Univision anchor Jorge Ramos scored an exclusive interview with Barack Obama on Tuesday and used the occasion to accuse George W. Bush of "betraying" America. The journalist quizzed Obama on the Senate's new report on the CIA and torture. He demanded, " Is this the responsibility of President Bush? Did he betray American values?" [MP3 audio here .] Obama didn't reply "no" or scoff at accusing the previous commander-in-chief of being a traitor. But he did allow, "After 9/11, I don't think that you can know what it feels like to know that America's gone through the worst attack on... continue reading
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today , former CIA Director Michael Hayden went after the network for hyping the so-called "torture report" released by Senate Democrats on Tuesday. After Hayden denounced the partisan report as something that "reads like a prosecutorial screed rather than an historical document," co-host Savannah Guthrie pressed him on what he disagreed with. Hayden replied: "Well, I disagree with the fact that you're claiming it to be news. These topics and subjects were all out there." At the top of the show, fellow co-host Matt Lauer teased the upcoming interview with Hayden: "Cruelty and lies? Outrage over... continue reading
Jose Diaz-Balart, host of MSNBC’s The Rundown , sat down with President Obama for an exclusive interview that aired during his Wednesday morning broadcast. The discussion touched on several key issues including immigration reform and the liberal MSNBC host pushed the president to expand his executive action to cover more illegal immigrants. Speaking to Obama, Diaz-Balart wondered “about the future. Are you actively looking into the possibility of further executive actions that could maybe help the people that didn't qualify this time in the near future?” The segment began with the MSNBC host asking President Obama “you said you didn't... continue reading
During an exclusive interview with former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News , anchor Brian Williams felt that it was worth creating a moral equivalency by asking Hayden to explain “how” the United States is “better than our enemies morally” following the release of a report about the CIA’s use of “torture” following the attacks on September 11, 2001. Minutes later, Williams also attempted to bait Hayden into condemning the CIA and its actions by proposing a scenario where, “god forbid, members of your family, had to undergo some of the treatments we are reading... continue reading
CBS’s Pelley Asks Former Acting CIA Director If He Feels ‘Ashamed’ After Release of ‘Torture’ Report
On Tuesday night, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley did little to hide his liberal bias when it came to supporting the release of the report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee detailing the use of “torture” by the agency on terrorists following the 9-11 terrorist attacks. In addition to asking CBS News contributor and former acting CIA Director Mike Morell if he felt “ashamed” after the release of the report Tuesday, the program aired over two minutes of a 2007 interview Pelley conducted for 60 Minutes in which he clashed with former CIA Director George Tenet on the... continue reading
After a month in which NBC Nightly News gave more prominence to ugly Christmas sweaters, grape salad, Al Roker's 34-hour weather report, and a live broadcast of Peter Pan starring Brian Williams' daughter, Allison, the broadcast finally discovered Jonathan Gruber. On Tuesday evening, NBC’s evening newscast acknowledged the name Jonathan Gruber for the first time and his insulting comments regarding ObamaCare a full 32 days after the group American Commitment unearthed the first Gruber video on November 7. [MP3 audio here ; Video below] Williams began the 2-minute-and-12-second segment by remarking that “it is unlikely that most Americans have heard... continue reading
Don Lemon rushed to President Obama's defense on Monday's CNN Tonight , after guest Tavis Smiley attacked the Democrat from the left over supposedly not doing enough to help blacks. Smiley criticized Obama using his recent BET interview to " lecture black folk ," and then doing the " jokey-joke thing " on Stephen Colbert's program. He later asserted that the President needed to "provide the kind of moral leadership...the kind of focus on a social justice agenda that would make sure , as Dr. [Martin Luther] King said 50 years ago, that we aren't still dealing with what he... continue reading
The campaign's worst-kept secret was uncovered when the Kansas City Sta r , on Sunday, reported that Democrats had financially backed so-called independent candidate Greg Orman in his race to unseat Republican incumbent Senator Pat Roberts. The facade that Orman was an independent was kept up, throughout the campaign, by supposedly shrewd political reporters at ABC, CBS and NBC -- even after Democratic candidate Chad Taylor had dropped out in early September. On the November 2 Good Morning America , co-anchor George Stephanopoulos advanced Norman’s independent charade: “Greg Orman, independent, has come on like fire. And this is a neck... continue reading
Tuesday’s congressional hearing that featured Jonathan Gruber being grilled about his controversial ObamaCare remarks was carried live by Fox News for 54 minutes, and 53 seconds. CNN and MSNBC didn’t bother to air any of the hearing live. The hearing lasted from 9:30am ET to about 1:35 pm ET, but the total amount of the Gruber hearing shown during that time on CNN and MSNBC came in the form of a handful of soundbites of Gruber’s apology. MSNBC aired two Gruber soundbites totaling 66 seconds. CNN aired just 38 seconds of Gruber’s apology. In contrast, Fox ran almost an hour’s... continue reading
Appearing on MSNBC's NewsNation on Tuesday, NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel took the Democrat-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee to task for its so-called "torture report" slamming CIA interrogation tactics used against terrorist detainees: "I think this is really about changing the narrative of American history....everyone in the world knew what was going on, including by the way, the Senate, which is now pretending to be a bit of a babe in the woods." Engel reiterated: "They knew what was going on at the time and in many cases were quite happy with the intelligence they were getting. I think this... continue reading