ABC and Dan Rather Perpetuate Myth Right Wing Hate Killed Kennedy

November 18th, 2013 8:32 AM
Lee Harvey Oswald was far-left defector to the Soviet Union, but you’d never know that from Sunday’s ABC This Week which focused on Dallas as a cauldron of segregationist hate for President Kennedy without any mention of the political orientation of the actual assassin. Using Dan Rather as his expert, ex-CBS and current ABC reporter Byron Pitts perpetuated the myth that right-wing hate was…

At Least They Were Pretty! CBS Hypes the Superficial in Story on JFK's

August 5th, 2013 12:30 PM
CBS This Morning co-anchors Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell on Monday demonstrated that, when it comes to the Kennedys, journalists have a stunning ability to focus on the superficial and withhold judgment. Reporter Vinita Nair highlighted a new book on John Kennedy's last year in office and, as Nair described it, the President's "long-rumored love affair" with Marilyn Monroe. Nair relayed…

Networks That Yawn Over IRS Scandal Find Time for 50-Year-Old JFK Vaca

July 29th, 2013 5:34 PM
The same networks that have been minimizing and ignoring the growing scandal at the Internal Revenue Service all found time to fawn over 50-year-old footage of President Kennedy vacationing with family. A World News graphic on Sunday night thrilled, "Return to Camelot." Anchor David Muir breathlessly narrated the video to cloying, emotional music provided by ABC: "President Kennedy teeing off…

NBC Gushes Over Kennedy Aide's Memorabilia, Ignores He and JFK Shared

January 25th, 2013 6:06 PM
During fawning reports on Thursday's NBC Nightly News and Friday's Today, the network's news personalities expressed thrill over the discovery of a collection of JFK memorabilia once owned by Kennedy aide Dave Powers, with anchor Brian Williams raving: "It's an intimate collection of time spent with the President of the United states and his family. It's the kind of memorabilia only a close…

Endless Kennedy Love: ABC Yet Again Fawns Over JFK

September 26th, 2012 4:27 PM
ABC News found scant time for the just-passed political conventions, coming in dead last according to a Media Research Center study. But the network on Tuesday did manage to, yet again, obsessively focus on John F. Kennedy, a man whose presidency ended 49 years ago. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos interviewed Caroline Kennedy about newly released tapes of her father. He…

Evan Thomas and Chris Matthews: Jackie and Serial Adulterer JFK Had a

February 11th, 2012 11:22 AM
Despite the revelations that, while having an affair with an intern, President Kennedy, pimped the teen out to staffers, gave the young girl drugs and helped her look for an abortion doctor, journalists Chris Matthews and former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas insisted that JFK and Jackie Kennedy had a "good," "full" marriage. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Thomas appeared on Wednesday's…

Covering Up JFK’s Roguish Behavior for 50 Years Not Long Enough for

February 8th, 2012 8:16 PM
Following an NBC Nightly News preview Wednesday evening of the Rock Center promotion for a book by Mimi Alford, in which she recounts how the 45-year-old President Kennedy seduced and carried on a sexual relationship with her when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, anchor Brian Williams conveyed the distress of JFK sycophants in his audience – and admitted his family was amongst them…

Author Stephen King: Right-Wing 'Hate' of Obama Is Like Anger That Led

November 12th, 2011 10:17 AM
According to Stephen King, conservative "hate" of Barack Obama is similar to the anger that led to the assassination of John Kennedy. Appearing on Friday's Hardball to promote "11/22/63," his new novel, the author compared, "Here is where hate will get you eventually. This is what happens. Finally, it's the barrel of a gun." Discussing his book, a work of historical fiction about stopping…

Reporter Notes Big Change in Catholic Republicans and Democrats in Hou

December 18th, 2010 7:57 AM
Nancy Frazier O'Brien of the Catholic News Service reports that the number of Catholics in Congress will decline from 162 to 150 -- but underneath the numbers is a dramatic party shift among Congressional Catholics: For the first time in recent memory, the number of Catholic Republicans in the House -- 61 -- nearly equals the number of Catholic Democratic House members, at 65. That marks a…

CBS’s Smith: ‘Will the Obamas Return to Camelot in the White House

November 7th, 2008 3:19 PM
Continuing the narrative of Barack Obama as John F. Kennedy, on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith described how: "As the nation prepares for President-Elect Barack Obama to move into the White House, many Americans can't help but draw similarities between him and the late President John F. Kennedy." Co-host Julie Chen earlier teased the segment: "The new first family has been compared…

NYT's Krugman: Reagan Thought Hunger 'Was Nothing But a Big Joke

October 5th, 2007 12:23 PM