ABC: Limbaugh Anti-McCain Because Senator Won't 'Answer To' Him

Brent Baker
January 30th, 2008 9:41 PM
An ABC story Wednesday night attributed conservative opposition to John McCain not to McCain's more liberal positions on many issues, but to how McCain “basically is not going to answer to anybody, especially the conservative pundits or the conservagentsia. And they don't like that.” That claim that resistance to embracing McCain is a petty personal matter came from former Bush-Cheney campaign…
 

ABC Claims McCain 'Surging' -- But Zogby Shows Him Losing Ground to Ro

Mark Finkelstein
January 5th, 2008 9:39 AM
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd disclosed that the media was poised to take a third-place McCain finish there and use it to catapult him to victory in New Hampshire. McCain actually finished fourth in Iowa, but on Good Morning America today we saw a perfect example of the phenomenon Todd predicted. ABC declared that McCain is "surging," "rising in the…
 

Sanchez Blasts Media, But Media Only Highlight His Criticism of Bush

Brent Baker
October 15th, 2007 9:01 PM
The news media “eagerly reported” comments from General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, “calling the war in Iraq a quote 'nightmare with no end in sight,'” FNC's Brit Hume noted Monday night before pointing out how “there has been considerably less reporting of his harsh criticism of the press in the same speech.” Indeed, in his Friday address to a group of journalists, Sanchez…