While CBS's Early Show and the New York Times both highlighted their own poll showing support for further spending cuts, the CBS Evening News ignored it. Americans three-to-one believe the spending cuts in the debt ceiling deal were too small rather than too big, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. As BiasAlert reported , Thursday's CBS Evening News ignored the support for cuts while reporting increased disapproval of the Tea Party and support for tax increases. "The Tea Party fares poorly in the poll," declared CBS's Chip Reid. [Video below.] However, CBS's Early Show reported the support for... continue reading
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Wednesday continued to ramp up the newspaper's vitriolic attacks against Tea Party conservatives, bizarrely describing them as 'cannibals' 'zombies' and 'vampires.' Linking the debt ceiling deal to The Exorcist, Halloween and Alien (among other horror movies), Dowd offered these hyperbolic comparisons : Tea Party budget-slashers didn't sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force... continue reading
Running through the findings of a new CBS News/ New York Times poll, on Thursday's CBS Evening News Chip Reip highlighted how, after weeks of media hostility the Tea Party has lost popularity, as he also located people to illustrate how more wanted, and still want, taxes raised over spending cuts alone. Reid ignored, however, how far more – Republicans, independents, and even Democrats – believe the spending cuts 'didn't go far enough' over 'went too far.' Overall, 44 percent answered 'not far enough' compared to only 15 percent for 'too far,' with 29 percent answering 'about right.' Amongst Republicans,... continue reading
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced on Wednesday's show that "the number of Americans relying on food stamps has hit another all-time record" with "Nearly 46 million of your fellow citizens are receiving food stamp assistance." Yet curiously he did not tie Barack Obama's fiscal policies to this economic tragedy, something the liberal media was prone to do when it came to blaming Ronald Reagan in the '80s for homelessness or George W. Bush for high gas prices. In fact, in the face of this growing plight for an increasing number of Americans no anchor or reporter at the... continue reading
Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Thursday placed the blame for a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration on House Republicans, ignoring the role Senate Democrats have played. 4000 thousand FAA workers have been furloughed, construction projects have been stopped, but Karl complained, " What's the hold up? Republicans are insisting on cuts to a program that subsidizes flights to small rural airports ." He then played a clip of Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer attacking, "It's the issue of hostage taking. It's as if someone puts a gun to your head and says 'give me your money' and you... continue reading
It's no secret that CNN's Jack Cafferty possesses a deep-seated loathing of Sarah Palin, and now that she may run for the Republican presidential ticket the grumpy CNN contributor has one more thing to grumble over. "Palin recently said she plans to decide about 2012 in late August or September. God help us," Cafferty bemoaned Wednesday on The Situation Room. He fretted that the entry of Palin or Donald Trump into the Republican presidential race "would tend to fit nicely with the political insanity we've been watching the last couple of weeks." [Video below.] Cafferty found reason to cheer up... continue reading
Both House Democrats and Republicans opposed the debt ceiling compromise, but CNN's Don Lemon gave softball interviews to three Democratic congressmen who voted against the bill, while scrutinizing Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) for his opposition. "Why the change of heart, Congressman?" the CNN host asked Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Tuesday on his decision to switch his vote to no. Lemon let him explain his vote and even asked if Frank's colleagues had read the bill before supporting it. "She [Pelosi] came out and supported it. But do you think your colleagues actually read the bill?" he asked Frank... continue reading
MSNBC's Chris Matthews took his hateful attacks on conservatives to a new level Wednesday, smearing "southern" "secessionists" as wanting to "kill" Obama. The Hardball host quickly amended, "politically." After guest Howard Fineman suggested Republicans have opposed the President from the start, the Hardball anchor retorted, " What? 'We hate you, want to kill you–' politically ." [MP3 audio here .] Amazingly, later in the show, during a segment on Rick Perry, Matthews derided a reference to "high-powered bullets" harming the economy. With no self awareness, he yelled, "Don't they know in Texas to stop using bullets as a reference point... continue reading
NBC's Andrea Mitchell, in an exclusive Wednesday interview with Nancy Pelosi aired on her MSNBC show, hit the Democratic House Minority Leader from the left on the debt agreement as she pronounced it "a bad deal" because "there's no taxes in it" and whined: " Was the President a bad negotiator? Did he give away too much?" For her part, Pelosi agreed that it was a "bad deal" but rationalized that at least it was "a done deal" and "it's time for us to move on." Throughout the interview Mitchell played up liberal talking points as she pressed Pelosi to... continue reading
On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams fretted: "There's still enough congressional gridlock to go around....One thing that did not get resolved today, a stalemate over the Federal Aviation Administration budget. And partisan bickering on this one is costing real Americans, tens of thousands of workers, costing them their paychecks." Correspondent Lisa Myers quickly found who to blame for the deadlock: "The partisan bickering centers on the insistence of House Republicans that any bill to keep the FAA operating also curb costly subsidies for flights to and from 13 rural airports, some in the states of powerful Democrats." Despite... continue reading