ABC's Moran Claims Conservatives Backing Kagan, No Peep of Criticism D
During ABC’s live coverage of President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, Diane Sawyer and a quartet of correspondents failed to find a single thing to criticize about the new nominee. Instead, Sawyer touted it as a “history making day” (although why is unclear, since she's the fifth woman to be nominated), and touted Kagan as a feminist “trailblazer” and a “conciliator”…
Bill Maher Strikes Back at George Will Armed With Falsehoods and Bill
After making a fool out of himself going up against George Will on last Sunday's "This Week," Bill Maher dug an even deeper hole five days later trying to strike back at the well-known columnist with a peculiar blend of falsehoods and Bill Clinton.As NewsBusters previously reported, Maher was humiliated on national television last week when he errantly claimed Brazil was "off oil" only to be…
ABC Touts Tom Friedman to Lobby for Taxes on Oil and Carbon
Good Morning America on Thursday again brought on Tom Friedman to lobby for taxes on carbon and oil. Talking to host George Stephanopoulos, the New York Times columnist urged Barack Obama to "use" the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico and push "a bill through the Senate." Friedman discussed America getting off oil and argued, "Well, ultimately, it's going to require a price on carbon that will…
Networks Fail to Expose GM's Misleading Commercial
Have you seen the new General Motors commercial? In it, CEO Ed Whitacre highlights the taxpayer-funded bailout GM received and then brags: "We have repaid our government loan, in full with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule." That advertisement (Watch it here) gives the impression that A) GM is financially stable and able to repay its debts B) the government bailout was…
WaPo Cherry-picks Poll to Portray Tea Parties as on Defensive About Ra
"Tea party groups battling allegations of racism," reads a May 5 page A3 Washington Post print headline. The online version header softened the word choice a tiny bit, substituting the word "perceptions" in for "allegations."The underlying poll data which prompted the story tells us more about the Post's prism through which it views the Tea Parties than how the public at large does.After three…
Networks Fail to Distinguish Between Xenophobia and Law Enforcement
Liberal political pundits frequently remind Americans that words matter, which makes broadcast network reporters' coverage of Arizona's new crack down on illegal immigrants so appalling. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law on April 23 that would make it a misdemeanor for immigrants to not carry documentation proving they are in the country legally. The bill gave state law enforcement the…
Whoopi Goldberg Frets Fewer Abortions Would Mean More Parents Kill Kid
On ABC’s The View on Tuesday, as the group discussed a new law in Oklahoma that requires an ultrasound of an unborn baby be performed and the image offered to a pregnant woman before an abortion could take place, none of the panel members spoke up in favor of the Oklahoma law, although right-leaning Elisabeth Hasselbeck supported "nudging" pregnant women to look at an ultrasound to be informed…
'View' Co-host Sherri Shepherd: 'I Don't Care' About Drug Smuggling fr
Our friends at CNSNews.com -- which is owned by NewsBusters parent organization the Media Research Center -- have a story today about ABC "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd's reaction to Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law.Reported Nicholas Ballasy: When asked, in the context of Arizona's new immigration law, about a Justice Department report showing that one-out-of-five American…
Poll Finds CNN and Fox Far More Trusted Than All Other News Outlets Co
People on the Left squawked in January when a poll was released finding Americans felt the Fox News Network was BY FAR the most trusted name in news.On Sunday, the results of a new online survey were released by a liberal entity somewhat confirming the Public Policy Polling data NewsBusters shared with you earlier in the year.According to the "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll, when asked the question…
George Will Smacks Down Bill Maher On This Week: Brazil Doesn't Use Oi
Bill Maher was clearly out of his league Sunday when he made an absurd claim about Brazil being off oil for decades only to be corrected by a significantly more knowledgeable George Will.As the Roundtable discussion of ABC's "This Week" turned to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, host Jake Tapper mentioned -- without the vulgarity -- what Maher said on HBO's "Real Time" about President Obama…
George Stephanopoulos Grills Axelrod From the Left: How Will Obama Fig
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday repeatedly pressed White House advisor David Axelrod on just how the President plans on fighting Arizona's new immigration law. Yet, he failed to ask any questions on what Barack Obama will do to end the flow of illegals into America. Hitting Axelrod from the left, Stephanopoulos noted that the President called the bill "misguided" and then…
CBS Ignores, NBC Reports and ABC Frets Over Supreme Court Ruling of Mo
Given the contentious debate over the proper role of religion in American public life, you'd think an important Supreme Court ruling on the issue would be a big story to the network news. But the Court's April 28 finding regarding a cross on a World War I memorial in the Mojave Desert elicited a yawn from CBS's "Evening News," a 78-word report from NBC's "Nightly News," and a one-sided segment…
ABC Thrills Over 'Rising Star' Charlie Crist's 'Declaration of Indepen
ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday gushed over "rising star" Charlie Crist's decision to leave the Republican Party and run as an independent in the Florida Senate race. Next to a graphic that read "Declaration of Independence," co-host George Stephanopoulos speculated, "Is this trouble for Republicans? Will more independents rise up?" [Audio available here.] Stephanopoulos also oddly called…
GMA Reports Laura Bush's Criticism of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
Former first Lady Laura Bush has some harsh words for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in her upcoming memoir "Spoken From The Heart."On Tuesday, ABC's "Good Morning America" logged a report featuring excerpts from the book recently published by the New York Times.Astonishingly, these included Mrs. Bush criticizing Pelosi and Reid for calling…
