Dissidents' Delight? NYT Heaps Praise on Obama, Its Man in Havana

Clay Waters
March 23rd, 2016 3:09 PM
As President Obama’s three-day Cuba excursion wraps up, the New York Times coverage from Havana took a few shots at the Communist nation’s persecution of dissidents, and the overall authoritarian nature of the regime. But the fawning over Obama’s “remarkable” visit went way over the top, including self-fawning: "Mr. Obama himself marveled aloud at the significance of his trip." On the last day of…
 
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After Belgium Attacks, NBC Warns of ‘Rise of Right Wing’ in Europe

Kyle Drennen
March 22nd, 2016 11:07 AM
During NBC’s breaking news coverage of the terrorist attacks in Belgium Tuesday morning, correspondents Andrea Mitchell and Richard Engel wasted no time warning of the “rise of the right wing” throughout Europe in response to such attacks.
 
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Mitchell Lectures Detained Cuban Dissident on Benefits of Obama Visit

Curtis Houck
March 21st, 2016 10:29 PM
NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent/MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell continued to heap praise on President Obama’s decision for the U.S. to reestablish relations with Cuba to the point where she briefly lectured a recently detained Cuban dissident on Monday’s NBC Nightly News about the benefits of the President’s visit: “The President's argument is if I come, if we talk, I can make progress.”
 
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Mitchell Asks Castro About ‘Different Interpretation’ of Human Rights

Kyle Drennen
March 21st, 2016 4:10 PM
In a question to Cuban dictator Raul Castro during a joint press conference with President Obama on Monday, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell gently pressed the Communist leader on human rights abuses: “President Castro, for many of us, it's remarkable to hear you speak about all of these subjects. Could you tell us what you see in the future?... What is the future of our…
 
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NBC, CBS: Obamas ‘Acting Like Tourists’ During ‘Historic’ Cuba Trip

Kyle Drennen
March 21st, 2016 12:07 PM
On Monday, while ABC’s Good Morning America aired a softball interview with President Obama from Cuba, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning both celebrated the First Family “acting like tourists” during their “historic” trip to the Communist dictatorship.  
 
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Morning Joe: GOP Brand 'Appalling, Disgusting, and Pathetic' 'Toxic'

Nicholas Fondacaro
March 18th, 2016 4:15 PM

Joe Scarborough may not have been on Friday’s Morning Joe, because his band was performing at SXSW but that didn’t stop the liberal bias from flowing. Everything from Republican Party bashing to Hillary Clinton-praising was out on display going into the weekend. Donny Deutsch, of Republicans for not meeting with Judge Merrick Garland: “The fact that they won't even walk into a room is…

 
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Nets Do Obama’s Bidding, Pressure GOP on Court Nominee

Kyle Drennen
March 17th, 2016 12:08 PM
On Thursday, the broadcast networks wasted no time advancing President Obama’s political strategy to force Republicans to confirm his Supreme Court nominee. The NBC, ABC, and CBS morning newscasts were eager to tout “pressure” being brought to bear on GOP senators to make them “pay a price” for opposing Merrick Garland for the high court.
 
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MSNBC Worries That ‘White Male’ Nominee Won’t ‘Fire Up’ Dem Base

Scott Whitlock
March 16th, 2016 12:54 PM
As soon as Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, the hosts at MSNBC immediately began to wonder if the choice of a “white male” was a mistake. Though making the predictable assertion that Garland was definitely a reasonable “moderate,” journalist Ron Allen worried, “But, there's going to be a lot of concern about this choice by many people who are…
 

By 15:1 Margin, Nets Blame Trump, Not Lefties, for Campaign Violence

Rich Noyes
March 14th, 2016 4:37 PM

Since Friday night’s mayhem in Chicago, all three broadcast networks have made the violence surrounding Donald Trump’s rallies the near-exclusive focus of their campaign coverage. But an MRC analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC news coverage found that the left-wing protesters who forced the cancellation of a presidential campaign event escaped nearly all blame, as reporters dumped 94% of the blame on…

 
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MSNBC Promotes Cancer Research Funded by the Koch Brothers

Kyle Drennen
March 9th, 2016 3:55 PM
While reporting on advances in cancer research on Wednesday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell inadvertently promoted the philanthropic work of billionaire David Koch, who along with his brother Charles, has routinely been vilified by the left-wing network for funding conservative political causes.  
 
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Nets Cheer Nancy Reagan Breaking With GOP on Stem Cells

Kyle Drennen
March 7th, 2016 3:07 PM
While remembering the legacy of Nancy Reagan on Monday, all three network morning shows made sure to highlight an issue in which she broke with much of the Republican Party – embryonic stem cell research. On NBC’s Today, Peter Alexander touted: “With Alzheimer's Disease robbing her husband's memory, Mrs. Reagan was again cast into a supporting role, with a new cause, a champion of stem cell…
 
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Andrea Mitchell Uses Death of Nancy Reagan to Hammer GOP

Kyle Drennen
March 7th, 2016 12:10 PM
Calling in to an NBC special report about the death of Nancy Reagan on Sunday, correspondent Andrea Mitchell was eager to use the former First Lady’s passing to attack the current crop of Republican presidential candidates: “...we know that she did not believe in extremes. That she believed in compromise. That she believed, as did her husband, in walking – in working across party lines....So I…
 
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Ruth Marcus: Escalating E-Mail Investigation ‘Good News’ for Hillary

Kyle Drennen
March 3rd, 2016 4:24 PM
Appearing during MSNBC’s 12 p.m. ET hour on Thursday, liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus followed Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points to the letter by laughably declaring the escalating investigation into the e-mail scandal was somehow “good news” for the Democratic frontrunner.  
 
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ABC Ignores Final Batch of Hillary E-Mails Being Released

Kyle Drennen
March 1st, 2016 3:43 PM
While both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning on Tuesday managed to at least offer seconds of coverage to the State Department releasing the last batch of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, ABC’s Good Morning America completely censored the topic from its political reporting.