we're getting from the left-wing press," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained on last night's "Hannity" after watching a clip of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell lament that Americans need to be more sensitive to minorities, not for the "burden" to be on Imam Feisal Rauf to assauge concerns about the planned Ground Zero mosque.Noting…

Ground Zero Mosque Imam In 2006: U.S. ‘Terrorism’ Fostered Islamic

August 26th, 2010 4:42 PM

Joe Klein's Latest Adventure in Missing the Point: Taking Bill Kristol

August 24th, 2010 12:33 PM
Time magazine's Joe Klein yesterday did what he does best: take one paragraph from a neoconservative's column and blow it out of proportion and out of context in order to go on an extended screed bashing conservatives in general and neocons in particular.Writing for his magazine's Swampland blog yesterday, Klein addressed Bill Kristol's editorial for the August 30 Weekly Standard print edition…

Video: 20-Year Friend/Follower of Ground Zero Imam: 'Funding Will Come

August 20th, 2010 4:50 PM

Time's Klein: 'Nativist Electoral Politics' Behind Opposition to Groun

August 17th, 2010 12:36 PM
In a Swampland blog post this morning entitled, "Something I Didn't Know," Time magazine's Joe Klein pointed to a New York Times article that noted the existence of two mosques "already within several blocks of the proposed [Islamic] center."But while other folks might draw the conclusion that building an additional mosque just blocks from Ground Zero is a needless exercise in dividing New…