NBC's Mitchell: Does Middle Class Wealth Loss 'Justify' More Stimulus
June 13th, 2012 10:36 AM
In an interview with Republican Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey on her Tuesday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell attempted to use a new Federal Reserve report showing massive wealth loss for the American middle class to promote President Obama's agenda: "Does that, in fact, justify what the President has been saying...about the need for more help and the need for more stimulus?"
Toomey…
Sorry, Jeb Bush Didn’t Say Reagan Couldn’t Get Elected
June 12th, 2012 4:44 PM
The BuzzFeed Website carried an article on Monday based on an interview with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in which he said that his father, George H. W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan would have a difficult time getting nominated by today's “ultra-conservative” Republican Party in a “hyper-partisan moment.”
The only problem is that Bush never used the words “ultra-conservative” or “hyper-partisan”in…
NBC's Todd Warns: Romney May Be 'Least Transparent President In a Gene
June 12th, 2012 4:16 PM
At the top of his Tuesday MSNBC morning show The Daily Rundown, NBC chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd cited the Romney campaign's refusal to release a list of top fundraising bundlers as evidence that "if he wins in November, Romney could very well be the least transparent president in a generation." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Todd…
CBS Trumpets Justice Dept. Leak Cases 'More Than Previous Administrati
June 12th, 2012 2:13 PM
Norah O'Donnell spun the recent controversy over national security leaks in the Obama administration's favor on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, touting that "the Justice Department...points out that they have launched six cases since 2009 to investigate these leaks. And interestingly...that is more than all previous administrations combined."
O'Donnell also forwarded the White House's talking…
NBC, Arbiter of Civility? 'Today' Correspondent Slams Conservative Gro
June 12th, 2012 11:51 AM
On Tuesday's NBC Today, correspondent Kristen Welker amazingly shoe-horned a swipe at Republicans into a report about Commerce Secretary John Bryson causing multiple car accidents over the weekend, claiming that a tweet from a GOP super-PAC about the incident was "a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
After quoting…
Andrea Mitchell: Citizens United Could Be Final 'Nail in the Coffin' f
June 12th, 2012 11:36 AM
To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the infamous 1972 break-in at the Watergate, Andrea Mitchell on Monday hosted John Dean, President Nixon’s former legal counsel. The MSNBC anchor and the conservative critic actually connected the scandal to the 2010 Citizen United Supreme Court case.
During the interview, Dean complained that the “financial reform that came with Watergate is gone…
Big Three Ignore Religious Freedom Rallies; CBS Played Up Dissenting C
June 11th, 2012 5:08 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC stayed true to their liberal slant and ignored the 164 rallies across the United States on Friday against the federal government's abortifacient/birth control mandate under ObamaCare. Religious leaders and conservative politicians, like former GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, addressed the tens of thousands of pro-religious freedom activists who attended the…
‘True Blood’ Creator Says Conservatives Are the Same as Vampires
June 8th, 2012 2:24 PM
When you’re producing the fifth season of a show notable mainly for bloody pornography, how do you keep viewers interest up? Evil conservatives!
That’s exactly what HBO’s filthy, sex-obsessed vampire series “True Blood” is doing for its June 10 premiere. Creator Alan Ball told TVLine.com to expect a "church and state" theme for the season.
Bob Schieffer Laughs Off 'Campaigner-In-Chief' Charge Against Obama
June 8th, 2012 2:03 PM
Bob Schieffer didn't think much of the accusation that President Obama is the "campaigner-in-chief" on Friday's CBS This Morning. When anchor Erica Hill wondered if that charge could be "harmful" to the President, Schieffer laughed aloud and replied, "If he raises enough money, it won't hurt him at all."
Just a day earlier on the morning show, correspondent Bill Plante actually pointed out…
Psst, Don't Tell Anyone: 'Wave' of Dems Leaving the Party 'Over Marria
June 8th, 2012 1:21 AM
The Catholic News Agency's Michelle Bauman reports that there has been a "wave" of recent defections and departures from the Democratic Party that could be as many as several hundred. The establishment press is clearly being remiss in failing to note them at all -- something which would not be occurring if it involved Republicans going to the party of the left.
The reasons for the moves…
Charlie Rose Touts Jeb Bush's Differences With GOP on Obama, Taxes
June 7th, 2012 6:12 PM
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose went out of his way to spotlight how guest Jeb Bush once complimented President Obama, and played up his disagreements with fellow Republicans. Rose touted how supposedly only Bush had the "courage" to differ with "every Republican candidate in the primary" in being open to eliminating tax deductions to increase revenue.
The anchor also…
NBC's Brian Williams Decries 'People Who Had Never Been to Wisconsin
June 7th, 2012 5:17 PM
Remarking that Wisconsin voters had "decided to leave their governor in office" on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams contemptuously declared that "money flowed into that state from all over the country, from people who had never been to Wisconsin, had no connection to Wisconsin. Part of the new and unlimited spending that is changing politics in a hurry." [Listen to the audio…
MSNBC's Schultz Lectures Union Members Who Voted for Scott Walker
June 6th, 2012 9:30 PM
On Wednesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz took a condescending tone toward labor union members who voted for Governor Scott Walker in Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin as he recounted NBC News exit poll numbers showing that a significant chunk of union voters supported the Wisconsin Republican.
A baffled Schultz relayed the numbers and recounted the decision of some union…
NPR Plays Up Democrats' 'Pay Equity' Tactic Against GOP; Omit Democrat
June 6th, 2012 8:09 PM
NPR's Tamara Keith forwarded the "war on women" talking point of Democratic senators on Tuesday's All Things Considered as she reported on their proposed Paycheck Fairness Act. Keith spotlighted how "the bill's author...Senator Barbara Mikulski from Maryland, points out women earn just 77 cents for every dollar made by a man in the same position. She says that's the real war on women."…