2020 Presidential
VIDEO: Media Have Spent Decades Covering For Biden's Gaffes
When Republicans make a mistake, they get pilloried by the national press. But when Democrats blunder and fumble, they can usually count on a friendly news media to help them clean up the mess. Which is good news for Joe Biden.
Morning Joe Can't Admit: Kamala Was Blah-Mala
Kamala Harris laid an egg last night. In Morning Joe's opening segment, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist couldn't really find any words of praise for Harris' acceptance speech at the DNC convention. They turned to a Quibi commentator (and NBC News alum) Shawna Thomas instead, and the best she could come up with was to say that Harris did "an admirable job" of reintroducing herself in…
Networks Profess Love for ‘Very Relatable’ Kamala’s ‘Soaring Speech’
As much as the broadcast networks would have liked to, they couldn’t spend all week talking about Barack and Michelle Obama during their coverage of the virtual 2020 DNC. That said, they were able to muster fawning praise Wednesday night for vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s “soaring speech,” ensuring Americans “saw [Harris and Joe Biden] as human beings.”
CNN: Obama’s ‘History-Shaking Speech’ Declared ‘National Emergency’
Not long after CNN’s initial analysis of night three of the Democratic National Convention declared former President Barack Obama’s address “the most powerful address he ever gave,” a follow group of the Zuckerville collective somehow managed to ratchet up the glowing rhetoric Wednesday night. Taking over as the main host, Anderson Cooper was enthralled by what he heard and suggested it was…
Long Lost Love: Nets Cheer ‘Eloquent’ Obama’s ‘Amazing’ ‘Passion’
On Wednesday night, the broadcast networks reminded viewers of their undying love and adoration for former President Barack Obama, hailing his 2020 DNC remarks as a “pretty amazing” speech about “democracy” and “hope” that warned the former is “at stake” in 2020. And if that wasn’t enough, ABC claimed it would be “eloquent” and “edge” before it even happened while CBS called it afterward “the…
'Break Glass' Moment: Blitzer Lauds 'Most Powerful' Obama Speech Ever!
While night three of the Democratic National Convention featured vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaking not once but twice, CNN’s Zuckerville collective had a hard time focusing on anything other than former President Barack Obama’s address. And Immediately following CNN’s airing of Wednesday night’s convention in its entirety (no breaks what so ever), host Wolf Blitzer (…
MSNBC MELTDOWN Over Obama’s Warning of Coming ‘End of America’
Just hours earlier on Wednesday night, MSNBC hosts were getting emotional as they reminisced about past Barack Obama convention speeches. But after the Democrat addressed the 2020 gathering, the journalists at the network melted down over Obama’s warning of the coming “end of America,” should Donald Trump be reelected.
MSNBC SWOONS Over DNC Projecting ‘Vision’ of American ‘Potential’
On MSNBC before the start of Wednesday night's proceedings for the all-virtual Democratic National Convention, co-hosts Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace informed viewers that the DNC should make “anyone who cares about America...feel extremely proud” of their “potential” and “vision” for the country that, in 2008, elected a “unicorn” in Barack Obama and can now elected a woman as vice…
PBS Turns to Totenberg to Lament Biden Failed to Ruin Clarence Thomas
In the hour leading up to Night Three of the Democrat convention, PBS aired a profile of Biden’s career by reporter Lisa Desjardins, starring liberal-bias legend Nina Totenberg of NPR. Biden was judged positively for beating Robert Bork’s nomination for the Supreme Court in 1987, and negatively for not helping Anita Hill enough to defeat Clarence Thomas in 1991.
Never Forget Your First Love: Emotional MSNBCers Remember Obama
MSNBC’s journalists will never forget their first love. On Wednesday, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Nicolle Wallace reminisced over getting teary eyed about the “brilliant” Barack Obama, hailing the Democrat as “the one.” After playing video of then-state Senator Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Maddow got emotional, remembering that the next day on her radio…
‘Our Very Democracy at Stake’: ABC, NBC Blow Smoke for Obama Speech
The first two nights of the Democratic National Convention were snooze fests. So, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News were on a mission to hype night three, which would feature Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), two-time presidential failure Hillary Clinton, and former President Barack Obama. Of course, it was the latter that had the networks excited, with both touting how…
The NY Times Celebrates (Some) Women, Just Not This One
Donald Trump registered quite the achievement: He managed to make the avowedly feminist New York Times criticize renowned suffragist Susan B. Anthony in “With Eye on Election, Trump Plans to Pardon Women’s Suffrage Icon,” after the president announced he would mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote, by pardoning Anthony, who was arrested and…
CNN's Jennings Makes Trouble: Why Hasn't Bill Clinton Been Canceled?
It’s nice that CNN still occasionally allows a real conservative analyst to make trouble on the set. Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News reported that five minutes before the DNC-VCR segment of Tuesday night’s coverage kicked in, CNN analyst Scott Jennings caused a disturbance by asking why Democrats have never canceled Bill Clinton from appearing in the #MeToo era.
Party Hack: Gayle King Says Everyone ‘Cheering For’ Kamala Harris
Wanting to get a jump start on the inevitable media adulation that will be heaped on California Senator Kamala Harris when she formerly accepts the vice presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday’s CBS This Morning celebrated “the rise of Kamala Harris” as co-host Gayle King proclaimed that just about everyone was “cheering for” the left-wing lawmaker.…
