Hume and Douglass Scold ABC and Ross for Overplaying 'Bad' Hastert Sto
On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume, a veteran of ABC News, chided his former employer: “ABC News came out with this story, worded the way it was. 'Included in the investigation,' ‘in the mix of the investigation,' has an unmistakable implication, and that is the guy's under investigation. We have now had an absolutely unequivocal denial of that, not only from the Justice Department at one level, but…
CBS News: If He's a Crook, He Must Be a Republican
Congressman William Jefferson is the Democrat from Louisiana whose Capitol Hill office was raided by the Justice Department in search of evidence pertaining to bribery allegations.
Not according to CBS News, however, which today identifies Mr. Jefferson as "the Louisiana Republican."
Perhaps the network has bought into the Dean-Pelosi-Reid fiction that if there's corruption involved, it must…
Laura Ingraham Slams ABC’s Brian Ross For ‘Bogus’ and 'Shoddy' H
As MRC’s Brent Baker pointed out Thursday, there appear to be some serious holes in a story reported by ABC’s Brian Ross on Wednesday’s “World News Tonight.” For those with short memory spans, Ross alleged that House Speaker Dennis Hastert is involved in a congressional bribery investigation. Though this has been fervently denied by the justice department, as well as Hastert's office which is…
ABC Acknowledges Denials Yet Ross Stands By Hastert Bribery Probe Clai
A night after ABC’s World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas hyperbolically led “with a major development in a Washington bribery scandal” in “a story with potentially major political implications” and Brian Ross asserted that “federal officials tell us the congressional bribery investigation now includes the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert,” which George Stephanopoulos called “…
CBS’s Borger Spins Democrat Jefferson’s Corruption Into Bad News f
Gloria Borger concluded her Monday CBS Evening News story on the FBI’s weekend confiscation of cash from a freezer in Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson’s home by declaring a pox on both parties: “At a time when 77 percent of the American public believes that all members of Congress take bribes, Congressman Jefferson's troubles help no one in either party.” Unlike ABC anchor…
