PBS Anchor Woodruff Blames Republicans for Congressional Gridlock

Paul Bremmer
April 3rd, 2013 5:31 PM
On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff brought on former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) to discuss the problem of gridlock in Washington. The conversation started off well, but Woodruff soon made it clear who she believes is more responsible for a lack of legislative progress in the nation’s capital. Snowe presented the problem as being caused by members of both parties. She cited the…
 

GOP-Bashing Authors on CNN: Press Not Hard Enough on GOP

Matt Hadro
January 7th, 2013 12:41 PM
The GOP-bashing tag team of Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann was once again welcome on CNN on Sunday. Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz did challenge the duo's leftist indictment of the media, but Ornstein and Mann had plenty of time to insist the press has "embarrassingly failed" to hold Republicans accountable. When Kurtz posed "Most people think the press does lean to the left," AEI's…
 

Bozell Column: Not Enough Liberal Bias In Loony Land

Brent Bozell
December 11th, 2012 11:23 PM
How could a liberal actually be upset with the liberal media for their coverage of the 2012 presidential election? Well, Daniel Froomkin of The Huffington Post (formerly of The Washington Post) is furious. His complaint carried the headline “How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign.” What would that story be? “Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails…
 

PBS Hypes Liberal 'Congress Watchers' Who Hit GOP as Extreme, With No

Tim Graham
May 4th, 2012 8:48 AM
Just like NPR, the PBS NewsHour on Thursday night invited on liberals Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein to pound away at the "extremism" of the Republican Party (Tea Party Edition). Propose defunding public broadcasting, and this is how the Empire strikes back. Thomas Mann unleashed on the GOP: "They are ideologically extreme, contemptuous of centuries worth of policy, economics and social;…
 

NPR Highlights Authors Who Say GOP Is Extreme and Rejects 'Evidence an

Tim Graham
May 1st, 2012 8:14 AM
On Sunday, the Washington Post’s Outlook section was dominated by an article with a headline imposed over an elephant’s rear end: “Admit it. The Republicans are worse. Don’t blame both sides for gridlock. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein say it’s the GOP’s fault.” Within about 24 hours, there were Mann and Ornstein, being interviewed on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Anchor…
 

Come Again? MSNBC's Wagner Claims Reagan 'Would Be A Democrat' Today

Matthew Balan
January 25th, 2012 8:18 PM
Alex Wagner made an eye-popping remark on her MSNBC program on Wednesday, as she hinted that she agreed with former Obama spokesman Bill Burton's assertion that Ronald Reagan would feel out of place in today's GOP. When Burton claimed that "Reagan wouldn't have a chance in this Republican primary right now," Wagner stunningly replied, "I think he'd be a Democrat probably" [audio available here…