Video

Nets Mislead on Tax Increase in New Bill to Parrot WH Talking Points

Aidan Moorehouse
August 1st, 2022 6:59 PM

The networks were ecstatic when Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his support for the Inflation Reduction Act. So ecstatic, that they seemingly forgot their role as journalists, instead mindlessly parroting White House talking points about the bill despite the Joint Committee on Taxation saying it would increase taxes on people earning less than $400,000, despite the Biden administration’s…

 

Pat Toomey Slams Soledad O'Brien's 'Factually Ridiculous' Charges

Jeffrey Meyer
February 14th, 2012 1:11 PM
Liberal CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien on Tuesday berated Republican Pat Toomey as a supporter of tax cuts for the rich. The Starting Point host then cited a liberal think tank and proceeded to piously portray herself as above partisanship: "I'm just a voter, just a regular old voter." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Toomey slammed the "factually ridiculous" charges. During the interview with…
 

Mitchell Tags Toomey as 'Conservative' Four Times in 50 Seconds, Leave

Brent Baker
October 28th, 2010 8:14 PM
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. Senate in Pennsylvania, yet she failed to issue even a single label for liberal Democratic candidate Joe Sestak. Sitting at the anchor desk with Brian Williams, Mitchell made clear Toomey “is a Republican…
 

A Challenge for Sen. Arlen Specter

Kathleen McKinley
March 2nd, 2009 1:25 PM
On Thursday I interviewed Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Sentorial Committee. When I asked him about the NRSC running someone against Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010, given the anger many Republicans feel about Specter's vote on the stimulus bill, Cornyn's answer was basically that he would rather have someone voting with him 80% of the time, rather than a liberal Democrat who would…