A chemical attack in Syria that may have killed as many as 1300 people was of little interest to ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday. The network morning show allowed a mere 25 seconds to the large scale gassing. In such a small amount of time, it's not surprising that guest news anchor Amy Robach skipped the salient point that this attack violated the so-called "red line" set out by Barack Obama in 2012. NBC's Today allowed a little more time, two minutes and eight seconds, but also ignored the red line angle and any mention of Barack Obama. It... continue reading
Extreme liberal Chris Matthews may be losing his 5pm time slot , but he isn't going quietly. On Tuesday's Hardball, Matthews sneered that House Republicans who are attempting to defund ObamaCare have "ideological zealotry" that "trumps" "even the most minimal loyalty to the common national interests." Yet, later in the show, the anchor bemoaned Republicans who, regarding Barack Obama, won't "speak the language we normally speak in civilized political debates." Matthews highlighted the possibility of connecting the defunding of Obamacare to the debt ceiling. According the host, "Some on the American right are plotting the global explosion of a default... continue reading
CNN has ignored two warnings that ObamaCare's privacy protection may be at risk when the state exchanges open October 1, which could leave participants open to the threat of identity theft. An Inspector General report recently detailed how the security system was months behind schedule, and last week 13 state attorneys general wrote to HHS Secretary Sebelius warning of a possible " privacy disaster " in Obamacare. CNN has not yet reported either warning. On August 12, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and asked them to delay the exchanges until the... continue reading
Lee Daniels, director and producer of the new film "The Butler," lashed out on Monday's Piers Morgan Live at Americans who are "angry that [Obama] is president" and who are "showing their true colors." Host Piers Morgan teed him up, asking if "America is a more or less racist country since Barack Obama became president?" Daniels responded that "sadly I think so." Actor Lenny Kravitz had a more positive analysis but supported Daniels' assertion about many Americans. [Video below. Audio here .] "Wow, that's a powerful question," Daniels reacted to Morgan's inquiry. "I think that people are angry that he... continue reading
On Monday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes accused Republicans of "pandering" to an "increasingly self-lathering conservative base" in trying to defund ObamaCare, as he predicted that doing so would spell an "unmitigated disaster politically" for Republicans. Hayes mocked Republicans as uncaring as he referred to millions of people who might be affected by ObamaCare by rhetorically asking, "Though really who cares about them?" He concluded that the "'defund ObamaCare' train" would be in a "collision" with "political reality and millions of sick and anxious people." Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Monday, August 19,... continue reading
On Monday's Morning Edition on NPR, Cokie Roberts did little to hide her feelings about the Republican National Committee's recent decision to exclude NBC and CNN from hosting future debates between would-be GOP presidential candidates. Roberts asserted that " some might think it's a little bit childish ." Roberts also brushed off the impact of the RNC's move, stating that it's "not likely to play much one way or the other" with voters. Substitute host David Greene raised the ban near the end of a political segment : "The Republican Party is not going to participate in debates on CNN... continue reading
Good Morning America devoted a segment on Tuesday to the "White House response" on the growing crisis in Egypt without ever mentioning Barack Obama's name. George Stephanopoulos simply informed viewers that "members of Congress continue to debate whether to cut off U.S. aid to Egypt." Stephanopoulos later told reporter Martha Raddatz that "the United States [is] saying that for now, at least, they will not be suspending military aid to the government in Egypt." Yet, despite the ABC graphic declaring, " White House Response on Egypt Crisis ," no GMA journalist in that segment actually mentioned the President who works... continue reading
On Monday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton again raised a distortion against FNC host Bill O'Reilly as he accused O'Reilly of applying the word "parasites" to "people in need," even though the FNC host was referring to people abusing the welfare system. After Sharpton asserted that O'Reilly "slammed food stamp recipients as parasites," he played a clip of the FNC host: "The Obama administration is encouraging parasites to come out and, you know, take as much as they can with no remorse. And this is how our country declines. This is how we become a weak nation." Without explaining... continue reading
Actor Kevin Spacey came on PBS's Charlie Rose show to promote his Netflix series House of Cards and talk about his success at running Britain’s Old Vic Theatre. In the process Spacey, inadvertently, taught Rose and his liberal viewers a valuable economics lesson. On Tuesday’s show, aired on the publicly funded PBS, the Academy Award winning actor told Rose that his time as artistic director of the Old Vic proved: “You can run a major British institution for 10 years without any public subsidy. We get no public subsidy.” The following excerpt was aired on the August 19 edition of... continue reading
Tuesday's CBS This Morning stood out as the only Big Three network morning newscast to cover the latest development in the controversy surrounding the September 11, 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Gayle King gave a 26-second news brief to Secretary of State John Kerry clearing four mid-level diplomats to return to duty, after they were placed on leave by his predecessor, Hillary Clinton [audio available here ; video below ]. Neither ABC's Good Morning America nor NBC's Today devoted any air time to Kerry's move. Instead, the two programs set aside full reports to Sunny... continue reading