1. Lying Expert Franken Distorts Schwarzenegger's Hitler Comment Monday night on NBC's Tonight Show, Al Franken, author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, distorted what Arnold Schwarzenegger said in the 1970s about Adolph Hitler. Franken falsely claimed that Schwarzenegger not only said "that he liked the way Hitler spoke and presented himself," but also that "he said he liked what he did with it." In fact, Schwarzenegger said the opposite: "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people... continue reading
1. ABC Fails to Note Depth of Its Arnold "Admired" Hitler Misquote Even though the New York Times corrected it in late Thursday editions and again on Friday, Linda Douglass of ABC News waited until Sunday before correcting, sort of, the inaccurate quote she highlighted on Thursday's World News Tonight about how Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly once asserted of Hitler: "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." In fact, Schwarzenegger actually said: "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for HIS WAY OF GETTING TO THE PEOPLE... continue reading
1. Media Eagerly Slime Schwarzenegger So Democrats Don't Have To Not slimed by dirty politics from Democrats but from the media which continue to highlight suspiciously revealed comments about Nazis and to troll for women to denounce Arnold Schwarzenegger. Friday night all the networks picked up on the claim he once said he "admired" Hitler and highlighted, just days before the election, the claims of another woman who alleged he groped her over 20 years ago, but neither CBS or NBC bothered to point out how the woman made the charge at a left-wing press conference which unveiled anti-Schwarzenegger TV... continue reading
1. Perfect Storm of Anti-Conservative News Dominates Networks A perfect storm of anti-conservative news items led and dominated the network newscasts on Thursday night as ABC, CBS and NBC all featured the same subjects, with only the sequence varying. The anti-conservative news agenda: A last-minute, October Surprise hit at the most viable Republican candidate in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with sexual impropriety charges going back to 1975, David Kay not being able to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the "expanding" investigation into the already media exaggerated "leakgate" controversy and jumping on a National Enquirer story (euphemistically called "published reports")... continue reading
1. ABC Gives Philip Agee, in Cuba, a Platform to Denounce Bush Team NBC Nightly News and CNN's NewsNight led again Wednesday night with "leakgate," but ABC and CBS managed to find other subjects more newsworthy. When ABC arrived on leakgate, it equated the alleged actions of the Bush White House with Philip Agee, the discredited CIA agent now living in communist Cuba who in the 1970s revealed the names of many of his colleagues. ABC showcased Agee charging: "I find it ironic that the son of the first President Bush would be the one to have an administration which... continue reading
1. Networks Focus on "Leakgate," Skate Over Wilson's Liberal Views For the third straight night all the network evening newscasts focused on the supposed "leakgate" scandal as CBS's Dan Rather asserted: "The Bush White House under increasing fire." NBC's Tom Brokaw declared, as if he and his colleagues had nothing to do with it: "It is now a Washington firestorm." But the networks skated over the left-wing persuasion of Joe Wilson, who plans to endorse John Kerry. Though Wilson has driven the accusations against Bush political aide Karl Rove as the guilty party, an accusation from which he's had to... continue reading
1. Excited Network Reporters Enter Scandal Mode on CIA Name Leak The networks entered full scandal mode on Monday with the evening shows leading for a second straight night with the news of an investigation into who in the administration back in July told columnist Bob Novak a CIA operatives's name, though stories conflicted on the operatives actual job duties, the source of the leak and, despite Joe Wilson on Monday morning having specifically admitted he went too far in accusing Karl Rove, both CBS and NBC relayed Wilson's naming of Rove. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski offered this warning: "If tried... continue reading
1. Schieffer Presses Dean on Tenet Resignation, How a Hike is a Cut Interviewing Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Sunday's Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer began by pressing Dean to call for the resignation of another Bush official and Schieffer adopted liberal Democratic mathematics as he described a seven percent spending increase as a "cut." Schieffer wanted to know: "Do you now think that George Tenet, the CIA Director, ought to resign?" Later, Schieffer relayed Dick Gephardt's incongruous historic tale about 1995 when "Democrats were fighting to keep Newt Gingrich from shutting down the government," a time when Dean... continue reading
1. Dan Rather Slyly Suggests Bush Team Knew Iraq Had No WMD ABC and CBS on Thursday night gave credibility to liberal talking points as they jumped on a February, 2001 comment by Secretary of State Colin Powell about how Saddam Hussein "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction." Dan Rather slyly turned that into: "Tonight, the Iraq weapons search. New questions about what the Bush administration knew before the war." Peter Jennings avoided such a suggestion of duplicity: "On World News Tonight, the Bush administration's hunt for weapons of mass destruction comes up... continue reading
1. Poll in Favor of Cancelling Tax Cut for Rich Delights Russert Much to Tim Russert's delight, since it matches his weekly mantra on Meet the Press, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that to pay for the $87 billion for Iraq, 56 percent of the public prefers to cancel the recent tax cuts for the "upper income brackets" and only 13 percent want to cut other spending. Russert stressed how "one-third of Republicans said cancel the tax cut for the top brackets," prompting Tom Brokaw to hope: "That will get the attention of the White House." The... continue reading