The broadcast network morning newscasts came and went on Tuesday with NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America ignoring President Obama’s latest rant against Republicans. This was despite the fact that both broke their regular scheduling on Monday to cover remarks in full. [MP3 audio here ] For it’s part, CBS This Morning devoted a full 2 minutes and 45 seconds to Obama’s rant against House Republicans for refusing to accept his parameters for immigration reform and bucking their own Speaker on his willingness to take up the matter. In his report, CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante... continue reading
NBC and ABC omitted covering the Supreme Court's final two rulings from their Tuesday morning newscasts, despite the fact that the decisions came down after their Monday episodes aired. Only CBS This Morning set aside air time for the ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, which upheld the religious liberty rights of closely held corporations. Viewers of ABC's Good Morning America might have guessed that the Supreme Court handed down some decisions, as the morning show devoted a full segment to the " running of the interns ," where the summer interns of media outlets run copies of Court's "... continue reading
On Monday, June 30, it was revealed that the three Israeli teens, one of whom was a dual Israeli-American citizen, that went missing two weeks were found dead, likely the victims of murder from the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. While all three network evening news shows reported on the deaths of the three teenage boys, NBC Nightly News only provided a news brief and completely ignored that one of the boys, Naftaly Frenkel, was in fact a U.S. citizen. Anchor Brian Williams did find time to highlight how “President Obama was among those who expressed outrage over the killings.” In... continue reading
On Monday, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to labor unions seeking to obtain more control over public employees who do not want to join the union. Despite the setback for union bosses, NBC Nightly News was the only network evening news broadcast to cover the ruling on Monday evening. In addition, President Obama nominated Robert McDonald to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs and fix the troubled agency yet ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley were nowhere to be found on this story either. Pete Williams, NBC’s Justice Correspondent highlighted... continue reading
On Monday’s Andrea Mitchell Report s on MSNBC, substitute host and NBC national correspondent Peter Alexander gave Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz the floor to sound off on the rulings from the Supreme Court on religious freedom and public employee unions. Not surprisingly, he refused to challenge the DNC Chair or even play devil’s advocate. Nor did Alexander bring on a Republican or conservative guest for the opposing perspective both before or after the segment. [MP3 audio here ] Much of the segment centered around the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby that their religious freedom... continue reading
On Monday's This Hour , CNN's John Berman underlined that the Supreme Court's ruling against the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate was " another setback to the administration, in what has been a difficult year for this White House ." Berman later asserted that "this has to be very frustrating for them. They feel blocked politically, legally, foreign policy-wise. Pretty much, everywhere they look now, they're getting blocked ." Co-anchor Michaela Pereira also played up how all three female justices dissented in the Hobby Lobby case and forwarded the left's spin about the Court's ruling: [MP3 audio available here ; video... continue reading
If only there were an Obama scandal for journalists to cover. Almost exactly two years after the Washington Post ’s Dana Milbank ludicrously claimed “the media would love to have an Obama scandal to cover,” on Sunday’s MediaBuzz on FNC, veteran DC journalist Julie Mason encapsulated the attitude of the Washington press corps which has little interest in the IRS scandal, insisting that “every journalist in town would love if there was proof of a scandal, they would be galloping after it.” Audio: MP3 clip The long-time White House correspondent for the Houston Chronicle (she also put in brief stints... continue reading
NBC’s Cynthia McFadden did what she does best during an interview with Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama: Lobby for Hillary Clinton to run for President. Appearing during a taped interview that aired on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, McFadden hyped how “there's no question that the person who is poised at this moment to break that ultimate glass ceiling is Hillary Clinton.” McFadden began her line of questioning about the 2016 election by wondering: “I want to talk to you about the future. Is Michelle Obama gonna run for office?” After Jarrett insisted that Mrs. Obama will... continue reading
NBC’s David Gregory did his best to dismiss Speaker of the House John Boehner’s soon-to-be lawsuit against President Obama, dismissing it as a “political stunt.” During an interview with Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, on Meet the Press on Sunday, June 29, Gregory insisted that the lawsuit had no real merit and wondered: “Isn’t this just to gin up the base in the midterms?” Gregory began his questioning by peddling President Obama’s line that the lawsuit was a “political stunt” before throwing cold water on the merits of the president issuing numerous executive order that Congress objects... continue reading
Graphic novelist Max Brooks , a former writer for Saturday Night Live , charged on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher that Tea Party “ideologues” are just like the Nazi “ideologues” who fooled the German elite in the decades before World War II. Sitting in the featured panelist slot, the son of legendary producer Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft, contended: “This has happened before in history. In Germany in the ‘20s and ‘30s, there was this right wing reactionary element that was so terrified of anarchy and communism, that they said, ‘you know what, there’s a group of... continue reading