On this past Tuesday's episode of The Good Wife on CBS, viewers were treated to a scene in which a ballistics expert opens a gift, from a partner of a law firm, to find a book about Sarah Palin made up of, he discovers by thumbing through it, blank pages "satirically representing," Amazon.com explains, "the mind and thinking of Sarah Palin." The book, 'Going Rouge: A Candid Look Inside the Mind of Political Conservative Sarah Palin.' In the March 2 episode, Chicago law firm partner " Diane Lockhart ," played by Christine Baranski , engages the ballistics expert to help... continue reading
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore , appearing on Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO to plug the DVD release of his Capitalism: A Love Story screed, cited the 250,000 killed in Haiti, which he snidely described as an unregulated "Republican's paradise," as an apt analogy to justify further regulation of U.S. banks. Live via satellite from Manhattan, Moore spouted: Chile had an earthquake this past week that was 500 times greater than the earthquake in Haiti. But here's the big difference. In Chile, they have various - very serious regulations when it comes to building codes. So a... continue reading
ABC's World News on Friday night finally caught up with burgeoning Democratic scandals, though hardly showing the same zeal as when the networks incessantly focused on Republican Congressman Mark Foley back in 2006. On Thursday, the MRC's Scott Whitlock documented how this week the ABC evening newscast had "devoted almost six times as much coverage to Senator Jim Bunning and his temporary hold-up of an unemployment bill as the program did for the ongoing revelations that Democratic Charlie Rangel violated House ethics with his trips to the Caribbean [38 seconds]." Anchor Diane Sawyer set up the Friday night (March 5)... continue reading
You read it here first! Thursday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity picked up on MRC's mini-study showing ABC's World News gave six times more attention to the outcry over Jim Bunning's attempt to slow the deficit than the actual scandal involving Charlie Rangel. That same night, guest host Michael Berry on Mark Levin's radio show touted MRC's recently-released " Media Bias 101 " as "one of the best reports I've ever seen." Details: # Interviewing Jim Bunning on his March 4 Fox News show, Hannity told the Republican Senator: "NewsBusters, this is Brent Bozell's website, had a piece out... continue reading
The Anderson Cooper 360 blog on CNN.com capped a leftward trend during the week of March 1 with a post on Friday from Obama supporter Tanya Acker, who accused pro-life activists of "racial paternalism" for highlighting the high abortion rate among blacks. Earlier in the week, the blog promoted the latest anti-conservative study from the Southern Poverty Law Center and sought anti-Jim Bunning sob stories. Acker, an AC360 and Huffington Post contributor who has ranted against John Boehner and Sarah Palin , and lauded Van Jones in recent weeks on her Twitter account, blasted "anti-choice activists" in the blog entry... continue reading
Throughout the day on Thursday, MSNBC hosts repeatedly slammed the Republican Party over an RNC fundraising memo that poked fun at Democrats and their left-wing agenda. Clearly those at the network only needed one Teleprompter to read off of, given that all their attacks were almost identical for over nines hours of live programming. -Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here. continue reading
On Friday's Today show NBC's Matt Lauer offered viewers a sneak peak of next week's exclusive interview with Karl Rove and if today's segment is a suggestion of what's to come expect a lot of shots taken at his former boss's intelligence and blaming of Republicans and not Democrats for a divided country. In a highlighted portion of the interview Lauer asked Rove if he was pleased by the nickname "Bush's Brain" (Rove called it "derogatory") and derisively mused: "If Bush was The Decider, you might say Karl Rove was The Divider." [ audio available here ] MATT LAUER: While... continue reading
The night before NBC's Today show on Friday had an "exclusive" with Karl Rove to plug his new book, ' Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight ' in which he assured readers President George W. Bush did not "lie us into war," the NBC Nightly News led by giving him a brush back, regurgitating the arguments the Bush administration went to war in Iraq for illegitimate reasons. Anchor Brian Williams framed his top story: It will go down in history among the events that shaped our times, the decision by President George W. Bush to... continue reading
Over the last three days, ABC's World News devoted almost six times as much coverage to Senator Jim Bunning and his temporary hold-up of an unemployment bill as the program did for the ongoing revelations that Democratic Charlie Rangel violated House ethics with his trips to the Caribbean. World News investigated and followed the Republican for four minutes and 38 seconds over two days. In comparison, the program could only manage a scant 48 seconds of coverage for Rangel. (Anchor Diane Sawyer on Wednesday finally asked George Stephanopoulos about the news that Rangel was stepping down from his powerful Ways... continue reading
NBC's Tom Brokaw, in searching for a reason as to why Obamacare faced so much opposition, on Thursday's Today show, determined it was because the people can't quite grasp it, as he sniffed: "The public is very confused." The former NBC Nightly News anchor, on to promote his CNBC documentary about the Baby Boom generation, also told Today co-anchor Matt Lauer that the GOP was fighting the current version of the health care bill for merely "political" and not principled reasons and depicted the uninsured as victims to the now powerful tea party.[ audio available here ] For his part,... continue reading