Media Mash: 'Common' Controversy Edition

May 13th, 2011 11:37 AM
"It is edgy to have people on the mainstream of Hollywood who celebrate cop killers," but it's quite another thing when the president of the United States invites such a person like rapper Common to the White House for a poetry event, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News's Sean Hannity last night. Although Common wrote a rap song defending a convicted cop killer and has been known…

Flashback: ABC Tossed Softballs to bin Laden's Son and Touted His 'Gla

May 11th, 2011 4:24 PM
While Good Morning America covered the news that Omar bin Laden, the son of the terrorist mastermind, has condemned the U.S. for his father's killing, no mention was made of GMA's January 22, 2008 friendly interview with the young man. On Wednesday, reporter Jim Sciutto explained, "Another of bin Laden's son, Omar, who is living in Saudi Arabia and other family members have condemned the…

MSNBC Airs Highly-Edited 2002 Video of Bush Saying 'I'm Not That Conce

May 10th, 2011 9:20 PM
Since the successful raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan nine days ago, MSNBC has been playing highly-edited snippets from George W. Bush's March 13, 2002, press conference to make it appear the 43rd president had dropped the ball concerning the former al Qaeda leader. Chris Matthews did this Tuesday during a Bush-bashing segment on "Hardball" (multi-part video follows with…

Rachel Maddow Spouts Anti-Gun Nonsense While at NRA Convention With Me

May 10th, 2011 7:38 PM
Ever notice how liberals trot out pseudo-profundities when talking about guns? Latest example -- MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on her show Friday night, hanging out with Meghan McCain at the NRA convention in Pittsburgh. NRA member McCain said that as a young woman and daughter of a prominent politician, she owns a gun to protect herself from those seeking harm (video linked here) --

MSNBC's Bashir Asks Tancredo: 'Would You Have Preferred Obama's Death

May 10th, 2011 6:17 PM
For the second time in less than 24 hours I find myself wondering how an American television "news" network could have assembled such a collection of ignoramuses. After MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Monday evening claimed the Founding Fathers would have understood the need to raise the debt ceiling in order to protect the country's credit rating, Martin Bashir on Tuesday actually asked former…

Chris Matthews: Last Week Was 'Best Week Ever For The Country

May 9th, 2011 8:51 PM
What would you say was the best week in American history? If you're a man named Chris Matthews who gets a thrill up his leg for Barack Obama, you would say the week in which Osama bin Laden was killed by a Navy SEAL team in Pakistan (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CBS's Steve Kroft Omits Waterboarding, Other Key Issues From Obama Int

May 9th, 2011 6:55 PM
On Sunday's 60 Minutes, CBS's Steve Kroft failed to bring up key issues related to the killing of Osama bin Laden during an interview of President Obama, such as the enhanced interrogation of captured al Qaeda leaders which provided the first intelligence that ultimately lead to the Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan. The journalist set the overall tone of his interview, which he conducted on…

Team Obama's Foggy Picture of How the bin Laden Raid Went Down

May 9th, 2011 4:55 PM
The official White House account of Osama bin Laden's demise has seen more slapdash cosmetic surgery over the past week than your average "Real Housewives" reality-show star. President Obama's allies attribute the bungled "narrative" (their word, not mine) to the "Fog of War." But each passing day — and each new set of hapless revisions — shows that what really ails the administration is the…

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

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…

Juan Williams Refers to the 'Murder' of bin Laden

May 9th, 2011 12:48 PM
While discussing what role President Bush and enhanced interrogations played in the death of Osama bin Laden, Fox News Sunday panelist Juan Williams referred to the terrorist's death as "murder." Responding to conservative Paul Gigot, Williams dismissed, "But to somehow say it's because we were engaged in enhanced interrogation, and that led- and it's a very uncertain path that it leads…

Media Mash: Death of bin Laden Edition; Bozell Hits 'Idiot' Joy Behar

May 9th, 2011 11:06 AM
Appearing on the May 06 edition of Hannity, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell indicted the media's coverage of Osama bin Laden's death, including comments made by "idiot" Joy Behar, co-host of The View. The NewsBusters publisher derided journalists who have ignored George W. Bush's role in killing the terrorist: "But my God where were they when George Bush won us the war in Iraq?…

Do I Hear Cheers for George W. Bush

May 9th, 2011 8:50 AM
I in my innocence was, in the aftermath of SEAL Team Six's disruption of Osama bin Laden's bucolic life in posh Abbottabad, reading editorial comment by the great newspapers of this republic. As always, the Wall Street Journal was superb, pausing to congratulate President Barack Obama for "ordering a special forces mission rather than settling for another attack with drones or stand-off weapons…

Bob Woodward: "Bin Laden Was Giving U.S. The Finger Saying 'Hey Look

May 8th, 2011 10:54 PM
There certainly has been a lot of interesting comments made by the Obama-loving media this week following last Sunday's successful raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. One of the most surprising came from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward who told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory, "Being holed up in that compound was smug. It was raising a middle finger to the United States and…

Ignatius: Bush Didn't Go To Ground Zero Thursday Because It Would Have

May 8th, 2011 9:35 PM
For days, Bush hating media members have concocted a variety of mostly nefarious theories why former President George W. Bush opted not to join Barack Obama at Ground Zero Thursday. The Washington Post's David Ignatius on this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show" claimed, "The reason that Bush didn’t go is the photograph of the two of them together would have locked the reelection of Barack Obama…