Resurrecting an ideological tag from the 1980s media era, on Monday’s CBS Evening News, the network’s chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, fretted over how “ultra-conservatives” in the House – a label he used twice – are making a mess of things. A rankled Schieffer asked: “Will the moderate and more establishment Republicans continue to go along with the ultra-conservatives who are determined to delay health care?” He soon mused: “The real irony here is that unless the gridlock is broken, health care – which Republicans want to stop – will be funded while other parts of the government will shut... continue reading
On Friday's All In show on MSNBC, as host Chris Hayes was joined by fellow MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow to gush over President Obama being the first American president since 1979 to speak with an Iranian president, Hayes at one point drew an analogy between former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's more radical faction and former President George W. Bush's "kind of neocon cowboy who liked to go around the world inflaming the world with rhetoric." After making the obnoxious link, Hayes then clarified that he did not intend to suggest that Bush was "morally equivalent" to Ahmadinejad. Hayes: I mean,... continue reading
CBS This Morning did its best over two days to put the most positive spin on the rollout of the ObamaCare insurance exchanges. On Saturday, the newscast turned to Bloomberg's Peter Gosselin, who likened the exchanges to " shopping for anything online on Amazon ". However, the program failed to point out that Gosselin once worked in the Obama administration, and advised HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on health policy. Two days later, the morning show turned to CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger, who followed Gosselin's lead in likening the exchanges to a popular website: " This is really like... continue reading
On Monday's NBC Today , co-host Savannah Guthrie acknowledged the liberal spin that congressional Republicans were punished electorally after the 1995 government shutdown was more a matter of faith than fact: "I mean, for 17 years it's been an article of faith that Republicans paid at the polls after the shutdown in the 90s. But these new House Republicans aren't so sure that's true." [ Listen to the audio ] That observation was in response to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd declaring: "...while there are that small band of loud conservatives who are wanting to, you know, not cave,... continue reading
George Stephanopoulos scored an interview on Sunday with his old boss, Bill Clinton. In return for this exclusive, the former Democratic operative turned journalist avoided any mention of a scandal at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), of Benghazi and how the bungled response to the terrorist attack might impact Hillary Clinton's 2016 run for president. Instead, Stephanopoulos used the ten and a half minute interview to gently query his former supervisor: " I know you can't answer anything about 2016. But when you look back to the last campaign, if you could boil it down to one, what is the... continue reading
In an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday's NBC Today , co-host Matt Lauer urged Republicans to abandon their opposition to ObamaCare in order to avoid a government shutdown: "By the latest count, there have been something like 40 efforts in the House to either get rid of ObamaCare or defund it. And yet, as John McCain said last week...'We lost that fight.' The Supreme Court has upheld ObamaCare as constitutional. Do you think the Republicans should move on?" [ Listen to the audio ] O'Reilly flatly rejected the idea: "No. It's a bad deal for the... continue reading
In defiance of reality illustrated in numerous polls, on Sunday’s Face the Nation , host Bob Schieffer scolded Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn when she correctly asserted “there is only partisan support” for ObamaCare. Schieffer cut her off: “Well now Congresswoman, that’s not entirely true. The polls don’t suggest that. Polls say that most people favor it.” Audio: MP3 clip In fact, more have disapproved than approved of ObamaCare since it was passed, as confirmed in a new CBS News/ New York Times survey released Wednesday night , September 25: Opinions of the health care law overall continue to be negative... continue reading
Senator Mike Lee, Steve Hayes, Monica Crowley, Jim DeMint, Cal Thomas and Charles Krauthammer highlighted the MRC’s “ 2013 Gala featuring the DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporting ,” presented on Thursday night, September 26, before an audience of 850 at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington, D.C. In addition to the presentation of the DisHonors Awards videos in four categories and a look at some “funny clips,” the audience decided Jonathan Alter had earned the Quote of the Year dishonor. MRC President Brent Bozell asked the audience to show their derision, via jeers and noisemakers, of... continue reading
At the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News , anchor Brian Williams issued a dire warning to viewers about the possibility of a government shutdown: "Time running out until a big deadline, now days away, and it's getting ugly in Washington. Tonight, can anything be done to save our government from itself?" [ Listen to the audio ] Introducing the later report, Williams again hyped how "the tone is getting uglier than normal in Washington, as lawmakers argue over funding the health care law." Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd made it clear which party was being "ugly": "Another day... continue reading
Thursday's CBS Evening News was practically shocked by a fact that threatens the agenda of radical environmentalists – global temperatures have simply not risen in 15 years. Scott Pelley trumpeted how "on the eve of a major new report on climate change... a surprising discovery ." Mark Phillips hyped that " another inconvenient truth has emerged on the way to the apocalypse ....the global atmosphere hasn't been warming lately." The correspondent spotlighted how "since 1998, while the amount of greenhouse gases continued to rise, the air temperature hasn't." He also pointed out that this development " makes the task for... continue reading