FLASHBACK: Lib Reporters Championed ’06 Illegal Immigrant Protests

Rich Noyes
April 28th, 2024 10:02 AM

Eighteen years ago this week, the liberal networks donated their airwaves to the cause of protesters seeking to kill a bill which would have increased the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration laws, with fawning and emotionally-charged coverage of left-wing political marches — “people draping themselves in the American dream,” as one over-the-top morning host anchor enthused.

 

How’d It Get Published? Daily Beast Pens Fact-Free Smear of NewsNation

Curtis Houck
September 15th, 2023 12:03 PM

The Daily Beast has always had a reputation as not only a leftist publication, but a contemptuous band of pricks buffered by layers of juvenile smugness. So, it was no surprise when they had writer Joe Berkowitz spend a week watching NewsNation and, on cue, he concluded with a piece dripping with disdain that was so thick he must of forgotten to get basic facts right, including who hosts what…

 
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ABC Omits Classified Material on Hillary's Server; Touts Her Health

Matthew Balan
July 31st, 2015 9:30 PM
Friday's World News Tonight on ABC failed to mention that 37 out of 1,000 of Hillary Clinton's e-mails from her private e-mail server, which were released earlier in the day, contained information that is considered "confidential." Substitute anchor Elizabeth Vargas did give a 28-second news brief on the "flood of documents from the Hillary Clinton campaign" that include tax forms from between…
 

ABC, NBC Hype Caitlyn Jenner Speech at ESPY Awards

Ken Shepherd
July 16th, 2015 8:56 PM
Both ABC's World News Tonight and NBC's Nightly News on Thursday evening devoted full stories to Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner's acceptance speech at last night ESPY Awards. Although Jenner's receiving the award was controversial even among liberal supporters of transgender rights -- critics charged there were far more deserving potential recipients  -- neither ABC's Elizabeth Vargas nor NBC's…
 
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ABC’s 20/20 Exposes Rampant Disability Fraud

Connor Williams
May 28th, 2015 3:25 PM
In a surprising segment, ABC’s 20/20 highlighted several cases of freeloading by people looking to fraudulently claim disability. While the program did not get to the heart of the matter – just how easy it is to claim disability and the skyrocketing cost of the program – noting a major flaw in an expensive government program is rare for a liberal network like ABC. 
 

'Key' Obamacare Rule Mentioned Just Once by Nets as It Takes Effect

Joseph Rossell
January 6th, 2015 12:08 PM
The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, started creating even more headaches for both employers and employees across the country beginning Jan. 1, 2015. That was the day Obamacare’s employer mandate went into effect, requiring companies with 100 or more workers to provide health insurance to at least 70 percent of their employees. Mandates for smaller businesses will be introduced in…
 
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'Big Three' Give Scalise Controversy 13 Minutes of Coverage In 1 Day

Jeffrey Meyer
December 31st, 2014 9:23 AM
On Monday, a liberal blogger revealed that Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke at a conference hosted by white supremacists in 2002 and the “big three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) networks eagerly jumped on the story. Starting with Tuesday’s morning news shows, the “big three” have given 13 minutes and 7 seconds to Scalise’s 2002 speech with each network doing its best to push how it could hurt…
 

Our Study You Saw on Friday's Special Report on Fox News

Rich Noyes
September 8th, 2014 4:50 PM
As President Obama’s approval ratings have tumbled in 2014, polling news has practically vanished from the Big Three evening newscasts — in stunning contrast to how those same newscasts relentlessly emphasized polls showing bad news for George W. Bush during the same phase of his presidency.
 

ABC Conflates Legal and Illegal Immigration, Tags Protesters 'Anti-Imm

Brad Wilmouth
July 6th, 2014 3:46 PM
On Friday's World News on ABC, correspondent David Wright filed a report in which he portrayed opponents of illegal immigration in Murrieta, California, as "anti-immigrant," with the ABC correspondent blurring together the issues of legal and illegal immigration. The report provocatively included a soundbite of an unidentified activist complaining that the people of Murrieta look "xenophobic…
 

Ten Years Ago, 'The Passion' Ruckus Demonstrated Network TV's Hostilit

Tim Graham
April 18th, 2014 1:26 PM
Ten years ago, Mel Gibson unveiled his massively successful movie The Passion of The Christ. It came out on Ash Wednesday (February 25, 2004), but is often re-viewed on Good Friday. It had a worldwide box-office gross of over $611 million. In our Special Report on religion coverage that year, we explored how the TV networks attacked Gibson's movie as extreme, divisive, and potentially harmful…
 

Madonna (Really): 'Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People

Tom Blumer
June 22nd, 2013 12:15 PM
There's no word on whether Elizabeth Vargas had to receive smelling salts during her interview of Madonna which appeared on "Good Morning America." But it wouldn't be a surprise if she did. When the ABC reporter, whose interview was relayed by the network's Sabrina Parise and posted at Yahoo.com, questioned the diva's use of gun choreography in her current tour's stage show, she certainly…
 

ABC: 'Controversial' Thatcher, a 'Titan' Who Was 'Both Adored and Vili

Scott Whitlock
April 8th, 2013 10:56 AM
ABC's Good Morning America on Monday broke into live coverage to report that the "controversial" "titan" Margaret Thatcher had died. The morning show's reporters highlighted both her conservative beliefs, for which she was "vilified," and compared her to Winston Churchill. Guest co-host Elizabeth Vargas announced that the late Prime Minister's "belief in herself and her policies" led to her…
 

Rewriting the Bible: The Gospel According to Liberals

Paul Wilson
March 13th, 2013 1:45 PM
When liberals and their media allies have an agenda to push, they’ll use any tool at hand. The left often rails against the presence of religion in civic life, mocking conservative Christians as “Taliban” agitating for theocracy. But other times, they find faith to be a handy weapon to bludgeon conservatives. And they’ll go so far as to reinterpret and rewrite the Bible to justify any liberal…
 

GMA Doubles Down on Gun Control Advocacy

Jeffrey Meyer
December 19th, 2012 12:52 PM
For the third day in a row, ABC's Good Morning America used the horrific Newtown tragedy to push its gun control agenda.  On Wednesday morning, both ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas and Pierre Thomas hyped that now is a "watershed moment" and a "tipping point" as stores halted sales of some guns and Democratic NRA member Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) considered changing his views on gun laws. "Big-city…