On the one-year anniversary of his prime-time CNN show, Piers Morgan hosted lesbian and 9/11 conspiracy-theorist Rosie O'Donnell. The two teamed up to bash some Republicans for their "anti-gay" remarks, but Morgan never pressed O'Donnell about her past endorsements of 9/11 "truther" conspiracies. O'Donnell slammed America as a "backward nation in many ways" after being egged on by her interviewer on the topic of homosexuality. Morgan had branded certain GOP presidential candidates as "anti-homosexuals" and expressed his dismay at "the virulence of their rhetoric." Morgan also celebrated the rising number of states that have legalized same-sex marriage, comparing such events... continue reading
NPR harped on Mitt Romney's " provocative tax detail " on Wednesday's Morning Edition, highlighting that the GOP presidential candidate " disclosed he's in the same low tax bracket as the billionaire [Warren] Buffett ." Correspondent Scott Horsley later used clips from President Obama to accent liberals' class warfare spin about the rich paying a lower tax rate than " millionaires and billionaires ." On CBS This Morning, correspondent Jan Crawford also referenced the Buffett tax issue eight minutes into the 7 am Eastern hour, during a report on the Republican presidential race in South Carolina. She used the same... continue reading
Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Wednesday parroted DNC and White House talking points about Mitt Romney. Karl demanded to know just how Romney " get[s] away with paying so little " capital gains taxes. The segment was punctuated by dollar sign and coin audio clips. [MP3 audio here .] Romney's investments were taxed at 15 percent. Karl cited the liberal Tax Policy Center asserting "the average rate for those making more than $1 million is more than 29 percent." Karl didn't identify the organization's left-wing leanings. (It's a joint project of two liberal think tanks.) After playing a clip... continue reading
During the first half of his Monday night CBS show, comedian David Letterman mocked a number of Republicans while not batting an eye toward President Obama or the Democrats. Letterman joked at the expense of Newt Gingrich's first marriage and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's weight while comparing former First Lady Pat Nixon to a reptile from Star Trek. In addition, the CBS comedian dismissed the entire GOP presidential field as a bunch of rich boring white guys who would lose to President Obama in the general election. "The big rap that's got everybody talking about Mitt Romney is that... continue reading
At the top of Monday's Rock Center on NBC, host Brian Williams lamented the "avalanche of attack ads this political season" and warned: "...it's only just starting thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, a boatload of money, and those lethal weapons known as super-PACs." In the report that followed, correspondent Ted Koppel fretted that more government regulation was needed over campaign finance, proclaiming: "Ellen Weintraub, who is one of six federal election commissioners, worries that super-PACs may become breeding grounds for political corruption on a scale we've never known." Prior to a commercial break midway through the piece, Williams teased:... continue reading
Diane Sawyer remains enthralled with the far-left 'Occupy' protesters. Last October she championed 'the Occupy Wall Street movement' by ludicrously claiming 'it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries - every continent but Antarctica.' (There are fewer than 200 nations.) On Tuesday night, she trumpeted 'Occupy igloos' at 'Camp Igloo' – in Switzerland, not Antarctica. Over still shot pictures of a small igloo with an 'Occupy WEF' sign draped on it, Sawyer announced on the Tuesday, January 17 World News : And a picture that caught our eye today. Evidence that Occupy Wall Street... continue reading
Monday's CBS Evening News ran a report by correspondent Nancy Cordes bolstering complaints by Democrats that the new voter ID law in South Carolina would make it more difficult for minorities to vote, and even incorrectly claimed that only Republican state legislatures have pushed such laws recently in other states. Additionally, Cordes did not mention that South Carolina law would provide photo IDs for free and allow the use of provisional ballots for those who do not otherwise already have ID. Anchor Scott Pelley introduced the report: The federal government is actually blocking a new South Carolina election law. South... continue reading
Dean Reynolds filed a glowing report on Tuesday's CBS This Morning promoting comedian Stephen Colbert's mock campaign against super PACs. Reynolds led the segment by stating, " Before we say that a comedian could have no serious impact on a presidential campaign, let us remember that six days after a poll came out here showing Stephen Colbert slightly ahead of Jon Huntsman, Jon Huntsman quit the race ." After inflating Colbert's supposed impact, the correspondent continued by claiming that "so far, Colbert's effort is not displaying what you would call a light touch." Reynolds then played a clip from an... continue reading
Roger Simon, Politico's top columnist, smeared the audience of Monday night's GOP debate, warning of a "kind of blood lust in the air" after the crowd booed a question of Juan Williams, an African American. Appearing on Tuesday's Hardball, Simon sneered at "that audience, with that kind of blood lust in the air, an audience that was way over the line, way over the top ." [MP3 audio here .] He added that Gingrich was "playing a dangerous game by playing to the audience and baiting people, appealing to their worst instincts, instead of their better instincts." Chris Matthews piled... continue reading
Appearing on colleague Andrea Mitchell's eponymous 1 p.m. Eastern program Tuesday, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews to viewers that Monday's South Carolina GOP presidential debate was chock full of "dog whistles" and racially-tinged "code words." What's more, according to Matthews, there's no point trying to argue with him on this because "you either see it or you don't." Perhaps Matthews's dopiest claim was that Newt Gingrich calling Fox News debate panelist Juan Williams by his first name was a thinly-veiled way to attack Williams's ethnicity before a "conservative white" audience in the South: There were interesting aspects to that, wasn't... continue reading