MSNBC’s Matthews Hits Obama for Violating Law with Bergdahl-Taliban Prisoner Swap

On his June 3 Hardball program, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews expressed his disapproval of the President having broken federal law in the process of securing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release in exchange for transferring five high-level Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Qatari government custody. Of course, it took a liberal Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) complaining about the matter to register with Matthews as a problem for the President, but all the same, the Hardball host seemed angry that President Obama violated a law which he signed into effect. MORE: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/msnbcs-matthews-hits-obama-violating-law-bergdahl-taliban-prisoner-swap

Bowe Bergdahl: Peace Corps Volunteer or Killer Wanting to Rip Enemy’s Face Off?

On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports presented two very different accounts of what kind of soldier Bowe Bergdahl was, first as a disillusioned free spirit who wished he’d joined the Peace Corps, then as a bloodthirsty warrior who wanted to rip the enemy’s face off.Talking to New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, Mitchell portrayed Bergdahl sympathetically: “I read somewhere, and it may have been your reporting, that he initially thought it was sort of joining the Peace Corps, that he was going to be helping the Afghan people, that maybe he didn’t really understand. Because his disillusionment came so quickly…” Bumiller replied: “He did have some romantic notions…he was going over to Afghanistan to help the Afghan people…” MORE: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/bowe-bergdahl-peace-corps-volunteer-or-killer-wanting-rip-enemys-face