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Nets Fear Hillary’s ‘Near-Death Experience’ in Iowa
February 2nd, 2016 3:08 PM
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows fretted over Hillary Clinton barely defeating Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucus. NBC’s Today was the most melodramatic, with co-host Matt Lauer declaring: “Hillary Clinton gets to come out of Iowa and say, technically, ‘I'm the winner,’ but this had to be a near-death experience for the once-presumptive nominee.”
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ABC Blends 'Bombshell' Hillary E-mail Development Into 2016 Coverage
January 29th, 2016 11:56 PM
Friday's World News Tonight set aside the least amount of air time to the State Department's revelation that at least 22 of the e-mails on Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server contained top-secret information. The ABC program devoted a total of one minute and 28 seconds to the development. Jonathan Karl folded his coverage of the story into a segment about the Democratic presidential race…
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Chuck Todd: Trump Event Was ‘Rock Concert’ vs. ‘Low Energy' Debate
January 29th, 2016 12:09 AM
While Thursday night’s GOP debate was still on-going, NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd appeared on MSNBC’s The Last Word and hyped that Donald Trump events like the one he held instead of attending the debate have a “sort of like this rock concert feel” while the latest Republican presidential debate felt like it was “low energy” instead.
Nets Waste Nearly 10 Mins on Trump; Barely Preview Actual GOP Debate
January 28th, 2016 8:16 PM
In the latest sign that the liberal media loves the candidacy of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted nearly 10 minutes of their Thursday evening newscasts to capitulating to the “master of stealing the show” in Trump but only one minute and 29 seconds for previewing the actual debate with the top seven candidates that don’t include Trump. …
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Chuck Todd: Why Not Ask a Court to Say Cruz Eligible to Run?
January 28th, 2016 5:55 PM
Betraying his ignorance of the Constitution, MSNBC's Chuck Todd today essentially asked Cruz campaign senior communications advisor Alice Stewart why her boss doesn't just waltz up the marble staircase of a federal courthouse to get a federal judge, any federal judge, to rule from the bench that the Texas senator is a natural-born citizen and hence eligible to serve as president if elected.
TV Touts Trump Controversies But Avoids His Past Liberalism
January 28th, 2016 9:30 AM
As of Friday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s seven-month-old candidacy has been the focus of an incredible 684 minutes of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, far more than any of his GOP rivals. But amid that sea of Trump news, the networks have spent only about nine minutes (1.3% of Trump’s overall coverage) discussing the candidate’s clearly documented past support for…
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Liberal Nets Heap Praise on ‘Shrewd’ Trump ‘Eviscerating' Megyn Kelly
January 27th, 2016 9:15 PM
On Wednesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 10 minutes and 43 seconds over four segments on their evening newscasts to 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Thursday’s Fox News Channel (FNC) debate and, in that coverage, ABC and NBC hailed Trump as a “renegade” making “a very shrewd move” by “eviscerating” moderator Megyn Kelly and FNC.
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Sen. Sasse Rebukes Media For Failing to Ask Trump Tough Questions
January 27th, 2016 5:51 PM
Brought on the January 27 edition of MTP Daily to discuss his critical questions posed to Donald Trump via Twitter, Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse rebuked the media for not vetting Donald Trump to expose his anti-conservative, anti-constitutionalist positions on the issues.
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Chuck Todd: Obama Did Hillary ‘A Solid’ in Softball Politico Interview
January 26th, 2016 12:42 PM
Appearing on Tuesday’s NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd touted President Obama giving a boost to Hillary Clinton’s struggling campaign during a softball exchange with Politico’s Glenn Thrush: “...this is something where the President was trying to do her a solid in this case.”
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Chuck Todd's Softball to Hillary on E-Mails: 'Are You Concerned?'
January 24th, 2016 5:19 PM
NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd conducted a pretty soft interview with Hillary Clinton on Sunday, especially the way he let Mrs. Clinton get away with suggesting there is no e-mail scandal and “I cannot control what the Republicans leak,” as if the Inspector General of the State Department is some kind of Republican plant.
Todd left it for the end of the interview, and only asked her if she…
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Chuck Todd Socks Sanders From Left on Reparations
January 24th, 2016 11:37 AM
It's not easy to get to the left of Bernie Sanders. He is a self-described socialist, after all. But hats off to Chuck Todd: he's managed to do it! On today's Meet the Press, Todd, citing Ta-nehisi Coates, challenged Sanders: why aren't you for reparations . . . because of slavery for African-Americans when you're calling for economic justice on so many other levels? Why do you stop short on…
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Chuck Todd Claims Petraeus Email Abuse 'Worse' Than Hillary's
January 21st, 2016 8:14 AM
Hillary Clinton's defense lawyers made a stunning appearance on today's Morning Joe, asserting that David Petraeus' mishandling of his emails was "worse" than what Hillary did, and arguing that she should not be charged. Oh, wait: those weren't Hillary's lawyers: they were NBC's Chuck Todd, and politician-turned-professor Harold Ford, Jr.
Can anyone recall this level of naked partisan advocacy…
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Todd to Pelosi: ‘How Important Is It' for Dems to Elect Hillary?
January 17th, 2016 9:42 PM
In the pre-Democratic debate show on MSNBC Sunday night, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd brought on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and asked her if, as “a student of American politics” and someone who “broke a marble ceiling as first woman Speaker of the House,” how significant it would be “for the Democratic Party to elect the first woman president.”
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No Surprise: Stephanopoulos Lobs Softballs at Hillary, Skips Benghazi
January 17th, 2016 6:16 PM
Hillary Clinton conducted interviews on four of the five major Sunday morning talk shows (the lone omission being Fox News Sunday) and while CNN’s Jake Tapper, NBC’s Chuck Todd, and even CBS’s John Dickerson asked questions of substance, the fourth interview offered a stark contrast with former Clinton official and Clinton Foundation donor George Stephanopoulos giving her a measly three questions…
