1. CBS Wails: "With Only $400 Billion to Spend"; NBC Rues Tax Cut "With only $400 billion to spend." Not even $400 billion is enough spending for CBS and NBC which on Monday and Tuesday night ran stories lamenting the inadequate level of spending proposed to create a prescription drug entitlement. Dan Rather warned: "The plan may wind up falling far short of what Medicare recipients were hoping for." Joie Chen found a victim of "the donut hole. That's the point at which there's no coverage." And why the donut hole? "Well, with only $400 billion to spend, there just... continue reading
1. Nets Treat EPA Report Change as Scandal, CNN Sees Flat-Earthers The New York Times speaks and the networks jump, treating the changing of a sentence in an upcoming EPA report, which few ever heard of and fewer ever would have read, as a major scandal worthy of full stories Thursday night, pieces which assumed the liberal environmental stand on global warming is sacrosanct. CNN's Aaron Brown ridiculously compared doubting global warming is fueled by industrialization to those who castigated Galileo for saying the Earth was round. Dan Rather charged: "Conservationists, environmentalists and some others are taking the President to... continue reading
1. CBS Rationalizes Rioting as "Smoldering Ash of Race and Rage" A bunch of criminal thugs rioted in a Michigan town, burning the private property of their neighbors, but CBS's Byron Pitts saw the rampaging by blacks, which followed a black guy dying when he lost control of his motorcycle while fleeing police, as a far greater sociological trend to be rationalized, "the smoldering ash of race and rage ignited." Pitts followed the standard liberal line in not holding the criminals accountable for their own actions as he cited how "community leaders say" that the rioting was driven by "high... continue reading
1. Prescription Drug Entitlement Spending Doesn't Go "Far Enough" Advocating more government spending, part 1. Though, as news reader Ann Curry conceded on Monday's Today, "the Senate begins debate today on what would be the biggest expansion of Medicare benefits in its history," it's still doesn't go far enough as she added: "Critics say the drug benefit isn't enough." In the media's world, there just isn't anyone who could possibly oppose creating a massive new government entitlement program. Over on ABC's Good Morning America, Tony Perkins had only one substantive complaint for HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson: "Some have said this... continue reading
1. PBS's Rose Admires Hillary's Emerging "New Independence" PBS's Charlie Rose, during his interview with Senator Hillary Clinton aired on Friday night, admired how life has "come ful circle" for her with a marriage, a daughter and now "the emergence to me of a new independence for you since you're on your own." 2. Time 's Gibbs Pressed About Assuming VRWC Even "Bigger" Don Imus pressed Time magazine's Nancy Gibbs about whether her question to Hillary Clinton -- "Is the 'vast, right-wing conspiracy' bigger than you thought when you brought that term into our vocabulary?" -- presumed that Time has... continue reading
1. Networks Jump on Liberal Group's Anti-DeLay "Stroller Protest" ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC on Wednesday all jumped on a Children's Defense Fund (CDF) publicity gimmick of having a few mothers with strollers protest against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's opposition to raising the child credit by $400 per child for those earning between about $10,000 and $27,000 annually. But only NBC's Norah O'Donnell bothered to note that those in that income class pay no income taxes. ABC's Good Morning America aided the left-wing publicity effort by interviewing CDF chief Marian Edelman as she stood on Capitol Hill in front... continue reading
David Brinkley Passes Away; In Later Years He Saw Liberal Bias, Denounced a Loaded Paula Zahn Question and Called Bill Clinton a "Bore" Who Spouts "Nonsense" Editor's Note: David Brinkley, who passed away in Houston Wednesday at age 82, was probably a pretty conventional liberal during much of his career with NBC News and later with ABC News (in an April 10, 1988 Washington Post Magazine profile he revealed: "If I had to pick the best Presidents in my lifetime, I would of course pick Roosevelt and Kennedy, and I would also pick Harry Truman"), but in his latter years... continue reading
1. Moyers: Right Wing Implementing "Intentional Destruction" of US Another mean-spirited, vitriolic attack on conservatives by Bill Moyers, but at least this time one that was not broadcast on his taxpayer-subsidized PBS show. At the "Take Back America" conference in Washington last week, Moyers, John Nichols relayed in an online posting for the far-left Nation magazine, delivered a speech "condemning 'the unholy alliance between government and wealth' and the compassionate conservative spin that tries to make 'the rape of America sound like a consensual date.'" Plus, Moyers asserted: "I think this is a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States... continue reading
1. CBS: Bush's WMD Intel Skewing "Potentially Worse than Watergate" The three broadcast network evening shows led on Monday night with charges that the Bush administration exaggerated what intelligence reports said about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but the CBS Evening News went so far as to analogize the situation to Watergate. John Roberts ominously warned: "If the intelligence was shaded or manipulated, it could be a significant scandal for the Bush White House, potentially worse than Watergate, says one man who remembers that era well." Nixon's John Dean then argued: "If Bush has deliberately turned... continue reading
1. Walters Delivers Hillary Book Infomercial, Paints Her as Victim In Sunday's Barbara Walters special promoting Hillary Clinton's new book, Walters did little more than deliver an hour-long infomercial for the book as she cued up items in the tome for Hillary to comment on, book-ended with plugs for a presidential bid. For Walters, bad things just seemed to happen to an innocent Hillary Clinton whom Walters repeatedly saw as a victim: "You made investments in the commodities markets, you dealt in real estate -- Whitewater, you worked for the Rose law firm, all of which at the time you... continue reading