Print Larry O'Connor Follow Read Full Bio O'Donnell: NRA Hampering Boston Bomber Investigation "The NRA's efforts to guarantee that American mass murderers are the best-equipped mass murderers in the world is not limited to murderers who use assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The NRA is also in the business of helping bombers get away with their crimes. Gunpowder could be traced by investigators to a buyer at the point of sale if gunpowder contained a taggant, an element that would enable tracing of the purchase of gunpowder." 18 Apr 2013 Viewers Abandon MSNBC During Boston Bomb Coverage The Monday cable news ratings are in and as expected, the events in Boston made viewership surge as Americans were hungry for the latest information on the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. However, as the Hollywood Reporter notes, the numbers mostly surged for CNN and Fox News while MSNBC was left in the dust: 17 Apr 2013 UK Guardian Hammers Cost Of Thatcher's Funeral: '23 Things You Could Pay For With £10m' On the eve of the state funeral for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London, London's left-wing paper The Guardian couldn't let the moment pass without one, last socialist slam at the Iron Lady and the attention paid to the paper's former Bete Noir. 17 Apr 2013 MSNBC Analyst Falsely Claims Bush Disappeared 'Couple Weeks' After 9/11 “Having, sort of, one person communicating with you is very important. We learned after 9/11 that when George W. Bush didn’t do it, Rudy Giuliani stepped in. The whole country was waiting for him to come on the television for those first couple of weeks because you didn’t see the president. President Obama has definitely learned the lesson that you have to speak early, speak often, speak confidently.” 16 Apr 2013 Report: Saudi National Questioned As Witness, Not Suspect Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi didn't bomb the Boston Marathon, according to the New York Daily News. The 20-year-old Saudi man who has been seen as a "person of interest" to authorities in the Boston terror attack remains hospitalized with injuries from Monday's blast. His involvement in the bombings are being boiled down to "being in the wrong place at the wrong time." 16 Apr 2013 Shameless Barney Frank Fixates On Sequester, Gov't Spending In Post-Bombing Rant Former congressman Barney Frank appeared on MSNBC Tuesday morning and focused his remarks on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing incident squarely at political opponents who call for a reduction in the size of government. He used the incident to make a case for increased tax revenues and somehow linked the security needs in Boston to the sequester cuts. 16 Apr 2013 Kristof: GOP Slam 'Wasn't One of My Classier' Tweets "That’s what comes of wandering around the finish line and firing off tweets and tweeting things without thinking. It was a connection that I should not have made in 140 characters. I just think I do some good tweets and I think I do some bad tweets and that wasn’t one of my classier ones.” 16 Apr 2013 Fox News' Scott Brown: 'I'm Mad,' 'We Need To Fight Back' Fox News often gets criticism for signing former political figures as analysts, but this moment showed the strategy to be quite effective. While other networks were relying on journalists and news anchors to speculate fill time with irresponsible speculation, Fox News was able to turn to a person of authority, gravitas, and importance to reflect in a personal way on the event and how it impacted the people of Boston. 16 Apr 2013 Cable News: Let The Mindless Speculation Begin When cable news anchors cover a developing story like the Boston Marathon bombing, they are forced to either constantly repeat the same, limited facts over and over again, or they choose to improvise, make it up as they go and dabble in wild, unfounded speculation just to fill the air time and to keep themselves interested in their topic. 15 Apr 2013 Not Newtown: White House Won't Comment on Need for Regulation to Prevent Next 'House of Horrors' At Monday's press briefing, Fox News Channel's Ed Henry asked Jay Carney if President Obama would ask congress for new regulations on abortion clinics in light of the "House of Horrors" murder trial of Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. 15 Apr 2013 Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
O'Donnell: NRA Hampering Boston Bomber Investigation "The NRA's efforts to guarantee that American mass murderers are the best-equipped mass murderers in the world is not limited to murderers who use assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The NRA is also in the business of helping bombers get away with their crimes. Gunpowder could be traced by investigators to a buyer at the point of sale if gunpowder contained a taggant, an element that would enable tracing of the purchase of gunpowder." 18 Apr 2013
Viewers Abandon MSNBC During Boston Bomb Coverage The Monday cable news ratings are in and as expected, the events in Boston made viewership surge as Americans were hungry for the latest information on the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. However, as the Hollywood Reporter notes, the numbers mostly surged for CNN and Fox News while MSNBC was left in the dust: 17 Apr 2013
UK Guardian Hammers Cost Of Thatcher's Funeral: '23 Things You Could Pay For With £10m' On the eve of the state funeral for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London, London's left-wing paper The Guardian couldn't let the moment pass without one, last socialist slam at the Iron Lady and the attention paid to the paper's former Bete Noir. 17 Apr 2013
MSNBC Analyst Falsely Claims Bush Disappeared 'Couple Weeks' After 9/11 “Having, sort of, one person communicating with you is very important. We learned after 9/11 that when George W. Bush didn’t do it, Rudy Giuliani stepped in. The whole country was waiting for him to come on the television for those first couple of weeks because you didn’t see the president. President Obama has definitely learned the lesson that you have to speak early, speak often, speak confidently.” 16 Apr 2013
Report: Saudi National Questioned As Witness, Not Suspect Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi didn't bomb the Boston Marathon, according to the New York Daily News. The 20-year-old Saudi man who has been seen as a "person of interest" to authorities in the Boston terror attack remains hospitalized with injuries from Monday's blast. His involvement in the bombings are being boiled down to "being in the wrong place at the wrong time." 16 Apr 2013
Shameless Barney Frank Fixates On Sequester, Gov't Spending In Post-Bombing Rant Former congressman Barney Frank appeared on MSNBC Tuesday morning and focused his remarks on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing incident squarely at political opponents who call for a reduction in the size of government. He used the incident to make a case for increased tax revenues and somehow linked the security needs in Boston to the sequester cuts. 16 Apr 2013
Kristof: GOP Slam 'Wasn't One of My Classier' Tweets "That’s what comes of wandering around the finish line and firing off tweets and tweeting things without thinking. It was a connection that I should not have made in 140 characters. I just think I do some good tweets and I think I do some bad tweets and that wasn’t one of my classier ones.” 16 Apr 2013
Fox News' Scott Brown: 'I'm Mad,' 'We Need To Fight Back' Fox News often gets criticism for signing former political figures as analysts, but this moment showed the strategy to be quite effective. While other networks were relying on journalists and news anchors to speculate fill time with irresponsible speculation, Fox News was able to turn to a person of authority, gravitas, and importance to reflect in a personal way on the event and how it impacted the people of Boston. 16 Apr 2013
Cable News: Let The Mindless Speculation Begin When cable news anchors cover a developing story like the Boston Marathon bombing, they are forced to either constantly repeat the same, limited facts over and over again, or they choose to improvise, make it up as they go and dabble in wild, unfounded speculation just to fill the air time and to keep themselves interested in their topic. 15 Apr 2013
Not Newtown: White House Won't Comment on Need for Regulation to Prevent Next 'House of Horrors' At Monday's press briefing, Fox News Channel's Ed Henry asked Jay Carney if President Obama would ask congress for new regulations on abortion clinics in light of the "House of Horrors" murder trial of Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. 15 Apr 2013
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