In a fawning interview with liberal comedian Stephen Colbert on Friday's NBC Today, fill-in co-host David Gregory gushed over the Comedy Central host being a factor in the 2 012 presidential race: "What a treat for me to be in for Matt [Lauer] today....Stephen Colbert is a man who has had a loud and influential voice in this political season." Gregory began the farcical exchange by proclaiming to Colbert: "You have a super-PAC and you have a character on television. And you have a real impact on this race." Colbert himself was skeptical: "How do I have an impact on... continue reading
Interviewing President Obama about the killing of Osama Bin Laden on Wednesday's NBC Rock Center , Nightly News anchor Brian Williams couldn't resist gushing over the level-headed comm ander-in-chief: "How do you keep an even keel? Even when we look back on the videotape of that night, there's no real depi ct ion that there's something afoot." Williams was referring to the President attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner as the mission to kill Bin Laden was underway, having to "laugh it up" and "live a little bit of a lie for the public good." Obama explained: "You know, that... continue reading
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, the news network's founder, Ted Turner, complained that a double standard exists between the U.S. and Israel being allowed to possess nuclear weapons while Iran is expected to be nuclear-free, as he suggested that all countries dispose of their nuclear arsenals to persuade Iran not to build such weapons. After host Piers Morgan asked Turner what he would do about Iran if he were President, the CNN founder absurdly complained that Iran was being held to a different standard than Israel, without either he or Morgan noting Iran's support... continue reading
MSNBC on Thursday again featured Ron Reagan to trade on the legacy of his father, trashing the Republican Party as a "haven for bigots." The liberal son of the former president appeared on Hardball to slime the GOP and Mitt Romney for discriminating against gays. Matthews tossed Reagan a softball, complimenting his "Republican family" for not discriminating against gays. The son of a Republican president slimed, " Since the civil rights era, the Republican Party has been a haven for bigots ." [MP3 audio here .] He added that not "all" GOP members are bigots, but the party "has provided... continue reading
While presidential siblings might normally receive soft interviews on television, President Obama's half-sister Auma had the red carpet rolled out for her on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight. Morgan wasn't just cordial but was enraptured by her "wonderful" new book and her brother Barack's "amazing" story. "You have the Obama smile. I would have recognized that a mile off," Morgan told Auma. Was he exaggerating or does he know President Obama that well? Regardless, he followed up with more flattery praising her book's "wonderful" title, Barack's "memorable" 2008 campaign speech, and his "unbelievable" singing voice. "What a moment, I mean, for... continue reading
When the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement first arrived on the scene back in October of 2011 the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) news networks greeted, what they viewed as the left’s answer to the Tea Party, with a whopping 33 full stories in just the first 11 days of coverage and a total of 81 stories in that month. However, when that movement proved to be an embarrassment to the left and Democratic Party with its acts of violence, most recently on May Day, the Big Three breezed past the ugly actions of this leftist movement with just one... continue reading
Wednesday's nightly newscasts and Thursday's morning shows hyped "steamy," "romantic" journal entries from an ex-girlfriend of Barack Obama, but downplayed or ignored revelations that his autobiography created a false "composite" relationship of multiple women. On Thursday's Today , Natalie Morales gossiped like a school girl: " Steamy journal entries from a long-ago ex-girlfriend of President Obama are heating up the internet ..." She revealed important details such as the fact that his apartment smelled like "running sweat" and "raisins." However, Morales skipped the fact that, as reported by Politico , "the 'New York girlfriend' was actually a composite character, based... continue reading
Talking to Meet the Press host David Gregory on the NBC Sunday show's web-based feature Press Pass, Saturday Night Live cast member and Obama impersonator Fred Armisen confessed: "I'v e grown to like him more and more. You know, I was always – I've just been a fan of his, if you could say that about a pr esi dent. So that's the other kind of good part of it, is you know, getting to like him more and more." By contrast, fellow cast member Jason Sudeikis told Gregory he wished he could impersonate someone more exciting than Mitt Romney:... continue reading
It must be campaign season. Fact-checking gurus are rating accurate statements by the Romney campaign as " Mostly False " or "Half True" or – the best – " True but False ," since they're correct but they apparently don't tell the whole story. However, when President Obama made a factually- in correct statement last week, he did not receive a "False" rating from the website PolitiFact, but benefitted from a grading curve since he " has a point " to make. Romney received the same " Half True " rating for a factually- correct statement. CNN hosted the editor... continue reading
A liberal protest that CNN.com said contained " about 10 people " still merited inclusion in CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's report on Wednesday's The Situation Room. Of course, Acosta made no mention of the smallness or brevity of the protest -- the chant of "No Swiss Mitt" lasted under five minutes. Acosta did tout that Democrats were "hounding" Romney to keep him "back on his heels." As an example of their strategy, he mentioned the protesters with a clip of them chanting "No Swiss Mitt." "But Democrats have their own playbook to keep Romney back on his heels," Acosta reported,... continue reading