NBC Joins White House 'PR Offensive' to Scare People About Sequester C

February 25th, 2013 12:25 PM
Acting like an extension of the White House press office on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander promoted Obama administration talking points on the upcoming budget sequester: "This morning, the White House is picking up the pace of its PR offensive, they are rolling out reports for each of the country's states and how they will be affected by these automatic budget cuts." [Listen…

Bartiromo on Sequester Panic: 'Wall Street Seeing This As Scare Tactic

February 24th, 2013 3:00 PM
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo made a statement Sunday about all of the fearmongering concerning the looming budget sequester that people on both sides of the aisle should pay attention to. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Bartiromo said, "I think Wall Street is seeing this as scare tactics because if the market really believed that the economy was going to be paralyzed on March 1 we would not be…

Meredith Vieira Sings ‘Call Me Maybe’ To Jay Leno

February 23rd, 2013 12:05 PM
Former NBC Today show host Meredith Vieira actually sang “Call Me Maybe” to Jay Leno Friday evening. As the head of her elementary school glee club told her when she was nine, she really should have mouthed the lyrics.

Jimmy Fallon Asks Michelle Obama To Run With Hillary Clinton In

February 23rd, 2013 11:02 AM
After dressing as a woman and doing “The Bump” with Michelle Obama Friday evening, NBC Late Night host Jimmy Fallon asked the first lady to consider running with Hillary Clinton in 2016. The gushing and fawning Fallon called this a “dream team” (video follows with commentary):

Michelle Obama Does 'The Bump' With Cross-Dressed Jimmy Fallon

February 23rd, 2013 10:12 AM
Last April, Barack Obama demeaned the office of the presidency by slow jamming the news on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. On Friday, Michelle Obama did 'The Bump' with Fallon who was dressed as a woman (video follows with commentary):

Unlike NBC, MSNBC Continues to Fail To Identify Jesse Jackson Jr. as D

February 21st, 2013 3:36 PM
Sadly, MSNBC cannot follow sister network NBC’s lead in reporting the story of disgraced Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill) and his impending prison sentence for illegally using campaign funds for personal usage.  On the February 20 edition of NBC Nightly News as well as on the February 21 edition of Today, both shows correctly identify Jesse Jackson Jr. as a Democrat, but their MSNBC morning…

Big Three Network Double Standard on Labeling Scandalous Politicians

February 21st, 2013 11:33 AM
All too often when reporters are discussing Democrats caught in scandals, they develop a peculiar speech impediment that prevents them from uttering the "D" word. However, when members of the GOP stumble, the word "Republican" cascades out of the mouths of reporters. When news broke on February 15 that former Democratic Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged with improperly spending…

NBC Thrilled Over Tiger Woods Complimenting Obama's Golf Game

February 21st, 2013 11:25 AM
Wednesday's NBC Today featured a full report on Tiger Woods praising President Obama's golf game, with White House correspondent Peter Alexander cheering the weekend outing as the "most talked about golf pairing in years" and that Woods "was to golf what the President wants to be to politics, the guy who can't stop winning." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In between…

Michael Strahan Tells Jimmy Kimmel 'There Was Watermelon In My Dressin

February 21st, 2013 10:05 AM
Was this a gag or was ABC Live star Michael Strahan serious? On ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday, Strahan said there was watermelon in his dressing room when he got there (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Networks Promote White House Fearmongering on Sequester Cuts, Ignore i

February 20th, 2013 12:48 PM
The NBC, ABC, and CBS evening newscasts on Tuesday all recited the same White House talking points as anchors and correspondents wrung their hands over the upcoming sequester budget cuts set to take effect on March 1. While all three broadcasts touted President Obama using "dire language" to warn against the cuts – only amounting to less that three percent of the federal budget – none of them…

Audience Cheers and Applauds When Leno Says Obama 'Doesn't Understand

February 20th, 2013 9:26 AM
It appears not everyone in America is as enthralled with Barack Obama's economic policies as his fans in the media. When NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno made a joke about the president not understanding economics, the studio audience cheered, applauded, and whistled (video follows with transcript and commentary):

NBCNews.com Hypes Danger of Moderate Drinking

February 19th, 2013 2:15 PM
Both NBCNews.com and CBS Boston recently touted study linking even 1.5 drinks a day, or less to certain types of cancer. That study has been criticized for “questionable assumptions,” but neither story pointed that out. NBC’s JoNel Aleccia wrote that “booze can be blamed for nearly 20,000 deaths a year -- and it’s not just the heavy drinkers.” Aleccia was touting a study published in the…

NBC Seizes on Mark Sanford Congressional Run and Dredges Up Scandal

February 19th, 2013 1:14 PM
Amid all of the news breaking in Washington, from the upcoming sequester cuts to President Obama's second term agenda, NBC's Today decided to focus its Tuesday political coverage on a scandal that plagued former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford four years ago. The news hook was Sanford running in a GOP primary for the congressional seat left open by newly appointed Senator Tim Scott. Co-…

NBC’s David Gregory Thinks Republicans Are ‘Just Trying to Jam the

February 19th, 2013 9:55 AM
NBC continues to lead the way in belittling any and all Republican attempts to stand up to President Obama. On Sunday’s Today, David Gregory rehashed the common left-wing talking point that Republicans are opposing Obama at every turn merely for the sake of being obstructionist.  Commenting on Republican opposition to the Chuck Hagel nomination, Gregory said, “There’s no question that…