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CBS Partisans Gush Over Obama Staffer’s ‘Real Talk’ Book
March 20th, 2017 4:00 PM
The partisan journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday gushed over a new Obama administration book, touting its “real talk” and encouraging ex-staffer Alyssa Mastromonaco to lash out at Donald Trump. In contrast, this same network questioned the loyalty of ex-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates after he wrote a book criticizing Barack Obama.
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NBC, CBS: ‘Ugly’ Hearing for Gorsuch as Dems Label Him ‘Extreme'
March 20th, 2017 11:48 AM
Just hours before the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was set to begin, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning eagerly parroted Democratic talking points against President Trump’s judicial pick and promised an “intense grilling” for the federal judge as the “ugly” process got underway.
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Madam Secretary: Climate Change Treaty's This Generation’s ‘Moon Shot'
Culture
March 20th, 2017 12:43 AM
In the episode titled “Swept Away” of CBS’s Madam Secretary Sunday night, Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) is planning a meeting with the Dalai Lama but is keeping it on the down low until China signs on to President Dalton’s climate change agreement – the Stockholm Protocol, which is described as "the moon shot of our generation."
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CBS, NBC Sunday Shows Grill Mulvaney on Budget Cuts, Cut Vacations?
March 19th, 2017 4:49 PM
On Sunday, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney was doing his due diligence to help sell President Donald Trump’s federal budget by making the rounds on some of the network morning shows. When he appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation and NBC’s Meet the Press, moderators John Dickerson and Chuck Todd peppered the White House official with ridiculous and conflicting questions…
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Boom: Even Liberal Colbert Blasts Rachel Maddow’s Lame ‘Scoop’
March 16th, 2017 11:36 AM
You know it’s bad when even the liberal Stephen Colbert is mocking Rachel Maddow’s non-scoop about Donald Trump’s taxes. The Late Show host on Wednesday devoted two segments to skewering Maddow’s hype-fest on the President’s 2005 taxes. After noting how the MSNBC host pushed the story on Twitter prior to Tuesday’s show, Colbert joked, “Rachel took us on an emotional roller coaster. Because, like…
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CBS Hosts Worry Not Enough People ‘Forced’ to Buy Health Insurance
March 14th, 2017 3:10 PM
During a discussion with New-York Presbyterian Hospital CEO Dr. Steven Corwin on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-hosts Charlie Rose, Norah O’Donnell, and Gayle King all accepted his call for more government involvement in the health care industry and fretted that not enough Americans were being forced to purchase medical insurance.
ABC, NBC Downplay Trump Connection to Jobs Report
Business
March 14th, 2017 8:50 AM
While financial news networks, companies and economists linked optimism over President Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies to the strong jobs report, only one of three broadcast networks — CBS — made that connection.
On March 10, The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced 235,000 new jobs were added in February — the first month entirely under the new president’s watch. The report shot past…
'Superior Donuts' Lectures on 'Unconscious Bias,' Stop-and-Frisk
Culture
March 13th, 2017 11:13 PM
After starting off the season failing at mocking police for brutality and later gun owners, CBS’s Superior Donuts really shouldn’t be discussing any more topics to do with the police. Or race. Yet here we are with an episode on both and so much more. Let’s get started because this one is a doozy.
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Nets Omit Key Details of the CBO’s Assessment of GOP Health Care Bill
March 13th, 2017 10:26 PM
Late Monday afternoon, the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the House Republican’s proposal to repeal and replace the crumbling ObamaCare law, and it wasn’t pretty. “It finds that under the replacement plan, there would be more 14 million more uninsured people next year than under ObamaCare, and 24 million more uninsured a decade from now,” announced ABC anchor David Muir during…
Heroic 'Madam Secretary' Breaks Handsy Philippine President’s Nose
Culture
March 12th, 2017 11:37 PM
In the most recent episode of CBS’s Madam Secretary, titled “Break in Diplomacy,” Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) punches Philippine President Andrada in the face during a weapons package negotiation in response to his ass-grabbing move, doing to him what liberals wish Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton could do to President Trump.
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Nets Freak Out Over EPA Chief Questioning Climate Change Dogma
March 10th, 2017 12:51 PM
On Friday, correspondents on the network morning shows were beside themselves as they breathlessly reported on Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt voicing skepticism of the liberal dogma about man-made global warming. The hostile coverage even included a call on Pruitt to resign over the comments.
Feminist’s Accusation of Sexism Backfires Badly on CBS Comedy
Culture
March 9th, 2017 11:02 PM
With all the rallies, protests and marches lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about how unfair society is towards women. CBS’s Life in Pieces hilariously spoofs this agenda when a woman thinks her male mechanic is giving her the runaround.
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CBS Ignores Ax Attack in Germany, Reports on the Popularity of Water
March 9th, 2017 9:06 PM
CBS demonstrated its list of priorities during Thursday’s CBS Evening News when the network completely ignored a violent and bloody ax attack in one of Germany’s largest train stations. Instead of reporting on the attack in Dusseldorf, “where five people were wounded [and] one seriously,” anchor Scott Pelley wasted roughly 18 seconds reporting on “a rising tide of popularity has made water the…
Evening Shows Report Wall Street’s 12-Day ‘Record Surge’ In 7 Stories
Business
March 9th, 2017 3:45 PM
Twelve. That’s how many records the Dow Jones Industrial Average set in a row in 2017. Twelve new records, 12 sessions in a row.
Seven. That’s how few stories three combined networks devoted in their evening broadcasts to the record run that sent stocks so high, the market followed by closing above 21,000 for the very first time.