DC Police: NBC Was Denied Permission to Show High Capacity Magazine
December 26th, 2012 2:29 PM
It's pretty close to a tie, but based on time stamps, Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson, at 11:23 a.m., was 22 minutes ahead of local DC TV station WJLA in breaking an important update to the David Gregory magazine clip saga going back to Sunday's Meet the Press program. (The classless credit hogs at Politico published a related story, didn't credit Jacobson, and while citing WJLA, failed…
NY Post: Brian Williams to Start Distancing Himself From the Strugglin
December 26th, 2012 7:32 AM
NBC’s decision to give Nightly News anchor Brian Williams his own primetime program has been tremendously unsuccessful.
According to the New York Post, things are going so poorly for Rock Center that Williams is going to start distancing himself from it:
NBC's David Gregory Under Investigation by DC PD in 'Meet the Press' M
December 26th, 2012 1:49 AM
Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart, Katie Glueck at the Politico, and William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection all reported today that NBC's David Gregory is under investigation by the Washington, DC Metro Police in connection with his apparent brandishing of "a 30-round magazine purportedly for an AR-15 or similar 'assault rifle'" on Sunday morning's "Meet the Press" program.
Jacobson further…
Gregory on MTP: Likely Broke DC Law, Hypocritically Mocked NRA's Armed
December 23rd, 2012 10:03 PM
Two blog posts today should shred the credibility of Meet the Press's David Gregory in making arguments for gun control and against appropriate armed staff or security personnel at schools -- or they would, if journalists had the least bit of interest in exposing lawbreaking and hyprocritical behavior by their professional colleagues.
During the show, as reported at the Patriot Perspective,…
NBC's Luke Russert, Former Politico Reporter Hype 'Effective' Code Pin
December 21st, 2012 1:08 PM
NBC News correspondent Luke Russert marveled at Code Pink's disruption of the National Rifle Association's press conference in a Friday post on Twitter: "That was probably the most effective code pink protestor I've ever seen."
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith, formerly of the liberal website Politico, joined in with his own praise of the far-left organization in a Tweet six minutes later: "Those…
NBC Uses Newtown Tragedy to Support Obama's Push for Gun Control
December 21st, 2012 12:04 PM
On Friday's Today, NBC's David Gregory used the Newtown tragedy to buttress President Obama's push for more gun control. During a heartbreaking story about the grieving father of shooting victim Emilie Parker, Gregory switched to a massive petition for the White House to pursue gun control.
"This morning, President Obama has posted this video response online to nearly 200,000 people that…
Leno: 'Mayans Said World Will End Tomorrow; Like Everybody Else They B
December 21st, 2012 9:12 AM
Jay Leno made a comical observation Thursday about what was disaffectionately referred to in the previous decade as Bush Derangement Syndrome.
During the opening monologue of NBC's Tonight Show, the host said, "As you know, the Mayans said the world will end tomorrow, and like everybody else they blame Bush" (video follows with commentary):
Kimmel Compares Leno To Serial Killer Jason In 'Friday The 13th
December 21st, 2012 8:18 AM
The late night talk show wars are heating up with the announcement that ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live is moving to 11:35 PM to compete with the CBS Late Show and the NBC Tonight Show.
According to TMZ, Kimmel during a Wednesday conference call about this change made a disparaging reference to Jay Leno:
NBC’s ‘Today’ Promotes President Obama’s Push For Greater Gun
December 20th, 2012 3:15 PM
It seems apparent that NBC is following orders from The White House to continue to argue for stricter gun control in the wake of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Appearing on Thursday morning's Today, NBC’s White House Correspondent Kristen Welker continued to peddle The White House message to “pledge action to prevent such a massacre from every happening again.”
Welker…
Leno: 'When Congress Talks About Plan B, The Rest of Us End Up With Pl
December 20th, 2012 8:08 AM
Jay Leno said a really inconvenient truth about the fiscal cliff negotiations on NBC's Tonight Show Wednesday
"John Boehner told Congress to prepare for plan B," Leno teased during his opening monologue. "You know what that means when Congress talks about plan B? The rest of us end up with plan F and U. Okay? That's the plan we get, F and U."
NBC Fawns Over 'White House Christmas,' But Ignores Cost of Obama Vaca
December 19th, 2012 4:23 PM
Missing from NBC's rosy Wednesday interview of Michelle Obama is her family vacation's cost to taxpayers. Reports are that the taxpayer bill for the Hawaii vacation will top $4 million.
"Come Christmas the First Family, Bo included, will head some 5,000 miles away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Today contributing correspondent Jenna Bush Hager said during NBC's "A White House Christmas"…
Broadcast Nets Cover ‘Devastating’ Benghazi Report, But ABC Ignore
December 19th, 2012 2:58 PM
News of the State Department report on the U.S. government’s failures surrounding the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, broke too late last night for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, but all three broadcast networks had full reports on their Wednesday morning shows.
Of the three, ABC’s Good Morning America was the most perfunctory, with a less-than 90 second…
Some Obama Voters Didn't Care About Politics, But Today Show Won't Que
December 19th, 2012 2:42 PM
Although Time magazine revealed that 15 percent of Obama voters didn't even care about politics, NBC's Today show still wouldn't challenge the President's supposed mandate from the public to raise taxes when Time's Richard Stengel was on Wednesday.
"And one of the things they found out is that there's about 15 percent of voters who actually don't care about politics," Stengel referred to…
Five Reasons The Networks Have No Business Covering Business (Or the E
December 19th, 2012 2:22 PM
For many Americans, ABC, NBC and CBS are the major source of news on business and the economy. Unfortunately, this is like depending on the middle school student newspaper for information about important local school board deliberations.
Network reporters are either ill-prepared to discuss complex issues of economics, finance and business or choose to be advocates for viewpoints rather than…