Rush Limbaugh: 'Next Time Obama Has a Colonoscopy...Which NBC Personal

August 16th, 2011 10:41 AM
The Obama-lovin' at NBC News is becoming a thing of legend. On Monday, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, during a discussion with a caller about David Gregory's grilling of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on "Meet the Press" said, "Next time Obama has a colonoscopy, I wonder who they'll find in there. Which NBC personality will show up first?" (video follows with transcript and…

NBC's Chuck Todd: Obama 'Taking Comfort' in GOP 'Race to the Right

August 15th, 2011 1:40 PM
On Monday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd described liberal wishful thinking as "conventional wisdom" as he explained how: "The Obama team has been taking comfort in the fact that they believe this Republican race is moving to the Right, that it's a race to the Right. And they take comfort in that and they think that's going to help them long term." At the same time,…

NBC Pushes Obama From Left, Worries Liberals Are Growing 'Angry' and

August 10th, 2011 5:08 PM
At the top of Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: "President Obama faces new criticism from members of his own party, is he doing enough to manage the [economic] crisis?...Should he, for example, demand that Congress cut short its summer vacation to address the situation?" In the segment that followed, the headline on screen read: "Dems Urge Obama to Get Tough With GOP &…

MSNBC's Chuck Todd Gets His History Wrong, Selectively Quotes 14th Ame

July 28th, 2011 10:58 AM
Update: According to the Library of Congress website, July 28, 1868 was the day when Secretary of State William Seward "issued a proclamation certifying without reservation that the Fourteenth Amendment was a part of the United States Constitution." Todd told his viewers that July 28, 1868 was the day the amendment "officially became part of the U.S. Constitution" although Article V of the U.S…

NBC: Maybe 'Near Catastrophic Financial Reaction' Will Bring House GOP

July 21st, 2011 3:55 PM
Appearing on Thursday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd lamented no deal being reached on the debt ceiling and solely blamed House Republicans: "Nobody has a plan that can get through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives....that's the issue. House Republicans don't like any of these ideas that are coming out of the Senate." Co-host Matt Lauer wondered if a…

After Routinely Bashing Republicans in Debt Ceiling Debate, NBC Touts

July 20th, 2011 5:44 PM
On Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd promoted the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, declaring that when it came to raising the nation's debt ceiling, "...it was a landslide as far as what the public preferred. 58% preferring the President's vision on that front versus 36% [for the Republican proposal]." Todd went on to conclude that "most of this poll…

NBC Dismisses GOP Debt Ceiling Plan as a 'Show,' 'Just Wasting Time

July 19th, 2011 1:35 PM
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry admonished Republicans for trying to pass a balanced budget amendment as part of a debt ceiling agreement: "Tea Party conservatives love this plan. The President has already said that he's going to veto it. Do we really have time for a plan that is really just show?" [Audio available here] In response, congressional correspondent Kelly O'Donnell…

Meet the Press: 'Debt Slayer' Obama Willing to Compromise, GOP Just Sa

July 11th, 2011 3:34 PM
During the roundtable discussion on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson claimed the fight over the debt ceiling would be a political "winner" for President Obama, prompting host David Gregory to declare that the commander in chief would look like "the debt slayer." Gregory then turned to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd and wondered why…

Chuck Todd: Limbaugh Couldn't Win GOP Nomination - Doubtful Palin Coul

July 10th, 2011 6:24 PM
David Gregory decided to have a very fair and balanced roundtable discussion at the conclusion of Sunday's "Meet the Press" exclusively with the perilously liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and the equally left-leaning Chuck Todd of NBC News. With the subject being Newsweek's new cover story about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Todd mysteriously made the case for how slim…

NBC: Republicans 'Strike Back' at Obama and 'Made it Unusually Persona

July 1st, 2011 12:49 PM
While NBC's Today on Thursday characterized President Obama's attacks on congressional Republicans as "feisty," on Friday, correspondent Kelly O'Donnell appeared on the broadcast and declared that "Republicans made it unusually personal" in responding to the White House  criticism. Despite the President's claim in his Wednesday press conference that his daughters worked harder than GOP…

NBC's Today: 'Feisty' Obama Gave Republicans 'A Pretty Good Tongue Las

June 30th, 2011 3:41 PM
At the top of Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry proclaimed: "President Obama calls out Congress to strike a deficit reduction deal during a feisty news conference." Moments later, fellow co-host Matt Lauer added that the President "gave Congress a pretty good tongue lashing on Wednesday." Curry further described how Obama "rebuked Congress for taking recesses instead of tackling…

NBC’s Chuck Todd: Anti-Tax Hike Tea Party Republicans Are the ‘Pro

June 30th, 2011 8:29 AM
“The problem is this issue with the House Republicans,” NBC’s Chuck Todd declared Wednesday night in naming the culprit blocking help to Americans whom anchor Brian Williams asserted “are hurting every day and hoping for a result to make their lives better.” In a story on President Barack Obama’s press conference, Todd maintained Obama and the Senate could come together, but he blamed the…

NBC Nightly News Mentions Jet Tax Loophole Twice, Ignores It Was Part

June 30th, 2011 12:33 AM
The "NBC Nightly News" mentioned the corporate jet tax loophole twice in its report concerning Barack Obama's press conference Wednesday. Unfortunately, Brian Williams and Chuck Todd neglected to inform viewers that this loophole was part of the President's stimulus package in 2009 (video follows with commentary):

NBC Touts 'Sober' Obama 'Fulfilling His Promise' of Troop Withdrawal i

June 23rd, 2011 1:30 PM
On Thursday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd recited Obama administration spin as he gave a fully positive assessment of the President's Wednesday announcement of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal: "The President went with the most aggressive compromised withdrawal plan he could get commanders at the Pentagon to sign off on." Moments later, Todd declared: "It was a sober…