Norah O'Donnell gushed over Eric Holder on Wednesday's CBS This Morning , trumpeting the supposedly " remarkable " and " very personal " speech that the attorney general gave to the NAACP on Tuesday. O'Donnell also played up how " Holder, the first African-American attorney general ... talked very personally about, after Trayvon Martin's death, counseling his own 15-year-old son if he was stopped by police" [audio available here ; video below ]. The morning newscast spotlighted how the controversial Obama administration figure "sharply criticized the so-called 'stand your ground' laws in Florida and other states", and played 36 seconds... continue reading
The tax records of political candidates and certain donors were improperly accessed by government officials, but the Justice Department has refused to prosecute, according to the Washington Times . This revelation, published on Tuesday, has been ignored by the morning and evening newscasts of CBS, NBC and ABC. Times writers Dave Boyer and Ben Wolfgang explained, "In a written response to a request by [Senator Chuck] Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, [Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell] George said a review turned up four cases since 2006 in which unidentified government officials took part in 'unauthorized... continue reading
In a softball exchange with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards on her Wednesday 1 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell recited one liberal talking point after another to denigrate pro-life legislation in states across the country: "On Friday, Texas became the 16th state to tighten regulations on abortion clinics in the past three years, effectively putting most of them out of business. This is part of a growing movement by states to restrict access to family planning and other women's health facilities." [ Listen to the audio ] Turning to Richards, Mitchell implored: "What can you or Planned... continue reading
Morgan Spurlock poses simply as the host of a CNN mini-series Inside Man , meant to take the audience "inside" a number of issues like guns, immigration, and education. As his evident bias on the " Guns " and "Immigration" episodes shows, however, Spurlock's documentaries score liberal points rather than just educate CNN viewers, as his innocuous promos suggest. On Sunday night's "Immigration" episode, Spurlock actually marched with immigrant activists pushing for immigration reform. Most of the episode sympathized with a group of guest workers and immigration activists while no air time was given to opponents of the current immigration... continue reading
CNN's Early Start should have been re-named "DNC TV" on Tuesday. Anchors omitted almost every controversial detail about Democrats, showing no such love for Republicans. While CNN reported charges against a former staffer for Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the network spun scandals into positives for New York Democrats Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer with the headline " Scandals Help, Not Hurt. " Then in its report on embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, CNN omitted his Democratic affiliation. Filner is also a former Democratic congressman, who currently faces accusations of sexual harassment. [Video below. Audio here .] " You know,... continue reading
CBS This Morning suddenly discontinued identifying San Diego Mayor Bob Filner as a Democrat on Tuesday, after including his political affiliation in two previous reports on the allegations of sexual harassment swirling around the politician. Bill Whitaker pointed out how Filner "dismissed [the] charges...as coming from anonymous sources" and how that was "in contrast to this contrite video apology from late last week," but omitted his party ID. Just 24 hours earlier, Whitaker reported on the morning newscast that " the city's first Democratic mayor in twenty years is embroiled in controversy and fighting for his job." On Friday, anchor... continue reading
On Monday's All In with Chris Hayes , MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, declared that George Zimmerman has become "a kind of patron saint of the right wing in a very serious way" as he complained that he has "been made an icon" and will receive external support in his freedom. Host Hayes fretted that Zimmerman would not sufficiently have to face his conscience as he quoted a tweet. Hayes: You know, someone said this thing on Twitter, I think it was a guy named Jim Henley who I really like and follow... continue reading
In a contentious exchange with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press , moderator David Gregory lectured the Republican for writing a letter to the NFL opposing Obama administration efforts to use the sports league to promote ObamaCare: "...it was striking how political it was....You refer to it as a bill; it's actually the law of the land....How can you write such a letter at a time when don't you feel the need for people to understand what the new law is?" [Listen to the audio ] McConnell stood by his opposition: "It's a massive, complicated,... continue reading
On his 11 a.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Monday, host Thomas Roberts condemned America's current social contract as being "so wrong," launching into an angry rant about the supposed persecution of certain groups in the country and making demands of his liberal network to move even farther left: "I want to challenge this network. We had to have an 'I am other' agenda..." [ Listen to the audio ] Roberts recited imagined lines of attack against such groups: "Being an other, whether it's LGBT, because you're then suspected of being a pedophile and a rabid disease carrier. And if... continue reading
According to MSNBC co-host Toure on Monday, the acquittal of George Zimmerman on Saturday is proof that America in 2013 is just like the one of 1955 where an African American boy was murdered in Mississippi for talking to a white woman: " We still live in the same America that Emmett Till lived in, an America where blacks are often judged to be a threat to order and citizens are able to destroy their bodies." [MP3 audio here .] The Cycle anchor sneered that the case "is an old dog-eared narrative about the challenge of getting justice in the... continue reading