On Thursday's NBC "Today," co-host Savannah Guthrie asked a panel of guests about the possibility of New Jersey's governor entering the presidential race and observed: "There's kind of this conventional wisdom among the political chattering class that someone as heavy as Chris Christie-" Dr. Nancy Snyderman interjected: "As fat as he is." Guthrie continued: "...would not be elected." [ Audio available here ] Fellow panelist, attorney Star Jones, chimed in: "You are so sweet the way you put that. You're really asking us will America elect a fat president?" Later in the discussion, advertising executive Donny Deutsch fretted: "If he's... continue reading
On Wednesday's Early Show, CBS's Chris Wragge complimented GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for his recent win in the Florida straw poll, but then wasted little time in throwing cold water on the future of his campaign. Wragge, along with co-anchor Erica Hill, asked why Cain would " stick with it ," and wondered if the Republican could compete if Gov. Chris Christie entered the race. The two anchors began the segment by heralding the former Godfather's Pizza CEO's " surprise over the weekend " and how he "shook up the GOP race on Saturday, winning the Florida straw poll... continue reading
Actress Eva Longoria appeared on Tuesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live to trash the "dangerous" "extremist movement" that opposes Barack Obama. The Desperate Housewives star became just the latest celebrity to smear the Tea Partiers. Longoria didn't directly identify the group as the target of her anger. However, she made her point clear, fuming, " ...[Obama] keeps getting beat up lately because there's such an extremist movement happening and it's a very dangerous ." [ MP3 audio here .] The actress continued, "For me, it's very dangerous because it's not the character of America. It's really under attack." She added that Obama... continue reading
Anchor Brian Williams led Tuesday's NBC Nightly News with a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation about the rising cost of health care, direly proclaiming: "We're going to begin tonight with a crippling trend in America that simply cannot go on without taking entire families with it." Missing from the coverage was any mention of ObamaCare contributing to the increased costs. In the report that followed, correspondent John Yang detailed how the new study, "says premiums for family coverage now average more than $15,000 a year, that's a 9% jump from 2010 and triple the rate of the previous's... continue reading
During an appearance on Morning Joe , Tuesday, Newsweek editor Tina Brown made an off-hand remark about Barack Obama, conceding that the politician "wasn't ready" to be President. Brown has previously attacked Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for daring to oppose the Obama administration. While discussing whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will change his mind and run for President, the former New Yorker editor blurted, " Actually, I just hope he doesn't, because in the end, you know, his tremendous misgivings, maybe he is right. I mean, We had this with Obama. He wasn't ready, it turns out, really... continue reading
Discussing the possibility of Chris Christie entering the presidential race on Wednesday's NBC Today, Tom Brokaw praised the New Jersey Govenor as a moderate: "He's not an ideologue.... he played outside the ideological lines that have been drawn in the Republican primary." Co-host Matt Lauer said of Christie, "...a lot of conservative Republicans, while loving the fact that he's a fiscal conservative, perhaps aren't going to like his stand on some other issues..." Brokaw saw that as a positive: "The question is, who's going to run the Republican primaries? Right now, the dialogue is being dominated by the Tea Party... continue reading
In an interview with Vice President Joe Biden, ABC's The View co-host Joy Behar brought up rogue crowd members at a recent GOP debate who booed after a gay soldier asked a question of the candidates. After Biden condemned the action, Behar, host of a prime time show on CNN's HLN, slammed the Republican candidates for not rebuking the audience members. "I thought it was reprehensible," Biden said of the booing, to which Behar added "And no one spoke up. The entire panel, not one person said anything." Biden didn't respond, and a few seconds of silence ensued. He did... continue reading
CNN's Jack Cafferty smeared entire crowds of people who attended recent GOP debates when he asked on Tuesday if they were "bloodthirsty?" "For the third time in as many debates, crowd members have either booed or cheered at what some say are highly inappropriate moments," Cafferty stated. He slammed both the crowd behavior and the Republican candidates for not denouncing such antics. Cafferty's three examples of crowd behavior were when audience members cheered at "what some say are highly inappropriate moments." Two of the examples featured only a couple of rogue audience members; the third involved much of the audience... continue reading
While running through his usual litany of attacks on anti-Obama conservatives, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday included the National Rifle Association as part of the "crazy far-right" who "hate" Barack Obama. Matthews began by wondering, "What is it about Obama that inspires this kind of weird, zealous hatred?" He later added, " Well, here's something, another strain of the crazy, far- right ." After referencing birthers and other groups, the Hardball anchor played a clip of NRA President Wayne LaPierre deriding the President's stated support of the Second Amendment as a "big, fat lie." Talking to Republican strategist Ron Christie,... continue reading
Political dissent on campus – acceptable when it involves left-wing protesters shouting down conservative speakers, but hurtful and possibly dangerous when performed in a peaceful, parodic nature by conservatives. That's the impression left by the New York Times. Malia Wollan visited the campus of the University of California at Berkeley for Tuesday's report, ' A 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backfires on Campus .' The parody 'bake sale,' mocking affirmative action in California college admissions, has not in fact taken place yet, but the threats and intimidation are already pouring in on the Republican activists - things the Times isn't overly bothered... continue reading