Rich Noyes | September 19, 2005
CNN founder Ted Turner was perplexed when Wolf Blitzer informed him on the September 19, 2005 edition of The Situation Room that North Korea was "one of the most despotic regimes, and Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth."Turner seemed puzzled: "I didn't get to meet him, but in the pictures I've seen of him on CNN he didn't look too much different than most other people....I didn't see…
Rich Noyes | June 30, 2005
Reacting to a story by Andrea Mitchell on the June 30, 2005 NBC Nightly News that the just-elected leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, might have been one of the student radicals who took over the U.S. embassy in 1979, anchor Brian Williams couldn't understand the fuss: “Andrea, what would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. Presidents were certainly…
Rich Noyes | September 8, 2004
Opening his September 8, 2004 CBS Evening News, anchor Dan Rather breathlessly touted how "CBS News has exclusive information, including documents, that now sheds new light on the President's [National Guard] service record...."Over the next ten days, while Rather stubbornly stuck to his story, it became obvious that the documents were crude forgeries; soon after the November election, CBS…
Rich Noyes | July 10, 2004
On the July 10, 2004 edition of Inside Washington, Newsweek's assistant managing editor Evan Thomas blurted out the truth: "The media, I think, wants Kerry to win....They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic...That's going to be worth maybe 15 points."
Rich Noyes | April 13, 2004
In an April 2004 White House press conference, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller asked President George W. Bush: "Two and a half years later, do you feel any sense of personal responsibility for 9/11?"
Rich Noyes | October 6, 2003
Arnold Schwarzenegger is no conservative, but the liberal media are smearing him as if he were. ABC’s Linda Douglass lobbed the nastiest mudball on Thursday’s World News Tonight when she misquoted Schwarzenegger as saying once of Hitler, “I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it,” even displaying the offensive quote on the screen. In reality, Arnold had said…
Rich Noyes | March 31, 2003
Just days before Saddam Hussein was toppled from power in 2003, NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic reporter Peter Arnett popped up on Iraqi state TV to provide a propaganda boost for the dying dictatorship. Arnett boasted about how his reports about Iraqi civilian casualties were helping anti-war protesters in America, and he suggested the U.S. military was reeling: "Clearly, the American war planners…
Rich Noyes | January 21, 2003
A few weeks before the U.S. military invasion of Iraq, ABC anchor Peter Jennings broadcast as "news" a demonstration in favor of Saddam Hussein's support of the arts, something obviously orchestrated by the dictatorship.Jennings began: "This week we were surprised to see several hundred artists and writers walking through the streets of Baghdad to say thank you to Saddam Hussein..."
Rich Noyes | November 8, 2002
A couple of days after the 2002 midterm elections, in which Republicans held their narrow lead in the House and captured the Senate, PBS's Bill Moyers hypeventilated that, with George W. Bush in the White House, the slim Republican majorities would give conservatives "the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives.... power to transfer wealth from working…
Rich Noyes | October 15, 2002
In Baghdad for an October 2002 presidential "election," ABC World News Tonight's David Wright noted how: "Seven years ago, when the last referendum took place, Saddam Hussein won 99.96% of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings."