On Friday's Early Show, CBS's Bob Schieffer wildly spun Congress's 12% job approval as good news for President Obama, despite his own low poll numbers: " My heavens! He's 20 points ahead of the members of Congress .... I mean, I think that probably some car thieves have a higher approval rating ." But in 2010, when Democrats led Congress, The Early Show ignored a poll which showed low numbers for Nancy Pelosi. The morning program led its 7 am Eastern hour with the ultra-low poll numbers for the Republican-led Congress. Anchor Erica Hill noted that " President Obama's job... continue reading
During a prerecorded commentary on CBS Sunday Morning, left-wing CBS commentator Nancy Giles complained about the "bloodlust" of GOP audience members who applauded Texas's use of capital punishment at the recent MSNBC debate and a small number of audience members who applauded at Monday's CNN debate after moderator Wolf Blitzer asked if someone who chose not to purchase insurance should be allowed to die. CBS played a clip of the exchanges but notably left out Rep. Ron Paul's answer to Blitzer's question as he argued that organizations like churches used to help provide health care before Medicaid existed, leaving Giles... continue reading
Meet the Press host David Gregory contented the fact a Republican presidential debate audience applauded Texas Governor Rick Perry for allowing the death penalty for murders, and three in an audience of hundreds shouted 'yeah' to the idea a man who decided to not buy health insurance may be allowed to die, are 'really a challenge to the notion that the Republican Party is the party of life and supports a culture of life.' (video below) After he played a clip of the audience applauding when Brian Williams pressed Perry on how 'your state has executed 234 death row inmates,... continue reading
"The Republican Party is split right down the middle between Tea Party movement supporters and those who do not support the two-and-a-half-year-old movement, according to a new national survey,' a Thursday CNN.com 'Political Ticker' post asserted in recounting the findings of a CNN/ORC poll which were cited on air by both Wolf Blitzer and John King. CNN relayed how the survey discovered 'roughly half (49 percent) of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say they support the tea party movement or are active members, with roughly half (51 percent) saying that they have no feelings one way or... continue reading
CNN's American Morning brought on liberal academic Jeffrey Sachs to analyze Speaker Boehner's jobs plan Friday. Instead of hosting a conservative critic of President Obama the morning after he unveiled his jobs plan, the network actually interviewed the President's economic policy assistant. While Sachs went on-air and criticized the Republican plan as inherently flawed, Obama's director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling received a soft interview last Friday concerning the President's jobs plan. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor did appear on CNN shortly after that, but was pressed repeatedly about whether Republicans would compromise on the Obama's bill and... continue reading
In a completely out-of-left-field smear posted Thursday on CNN.com, James Carville called the GOP presidential field "mortality-fascinated" and ripped the entire Tea Party as a bunch of bloodthirsty sadists. The outspoken Democratic strategist, addressing Obama in a letter, wrote "This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire tea party collectively orgasm." The infamous "Ragin Cajun" wasn't content with slandering conservatives just once: "As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of... continue reading
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Friday again berated the 2012 Republican field, decrying them for pandering to " the lowest common denominator in a way that doom conservatives to make gains next year in a race for the White House ." The Morning Joe host also compared Tea Party conservatives to the John Birch Society before backtracking: "...For the record, America, these are the people that Bill Buckley kicked out of the conservative movement in the mid-1960s." He continued, These are the people that [Buckley] said, the John Birchers, that he said have nothing to do with what I am and... continue reading
On Friday's NBC Today, correspondent Tom Costello described how "Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty. 16 million are children. That's 3 million more than three years ago." However, nowhere in his report on the growing problem did he mention the Obama administration's failed economic policies as a cause. Instead, Costello lamented over possible cuts to government welfare programs: "It was 50 years ago that Sargent Shriver led President Johnson's war on poverty. Today his son, Mark, runs Save the Children in the U.S....[and] fears that programs like Head Start, which serve poor children, might face cuts in... continue reading
Monday's NBC Nightly News featured Brian Williams' questions from the left to President Barack Obama about liberal exasperation with the President and on Thursday night Williams re-purposed that interview again, this time as a hook to devote nearly six minutes to how African-Americans are disappointed with Obama as Williams advanced the agenda of two left-wing activists, one of them from PBS. 'A lot of African-Americans in this country are getting flat out crushed in this economy,' Williams noted before fretting over how instead the 'DC debate is often admittedly about tax cuts for the wealthy.' He then promoted the cause... continue reading
Chris Matthews on Thursday delighted in slamming "ignorant" Republicans and their hostility for anyone "who's even slightly an intellectual." Matthews began a segment on the Republican Party's supposed hatred of science by gleefully announcing, " This is going to rip the scab off with all the conservatives watching ." The Hardball host wondered if the "GOP [has] become a party that celebrates ignorance." He continued, " Look at how the presidential candidates in the field proudly oppose mainstream scientific thought like, well, global warming, evolution." Later, while talking to MSNBC contributors Michael Steele and Alex Wagner, Matthews introduced a clip... continue reading