[governsleastgovernsbest]

Imus in the Morning/NewsBusters ping to Today show list, with hat tip to FReeper YaYa123.

[rhombus]

I heard this too. Imus is slime on the war in Iraq but he did step up to the plate on this one and Boettcher sounded like a babbling idiot.

[Vaquero]

Imus is a D*uche, but every once in a while a blind squirrel finds a nut.

[Red Badger]

It was a logical question. Reporters aren't used to facing logic...........

[Dane]

Saw boettcher on MSNBC between 4:30 and 5:00 AM EST on MSNBC this morning.

boetcherr had a sad face on and for a good 15 minutes he and the newslady at the MSNBC studios(melissa something) went into a liberal democrat spin machine mode discussing everything from how the insurgents have become technologically savvy to how bad life is in Baghdad, etc.etc..

[SAMS]

"Would Matt Lauer or another NBC host have done the same,..."

Oh hell no.

[BufordP]

Kudos to Imus.

[capydick]

Now that Rick Kaplan is outta there - Imus has no need to shill for him. Not that he didnt believe half of what he says, however.

[Exit148]

Happy to hear this from Imus. Thanks YaYa!

I wonder, tho, how many other reporters will spin that bombing, and other bombings, that way and get away with it.

The press --- one of our worst enemies.

[Rummyfan]

Even Im-ass cannot deny the significance of getting this rat!

[soloNYer]

A more confirmable reaction to how the death of Zarqawi is bad is to check with the Democrat party leadership.

[Grampa Dave]

MSM Mantra after Z, the Islamo Pig SOB, was confirmed killed, "Zaraqawi was a HALF-WIT !!! A figure head !"

[McGruff]

Don't conclude from this that Imus is on our side, but he does call the MSM on their actions sometimes.

[Sam's Army]

NPR spun this earlier to say that this was in essence (paraphrasing) "a good thing for Al-Qaeda since Zarqawi was a bit of an upstart and a competitor to Osama Bin Laden and Zwahiri" (spelling?).

[martin_fierro]

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Laura Ingraham commenting on it now.

What a singular moment: Boettcher admits that everything he'd said up until Imus called him on it was HIS OWN MERE SPECULATION.

And then Boettcher tried blaming his answer on being confused by "too much feedback" in his earpiece.

How lame are one's journalistic standards if Imus is able to call you on them.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Laura Ingraham replaying over and over again....sweet!!!!

[Barset]

No radio, no tv, so really hoped to see this exchange somewhere. Excellent. Thanks.

McGruff, as always, thanks for this thread.

[Starboard]

There has been another bombing. Thirteen people are dead in central Baghdad. That is apparently the current reaction from the insurgents to Zarqawi's death."

Another example of how the media "shapes" news instead of simply reporting it.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I'm late on this but this link proves the NBC reporter's political credentials:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26386-2004Jan17?language=printer

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Don Imus called NBC reporter Mike Boettcher on his attempt to spin a bombing in Baghdad as a 'not good' response to the killing of Zarqawi.

If somebody really wanted to call Boettcher on something, he or she could look back to his conduct as an NBC reporter during Desert Storm...Boettcher freaked out on the air when the first SCUDS started coming in, and had lost control to the point where he had to be replaced on the air by some unknown guy.

That "unknown" guy was named Arthur Kent. Kent became known as "the SCUD stud" and the rest is history. We never saw Mikey again until after the war was over. Of course, NBC attempted and succeded to sabatoge Kent's career by giving him more dangerous assignments and public events where he was programmed to fail. Guess some of the big names there thought he was a threat to their positions.