During the entire White House/Fox News feud FOX decided to bolster about their “soaring ratings”. This meme was then picked up by a lot of talking heads in the mainstream media. Media Matters decided to go to the data and see exactly what “soar” meant to FOX: No matter how many times reporters and pundits […]
Yesterday Tony Snow said Bush did not learn of the Haditha massacre by Marines until Time published an article in their March 27, 2006 issue. For something this big to be kept from the commander in chief (if they are being truthful), lends even more credibility to Murtha’s statements that this has been a cover […]
First Reuters gives us this: Gunmen wearing the uniform of Iraqi police commandos seized dozens of employees from the offices of a security company in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said. Two sources said about 50 people were taken. They said that the gunmen, who arrived in at least 10 vehicles, broke into the […]
Phillip Carter and Owen West of Slate reported a story on Thursday regarding a new directive issued by the Army. This new directive, now takes the process of dealing with certain “separation”, or discharging issues, from the battalion commander, and puts it in the hands of a special court marshal, there by delaying the process. […]