As the media report on the allegedly horrid polls for Mitt Romney, will they take the time to report the latest on their own poll ratings with Gallup ? “Americans' distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60 percent saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.” Here’s the ugly breakdown on trust: Only 26 percent of Republicans and 31 percent of independents have a “great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the media. Naturally, considering the tilt of their reporting, 58 percent... continue reading
The MRC continues to showcase the most egregious bias we've uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, September 27. Click here for articles recounting the worst of 1988 through 2006 . Today, the worst bias of 2007 : ABC fawns over newly-installed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; Rosie O’Donnell insults the troops; and a McClatchy headline writer finds a downside to good news in Iraq. “For the first time in the 218-year history of the... continue reading
NBC's Matt Lauer pronounced the previous week a "bad week" for the Romney campaign and cited squishy Republicans to help make his point on Thursday's Today show. Lauer wouldn't even let Romney adviser Ed Gillespie say President Obama had a bad week. Lauer posed to Gillespie, "by just about every estimate this was a bad week for his [Romney's] campaign. Would you agree?" When Gillespie cited polls showing President Obama's numbers slipping, Lauer tried to flip the negative spotlight back on Romney. "It can't be a good week for Mitt Romney when key Republicans come out and say things like... continue reading
Thursday's CBS This Morning was practically ready to sound the death knell for Mitt Romney's campaign, with John Dickerson playing up " the real sense of fea r" among anonymous Republican sources that " Romney really has one last shot ." Dickerson claimed that "those battleground state numbers...are part of the reason that Republicans are so panicked .... Republican politicians starting to think about their own future as separate from Romney ." Norah O'Donnell also harped on how " there's only been one public rally in five days " for the former Massachusetts governor, glossing over the fact that he... continue reading
The same networks that have been hyping secret video of Mitt Romney talking about who pays taxes, hyperventilating about the Republican's "seismic" bombshell," have, thus far, completely ignored the revelation from the Congressional Budget Office that "significantly" more Americans will have to pay a "tax penalty" for being uninsured, many in the middle class. All three evening newscasts on Wednesday and the morning shows on Thursday totally skipped this report. The Associated Press explained, " The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises ." Writer Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar added,... continue reading
MRC is showcasing the most egregious bias we have uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala one week from tonight. Click here for articles recounting the worst of 1988 through 2005 . Today, the worst bias of 2006 : ABC’s Terry Moran gets a thrill for Barack Obama (“Is he the one?”); AP touts the “comforts” of Castro’s communist dictatorship; and daytime talk show host Rosie O’Donnell declares: “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam.” “You... continue reading
Mitt Romney on Wednesday put into play newly uncovered video of Barack Obama in 1998 advocating redistribution of wealth, but of the broadcast network evening newscasts, only the NBC Nightly News bothered to inform viewers of the display of Obama’s far-left economic philosophy. And that only came inside the newscast’s first of two stories on media-fueled fallout from Romney’s observation that 47 percent don’t pay income taxes. “These are tough days for the Romney campaign,” NBC anchor Brian Williams led his program, declaring: “Inside 50 days to go now until the election, and they are dealing with something of a... continue reading
More than an hour into the program, Wednesday's CBS This Morning finally acknowledged that " this race is not over for Mitt Romney ," based on the network's own polling. Norah O'Donnell noted that "in our new polls... Republicans are more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting this year in general, and that enthusiasm has actually ... grown since early August ." O'Donnell's reporting came almost an hour after Bob Schieffer's apocalyptic spin about the Republican presidential nominee's campaign. Before getting to the poll numbers, she pressed Frank Luntz on whether the hidden camera videos were " a turning point in... continue reading
Who needs campaign staff when you have CNN to tout your "very, very damaging" attack ad? Host Piers Morgan gave President Obama some free publicity Tuesday night while CNN kept the anti-Romney media firestorm raging. "I'm going to play a new Obama ad which basically sums up how he's going to attack him [Romney]. And it's very, very damaging. Watch this," Morgan told his guests, after he hyped Romney's "monumental gaffe" about the 47 percent of Americans paying no income taxes. [Video below. Audio here .] "I mean on the face of it, this is a monumental gaffe, isn't it,... continue reading
President Obama had time to enjoy late night laughs with David Letterman while refusing to meet with America's Middle East ally, and yet CNN's Wolf Blitzer was just fine with that. "In the scheme of things, who is going to get you more votes?" was Blitzer's excuse. "A meeting that could be tense with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or go on Letterman and come across as well as he did last night?" Meanwhile, when Mitt Romney appeared on Kelly Ripa's daytime talk show last week, CNN juxtaposed that frivolity with Obama's solemn tribute to slain diplomats. However, CNN had honeyed... continue reading