CBS’s Couric Sympathizes With Obama: ‘Is Your Confidence Ever Shak

In her Tuesday interview with President Obama, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric wondered: "You're so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, ‘Damn, this is hard. Damn, I'm not going to get the things done I want to get done and it’s just too politicized to really get accomplished the big things I want to accomplish’?" [audio…
Kyle Drennen
July 22nd, 2009 1:15 PM

ABC's Cuomo: Is GOP Being 'Reckless' With Health Care Reform

ABC anchor Chris Cuomo played the liberal emotion card and asked California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during an interview on Wednesday’s Good Morning America if Republicans were “playing politics” with President Obama’s health care “reform” proposal, and whether this was turning into a “little bit of a reckless situation” on the part of the GOP. [audio available here]Cuomo first put the…
Matthew Balan
July 22nd, 2009 12:00 PM

Lauer to DeMint: Are You Rallying Conservatives to Break a President

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's "Today" show hit Senator Jim DeMint over his statement that health care reform could be Barack Obama's Waterloo as the "Today" co-host accused, "People are saying that you are playing pure politics with this issue," and, as seen in the following exchange, pressed "Are you rallying conservatives to the cause of health care reform? Or are you rallying conservatives…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 22nd, 2009 11:07 AM

NBC News: California Offshore Drilling Possible; CNBC Says Not Likely

It's one of the few times one can wish the reporting by NBC News was right and CNBC was wrong. A segment on the July 21 "NBC Nightly News" pointed out some of the key points of a budget deal reached between California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and leaders of the state legislature. The deal means some service cuts - but also includes the possibility of exploration and drilling for oil off the…
Jeff Poor
July 22nd, 2009 11:01 AM

NYT Advocates 'So-called Pullout Method' of Birth Control

It is estimated that 20 percent of Americans have a sexually transmitted disease, with teenaged girls showing a higher rate of 26 percent.And the New York Times is advocating the "so-called pullout method" of birth control?Such seems to be the case in Monday's "Withdrawal Method Finds Ally." Readers are warned to proceed with caution as the following seems to defy logic in the year 2009:
Noel Sheppard
July 22nd, 2009 10:58 AM

Third World Owes U.S. More Than Just Debt of Gratitude

Dan Gainor
July 22nd, 2009 10:49 AM

'The Early Show' Stays Positive on Health Care Reform

Who is going to benefit from ObamaCare? CBS says everyone maybe.
Zoe Ortiz
July 22nd, 2009 10:36 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
July 22nd, 2009 10:10 AM

Why Did MSNBC Edit Hillary’s CFR Speech

On July 15, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations, the much maligned organization often at the center of many global conspiracy theories. We won’t talk about the merits of the CFR itself, here, but what made me curious is the treatment that MSNBC gave the Clinton speech. It appears that MSNBC edited out Clinton’s opening statement thanking the CFR…
Warner Todd Huston
July 22nd, 2009 2:54 AM

CBS Devotes More Time to Those Opposing New Gun Rights Law Than Suppor

Tuesday's CBS Evening News gave attention to a proposed new gun law that would strengthen the right of gun owners who hold a concealed weapon permit to carry a weapon across state lines into states with more restrictive gun laws than where the permit was obtained. As he presented arguments both for and against passage of the law, while Orr presented two soundbites opposing the law and only one…
Brad Wilmouth
July 22nd, 2009 2:33 AM

When Dad Becomes a Woman, Things Aren't 'Perfectly Fine

Hurt and bewilderment show through ABC's attempt to normalize transgenderism.
Colleen Raezler
July 22nd, 2009 12:00 AM

Networks' Assault on Marriage

CBS and NBC fail to critically examine divorce
Colleen Raezler
July 22nd, 2009 12:00 AM

Night After Slamming DeMint as 'Incendiary,' Couric Makes Same Point t

A night after CBS slammed as “incendiary” Senator Jim DeMint's observation that if Republicans are able to block Obama's health care push, “it will be his Waterloo, it will break him,” CBS anchor Katie Couric adopted the same assumption as she expressed worry to the President: “Are you concerned at all that if health care reform fails it will be a huge and devastating setback to your presidency…
Brent Baker
July 21st, 2009 8:47 PM

CNN's Kyra Phillips on ObamaCare: 'You're Still Going to Have a Choice

On CNN Newsroom today, anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on the topic of President Obama's healthcare push.  Part of the interview:PHILLIPS: But whether government-run or private, I mean, no one's going to demand that you go one way or another. You're still going to have a choice. STEELE: We don't -- maybe we do. I don't know. We haven't had…
Mike Bates
July 21st, 2009 8:35 PM