CBS's Schieffer: Democratic Moral Victory Means GOP Will Lose House
June 7th, 2006 4:23 PM
CBS’s Early Show co-hosts, in the wake of the June 6 loss in a special congressional election, did the best they could to put a positive spin on the fortunes of Democrats. Co-host Hannah Storm interviewed Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer at 7:11AM EDT about yesterday’s election. The Democratic candidate lost, but that didn’t stop Schieffer from prognosticating what this event signified for the…
ABC & NBC Celebrate Princeton Salutatorian Who’s an Illegal; NBC Hai
June 6th, 2006 10:28 PM
The Tuesday ABC and NBC evening newscasts ran tributes to Princeton University’s salutatorian, illegal immigrant Dan-el Padilla Peralta, and NBC also hailed the efforts of illegals in Queens to defy efforts to crack down on them. At the top of World News Tonight, Charles Gibson fretted, “American dream: A Princeton graduate who rose from homelessness to the top of his class, but could now be…
WaPo's Milbank: Senator Sessions an Angry 'Country Tough
May 24th, 2006 4:54 PM
Imagine that Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank were profiling a Democrat who was as steadfastly liberal as Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is conservative. The column virtually writes itself. We can imagine the liberal described as "putting principle above expediency", "courageous," perhaps even "speaking truth to power."But when it comes to a conservative such as Sessions, that…
NYT Publisher Sulzberger Goes on a Left-Wing Rant at Graduation
May 22nd, 2006 12:07 PM
As keynote commencement speaker, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr."apologized" to graduates at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Sunday for the failure of his generation to stop the Iraq War and to sufficiently promote "fundamental human rights" like abortion, immigration, and gay marriage.Paul Kirby of Kingston's Daily Freeman quoted from Sulzberger's address, which…
