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Evening Nets Minimize Zeldin Assassination Attempt: 'Sharp' Keychain
After minimal coverage Friday morning of the violent assassination attempt of New York Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin as he campaigned for governor, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News downplayed the attack with the latter calling the weapon just a keychain. And NBC Nightly News ignored the attack altogether to focus on lost luggage at airports.
CBS Laments 'Retrenchment,' Plays Softball with Planned Parenthood
CBS marked the downfall of Roe v. Wade on Friday by observing that millions of Americans will be strongly opposed to the Court’s ruling and to that point, lobbed softballs to Planned Parenthood while grilling the March for Life.
Nets Get Weak Knees Over ‘Genuine,’ ‘Remarkable’ KBJ’s ‘Beaming Smile’
The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC decided Friday afternoon that they had to up their game for the White House’s celebration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation, waxing poetic about the “extraordinary” “party” for Jackson, who exudes “excellence” in the face of “persistent sexism,” “racism,” and “attacks” from Republicans and those who haven’t joined in “this moment of…
Insufferable CBS Goes Gaga for Jackson, Demand GOP Do 'Soul-Searching'
As was the case on ABC and NBC, CBS flaunted its liberal leanings and gush Thursday for incoming Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson following her Senate confirmation vote, couching their admiration in her being someone to revere beyond ideology (given her gender and skin color) while admonishing Republicans for having “wasted” her confirmation hearings and suggested senators do “soul-…
Biden LOSES IT When CBS Points Out Sanctions Failed to Deter Putin
During a Thursday press conference following an emergency NATO summit in Brussels to address the war in Ukraine, President Biden was pressed by CBS News correspondent Christina Ruffini on the fact that economic sanctions failed to deter Russian dictator Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, Biden angrily denied that sanctions were ever meant to be a…
Evening Nets Ignore Soros Throwing $125M at His Super PAC
Liberal billionaire George Soros is back to his old tricks, trying to use gigantic cash flows to influence the outcome of U.S. elections. The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows are sweeping it under the rug.
NBC Bemoans Harry Reid's Decision to Change Senate Filibuster Rule
As was reported here on Wednesday afternoon, ABC, NBC, and CBS had nothing but gushing praise for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This was also true on Wednesday evening as the liberal networks drooled all over Reid and his legacy as the longtime leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate. However, NBC Nightly News did change their tune slightly from this morning.
'Kingmaker': Nets Remember Harry Reid as a 'Force of Nature'
Not a bad word or embarrassing moment was mentioned by the broadcast networks Wednesday morning as they reported on the life and death of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Instead, they showed him the greatest of reverence as they praised him as a Democratic “kingmaker,” “force of nature,” and a “powerbroker.”
CBS Hypes Good Economic News for Biden While NBC Plays Skeptic
With 2021 quickly drawing to a close, and Americans beginning to travel for the holidays and tuning out the news, CBS decided tonight was their last chance to spin for the Biden Administration before the new year. Approximately nine minutes into their broadcast, CBS Evening News was quick to report on the fact that U.S. consumer confidence rose to its highest levels since July.
ABC Brags Biden Elbow Deep in Dem Negotiations, CBS Says He's Hiding
There was a tale of two conflicting messages floating around during the network evening newscasts Thursday, as ABC tried to boast about President Biden rolling up his sleeves to be elbow deep in the negotiations between defiant Democratic factions. Meanwhile, CBS burst their competitor’s narrative to explain why Biden was trying to keep himself at arms-length so as not to sink his own agenda…
Media Hail ‘Vindication’ for Newsom, Grumbled at Walker’s Recall Win
The media today are cheering how Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom won his recall election, but that's not at all how some media liberals reacted when it was a Republican Governor, Wisconsin's Scott Walker, who won his recall back in 2012. Then, they grumbled about the defeat of a union-backed attempt to remove the conservative, lamenting all the money spent.
RECALL: ABC/CBS Stoke Fear of Larry Elder, NBC Holds Newsom to Account
The Monday night before California’s recall election, two of the broadcast networks were solidly backing embattled Governor Gavin Newsom as they downplayed his COVID hypocrisy and tried to stoke fear of Republican front runner and radio host, Larry Elder. But meanwhile, one network saw fit to hold Newsom’s feet to the fire by opposing his smears of recall effort and calling out how Democrats…
CBS Gets Blinken to Admit Biden Asking 'Permission' to Save Americans
The Biden administration was having an extremely rough time spinning their Afghanistan failure as they made the rounds on the Sunday shows. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made things exponentially worse on CBS’s Face the Nation after fill-in moderator Major Garrett got him to admit the administration was asking the Taliban for “permission” to get Americans out of the country.
CBS on Hearing: Dems ‘Minimize Partisan Warfare’ vs. GOP ‘Food Fight’
On Tuesday morning, as CBS began it’s special coverage swooning over the Democrats’ stunt of holding a highly-politicized hearing into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, anchor Major Garrett laughably claimed that the left-wing House lawmakers were simply searching for “facts” and trying to “minimize partisan warfare.” Moments later, Republicans were blamed for creating a “lunchroom…