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ABC, NBC Skip Obama’s Hypocrisy on Supreme Court Nominations
February 17th, 2016 12:32 PM
ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today on Wednesday avoided the uncomfortable fact that Barack Obama has totally flip-flopped on whether ideology should be considered for a Supreme Court nominee. Only CBS This Morning highlighted the hypocrisy and shifting positions of Democrats. Reporter Jan Crawford played a clip from 2006 in which then-Senator Obama was supporting a filibuster.
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ABC Comedy: Mother Jones has Journalistic Integrity (LOL!)
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February 17th, 2016 2:16 AM
"Journalistic integrity" and "Mother Jones" are two phrases that should not be in the same sentence. But alas, the ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat has lent some gravitas to the infamous lefty rag.
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ABC Hypes Hillary Pinning GOP as Racists; 'Coded Racial Language'
February 16th, 2016 10:29 PM
The Tuesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight played the role of spin doctor for the Hillary Clinton campaign as it stood out from the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News by prominently touting Clinton attacking Republicans as being racist in their opposition to President Obama and most recently his desire to place the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Further, ABC saw it fit to play up Clinton…
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CBS, NBC: Obama ‘Plans to Follow the Constitution’ vs. GOP ‘Roadblock'
February 16th, 2016 9:08 PM
The “big three” networks ABC, CBS, and NBC all made sure to weigh in Tuesday night on President Barack Obama’s comments hours earlier about his desire to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and spun them as Obama “plan[ning] to follow the Constitution” against “the Republican roadblock” in the Senate.
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Whoopi Wallops 'View' Crew for Scalia Murder Theories Involving Family
February 16th, 2016 5:45 PM
The View’s Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday furiously denounced fellow co-host Joy Behar for suggesting that the family of Antonin Scalia might know of a conspiracy theory to kill the justice. Goldberg went ballistic at her fellow panelists on the show for speculating on such possibilities, condemning, “We don't actually know what happened! This just happened over the weekend. Let's hold off before we…
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ABC, NBC Ignore Schumer Flip-Flop on Judicial Appointments
February 16th, 2016 2:43 AM
On Monday, the morning and evening newscasts of ABC and NBC failed to highlight, in their coverage of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, that Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer’s decision to come out in support of whomever President Obama nominates flies in the face of what he said in 2007, 18 monhs before the end of the presidential term, about vowing to block any Supreme Court…
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'CBS This Morning' Yawns at Latest Spitzer Scandal; ABC, NBC Cover
February 15th, 2016 5:57 PM
CBS This Morning was the sole Big Three morning newscast on Monday to not cover the assault allegation against former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer that emerged over the weekend. By contrast, NBC's Today aired a full two-plus minute report on Spitzer "facing another potentially embarrassing scandal," as Kristen Dahlgren put it. ABC's Good Morning America gave a brief on the story, but didn't…
Anti-War Group Loves Donald Trump! Networks Ignore
February 15th, 2016 11:43 AM
Donald Trump received praise from a group that you wouldn’t normally expect would champion a GOP presidential frontrunner. On Sunday, the co-founder of anti-war group Code Pink Medea Benjamin celebrated Trump’s bashing of former president George W. Bush’s decision to attack Iraq. So far, none of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have yet to report on this unusual development in the 2016…
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George Stephanopoulos Badgers Lindsey Graham on Scalia Replacement
February 15th, 2016 11:39 AM
Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos, Monday, badgered Senator Lindsey Graham on the need to get a quick replacement for Antonin Scalia. An incredulous Stephanopoulos wondered, “Your leader, Mitch McConnell, said flatly, President Obama should not have a chance to fill this vacancy. Does that mean the President's choice won't even get a hearing?”
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Stephanopoulos, Todd Gang Up on Cruz, Rubio over SCOTUS Nomination
February 14th, 2016 3:56 PM
In separate Sunday morning interviews of Republican presidential candidates and Senators Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fl.), ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos and NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd urged them to consider whomever President Obama nominates to replace the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia since “the people elected President Obama” and he…
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Bill Kristol Schools ABC’s Dowd on Dems Delaying GOP Judicial Picks
February 14th, 2016 1:31 PM
During the panel segment Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol schooled ABC News political analyst and former Bush administration official Matthew Dowd on how Democrats have long politicized judicial nominees after Dowd lamented that “Republicans have made a mistake” in reacting to the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and urged them to consider…
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Surprise: ABC, NBC Honor Scalia as a ‘Legendary’ ‘American Original’
February 14th, 2016 10:52 AM
The morning after the shock news that Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia died, ABC and NBC actually opened their Sunday shows with nice tributes to the “legendary” “American original,” seeing the conservative as a “giant” who was “funny and sarcastic.” That didn’t stop Good Morning America and Today from constantly referring to Scalia as “controversial.”
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ABC’s Moran: 'Scathing' Scalia ‘Didn’t Win That Much’ While on Court
February 13th, 2016 8:32 PM
During the ABC News Special Report on Saturday concerning the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, chief foreign correspondent and longtime Supreme Court reporter Terry Moran opined that while Scalia was “a towering figure,” the conservative Justice “didn’t win that much” and thus was relegated to dissents that were “scathing and sarcastic but were loud and clear.”
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Networks Skirt Mentioning Islamism in Machete Attack Coverage
February 12th, 2016 10:22 PM
ABC, CBS, NBC's Friday evening newscasts all failed to mention Islamism as a possible motive in their coverage of the machete attack inside an Ohio restaurant on Thursday. ABC's World News Tonight didn't even use the word "terrorism" during their report on Mohamed Barry's rampage. Alex Perez merely noted that "Barry was known to the FBI, but was not under a full-scale investigation." CBS's Jeff…