CBS's Harry Smith Shoots Some B-Ball With Presidential Pal
April 2nd, 2010 4:21 PM
In addition to the softball interview CBS's Harry Smith conducted with President Obama on Thursday, the Early Show co-host also played some one-on-one with the commander in chief on the White House basketball court, declaring on Friday's show: "it's not just talk, there's a little action too, as we bring in Clark Kellogg of CBS Sports to check out the President's basketball skills." [Audio…
Curt Schilling Talks about Starting a Small Business in MA, 'Disappoin
March 29th, 2010 5:41 PM
Watch the latest business video at <a href="http://video.foxbusiness.com/">video.foxbusiness.com</a>Curt Schilling is finding out that starting a small business in the state of Massachusetts is more taxing than 50,000 heckling Yankee fans could ever be. Schilling and wife Shonda were interviewed on…
Competitors See FNC's Baier as 'Contentious' with Obama While ABC Devo
March 17th, 2010 8:23 PM
CBS and NBC, which have delivered very friendly interviews with President Barack Obama (link below the jump to examples), on Wednesday night characterized Bret Baier's sit-down with Obama for the Fox News Channel as “contentious,” while ABC decided to devote nearly two minutes of World News (1:50) to Obama's college basketball tournament choices. Anchor Diane Sawyer teased at the start of the…
Guilty Pleasure: Prank Caller Pretends To Be Team USA Goalie, Fools MS
February 27th, 2010 8:58 AM
Although yours truly emphatically does not approve of the stunt, I have to acknowledge that whoever pranked MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist Friday by pretending to be Team USA hockey goalie Ryan Miller (pictured at right) did the nation two small favors: First, he embarrassed a network that seems incapable of being embarrassed by much of what its hosts and guests say on a daily basis…
Bias by the Numbers: Networks Give 30 Minutes to Tiger; Nothing for Ri
February 18th, 2010 4:18 PM
According to ABC, CBS and NBC, an athlete involved in a three-month-old sex scandal is more newsworthy than a statement of principles signed by more than 80 conservative leaders. Not just more newsworthy. The broadcast network morning shows devoted more than 30 minutes of coverage about Tiger Wood's statement to the press on his sexual "indiscretions" scheduled for Feb. 19. By contrast, the…
Flashback, Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Winter Olympics ‘Look Like G
February 13th, 2010 3:51 PM
On the eve of the Winter Olympics four years ago, Bryant Gumbel couldn't resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his Real Sports magazine show on HBO. The former NBC and CBS morning news host concluded by telling viewers that as for the Winter Olympic games, “count me among those who don't like 'em and won't watch 'em.” He condescendingly suggested…
CNN: Tebow Ad is the Result of Pro-Lifers Becoming More 'Feminist
February 5th, 2010 1:17 PM
CNN’s Carol Costello bizarrely claimed on Friday’s American Morning that the upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother is the “culmination of a brilliant marketing strategy by the anti-abortion movement... [which] has quietly found a way to rebrand itself as hip...and feminist.” Costello also misrepresented pro-lifers as people who regularly call women who abort “baby-killers.”The…
Sportswriter Dan Graziano Claims Tim Tebow ‘Made a Poor Decision
February 5th, 2010 11:41 AM
NFL FanHouse writer Dan Graziano tried to sound concerned in his Feb. 4 column about the collaboration of Tim Tebow and Focus on the Family for a pro-life Super Bowl ad. It quickly became apparent, however, that Graziano's main point was to vilify Focus on the Family. "Tebow must be careful as he moves from the world of collegiate athletics, where he was an unassailable hero, to that of…
Lundquist Trash-Talks B-Baller Obama: 'Problems Going To Your Right
January 30th, 2010 3:08 PM
Verne Lundquist, closet Republican? The sports announcer got in a bit of good-natured trash talking while interviewing Pres. Obama during this afternoon's game between Duke and Georgetown in DC that PBO attended. In a basketball-politics double entendre, Lundquist asked the left-handed Obama "do you have any problems at all going to your right?"When the president made his way to the announcers…
Bozell Column: Tim Tebow Takes a Stand
January 30th, 2010 8:22 AM
The Super Bowl is a cultural phenomenon. It’s not only watched by godzillions of people worldwide, it’s the only televised broadcast where the audience tunes in not just for the game, but for the commercials. The top-dollar, high-profile advertising space has led to some unforgettable commercials over the years. Sometimes the ad is so remarkable it becomes a word-of-mouth sensation before it even…
George W. Bush Gets Applause Despite Katrina ... Oh, Wait
January 26th, 2010 6:02 PM
(This post has been updated below.) 'Ya just gotta love BDSers (those with Bush Derangement Syndrome). Their hatred is so intense that it causes them to get even the most elementary of facts wrong. In this case, it's sports guy Filip Bondy of the NY Daily News, writing about this past Sunday's NFC Championship game in New Orleans:If you needed further proof of this [New Orleans racial] divide,…
Shuster Shouts At Supporter Of Tebow Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad
January 26th, 2010 4:53 PM
David Shuster has left no doubt on what side he comes down in the debate over the planned airing of a pro-life ad during the Super Bowl. Sponsored by Focus on the Family, the ad tells the story of how Pam Tebow ignored medical advice to have an abortion, and instead gave birth to Tim, who of course went on to become a legendary college football player and inspiration to millions for his faith…
