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George
Washington, Terrorist |
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"Andrea, what would it all matter if proven true? Someone
brought up today the first several U.S. Presidents were certainly
revolutionaries and might have been called 'terrorists' at the time by the
British crown after all."
-- Anchor Brian Williams on the June 30 NBC Nightly News,
asking reporter Andrea Mitchell about accusations that the new president-elect
of Iran was a ringleader in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and
the holding of 52 American hostages for more than a year. |
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Gergen
Rues Bush's Talk of 9/11 |
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"I do think it's going to leave many of his critics spluttering
because they're going to be, I think, angered by the playing of the 9/11 trump
card. You know, 9/11 has been his trump card all along since then, and he
plays it in various political moments along the way, played it in the
campaign. He's playing it again now."
-- David Gergen during CNN's coverage of President Bush's
speech at Fort Bragg, NC on June 28. |
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Totenberg Claims NPR Not Liberal |
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Newsweek's Evan Thomas: "Is this attack going to
make NPR a little less liberal?"
NPR's Nina Totenberg: "I don't think we're liberal to begin
with and I think if you would listen, Evan, you would know that."
Thomas: "I do listen to you and you're not that liberal,
but you're a little bit liberal."
Totenberg: "No, I don't think so. I don't think that's a
fair criticism, I really don't -- any more than, any more than you would say
that Newsweek is liberal."
Thomas, over other voices: "I think Newsweek is a little
liberal."
Totenberg laughs.
-- Inside Washington, June 26, 2005. |
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CNN's
Brown Castigates "Silly" Rove |
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"The Washington Times: 'Rove's mockery of 9/11 liberals
riles Democrats.' Karl Rove making, I thought, some silly comments. And in a
week of silly comments, the dumb Dick Durbin comments for which he apologized.
Mr. Rove will not apologize, I guarantee you."
-- CNN's Aaron Brown reviewing the next day's newspaper
headlines on NewsNight, June 23. |
  
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PBS Airs
TV Ads Lobbying Congress for Funding |
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"As you may know, some members of Congress have moved to cut
federal funding for public broadcasting by 45 percent, and they want to
completely eliminate federal funding that supports educational and
commercial-free children's programs -- shows like Arthur, Sesame Street
and
Clifford are at risk. These cuts will have a devastating
effect on WETA and the television and radio programs you and your family rely
on, like Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery,
Nova, and the NewsHour. Do your elected officials
know how you feel about funding for public broadcasting? Call your members of
Congress today, and let them know where you stand, and for more information,
visit our website at weta.org."
-- TV commercial broadcast on PBS stations lobbying Congress
for taxpayer-funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Newsweek's Eleanor Clift Declares Iraq 'Worse than
Vietnam' |
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"It’s worse than Vietnam because Vietnam was a tiny country with
no strategic importance and we could declare victory and leave. Iraq is at the
nexus of terrorism and oil and it’s a war that we don’t know how to win and
can’t afford to lose."
-- Newsweek's Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group,
June 18, 2005 |
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NBC's Chris Matthews Endorses a Hillary Clinton
vs. John McCain Presidential Race |
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Andrea Mitchell: "I think that would be such a great race!"
Chris Matthews: "Oh! Pray for it! Bread and butter. Wouldn't that
be the greatest? McCain against Hillary."
-- Exchange between Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell on
The Chris Matthews Show, June 12, 2005. |
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ABC's Bob Woodruff Discloses that North Korea's
Communist 'Minders' Translated His Interviews' |
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"But because we were not allowed to bring in our own translator,
we had to rely on our minders to tell us what people were saying."
-- Following a week-long series of reports from North Korea for
ABC, reporter Bob Woodruff disclosed that his interviews with North Koreans
were translated by the Communist-government's selected "minders," ABC World
News Tonight, June 11, 2005. |
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Investigative Reporters Applaud Dan Rather and
'Underlying Story About President Bush' |
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"How do you feel about the fact that journalists seem to have done
more work in reviewing the 60 Minutes reporting than they have in
examining the underlying story about President Bush?"
-- David Boardman, President of the Board of Directors of
Investigative Reporters & Editors, in a question to Dan Rather at a June 4
conference where the latter was honored. |
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PBS's
Bill Moyers Says Liberalism Complex, Conservatism 'Red Meat' |
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"The people out in the country who listen to Fox News, who listen
to Rush Limbaugh, they like red meat. And you know, by nature, it's very hard
for a liberal to throw red meat, simply because the issues are more complex
than you can reduce down to a soundbite."
-- PBS's Bill Moyers in an exchange with MSNBC's Hardball host
Chris Mattthews, June 10, 2005. |
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CBS's
Bob Schieffer Draws Parallel Between Gitmo and North
Vietnamese POW Camps |
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"But you know, this thing is just, this is just a boil. It's a
cancer. This thing is not doing anybody any good, and I'll tell you something,
Don. I went to see, they had a showing up here in New York before Memorial
Day, this film about John McCain when he was in the North Vietnamese prison
camp. And to see what those people did to him, it just, it made me rethink
this whole thing about how we treat these prisoners in Guantanamo."
-- CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer discussing
Guantanamo Bay POW camp on Imus in the Morning, June 9, 2005 |
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Rosie
O'Donnell Calls President Bush a 'War Criminal,' Demands Trial
at The Hague |
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“Sean Hannity: "But Rosie, you guys, all you guys on the
left, you demonize this President. You once called George Bush a war
criminal."
Rosie O'Donnell: "He is. He should be tried at the Hague!"
Hannity: "What do you want? Do you want to give him the
death penalty?"
O'Donnell: "No, I said he should be tried, Sean-"
Hannity: "Life in prison? You want to convict him?"
O'Donnell: "-tried. Listen, the leader of any nation that
defies the UN and invades a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11
should be tried."
-- Exchange between talk radio host Sean Hannity and activist
Rosie O'Donnell on ABC's The View, June 7, 2005 |
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Newsweek's Jonathan Alter Admits Bias on Embryonic Stem
Cell Debate |
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“I'm really ticked off these days about the stem cell research
debate, because, as you know, for me it's kind of a personal thing. So I don't
have a lot of neutrality on it."
-- Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on Imus in the Morning, June
6, 2005 |
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NBC's
Matt Lauer Praises Bill Clinton on "Greatest American" Show |
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“Under Clinton the economy boomed -- deficits turned into surplus
-- and more than 22 million jobs were created. Along with the character flaws
and the subpoenas came peace and prosperity.”
-- Matt Lauer describing Bill Clinton during the Discovery
Channel's "Greatest American" nominations, June 5, 2005 |
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Dan
Rather Says Forged Documents Not Disproven, Guard Story True |
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Dan Rather: "Important point: [Panel] said, 'We don't know
whether the documents are fraudulent or not.'"
Larry King: "So, are you saying the story might be
correct?"
Dan Rather: "Well, I'm saying a prudent person might take
that view."
-- Dan Rather on
Larry King Live, June 2, 2005 |
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Ted
Turner Reveals that Communist Fidel Castro Inspired Creation
of CNN International |
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Ted Turner: "You know, I got the idea to go global from
Fidel Castro. The signal spilled into Cuba and he heard about it -- and he's
pretty intelligent -- and he bought a satellite dish or got one somehow, and
started watching the news and he said it was incredibly important. When I met
him in '82, he said, 'Ted, the whole world needs CNN.' He said, 'I use it all
the time and it's very important to me.' So I said, 'Well if Castro needs it,
certainly the capitalists around the world could use it, and perhaps some
other communists, too.'"
-- From forum marking CNN's 25th anniversary, as played back on
Anderson Cooper 360, June 1, 2005 |
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