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by Mark Finkelstein June 23, 2006 When it comes to cutting and running, John Kerry, Jack Murtha and Nancy Pelosi take a back seat to no one. But what if, quel horreur!, the terrorist insurgents in Iraq beat them to the white flag punch? Amidst the news of the day, from plots to bomb the Sears Tower to more Dem disunity, Jim Miklaszewski let slip this little bombshell, coming from a press conference by the top U.S. commander in Iraq, General George Casey: "On the positive front, Casey revealed for the first time the Sunni insurgency has reached out to...

by Mark Finkelstein June 12, 2006 Talk about you're damned-if-you do moment . . . What have the Dems and their MSM echo-chamber been clamoring for, nay, demanding, when it comes to Iraq? Why, a troop withdrawal, of course. Yet there was Matt Lauer on this morning's Today, fretting that President Bush might . . . withdraw troops. Lauer's lament came in the course of his interview of former General Barry McAffrey, looking ahead to the Iraq summit that Pres. Bush is holding at Camp David beginning today with his top national security advisers. Said Lauer: " Do you worry...

by Mark Finkelstein December 5, 2005 - 07:43. The truce is over. It's war again. No, I'm not speaking of the situation on the battleground in Iraq. I'm referring to the Today show's attitude toward the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. In recent posts, here, here and here, I'd noted a surprising moderation in Today's tone. But this morning, it was back to good old Bush-administration bashing. The segment's essence, as reflected in the on-screen graphic, amounted to questioning the administration's truthfulness: "Rhetoric vs. Reality", it read, asking "When Can U.S. Troops Come Home?" With a little help...

Information recently released by NBC News, the LA Times, and the Associated Press quite suggests that the New York Times and CBS News might have been attempting to disseminate a midnight hour, election eve expose designed to unseat an incumbent President without properly vetting it for accuracy. And, it is quite conceivable that the United Nations is stuck right in the middle of the conspiracy. Furthermore, as the Kerry campaign and their media minions watched their hero sag in the polls with the election just days away, their despair rose to such heights that they chose to focus America’s attention...

It was a world exclusive for NBC's Jim Miklaszewski, the only television reporter able to show footage of the devastating attack on a Baghdad hotel that narrowly missed Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.snip... Gary Thatcher, communications chief for the U.S. occupation authority [said,] "Instead of rendering or summoning aid, they focused on gathering video footage of people in agonizingly painful situations . . .snipSays Miklaszewski..."Our impression was that this was an attempt to censor the news. This event shot holes in the administration's insistence that everything was going well in Baghdad."

The networks entered full scandal mode on Monday with the evening shows leading for a second straight night with the news that the Justice Department was investigating who in the administration back in July told columnist Bob Novak a CIA operatives’s name, though stories conflicted on whether the wife of Joe Wilson, the man who since July has been on a personal PR crusade to undermine President Bush’s State of the Union line about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa, was an “agent,” an “operative” or a “covert” operative, whether the leak came from “senior administration officials,” “top White House officials”...