A front page story in USA Today on Wednesday hyperbolically pushed recent storms as proof of global warming, warning: "Weather disasters target N. America." (Weather disasters are targeting America?) Citing a study by a Munich-based insurance firm, reporter Doyle Rice hyped, "The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on all continents since 1980, but most notably in North America where countries have been battered by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, searing heat and drought, a new report says." Rice didn't explain the credentials of Munich Re or its scientific background. For a study dealing with climate change, the... continue reading
On Wednesday's NBC Today , co-host Matt Lauer cited left-wing Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan ripping apart President Obama's bad debate performance: "I've never seen a candidate this late in the game so far ahead just throw in the towel in the way Obama did last week. How do you erase that imprinted first image from public consciousness, a president incapable of making a single argument or even a halfway decent closing argument?" Lauer employed the quote in an interview with Obama campaign advisor Robert Gibbs and worried: "So with the second debate just a week away, Robert, does President... continue reading
Norah O'Donnell hounded Republican strategist Mike Murphy on Wednesday's CBS This Morning , repeatedly hinting that Mitt Romney flip-flopped on the issue of abortion during his Tuesday interview with The Des Moines Register . O'Donnell conspicuously failed to mention that during the same interview, Romney promised to " reinstate the Mexico City policy ....that foreign aid dollars ... would not be used to carry out abortion in other countries ." [audio clips available here ; video below ] By contrast, the anchor's former employer, NBC, pointed out on Wednesday's Today show that " Romney did say he would instead use... continue reading
Tuesday's Nightline featured the second part of an exhaustive, three part interview with Michelle Obama. Once again, co-anchor Cynthia McFadden failed to ask any tough questions to the First Lady, instead offering only softballs and repeating White House spin. McFadden followed Mrs. Obama as she did events promoting higher employment for returning veterans. Co-anchor Bill Weir teased the latest segment as yet another celebrity puff piece (complete with clips from Sesame Street and Extreme Makeover ): "We got a little taste of Michelle Obama at home last night. Tonight, you two go on the road." Since military issues were the... continue reading
After promoting the Obama campaign's Bird Bird ad on Tuesday's NBC Today , not to mention it being played repeatedly on MSNBC , in an interview with campaign advisor Robert Gibbs on Wednesday's Today , co-host Matt Lauer wondered: "...is that the kind of political ad that a campaign releases when it feels that it has ideas and solutions on its side, or is that the kind of political ad a campaign releases when it simply wants to get attention?" Gibbs defended the juvenile ad: "I think the ad and the President have an important point on this. You know,... continue reading
A July campaign story by CNN's Jim Acosta was so biased that the Obama campaign trumpeted the headline in its new attack ad. That came after MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell cried foul over the campaign using footage of her in its ads, perhaps telling evidence of the role the liberal media is playing in this campaign by providing fodder for Obama. Back in July, Acosta hyped that Mitt Romney's overseas trip to Europe began in "shambles" even though CNN hosts Piers Morgan and Fareed Zakaria threw water on that sentiment. Team Obama now has featured Acosta's story to cast aspersions on... continue reading
CNN's Piers Morgan just couldn't let his Republican guest denounce President Obama's foreign policy. He spouted the White House spin on all the President's accomplishments while not holding him accountable for the Libya fiasco, on his Monday night show. "I would say one of the things that Barack Obama has done incredibly successfully is restore a lot of America's very damaged reputation around the world since the eight years of George Bush and all the warfare that came with it," claimed Morgan. [Video below. Audio here .] But the President's global reputation has fallen since he entered office, according to... continue reading
Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake told CNN on Tuesday that candidate George W. Bush "just didn't pay a high enough price" in the 2000 election for his DUI arrest that occurred more than 20 years prior. Blake was talking about famous "October surprises," or unforseen events occurring in the month before the election that could be game-changing. The Bush DUI revelation was a hit job planted by a Democratic source that mushroomed into a big story because of the liberal media. [Video below. Audio here .] "But how was he [Bush] able to overcome that story so close to the... continue reading
Appearing on Tuesday's MSNBC Morning Joe , NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd discounted a new satirical ad from the Obama campaign mocking Mitt Romney for mentioning Big Bird in the debate: "...this is clearly a, as I was told, 'national cable,' which seems like code for, 'We put it out there hoping a lot of people will play it over and over because we think it's a good snarky conversation.'" However, only moments earlier, the full ad played on the MSNBC morning show, as well as during the 6 a.m. ET hour. In fact, the... continue reading
Charlie Rose badgered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday's CBS This Morning over the " few specifics " of Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech on Monday. During the interview, Norah O'Donnell boosted former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's " full of platitude and free of substance " blast at Romney's speech. Rose changed subjects midway through the segment and also hounded the former U.S. attorney on whether the Romney campaign has " decided to be more moderate " in the last days of the presidential race. The PBS veteran immediately used his talking point on the... continue reading