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Fox News Watch discusses the media's sympathy for the Times Square bomber and debate Ellis Henican on whether his main motive was Islam or the fact that his house was in foreclosure, like so many other Americans who don't try to blow things up. Ellis Henican tried to explain the media's apparent sympathy by saying they are just "trying to get inside the mind of this madman" through "understanding." He added that he believes Shahzad came to "these horrible acts through a cocktail of motivations." Jim Pinkerton sarcastically responded, "Now we know why all the millions of people who had...

If you were watching FNC just prior to the 5:30 PM break you were treated to Ellis Henican defending Reuters' shameful behavior. He also made the ludicrous claim that Reuters would have corrected the error themselves, but the bloggers beat them to it. Finally, he attempted to shield them from criticism by channeling his inner third-grader and demanding of the host and another guest "Haven't you ever made a mistake?" Amazing, but not surprising. Lives are being lost but some people (i.e., apologists for the MSM and terrorists) are more concerned with keeping the propaganda flowing unscrutinized and uncorrected.

by Mark Finkelstein December 3, 2005 - 07:34 Readers of my NewsBusters entries know that Ellen Ratner, the short end of the "Long & Short of It" feature at Fox & Friends Weekend, has been a frequent object of my ire, as seen here http://newsbusters.org/node/2970, here http://newsbusters.org/node/2062 and here http://newsbusters.org/node/1782. It's thus saying a mouthful that the puerile performance of pinch-hitter Ellis Henican this morning was almost enough to make one long for the short Ratner. Almost. Henican took on fellow Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton, who normally locks horns with Ratner in the segment. The topic was Iraqi pre-war intelligence....

Call it red-white-and-blue baiting. Forty-nine years after Army lawyer Joseph Welch shot Sen. Joseph McCarthy that famously withering glance -- "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" -- the blacklists are coming back big time. But instead of McCarthy's paranoid search for secret Communists inside the U.S. government, private-sector bullies are now targeting almost anyone with anti-war views and a microphone. Dixie Chick Natalie Maines dares to speak ill of fellow-Texan George W. Bush on a stage in London? Country radio stations from Maine to Arizona yank the Chicks' new CD from their play lists. Comic Janeane Garofalo campaigns against...

They stood in perfect profile against a high white wall, the master and the protege, here on somber business, dressed for a wake. Same stern expressions, same circles beneath the eyes, same white dress shirts, same black suits. But as Bill Clinton helped to bury Andrew Cuomo yesterday, the pairing of these two big-name Democrats reminded us again: There's a reason some people win elections and other people don't. It's a whole lot more than intricate position papers and coordinated power suits.