CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and Carol Costello teamed up to throw water on what they saw to be a mythical legacy of President Reagan, on Friday morning. Echoing the liberal media of the Reagan years, the duo countered Republican praise for the president by casting it as "revisionist history." "And it's almost like revisionist history here. Back in the day, there were a lot of people who were suffering under the Reagan era," Malveaux insisted about GOP candidates invoking Reagan's name on the campaign trail. CNN did its level best to distort Reagan's legacy into something not so worth endorsing. Costello... continue reading
On Thursday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was eager to share new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll numbers with viewers as he touted this headline from the results: "Our poll is also showing evidence this race is hurting the GOP, and we could see more of that tonight at the next debate..." Later, political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd hyped the supposed damage to Republicans: "...there's some suggestions in our poll that this presidential primary campaign is actually hurting the party as a whole. Look at these negative ratings. Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, all within a... continue reading
By daring to stand up for herself in recent exchange with President Obama, the media quickly labeled Arizona Governor Jan Brewer a villain. On Thursday's NBC Nightly News , anchor Brian Williams was aghast: "Who have you ever seen talking to the president like this? ....The governor of Arizona with her finger in the face of the President of the United States. You don't see that often or maybe ever." [ Listen to the audio ] In the report that followed, White House correspondent Kristen Welker piled on with nasty sound bites attacking Brewer. A clip of left-wing MSNBC host... continue reading
A question we've never posed and likely no one outside of CBS News has ever considered: 'We wondered what Bob Schieffer thinks of all of this?' Yet that's how CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Thursday night cued up Schieffer to take up CBS air time to convey his personal disgust with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for supposedly failing to show the proper respect to President Barack Obama on the tarmac near Phoenix. 'This is just another sign of the growing incivility and really vulgarity of our modern American politics,' Schieffer declared, fretting 'these campaigns have gotten so ugly... continue reading
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose took issue with Senator Marco Rubio recently attacking President Barack Obama for being 'divisive.' When Rubio tried to point to the President's State of the Union address as an example, Rose interrupted and replied, " I saw him honoring the military of America and a lot other things where we should be coming together. That doesn't seem to be divisive ." The Florida Republican continued by trying to cite the chief executive's use of class warfare as a tactic " What about the part that basically implies ... that the only way that... continue reading
Who cares what an unelected dictator thinks about the U.S. presidential campaign? Well, New York Times reporters do. Michael Shear and Trip Gabriel were in Miami following the campaign in the runup to next Tuesday's Florida primary and quoted Fidel Castro in Thursday's ' Candidates Scramble to Win Hispanic Voters in Florida .' They even suggested the dictator (who they merely called 'the retired Cuban leader') 'had reason to be annoyed' at threats voiced by Republican candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. After noting that Cuban-Americans were 'a force in South Florida's Republican politics,' Shear and Gabriel quoted the Cuban... continue reading
A disgusted Andrea Mitchell on Thursday decried the "anti-Castro vitriol" coming from Republican presidential candidates in Florida, sneering that they are "pander bears" to the Cuban community. [MP3 audio here .] Teasing a discussion with Chuck Todd, Mitchell dismissed the GOP contenders: " And as Romney and Gingrich try to outdo each other with their anti-Castro vitriol, appealing to Florida voters, they think, Fidel weighed in today with his view of them ." Todd lectured that Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney "ought to be careful, because it doesn't sound believable." Continuing to show her disdain, Mitchell made a historical comparison:... continue reading
In a vain attempt to justify President Obama's claim that "America is back," on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News , chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd excitedly announced to viewers: "In our new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, improvement in three key categories seems to indicate the statistical green shoots about the economy is now actually penetrating the American psyche." So what stunning reversal of public sentiment did the new poll reveal? Here it is: "The big number, of course, is whether the country is headed in the right direction. In December, it was 22%. Now it shot up seven [eight] points... continue reading
Reporter Norah O'Donnell chided the governor of Arizona on Thursday, insisting, " ...It's [Jan] Brewer's finger that has tongues wagging ." All three networks highlighted a confrontation between the Republican and Barack Obama at a Phoenix tarmac. However, CBS, NBC and ABC ignored the context of the conflict, the Justice Department's lawsuit against the state's illegal immigration law. The This Morning reporter suggested Brewer's recounting of a 2010 White House meeting was inconsistent. After a clip of Brewer describing the "cordial discussion," O'Donnell corrected, "Yet, a year later in her book, she recalled that same meeting quite differently." (On Amazon.com,... continue reading
Alec Baldwin is part of the Hollywood liberal elite, but that didn't stop CNN's Piers Morgan – whose job is to be an objective and fair interviewer – from pressing him to run for office. Morgan professed that he is a "political fan" of Baldwin in a Wednesday night interview. "People will be watching this, Alec, saying, look at this guy. He looks razor smart tonight. He lost a bit of weight. He's talking like a president," Morgan kissed up to Baldwin. Later he asked if "part of you always harbored the possibility that you could one day run for... continue reading