ABC Touts Liberal Worries: 'Most Controversial' Zero Dark Thirty 'Glor

January 14th, 2013 4:46 PM
 ABC touted the outrage liberals are now expressing over Zero Dark Thirty, complaining that the film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden "glorifies the torture of terror suspects." Sunday Good Morning America correspondent John Muller definitively declared, "There is no doubt Zero Dark Thirty is the most controversial film of award season." The "most" controversial? Keep in mind, Quentin…

ABC Hypes 'Hypocrisy and Absurdity' of Lack of Hurricane Sandy Money

January 14th, 2013 12:46 PM
Good Morning America's Dan Harris on Sunday hyped "allegations of hypocrisy and absurdity" against House Republicans, complaining about the amount of money New Jersey and New York will get for Hurricane Sandy. Harris and reporter David Kerley skipped mentioning pork stuffed into such legislation, money that (for example) could go to a new roof for the Smithsonian in Washignton D.C.  Harris…

CBS Actually Covers Gun Self-Defense Case Promoted By NRA; ABC, NBC Pu

January 11th, 2013 4:20 PM
On Friday's CBS This Morning, Bill Plante refreshingly spotlighted how firearms are used to protect the lives of ordinary Americans. Plante noted how the National Rifle Association "Tweeted a story...about Melinda Herman, a Georgia woman who shot an intruder in self-defense as she waited with her two children in a closet....She fired at the man multiple times with a .38 caliber handgun." The…

Networks Slam Obama From the Left, Demand More Female Nominations

January 10th, 2013 12:15 PM
ABC and CBS on Thursday hit Barack Obama from the left, fretting about a lack of diversity for his second term cabinet picks. The two network morning shows ignored substantiative criticism about Treasury Secretary choice Jack Lew, but highlighted the cutesy story of his messy handwriting. Correspondent Jon Karl chided, "Well, some critics are looking at that emerging second-term cabinet and…

Networks Eagerly Promote How Christie 'Blasted' and 'Spanked' House GO

January 9th, 2013 12:58 PM
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on all three network morning shows on Wednesday and was greeted in each interview by the host seizing on his harsh words for congressional Republicans over a delayed vote on Hurricane Sandy relief. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] On NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: "You're not happy, it seems, with the course of…

ABC Uses Gabby Giffords for Massive Push to Fight 'Gun Warfare in Amer

January 8th, 2013 12:19 PM
ABC on Tuesday began a multi-show push to promote the gun control crusade of Gabby Giffords and her husband. Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos kicked off the program by trumpeting, " The most famous face affected by gun violence fights back. Gabby Giffords announcing direct action against gun warfare in America." (Gun warfare? As of 2012, crime is at a 20 year low in America. The…

The Media Circle: Liberal Filmmaker George Lucas to Marry Liberal ABC

January 8th, 2013 9:24 AM
Liberal ABC News contributor Mellody Hobson will marry liberal Hollywood mogul George Lucas, announced a spokesperson for Lucasfilm. Hobson, a financial contributor on Good Morning America, was a bundler for Barack Obama in 2012, putting together $131,200 for the Democrat. The man behind Star Wars is even more left-wing, having previously compared Dick Cheney to the emperor in his films: "…

Networks Ignore CIA Nominee Brennan 'Let the President Down' During Ch

January 7th, 2013 12:14 PM
Exactly three years ago, on January 7, 2010, during a press conference regarding the 2009 attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan declared to reporters: "I told the President today I let him down." That admission of responsibility for a major intelligence failure was completely absent from Monday's network morning show…

ABC's Martha Raddatz: 'Perfect Choice' Chuck Hagel 'Dared' To Oppose T

January 7th, 2013 11:56 AM
Good Morning America's Martha Raddatz on Monday seemed perplexed as to why conservatives would oppose Chuck Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense. According to the journalist, one might think the former Republican senator is the "perfect choice," a man who "dared [to] speak out" against George W. Bush's troop surge in Iraq  -- the same surge that candidate Obama later admitted had "…

ABC Skips Occupy Connection to Terror Case, But Falsely Smeared Tea Pa

January 2nd, 2013 12:30 PM
ABC News, the same network which falsely linked the Tea Party to a mass killing in Colorado, on Wednesday ignored an alleged connection between Occupy Wall Street and a wealthy New York City couple apparently planning a terrorist spree. Instead, a Good Morning America journalist referred to the investigation as a "preppy terror case." The New York Post on Monday reported that Morgan Gliedman…

CBS Glosses Over Reid's 'Dictatorship' Smear of Boehner In Democrat-He

December 28th, 2012 12:16 PM
With four days until the "fiscal cliff," CBS This Morning peppered its report on the Congressional negotiations with four Democratic sound bites compared to just one from Republicans. Chief White House correspondent Major Garrett quoted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) three times and simply relayed his smear of Rep. John Boehner's Speakership as a "dictatorship." Both ABC and NBC…

NBC, CBS Report Outrage Over Paper's Gun Map; ABC Ignores

December 27th, 2012 2:45 PM
Both NBC and CBS covered the outrage Thursday morning over a New York newspaper publishing the names and addresses of gun permit holders in two counties. ABC made no mention of the controversy, however. "A suburban New York City newspaper is in the middle of a big controversy this morning after it put up online the names and addresses of everyone with a gun permit," reported CBS This Morning…

ABC Repeatedly Celebrates Gay 'Marriage' of Weatherman Sam Champion

December 27th, 2012 7:35 AM
ABC News repeatedly celebrated weatherman Sam Champion's gay "marriage" to Rubem Robierb from Friday through Monday. On Monday's "Good Morning America," entertainment reporter Lara Spencer relayed: "We have so many stories to tell you this morning, including the surprising story of this woman. She is accused of being, we're not making this up, too sexy for her job. Her boss said she was too…

ABC Hypes Obamas' Love Life, Barely Mentions Impending Fiscal Cliff

December 26th, 2012 12:27 PM
ABC’s Good Morning America barely talked about the upcoming fiscal cliff on Wednesday but found time for another Obama-promoting fluff piece. Previewing Barbara Walters's upcoming interview with Mr. and Mrs. Obama on Wednesday evening’s Nightline, GMA picked a clip of Walters fawning over the couple's romance. Walters touted "the most-shared photograph in the history of Twitter" of the…