Budget

MRC analysts looked at 30 stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening programs covering the most recent budget debates from September 23 to October 10 and discovered a whopping disparity in the soundbite count with Democrats overwhelming Republicans by a 115 to 16 count. 

On Tuesday, Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn noted how ABC News subsidiary FiveThirtyEight drew criticism for having “taken a hard turn to the right” simply for objecting to Democratic Party plans to spend trillions. The headline of the ABC-backed article lamented: “Kyrsten Sinema Is Confounding Her Own Party. But…Why?”

With Congress’s debate on the debt ceiling pushed back to December 3, ABC chief anchor George Stephanopoulos invited Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen onto Sunday’s This Week in order to pressure her into going along with absurd schemes Democrats were cooking up to deal with the national debt. From a trillion-dollar coin to invoking an archaic part of the 14^th Amendment, he…

On Wednesday night, disgraced former NBC News host Brian Williams was again using his late night perch on MSNBC to display his partisan views as he promoted the anti-Republican Lincoln Project -- itself also a disgraced group which Williams has been covering for on his show.

On Monday, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke had to explain to the liberal media that left-wing activists harassing Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema to the point of following the lawmaker into a bathroom was “not normal.” He called out the fact that the press had failed to denounce the radical tactics.

On Monday, Brandon Gillespie at FoxNews.com reported on The Washington Post fretting that White House willingness to appease West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin by not increasing spending quite as much – but still spend trillions – was somehow the equivalent of making “grueling cuts.” Of course this is about legislation that hasn’t even passed yet.

Liberal ignorance of flyover country was on full display on CNN this morning. On New Day, CNN commentator Dr. Abdul El-Sayed—a Bernie Sanders ally—suggested that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin should support the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill because it includes funds to address climate change. El-Sayed claimed that "climate change is ravaging coastal states like his." West…

On Thursday, Republican Senator Pat Toomey repeatedly embarrassed leftist CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil by dismantling the anchor’s Democratic Party talking points about raising the nation’s debt limit. The GOP lawmaker called out Dokoupil for pushing “a partisan political point of view that’s designed to provide cover for the Democrats’ spending.”

On her MSNBC show Wednesday afternoon, worried and frustrated anchor Andrea Mitchell bemoaned moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema refusing to support wasting trillions on socialism. The left-wing host channeled radical House Democrats demanding President Biden “get tougher” and tell the lawmakers to “get in line.”

The night after they ranted about how CNN supposedly had high journalistic standards, and repeated suggestions that they were against the two-party system and didn’t belong to any party, hosts Chris “Fredo” Cuomo and Don Lemon spent a lot of time Wednesday night batting for progressive Democrats as they tried to take swings at the knees of moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and…

On Tuesday’s CBS Mornings, senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe was visibly frustrated that congressional Democrats were “squabbling” over the cost of their massive spending plans rather than focusing on how to “reshape” the country with radical socialism. Upset co-host Gayle King compared lawmakers to petulant children fighting in the back seat of a car during a family…

There’s a new battle brewing over the federal debt ceiling. Ten years ago, after the Obama administration instigated massive federal spending to deal with the Great Recession, Republicans insisted on long-term deficit reduction, and the liberal media slammed them as nihilists, hostage-takers, terrorists, suicide bombers and zombie vampires.

Today's politicians want to spend more on EVERYTHING: Amtrak subsidies, sports stadium subsidies, green energy subsidies, even fossil fuel subsidies ... President Joe Biden says the handouts will "put more money in your pocket." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims they will "protect the planet for the children." They might. But a disproportionate amount of the money will end up in the hands of…

The deadline is fast approaching for Congress to approve raising the debt ceiling, and the liberal media is astonished that Republicans will not simply go along with it. The increase, which needs Republican support to pass, is one requirement for the passage of the Biden administration’s exorbitant $3.5 trillion budget plan. Without increasing the debt ceiling, the US government cannot go into…