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CBS Quizzes Biden on Patriots Cheating, Not on Tax Increases

January 21st, 2015 11:37 AM
Joe Biden appeared on all three morning shows, Wednesday, to tout the President's call for new taxes. ABC and CBS both quizzed the Vice President on the process of getting new laws passed, but didn't offer much analysis on the tax hikes. Instead, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King found time to wonder about football. 
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ABC, NBC Boost Obama’s ‘Aggressive’ SOTU Speech

January 21st, 2015 11:33 AM
On Tuesday night, President Obama gave his sixth State of the Union address, and on Wednesday morning, ABC and CBS did their best to boost his speech and tout his liberal agenda to their audiences. During their respective broadcasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today made sure to play up Obama’s “renewed swagger” by giving an “aggressive speech” to Congress and America. ABC’s Jonathan…
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Big 3 Evening News Shows Spend Only 11 Minutes in a Year on Keystone

January 21st, 2015 10:49 AM
Debate in the Senate over the Keystone XL Pipeline is expected to heat up this week, but the popular project has yet to pique the interest of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening news shows.
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Schieffer Swoons: Obama’s SOTU Was ‘Uplifting’ with ‘Soaring Rhetoric'

January 21st, 2015 1:04 AM
At the conclusion of President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union speech, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer offered plenty of praise for the President’s address by proclaiming it as “the best speech he’s made in awhile” with “soaring rhetoric” and being “uplifting at the end.” In the moments right after the speech, Schieffer declared that the…
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NBC's Lauer: Isn't Obama Just Trying to 'Trap' GOP With Tax Hike Push?

January 20th, 2015 1:01 PM
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer actually grilled White House chief of staff Denis McDonough on President Obama's tax hike proposal: "During the President's last press conference of 2014, he was asked how he might be able to work with the new incoming Republican-controlled Congress and he said, quote, 'The tax area is one area where we can get things done.' And now he's proposing a…
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Networks: American Sniper 'Igniting Debate' as It 'Glorifies Killing'?

January 20th, 2015 12:58 PM
All three network morning shows on Tuesday spun American Sniper as controversial and possibly as a movie that "glorifies killing." ABC, CBS and NBC all played up attacks by celebrities such as Michael Moore, but they ignored the most incendiary part of the liberal filmmaker's comments.  
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ABC, NBC Cheer Obama’s Liberal Proposals, Poll Numbers Before SOTU

January 19th, 2015 9:58 PM
Ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the networks offered previews of his speech during their Monday evening newscasts with ABC and NBC working particularly hard to paint a rosy picture for Obama with rising poll numbers and having “redefined” the “model of how to sell the State of the Union.”
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In SOTU Preview, CBS Declares Obama ‘Champion of The Middle Class'

January 19th, 2015 9:34 AM
President Obama is set to give his seventh State of the Union address on Tuesday night and on Monday, January 19, CBS This Morning did its best to give him some free publicity during their preview of the president’s annual speech. CBS reporter Bill Plante hyped President Obama’s tax increase agenda and argued that the goal of his State of the Union “is to put Republicans on the defensive as the…
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Flashback: Journalists Thrilled By All of Obama’s SOTU Speeches

January 19th, 2015 9:05 AM
Tuesday night, Barack Obama delivers his second-to-last State of the Union address, this time as a lame duck President with relatively low approval ratings and facing a Congress entirely controlled by the opposition party. But if history is a guide, he can count on encouraging reviews from many in the establishment media.
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Bob Schieffer Hits White House Over Obama’s Paris No-Show

January 18th, 2015 2:34 PM
On Sunday, CBS Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer took the White House to task for failing to send a senior administration official to the Paris unity march following the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Speaking to Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor to President Obama, Schieffer argued that “it seems to me that the White House is always a little late in recognizing…
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At Obama Press Conference, No Questions on Skipping Anti-Terror Rally

January 16th, 2015 4:37 PM
Barack Obama on Friday conducted an almost hour-long news conference with journalists, but faced no questions on his administration's much-maligned decision not to send a representative to Sunday's massive anti-terror rally in France. 
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Nets Ignore John Kerry's Embarrassing James Taylor Stunt

January 16th, 2015 3:23 PM
On Friday, while all three network morning shows covered Secretary of State John Kerry arriving in Paris to offer U.S. condolences following the recent terrorist attacks, none of the broadcasts mentioned one of the most embarrassing moments in American diplomatic history that occurred during the visit – Kerry bringing musician James Taylor to a press conference to sing "You've Got A Friend" to…
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CBS Blames Cancellation of Muslim Prayer at Duke on Franklin Graham

January 16th, 2015 12:57 PM
On Friday, CBS This Morning reported on news that Duke University had cancelled plans to have a Muslim call-to-prayer projected from the school’s famous bell tower at the Duke Chapel and, while Duke suggested that there were “several factors” that led to the decision, the segment prominently tied it to Rev. Franklin Graham and subsequent threats against them. CBS News correspondent Julianna…
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NBC Nightly News Hypes Obama’s ‘Paid Sick Leave’ Mandate

January 16th, 2015 12:22 AM
Following the lead of ABC and CBS from Thursday morning, NBC Nightly News cheered President Barack Obama’s newest initiative that would require private businesses “to guarantee” their employees “at least seven” paid sick days and affect 43 million Americans.  While senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing interviewed the owner of a Maryland carpet company opposed to the President’s…