1. Tax Cut Plan Cut in Half, But Dan Rather Still Calls it "Big" How much must a tax cut package be reduced in size before Dan Rather stops calling it "big"? House and Senate conferees settled Wednesday on a $350 billion tax cut over ten years, less than half the size of President Bush's original proposal, but CBS's Dan Rather still insisted upon describing it as "President Bush's big tax cut plan." 2. CBS Chases Phone Call Scandal, "Coverup as High as...Tom DeLay" On Wednesday night, the CBS Evening News aired its third full story in eight days on... continue reading
1. Rather and Auletta Discover Media Bias...On Fox News Channel It's always amazing that establishment media figures, who are unable to discern any liberal bias at any mainstream media outlet, are so easily able to recognize conservative bias on the Fox News Channel. The latest examples: CBS's Dan Rather and the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, who has just written a story about FNC. "It's not fair and balanced," Auletta declared Monday night on CNBC before charging: "Many of their anchors are biased, they're people who express opinions throughout the newscast, be it 'axis of weasels' to describe France but never... continue reading
1. All Three Journalists on ABC's This Week Denounce Tax Cut A perfect model of liberal media bias was displayed by Sunday's This Week with all three journalists in the mainstream media denouncing a tax cut and the one radio talk show host defending a tax cut. George Stephanopoulos marveled at how Bush won a tax cut vote in the Senate given it's "weighted to the rich" and the public would "prefer" the money go to health care. Talk show host Laura Ingraham suggested that "class warfare" is a losing argument for Democrats, which prompted Nightline reporter Michel Martin to... continue reading
1. Texas Democrats Walk Out But DeLay & GOP the Ogre to CBS & CNN Democrats in Texas employed extra-legal means to thwart the will of the majority by leaving the state in order to prevent a quorum, but on Thursday night, CBS portrayed U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as the ogre by focusing on his supposed misuse of federal resources to track down the fleeing Democrats. Earlier, Bob McNamara made DeLay the heavy as he falsely referred to how "DeLay's redistricting Texas power play is designed to add as many as seven more GOP seats to a state... continue reading
1. Jennings: Saudi Bombings Mean al-Qaeda Stronger Than Bush Admits Peter Jennings contended Tuesday night that the terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia show that "al-Qaeda is better organized than the Bush administration has either believed or said publicly," but CBS's John Roberts suggested the bombings are an indication of the success of the war on terrorism since "under intense pressure al-Qaeda has been forced to abandon attacks in the United States and hit soft targets closer to its base of operation." 2. WashPost Declares Bush Tax Cuts "Clearly Do Favor the Affluent" The Democratic argument that the Bush tax cut... continue reading
1. States "Forced to Raise Taxes," But Zilch on Soaring Spending A day after George Stephanopoulos asserted that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was "forced to raise taxes," ABC anchor Peter Jennings insisted that states are being "forced to raise taxes." Terry Moran cited states which have raised taxes and Judy Muller listed cuts in California to lifeguards and abused children, all without pointing out how spending in the specific states cited rose much faster in the 1990s than inflation and population growth. On Sunday's Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer asserted that states are "starved for money" and Time's... continue reading
1. ABC: Bloomberg "Forced" to Raise Taxes, Most Oppose Bush Tax Cut "Forced"to raise taxes? And "most voters" don't think the Bush tax cut is a good idea? On Sunday's This Week, George Stephanopoulos told New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that he's "being forced to raise taxes now" and wondered how much the Bush tax cut will hurt New York City. Hours later on World News Tonight/Sunday, though a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found 52 percent believe the Bush tax cuts are a "good idea," ABC reporter John Cochran insisted: "Most voters, or many voters, do not think the... continue reading
1. Olbermann Outs Jennings' Military-Deriding Source on POW Rescue MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Thursday night inadvertently outed ABC's Peter Jennings as to how a piece on Wednesday's World News Tonight belittling the U.S. commando rescue of POW Jessica Lynch, because of how no Iraqi military were in the hospital, aired two days after a story with that theme ran in Jennings' hometown newspaper, the Toronto Star. But that Star story was not obsessed, as was ABC, with how commandos unnecessarily broke doors. Toronto Star reporter Mitch Potter mentioned broken doors just once in his article and that did not occur... continue reading
1. CBS, CNN and CNBC Jump on Attacks on Bush's Carrier Landing Complaints by a few Democrats about President Bush flying on a Navy jet to an aircraft carrier gained network traction Wednesday night with CBS running a full story and CNBC's The News with Brian Williams and CNN's NewsNight airing at least one story followed by an interview. CNN's NewsNight devoted just over 12 minutes to the topic with Aaron Brown asking: "Do you think any of the anger...that Democrats have stems from the fact that the President was in the reserves during the Vietnam era and not in... continue reading
1. Jennings Showcases Liberal Shots at Bush's Carrier Landing Party pooper. ABC's Peter Jennings on Tuesday night found time to relay the complaints from two liberal Democrats about President Bush's landing on an aircraft carrier last week, with Congressman Henry Waxman wanting to know the cost and former Klansman turned Senator Robert Byrd claiming it was an "affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the President to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech." 2. Prominent NY Times Reporters More Error-Prone Than Plagiarist A New York Times reporter who resigned last week... continue reading