Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010, the broadcast networks have been whining about corporate influence in politics — but not right now.
The media often attack the conservative Koch brothers for “trying to influence the political process.” They similarly complained that the Supreme Court was “opening the floodgates for big money” when the Citizens United ruling allowed…
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Nets Actually Hammer Hillary Over ‘Racially Charged Joke’
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows surprisingly hit Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for making a “racially charged joke” during a failed comedy skit at a press dinner.
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ABC: Christians 'Cheer' Keeping LGBT from 'Using Bathrooms They Need'
On Moday's ABC World News Tonight, anchor David Muir opened with “the law that’s become a flashpoint,” talking about North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law. Muir highlighted that Bruce Springsteen had cancelled concerts in the state to protest the law, before leaving the rest of the report to correspondent Steve Osunsami who claimed Christians were "cheering" over the law that discriminates…
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Nets Cheer Springsteen Bullying NC Over Religious Freedom Law
On Sunday and Monday, all three network shows hailed rocker Bruce Springsteen’s decision to cancel a concert in North Carolina as further evidence of the “firestorm” and “growing backlash” against religious freedom laws recently passed there and in other states.
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ABC, CBS Ignore Obama Knocking Hillary as ‘Careless’ on E-Mails
ABC and CBS on Sunday night and Monday skipped the fact that Barack Obama chided Hillary Clinton as “careless” for the way she handled her private e-mail server. Only NBC reporters noticed the development and the network mentioned it only in passing. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, the President told Chris Wallace: “There’s a carelessness, in terms of managing e-mails, that she [Clinton] has owned…
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Ex-ABC's Simpson Seems Flummoxed Young Women Not Voting Clinton
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's Smerconish show on CNN, former ABC News anchor Carole Simpson seemed taken aback that younger women -- some of whom she teaches in a college class -- are not supporting Hillary Clinton for President, unlike women in her own generation: "I don't know what's going on with women," and later, "I don't know why women don't think Hillary Clinton ought to be the first…
Once Again, Networks Tout Obnoxious Liberal Editorial as 'News'
Just three days ago, CBS, NBC and CNN all found it newsworthy to wave around copies of the New York Daily News with its obnoxious “F U” cover insult directed toward Ted Cruz. On Sunday, the networks all decided to cover a sophomoric anti-Donald Trump parody from the Boston Globe, even though the slam is appearing more than five weeks after the Massachusetts GOP primary. Since December, liberal…
Tim Allen Predicts Trump Internment Camps on 'Last Man Standing'
Tim Allen's character Mike Baxter on ABC's Last Man Standing is well known to be right of center. He spends most of his time taking swipes at Obama and the Clintons, but tonight he took a BIG hit at Donald Trump.
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ABC Boosts 'Fast and Furious' Car Chase, Omits Gunrunning Scandal News
On Friday, the Big Three networks' evening newscasts gave a collective yawn at the latest development in the Obama administration's Fast and Furious scandal: the White House "turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records" related to the gunrunning debacle to a committee. ABC's World News Tonight actually used the "Fast and Furious" phrase at the top of the program, but not in…
English, Spanish Nets Yawn at Report VA Is Still Fudging Wait Times
On Thursday evening, the major English and Spanish broadcast networks failed to cover an explosive, new investigation released early Thursday afternoon by USA Today revealing that Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in seven states have been falsifying wait times, marking yet another piece in the multi-year VA scandal.
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ABC Piles on Cruz Over ‘NY Values,’ Cheer Trump ‘Relishing’ Home Rally
While the networks piled on Bernie Sanders over his comments about Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton being unqualified for president, ABC’s World News Tonight jumped on the same bandwagon Thursday night to criticize Republican Senator Ted Cruz for his three-month-old comments about “New York values” held by Donald Trump.
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Melissa Joan Hart: Christians Deserve Tolerance for Their Faith, Too
Melissa Joan Hart, star of God’s Not Dead 2, appeared on Good Morning America, Thursday to argue that tolerance extends to Christians, not just other faiths. Surprisingly, the co-hosts of GMA touted her new movie as “powerful” and a “serious role” for the actress.
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Stephanopoulos Went Easy on Hillary, But Grills Cruz
Former political operative and Hillary Clinton friend George Stephanopoulos may have gone easy on the Democrat when he interviewed her on Monday, but the journalist grilled Ted Cruz when he appeared on GMA, Thursday. After lecturing Cruz that New York is “very different here from Wisconsin,” he played a clip of an anti-Cruz protester screaming, “If you are anti-immigrant, you are not welcome here…
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ABC Continues Obsessively Bashing ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill
Like CBS and NBC did in their morning shows, and all three networks did in the evening news the night before, Wednesday’s World News Tonight on ABC obsessively harped on Mississippi’s “controversial” “religious freedom law,” complete with scare quotes. Correspondent Steve Osunsami highlighted how critics called the law “state-sanctioned bigotry.”