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NBC's Lauer to Cheney: You're the 'Most Divisive Political Figure in T

Kyle Drennen
August 30th, 2011 9:06 AM

On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer began a hostile interview with Dick Cheney by running through various derisive labels for the former Vice President: "You've been called 'controversial' and 'divisive.' Some people have called you the most divisive political figure in this country in a century." Cheney simply quipped: "You left out Darth Vader."

 

Ron Reagan: Dick Cheney Is a 'War Criminal

Scott Whitlock
August 25th, 2011 6:01 PM
According to Hardball guest host Ron Reagan, former Vice President Dick Cheney is a "war criminal" for endorsing waterboarding. On Thursday, the son of the former President attacked, "But the fact of the matter is...[Cheney's] a war criminal. Torture is a crime and this is a guy who can't travel to Europe anymore for fear of being- ending up in the Hague." Reagan was commenting on a new…
 
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NBC: Dick Cheney 'One of the Most Controversial Figures of Our Time

Kyle Drennen
August 25th, 2011 1:00 PM

Thursday's NBC Today previewed an upcoming Dateline interview with Dick Cheney about his new memoir and labeled the former Vice President "controversial" three times in less than a minute. Co-host Ann Curry proclaimed him to be "one of the most controversial figures of our time." Turning to correspondent Jamie Gangel, who conducted the interview, Curry noted: "I understand that you…

 

Dowd Column Lauds Movie Reconstructing Bin Laden Operation -- To Be Re

Tom Blumer
August 7th, 2011 11:58 PM
In an otherwise typically dismal column about President Barack Obama which is one part pity party and another part an attempt at building him a he-man reputation (not kidding), New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd describes an upcoming movie featuring the exploits of Navy SEAL Team 6 in the operation which killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1. Dowd celebrates the fact that the movie's currently…
 

Networks Tout 'Extra Spectacular' Gay Pride Parades and 'Victory Laps

Scott Whitlock
June 27th, 2011 3:44 PM
The network morning shows on Monday hyped the "extra spectacular" gay pride parades in the wake of New York's newly passed same sex marriage legislation. Both ABC and NBC highlighted the "hero's welcome" Governor Andrew Cuomo received after signing the bill. At the same time, they ignored dissenters. On Monday's Today, news anchor Natalie Morales touted, "Gay pride parades around the country…
 

Stephen Colbert Slams MRC's Brent Bozell in Montage Mocking Use of Wat

Geoffrey Dickens
May 18th, 2011 6:27 PM
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, on Tuesday's Colbert Report, featured Newsbusters's publisher L. Brent Bozell in his "The Word" segment that ridiculed those who credit enhanced interrogation or waterboarding in the killing of Osama bin Laden. After playing a clip of Bozell, from the May 6, Fox and Friends, saying waterboarding led to the death of bin Laden and hailing: "Hip, hip hooray to…
 

NBC Cheers John McCain 'Denouncing Torture' of Terror Detainees

Kyle Drennen
May 13th, 2011 11:38 AM
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams incredulously noted how "...it's become fashionable among some to say...that so-called enhanced interrogation, what some define as torture...helped contribute to the death of bin Laden." He then touted: "Today Senator John McCain headed to the floor of the U.S. Senate to refute that." In the clip that followed, McCain declared: "In my…
 

NBC's Gregory Not Sure if Role of Enhanced Interrogation in bin Laden

Kyle Drennen
May 9th, 2011 1:32 PM
On NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, host David Gregory remained highly skeptical of the role enhanced interrogation tactics played in tracking down and killing Osama bin Laden: "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times.  And based on reporting this week in NBC News and outside, he never gave up the truth about the courier that led to bin Laden." Gregory made the argument while…
 

Obama Snubs 9/11 Family Member, But Fmr. Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham L

Alex Fitzsimmons
May 6th, 2011 12:17 PM
President Barack Obama's Ground Zero visit yesterday was "pitch perfect," according to former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, despite reports that the commander-in-chief was rude and dismissive toward at least one American who lost a family member on Sept. 11, 2001. On the May 6 edition of "Morning Joe," MSNBC anchor Willie Geist asked Meacham to characterize the significance of Obama's visit to…
 

Bozell: Bush Deserves More Credit on bin Laden Killing

NB Staff
May 6th, 2011 11:00 AM
"If  you listen very carefully, you can hear the sound of thousands of people in Washington, D.C., peeling egg off their faces," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell quipped on the May 6 "Fox & Friends," referring to the naysayers who condemned enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding during the Bush administration. Indeed, President Bush "is not getting the credit he…
 

On Defensive, NY Times Takes on 'Torture Apologists' Who See Vindicati

Clay Waters
May 5th, 2011 4:37 PM
Thursday's New York Times lead editorial defended the paper's left-wing ideological ground against conservative arguments that the killing of Osama bin Laden is a vindication of harsh interrogation methods used on terrorist detainees in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere: "The Torture Apologists – Efforts to justify torture after the Bin Laden killing are cynical and destructive."              As…
 

National Security 'Expert' Joy Behar: U.S. Should Have Given Terrorist

Matt Hadro
May 3rd, 2011 4:45 PM
America should consider gathering important national security information by giving terrorists book deals, or paying them off, says the liberal Joy Behar. The HLN host offered her bizarre expertise on foreign intelligence Tuesday morning on ABC's The View. "If we use these enhanced techniques, then they [the terrorists] can use them on us," Behar said of "enhanced interrogation techniques,"…
 

Liberal Policies Lose on a Day America Wins

Rusty Weiss
May 3rd, 2011 5:41 AM
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.
 

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

Tom Blumer
May 2nd, 2011 4:43 PM
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…