UAW Gives Up on VW-Chattanooga Appeal; AP Pretends Dem Congressmen Can

April 21st, 2014 6:28 PM
Earlier today, just an hour before a hearing was to begin at the National Labor Relations Board, the United Auto Workers union dropped an appeal of the election it lost in February as it attempted to become the bargaining representative for workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee plant. In a writeup which appears at the Associated Press's "Big Story" but which somehow failed to appear…

Brian Williams Skips Bad ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers, But Bids Farewe

January 14th, 2014 11:56 AM
On Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams ignored bad ObamaCare enrollment numbers for young people, but made time to announce the retirement of a long-standing liberal congressman, a development that neither ABC's World News nor the CBS Evening News deemed worth mentioning. "Big loss for the Democrats in Congress," stated Williams, who said outgoing Rep. George Miller was "often…

Today Show Features GOP vs Dem Fight Over Styrofoam Cups in Capitol Ca

April 22nd, 2011 10:49 AM
As part of Green is Universal week, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell highlighted a fight between Republicans and Democrats over the use of Styrofoam in the House cafeterias. On Thursday's Today show, O'Donnell reported, "Many Democrats are boiling mad because Republicans, now in charge of building operations, put a fork in the bio-degradable utensils Democrats had picked." O'Donnell went on to relay the…

Dem Congressman On Pelosi's Leadership: Just Because 'Jets Fans Are Bo

November 10th, 2010 5:56 PM
Using his best attempt at a football analogy, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) tried to explain Wednesday that Speaker Pelosi is the best choice for the Democrat House leadership even though she is unpopular with the American voters -- or in football, the home fans. "What the Republicans and others in these campaigns are asking us to do is to say 'Well, because the Jets fans are booing Eli…