Only ABC Highlights Obama's Flip-Flop on a Budget Solution That Doesn

December 5th, 2012 12:01 PM
One year ago, Barack Obama backed a budget solution that would not "hike" tax rates. Now, the President rejects this plan, an apparent flip-flop only ABC's Jake Tapper reported. House Speaker John Boehner has proposed a plan that increases revenues though the closing of loopholes and the elimination of deductions. On Wednesday's Good Morning America, Tapper reminded that "what the Republicans…

ABC Hypes 'Upper Hand' Dems Have on Fiscal Cliff, Risk of Recession

December 3rd, 2012 12:41 PM
ABC News continued to hype the Democratic position on the fiscal cliff, Sunday. World News Reporter David Kerley touted the White House as "confident with the stronger hand in talks with House Republicans, demanding and believing tax rates for the wealthy are going up." The reporter did play a clip of Boehner rejecting tax increases, but Kerley made sure to point out the Speaker "hasn't…

GMA Slams Hostess Execs, Skips the Role of Unions in Collapse of Compa

November 30th, 2012 2:26 PM
A week after the staff of Good Morning America joked about the impending closure of Hostess and the loss of 18,000 jobs, the crew at GMA switched to bashing the Hostess executives and sympathizing with the recently laid off employees, ignoring the role unions played in the collapse.   On Friday’s GMA, co-host Josh Elliott introduced the segment by reporting on new data showing corporate…

Serious ABC Hypes 'Real' Bigfoot for Two Minutes, Offers a Scant 23 Se

November 29th, 2012 12:20 PM
Good Morning America on Thursday allowed a scant 23 seconds to the latest on Susan Rice's possible Secretary of State nomination and her troubled role in providing false information on the Libya. Yet, the same program devoted over two minutes of the precious 7am half hour, supposedly the time for hard news, to the claim that Bigfoot is "real." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Guest co-host…

ABC Continues to Spin for Susan Rice: She Ran Into a GOP 'Buzz Saw' on

November 28th, 2012 12:21 PM
Good Morning America's reporters on Wednesday continued to fret about the fate of Susan Rice, lamenting the GOP "buzz saw" the UN Ambassador ran into on Tuesday. ABC's Martha Raddatz hyped all the pressing issues in the world as a possible reason to just confirm the potential Secretary of State nominee quickly. Martha Raddatz worried, "You have got Iran that is trying to acquire a nuclear…

ABC Continues to Hype GOP Compromise on Taxes, Abandonment of 'Anti-Ta

November 27th, 2012 11:38 AM
For the second time in less than 24 hours, ABC's Jon Karl on Tuesday hyped a "newfound willingness" by Republicans to compromise on raising taxes and a possible abandonment of "anti-tax enforcer" Grover Norquist. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Yet, this didn't appear enough for Karl who lamented that "even Republicans who say they are willing to violate the pledge say they will only do so…

GOP Senator Schools George Stephanopoulos' Spin for Obama on Libya

November 26th, 2012 3:40 PM
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday fought back against attempts by George Stephanopoulos to cover for the Obama administration's handling of the terrorist attack in Libya. The This Week anchor and former aide to Bill Clinton pushed Graham, a vocal critic of the President, to retreat on opposing the elevation of UN Ambassador Susan Rice's elevation to Secretary of State.…

Despite Terror Rocket Attacks on Israel, ABC, CBS, NBC Won’t Call At

November 16th, 2012 3:12 PM
Israel was attacked by more than 200 rockets on Nov. 15 by a known terror organization – known by everyone but ABC, CBS and NBC. Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, was declared a “foreign terrorist organization” more than 15 years ago by the United States. But not one rocket attack story on the network morning or evening news shows called the terrorists anything other than “militants.” In 61…

Good Morning America Gleeful Over Tebow Criticism

November 16th, 2012 2:14 PM
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow isn’t even a starter, but the media still can’t resist taking potshots at him. “Good Morning America” ran a chirpy segment about Tebow – the backup quarterback for the New York Jets – being anonymously ripped by his teammates. In the opening segment of Friday's Good Morning America, Amy Robach teased a Nov. 15 segment on the Jets quarterback by questioning…

Twinkie Party: The Loss of 18,000 Hostess Jobs Is a Big Joke to ABC Ne

November 16th, 2012 11:23 AM
The cast of Good Morning America on Friday treated the bankruptcy of Hostess and the loss of 18,500 jobs as a hilarious joke. Josh Elliott, George Stephanopoulos and others guffawed as they handed out Twinkies and ate them on set. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] This is the same program that repeatedly spun Republican Mitt Romney as out of touch with the average American. News anchor Josh…

ABC Hypes Obama 'Coming Out Swinging' Over Libya, Ignores Tough Fox Qu

November 15th, 2012 12:43 PM
The journalists at ABC News on Wednesday and Thursday hyped the President for "coming out swinging" and showing "presidential anger" by defending his United Nations Ambassador, Susan Rice, over Libya. These World News and Good Morning America reporters downplayed the issue of what the Obama White House knew and when. During the November 14 White House press conference, Fox News' Ed Henry…

Another ABC Anchor Moonlights as GLAAD Spokesman: Sam Champion Hosts G

November 14th, 2012 4:21 PM
For the second time this year, one of Good Morning America's hosts will be promoting the left-wing Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). The organization announced on its website that GMA weatherman Sam Champion will be anchoring a fund-raiser in New York City. Champion, who is gay, will be the event co-chair with Rubem Robierb. In October, ABC announced, the  two were…

ABC's Jon Karl Lectures Paul Ryan on Obama's 'Mandate' and Raising Tax

November 14th, 2012 12:29 PM
  ABC journalist Jonathan Karl on Wednesday lectured Paul Ryan about Barack Obama's reelection "mandate" and grilled the Republican about raising taxes. On Good Morning America, he declared, "If there was one issue that the President campaigned on, it was raising taxes on the wealthy." He added, "Doesn't he have a mandate there?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.] When Ryan declined to…

Fear-Mongering ABC Hypes Latest Global Warming Disaster: The End of Co

November 13th, 2012 12:21 PM
The alarmist journalists at Good Morning America on Sunday hyped a new report that fretted over whether global warming will spell the end of coffee. Reporter John Muller warned, "...The coffee bean may be going to way of the dinosaur. We're talking about extinction if you believe this new study..." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Painting a dark picture, Muller worried, "Scientists from…