CBS to Rick Warren: Just Give Up on Your Opposition to Same-Sex 'Marri
November 27th, 2012 6:20 PM
On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell hounded popular Christian pastor Rick Warren over his support of defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. O'Donnell quoted the second greatest commandment of Christianity - "love thy neighbor as thyself" - to Warren as she asked, "Why do you oppose same-sex marriage?"
When the Saddleback Church senior pastor affirmed that he was…
CBS Lobbies Senator Corker to Renege on Anti-Tax Hike Pledge, Raise Ca
November 26th, 2012 4:33 PM
Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell sung from the same liberal sheet music on Monday's CBS This Morning as they tried to get Republican Senator Bob Corker to commit to higher federal taxes. Rose wondered if the Corker was "prepared, as others are doing, to...say, I'm going to forgo the [anti-tax hike] pledge because it is outdated and the country's problems are too big." O'Donnell asked the…
ABC, CBS Show Hamas Dragging Dead Body, ABC Suggests 'Savagery' is 'In
November 22nd, 2012 6:46 PM
Tuesday's CBS Evening News showed a video clip of Hamas terrorists dragging the body of a suspected informant for Israel through the streets of Gaza, and Wednesday's ABC World News showed a photograph of the dragging.
But ABC correspondent Alex Marquardt seemed to provide a bit of cover for Hamas as he inserted commentary suggesting that it is "inevitable" that some "participants" in such a…
CBS Incorrectly Claims Hamas Was Elected to Power in Gaza
November 22nd, 2012 5:20 PM
One of the recurring myths sometimes repeated about the Gaza Strip's relationship with Hamas is that the terrorist group gained control through the electoral process. On both the Monday and Tuesday editions of the CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley devoted a brief segment to providing background information on the Gaza Strip. And, on both nights, he erroneously suggested that Hamas came to…
David Letterman Asks Willie Nelson ‘Do You Have Any Weed On You
November 22nd, 2012 1:03 PM
CBS Late Show host David Letterman had a funny question for guest Willie Nelson on Wednesday night.
“Do you have any weed on you?” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CBS's Dickerson Boasts Obama 'Has More Leverage' If Country Goes Off F
November 21st, 2012 4:02 PM
CBS News political director John Dickerson all but crossed his fingers on Wednesday's CBS This Morning as he forwarded the idea of letting the country go over the looming fiscal cliff so President Obama could gain the political advantage: "There is an argument for actually...letting this happen. The President gets even more leverage."
Dickerson explained that "if the so-called fiscal cliff…
On CBS, British Author Boosts 'Positive Discrimination' To Get More Wo
November 19th, 2012 7:44 PM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell helped British author Frances Osborne advance discriminatory policy prescriptions from the left to get more women in high positions of political and economic power. Osborne stated that so-called "positive discrimination" is "necessary...to equal out the opportunity" for women. O'Donnell also reacted enthusiastically to a draft E.U. quota that would…
CBS Welcomes Obama to Staten Island, But Criticized Bush Post-Katrina
November 16th, 2012 4:03 PM
CBS ran a puff piece Friday morning on President Obama's visit to hurricane-ravaged Staten Island, which stood in stark contrast to its hostile treatment of President Bush's visit to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
CBS played into the Obama PR strategy, simply noting that he "pledged the government's support" to Staten Island residents and "met with families who've lost everything."…
CBS Boosts Obama Adulation, Likens President to Lincoln
November 15th, 2012 4:59 PM
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, open Obama supporter Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell repeatedly prompted liberal historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to equate the newly-reelected President Obama to Abraham Lincoln. O'Donnell wondered, "Is there a lesson for Obama now in his second term with Lincoln?" King hyped how Obama "sought out" the author and asked, "What did he want to know from you?"…
Alec Baldwin: Secessionists Should Call New Country ‘United States o
November 15th, 2012 9:21 AM
White jokes continue to be all the rage with the liberal media.
On CBS’s Late Show Wednesday, Alec Baldwin mocked Americans wanting to secede from the nation due to the results of last week’s election by saying they might name their new country “the United States of Caucasia” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CBS Highlights Claims Linking Climate Change to Hurricane Sandy Intens
November 15th, 2012 7:45 AM
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley read a brief item highlighting the view by "weather forcasters from the U.S. government" that climate change "may have intensified" Hurricane Sandy.
He did not mention the views of climate change skeptics who doubt the role of global warming.
Pelley noted "rising sea levels," "melting Arctic ice," and "record-high temperatures" as he…
CBS Pummels McCain; Rushes to Susan Rice's Defense Over Refuted Bengha
November 14th, 2012 5:22 PM
Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell took turns hammering Senator John McCain on Wednesday's CBS This Morning over his promise to block any potential nomination of Susan Rice to be secretary of state. Rose grilled McCain after the Republican slammed Rice for blaming a "spontaneous" mob for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi: "Didn't Susan Rice say that...all the information was not in,…
Fawning Fan Girl Journalist to Obama: 'Congratulations'; 'I've Never S
November 14th, 2012 3:19 PM
Barack Obama on Wednesday submitted to his first press conference since March. Some of the White House journalists didn't seem to hold the long wait against him, however. One reporter, Christi Parsons of the Chicago Tribune, turned into a gushing fan, congratulating the President on his reelection. Parsons cooed to Obama that she had "never" seen him "lose." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]…
Moderate Mitt Loses, Media Blame Conservatives
November 14th, 2012 10:30 AM
Over the past week, the media have been obsessively attributing the GOP’s election loss to the party’s embrace of conservatism. It began with a predictable assault on the standard bearer of conservative thought over the airwaves, Rush Limbaugh. On election night, NBC’s Brian Williams opined that Rush was a liability for the GOP. And it didn’t stop with Williams.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe David…