Covering President Barack Obama’s White House meeting with congressional leaders, ABC and CBS portrayed incoming House Republicans as the ones obstinate about tax rates, refusing to compromise…
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November 30th, 2010 10:01 PM | Brent Baker
November 17th, 2010 10:12 AM | Mark Finkelstein
First came the Searchlight Brawler, Harry Reid. Now Orrin Hatch joins the ranks of the Senate tough guys . . . Asked whether—like fellow Utah Senator Robert Bennett—he might be defeated in…
November 14th, 2010 3:32 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday evening, ABC’s World News and the NBC Nightly News both informed viewers that Cindy McCain - wife of Senator John McCain - supports repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy on gays…
November 13th, 2010 8:11 PM | Noel Sheppard
The liberal media went into quite a tirade Friday after conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh made a satirical remark about the Democrats relegating House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C…
November 10th, 2010 5:56 PM | Matt Hadro
Using his best attempt at a football analogy, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) tried to explain Wednesday that Speaker Pelosi is the best choice for the Democrat House leadership even though she is…
November 4th, 2010 11:06 AM | Ken Shepherd
"This is the type of direct democracy people say they want. Sometimes you wonder," MSNBC's Chuck Todd editorialized after a segment about conservative ballot initiatives that passed into law on…
November 2nd, 2010 1:59 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Tuesday's Today show, a couple of correspondents laid down the potential story line of a big defeat for Sarah Palin if the Republican Tea Party candidate she endorsed, Joe Miller, doesn't…
October 29th, 2010 9:22 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Call it Chuck Todd's Profile In Pusillanimity . . . Given a chance to express his personal opinion of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, Todd--NBC's chief WH correspondent--…
October 28th, 2010 8:14 PM | Brent Baker
In the span of a mere 50 seconds on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell managed to apply a conservative ideological tag four times to Pat Toomey, the Republican candidate for U.S.…
October 28th, 2010 5:55 PM | Kyle Drennen
While all three broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, highlighted MoveOn.org protestor Lauren Valle being stepped on outside Monday's Kentucky senate debate, only CBS reported new video showing…
October 22nd, 2010 9:59 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Trying to write off calls—in reaction to the Juan Williams firing fiasco—for the federal defunding of NPR as mere right-wing electoral politics and "cable catnip," Norah O'Donnell has grossly…
October 18th, 2010 8:59 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Mika chalked it up to Mondays, and gosh knows I've had some rough ones myself. So we're happy to cut Mike Barnicle some slack. Even so, we can't help reporting how in the course of little…
October 15th, 2010 8:49 PM | Brent Baker
NBC's Chuck Todd conceded “the Tea Party has been helpful to the GOP in both re-branding the party away from Bush and giving it a real grassroots component,” but he insisted, “this Tea Party…
October 14th, 2010 6:34 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd tag-teamed against Alaskan Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller, on Thursday's Hardball, as Todd claimed Miller was "running a terrible campaign" and warned that…
October 13th, 2010 3:13 PM | Lachlan Markay
Why are Americans not being bombarded with sermons on the irresponsibility of blogs and new media generally? After all, the White House's attacks on the Chamber of Commerce originated with a…
October 11th, 2010 10:16 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Well, they did stop short of presenting him with a ceremonial seppuku sword . . .
But other than that, MSNBC's Daily Rundown duo of Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie did their best to…
October 8th, 2010 1:28 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
NBC's Chuck Todd, on Friday's Today, played defense for the Democrats as he relayed their spin on political commercials, noting that "outside independent groups, mostly Republican, are benefitting…
October 5th, 2010 11:16 PM | Brent Bozell
It’s a topsy-turvy, upside-down political world out there for people who thought Barack Obama would be cruising at a 70 percent approval rating while crushing the Republicans like bugs. In fact,…
NBC Forced to Admit More See Tea Party as Good and Want ObamaCare Repealed – And They’re MSM Viewers
September 29th, 2010 2:49 AM | Brent Baker
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll didn’t come up with numbers pleasing to the NBC News staff, though Brian Williams, on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, did his best to spin the findings as…
August 27th, 2010 11:47 AM | NB Staff
"This is one of those ever more obnoxious teaching moments that we're getting from the left-wing press," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained on last night's "Hannity" after watching a clip…
August 24th, 2010 8:43 PM | Brent Baker
NBC's Chuck Todd couched it in terms of how “both parties” are peddling “fear” in this year's election season -- but his formulation Tuesday night of how 2008 was “the hope election” while this one…
August 24th, 2010 12:24 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
If Democrats weren't nervous about November's midterm elections yet, they could soon be, especially when you consider that even their allies in the liberal media are starting to forecast doom for…
August 20th, 2010 2:34 PM | Jeff Poor
It’s hardly a secret the Democratic Party, and by extension their liberal activists, are fearful their side is going to suffer significant electoral losses this November.
Part of…
August 20th, 2010 2:04 PM | Mark Finkelstein
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the…
August 19th, 2010 9:21 PM | Brent Baker
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams cited a “stunning number” from “a reputable pollster” (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press) –…