Soldier Turned Journalist Finds Contempt for Military Among Classmates

July 29th, 2009 3:32 PM
In May 2007, Matt Mabe was a junior Army officer who had done two tours of duty in Iraq and was leaving the service for good to pursue a career in journalism -- or so he thought.In "One of Us," which appears in the new issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Mabe reveals that of his journalism school colleagues, "most, it seemed, had never met a veteran," although that didn't stop them and their…

Crutsinger's Crud, Part 1: AP's Budget Deficit Report Riddled With Err

July 14th, 2009 11:56 PM
In a report meant to cover Uncle Sam's release of June's Monthly Treasury Statement, Associated Press reporter Martin Crutsinger went well beyond the wire service's normally lazy, slanted reporting in this area.In his report's apparent final incarnation early Tuesday morning, the AP writer:Told us the amount of June's deficit ($94.3 billion), but didn't disclose the figures for June's receipts ($…

Rumsfeld Decries 'Intellectual Dishonesty' of 'One-Sided Media Coverag

July 12th, 2009 8:43 AM

WaPo Buries U.S. Release of Iranian Detainees, Praise from Tehran Deep

July 10th, 2009 2:45 PM
One has to wonder if working for the Washington Post fits the Obama definition of a "shovel-ready" job given the paper's penchant for burying the lede. Deep within his July 9-filed story "Protesters Clash With Police in Iran," Washington Post Foreign Service correspondent Thomas Erdbrink noted a very interesting development  bearing implications on the Obama administration's foreign policy…

CBS's Logan Relays Concerns U.S. Troops Withdrawing Too Soon in Iraq

June 30th, 2009 3:07 PM
On Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Lara Logan relayed to viewers concerns that U.S. troops may be pulling back too quickly for the sake of security in some parts of Iraq. As Logan filed a report about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Mosul, as part of the security arrangement supported by the Iraqi government,  the CBS News correspondent reported that some Iraqi military officers would…

London Mayor: Obama and BBC Have Done More For Iran Than Bush and Fox

June 23rd, 2009 11:58 AM
"Obama's intelligent speech in Cairo has had a big impact in the Muslim world, and it is obvious that it is his presence in the White House – far more than any BBC broadcast – that is giving hope to the demonstrators in Tehran...I do not believe it could possibly have happened had John McCain been elected...Who knows whether [the Iranian protestors] will succeed, but we can safely say that the…

WaPo: Obama's Cairo Speech Encouraged Iranian Revolt

June 23rd, 2009 10:21 AM
The recent protests in Iran, as well as Hezbollah's political defeat in Lebanon days earlier, are the result of Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on June 4.Such nonsense was actually reported by the Washington Post Tuesday.At this time, it appears the real Obama Derangement Syndrome is creating a nexis between anything good that happens anywhere on the planet to some presidential deed (h/t Hot Air):

NY Times Can Keep A Secret After All

June 20th, 2009 4:19 PM
By now, you may have actually believed the typical NY Times line that they have to disclose everything, secret prisons, NSA tactics, interrogation tactics, because the public has the right to know everything and information has to be free, despite the risks it puts on our military or citizens. What you probably didn't know is that David Rohde, a NY Times reporter, had been held by kidnappers in…

NYT's Friedman: Democracy Spreading in Mideast Thanks to Bush

June 14th, 2009 5:52 PM
Did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine reading a New York Times column not written by a conservative that claimed "the forces for decency, democracy and pluralism" in the Middle East "have a little wind at their backs" due to the policies of former President George W. Bush?Neither did I, but much to my surprise, such was said by Thomas Friedman in his most recent piece entitled "Winds of…

CNN's Rick Sanchez Insists Cindy Sheehan is Still Newsworthy

June 10th, 2009 6:50 PM
On Monday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez tried to justify that Cindy Sheehan is still worth covering, as the unrelenting left-wing activist recently protested near the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush. When Republican strategist Rich Galen advised that she should stop protesting and that the press ignore her, Sanchez went out of his way to find an angle for covering her…

NYT Book Editor Claims Cheney-Palin Patriotism 'Belligerent and Defens

June 10th, 2009 4:08 PM
New York Times Book editor Barry Gewen selected Simon Schama's big-think book, "The American Future -- A History" for review in his "Books of the Times" piece on Tuesday, and took condescending aim at Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin in the process.Columnist David Brooks had some fun with the British-born Schama in his May 24 review, consigning Schama's book to a long line of self-consciously "…

Ed Asner on PBS: Why Excrete Money in Iraq When You Can Waste It Here

June 7th, 2009 12:48 AM

AC360 Strikes Gergen Gusher: Obama Speech 'Most Powerful Speech' Ever

June 5th, 2009 5:08 PM
It must have been a while since David Gergen dropped his resume in the hopper for Team Obama, so it’s no small surprise that it was about for him to turn on the rhetorical firehose and gush some love the White House’s way. On the June 4 “Anderson Cooper 360,” Gergen was asked by the host to give his initial reaction to President Obama’s speech in Cairo. Gergen immediately mugged for the…

FNC's Hannity Suggests Obama Cite America's Sacrifices for Muslims

June 4th, 2009 3:02 PM
On Tuesday's Hannity show on FNC, while interviewing author Brigitte Gabriel, host Sean Hannity suggested that, rather than make apologies for America in the Muslim world, that President Obama should point out that Muslims have benefited from America's assistance in various countries, and Gabriel pointed out that the United States sided with Muslims against Christians in the former Yugoslavia.…