Posts Tagged ‘CBS News’

Debbie Schlussel on Lara Logan’s Rape : ‘So Sad, Too Bad, Lara’

In Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, religion on 16 February 2011 tagged #Jan25, Cairo, CBS News, egypt, February 11, Hosni Mobarak, Hosni Mubarak, Islam, Lara Logan, Liberation Square, Rape, Tahrir, Tahrir Square with no comments

On February 11, 2011, CBS News reporter Lara Logan was beaten and raped by a crowd in Tahrir Square. For their part, CBS withheld the story for several days, but once the story became public knowledge it was ripe for commentary and ‘analysis.’ Most notably, Conservative ‘political commentator’ (WHY is that still a job?) Debbie [...]

Wael Ghonim on 60 Minutes ‘All These Regimes Rely on Fear’

In History, Internet, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, Twitter on 13 February 2011 tagged #Jan25, 60 Minutes, Barack Hussein Obama, CBS, CBS News, Democracy, egypt, Facebook, Google, Harry Smith, Hosni Mubarak, Husni Mubarak, Internet, Khaled Said, Tahrir Square, Twitter, Video, Wael Ghonim, Youtube with no comments

Out on the streets Where I grew up (How I got over) First thing they teach you: Not to give a fuck. (How I got over) That type of thinking can’t get you nowhere (How I got over) Someone has to care. (Ya) “The regime are the ones who basically ended themselves“ “If anyone stands [...]

Video : Islamist Youth Surge in the West

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, Racism, religion, War on 28 April 2010 tagged 60 Minutes, CBS News, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Lesley Stahl, Majid Nawaz, Party of Liberation, The Narrative, Video, Yorkshire with no comments

Majid Nawaz‘s question about imagined loyalty and connections is perhaps the most important of the entire piece. The power of the growing Western Islamist movement is the ability of it’s leadership to create imagined bonds between Western Muslims and the people of nations they very likely have never stepped foot in or share little else [...]

Video : Lara Logan Brings Intelligence to Afghanistan Debate

In Afghanistan, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War on 22 December 2009 tagged 60 Minutes, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Hussein Obama, CBS News, Colbert Report, Comedy Central, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Graveyard of Empires, Helmand, international affairs, Kabul, Korean War, Lara Logan, Military, NATO, Obama Administration, Obama's Vietnam, Osama Bin Laden, pregnancy, Spanish American War, Stephen Colbert, taliban, terrorism, The Colbert Report, Troop Surge, Video, Vietnam War, War with no comments

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was on the Colbert Report earlier this month to speak on Barack Obama’s then newly announced U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan. Logan deflected Colbert’s questions with intelligence that took the simple human elements of daily life and the complexities of the situation in Afghanistan into account. Unlike many pundits speaking [...]

Americans Eight Percent More Likely to Believe in UFOs than Oppose a Public Option

In News, Opinion, Politics on 29 September 2009 tagged Associated Press, CBS News, Chris Harris, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Ipsos, Media Matters, New York Times, public healthcare, public option, Public Plan, tea party, UFO with no comments

Does this mean the tea party on Capitol Hill was really a calling to the alien overlord to banish the crazy Conservatives from this planet?! A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 65% favored a public option, with only 26% opposed to it. To put that number in perspective: a 2007 Associated Press/Ipsos [...]