Rosie O'Donnell, a 9/11 truther and general conspiracy theorist, on Wednesday delved into the reasons behind Barack Obama's air strikes against Syria. The View co-host insisted that there is a "financial agenda" in the United States's actions, lecturing her co-hosts: "I can't get out of my head the fact that Syria has a lot of oil. A lot of oil. Not a lot of oil in Rwanda or the Congo. Atrocities there all the time." [See MP3 audio here. ] An awkward silence followed as Whoopi Goldberg frowned at the comments and responded, "On Americans? I think one of the... continue reading
Running defense for Barack Obama on Wednesday's NBC Today , co-host Matt Lauer touted "some of the President's defenders" pushing back against a video of the commander-in-chief sloppily saluting Marines while holding a coffee cup by "circulating this photo of George W. Bush during his presidency...saluting service members while holding his dog, Barney." [ Listen to the audio ] Lauer noted that despite Obama gaffe going viral on social media and "sarcastically being called the 'latte salute,'" it "didn't take long for that photo [of Bush] to come out as well." The hosts of Today's 9 a.m. ET hour revisited... continue reading
Jimmy Fallon, who famously invited on Barack Obama to slow jam the news and danced with Michelle Obama, took a couple of swings at the president in his monologue on Monday night. Could Fallon be an indicator that even liberal celebrities are getting tired of Obama? The NBC late night host joked about Obama’s lack of passion for the job and noticed he’s even lost support in Chicago. The following jokes were aired on the September 22 edition of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon : JIMMY FALLON: But first, here’s what everyone’s talking about, you guys. There was some... continue reading
Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw on Tuesday dismissed Barack Obama's air strikes in Syria as too late and not effective. Talking to Ronan Farrow on MSNBC, he chided, "We've known about ISIS moving out of Syria, moving into Iraq for some time and the time to hit them was when they were on the move before they got themselves positioned in Iraq and had taken over cities and created an infrastructure, if you will, for their military." [MP3 audio here .] The veteran journalist cautioned, "There ought not to be any illusion that this is going to be... continue reading
In an exclusive interview with White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Wednesday's Today , co-host Matt Lauer actually questioned the administration's handling of terrorism: "Think of the things we're talking about here with the Khorasan group, with ISIS and the territory they've taken in Iraq, with the threat to airline travel internationally, with beheadings that we're seeing on camera. What happened to the days when the administration was able to say it felt confident that we had dealt a crippling blow to Al Qaeda and Islamic militants?" [ Listen to the audio ] Unfortunately, Lauer failed to use... continue reading
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos cozied up to his former boss Bill Clinton for a 9 minute interview on Wednesday’s Good Morning America in which the ABC host did his best promote the former president and his Clinton Global Initiative. During the discussion, which looked more like two buddies hanging out than an actual interview, Stephanopoulos lamented how President Obama’s “caught in something of a box...How does he work his way out of that box?” Stephanopoulos’ interview with President Clinton began by discussing the war against ISIS but quickly turned to politics. The ABC host bemoaned about “President Obama’s situation. It seems... continue reading
When President Barack Obama stepped off of Marine One in New York City on Tuesday for a series of meetings at the United Nations, he chose to salute the two U.S. Marines saluting him at the bottom of the helicopter with a coffee cup in hand in what many have seen as an unprofessional gesture. By the time Tuesday night came and the evening newscasts of the major broadcast networks aired, two of them omitted the story from their programs. [MP3 audio here ; Video below] Both CBS and NBC failed to mention the story in their respective programs while... continue reading
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Tuesday, host and NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, along with chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson, gushed over President Obama's effort to push the climate change agenda. Mitchell touted how Obama "will be delivering remarks at the United Nations Climate Action Summit" and "is expected to call on world leaders to follow the U.S. lead on climate change..." Thompson praised the White House: "I think what you do see is the United States is now coming from a position of strength. The Obama administration has set out a climate... continue reading
During the Monday night newscasts of the major broadcast networks, both CBS and NBC provided coverage of the far-left global warming marchers in New York City who sought to draw attention their liberal environmental causes and disdain for Wall Street. Leading the way in promoting them was NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who told viewers in a 25-second news brief that the “coordinated marches calling attention to climate change drew some huge crowds in big cities” and brushed off the fact that there were “nay-sayers pointing to the mountains of trash left behind and the carbon footprint of the... continue reading
The New York Times fessed up in its Tuesday edition about an erroneous claim it made nearly two weeks earlier. Mark Landler, in his reporting on President Obama's September 10, 2014 prime time address on ISIS, asserted in an article the following morning that " unlike Mr. Bush in the Iraq war, Mr. Obama has sought to surround the United States with partners ." The liberal newspaper finally realized the false nature of the reporter's statement, and issued the following correction , which ran on page A-2: An article on Sept. 11 about President Obama's speech to the nation describing... continue reading