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Many here at home may have criticized President Obama's speech last night on Libya. But abroad, there was at least one man who dug PBO's remarks: Muammar Gaddafi . . . That was the educated estimation of NBC's Jim Maceda, reporting from Libya, reporting on Morning Joe today. It was PBO's failure to call for regime change that would have buoyed Gaddafi, says Maceda. He reported that regime officials are acting much more "bellicose" and "defiant" in the wake of the president's speech. View video here.

by Mark Finkelstein January 16, 2006 - 07:34 When it comes to the Today Show and the MSM at large, sometimes the Bush administration and its war on terror just can't win. Take the show's coverage of our recent attempt to hit Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda's #2. What if we missed him? According to this morning's Today, that would be "a huge blow to America's image abroad." Well then, what if we got him? Well, as Today informed us, that's not so good either: "Even if Al-Zawahari was killed, America's relations with a key ally have paid a price." See what...

by Mark Finkelstein November 25, 2005 - 07:36. In recent NewsBusters entries, here http://newsbusters.org/node/2923 and here http://newsbusters.org/node/2939 I described how an unexpected whiff of reasonableness overtook the Today show. On successive days, Matt Lauer criticized the Democrats for trying to make political hay out of Iraq without offering any alternatives of their own. Strangely, sanity now seems to have a struck for a third day! And this in the most unlikely person of NBC reporter Jim Maceda, who only last week, as I reported here http://newsbusters.org/node/2743 was complaining that the French were not appeasing their Muslim rioters assiduously enough. This...