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Bidens Receive Sympathetic CBS Softballs for Christmas
December 13th, 2021 5:47 PM
On CBS Sunday Morning, Joe and Jill Biden got an early Christmas present from the liberal broadcast network as correspondent Rita Braver lobbed softball after softball during a fawning, pre-taped puff piece. Even when Braver briefly acknowledged the President’s unpopularity, she sympathetically hoped the American people would soon “comprehend” all of his supposed accomplishments.
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CBS Frets to First Lady: Aren’t You ‘Frustrated’ By Republicans?
December 10th, 2021 5:32 PM
On Friday, CBS Mornings eagerly previewed a fawning interview the network treated President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden to for the upcoming CBS Sunday Morning. Reliable liberal hack correspondent Rita Braver conducted the friendly chat and was shown commiserating with the First Lady over how the President must be “frustrated” by Republican opposition to his radical…
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CBS Swoons Over ‘Sunny’ Seth Meyers: ‘Tom Hanks of Talk Show Hosts’
June 22nd, 2021 10:51 AM
On CBS Sunday Morning, NBC’s notoriously angry leftist Late Night host Seth Meyers was treated to a sycophantic profile in which correspondent Rita Braver marveled at his “sunny personality” and touted laughable claims that he was “the Tom Hanks of talk show hosts.” Braver went on to briefly note that “Meyers is not always nice,” before highlighting his attacks on Donald…
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CBS Dreams About ‘Unconventional’ First Lady Jill Biden, the Prankster
August 9th, 2020 12:06 PM
Letting her brush aside the allegations of unwanted touching against her husband and questions of “where is Hunter,” CBS correspondent Rita Braver conducted a gooey puff piece for CBS Sunday Morning featuring Dr. Jill Biden (Ph.D.). Between excited fawning over the idea of continuing to teach and playing pranks around the White House, it was obvious that Braver desperately wanted…
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FLASHBACK: CBS Applauded Clinton’s ’94 NoKo Deal
June 11th, 2018 3:54 PM
While liberal journalists are pooh-poohing in advance any sort of success Donald Trump may have with his summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, that wasn’t the case back in 1994 when Bill Clinton struck a that would have supposedly resolved the nuclear threat from North Korea.
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Blowhard Baldwin: Mocking Trump Is Like ‘Curing Polio,’ ‘A Big Deal’
April 3rd, 2017 12:05 PM
Liberal actor Alec Baldwin is very impressed with himself, touting his Donald Trump impersonation as comparable to Jonas Salk “curing polio.” CBS Sunday Morning journalist Rita Braver on April 2 stood aside as heaped praise on his own Saturday Night Live appearances. After wondering if Trump has “gotten mostly positive responses,” Baldwin cheered, “60 to 75 percent of the people I encounter treat…
Tim Kaine Prepares for Debate with Spouse of Moderator’s CBS Colleague
September 29th, 2016 4:31 PM
Daniel Halper at the New York Post reported on the close ties between the Democrats and CBS News as we near the vice presidential debate on October 4, moderated by CBS correspondent Elaine Quijano:
Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, is being prepped for the vice presidential debate by Bob Barnett, the husband of CBS correspondent Rita Braver — just as another CBS correspondent and…
CBS Hounds Gates on Book 'Turmoil'; Wonders Why He Didn't Follow Advic
January 13th, 2014 4:32 PM
Rita Braver badgered former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the January 12, 2013 edition of CBS's Sunday Morning over his new memoir which, in her words, "has created such turmoil in Washington." Braver even used Gates's own words against him: "In your book, you say that one of your favorite adages is, never miss a good chance to shut up. And I wonder if you think, maybe, you violated your…
Networks Play Up Robert Gates's 'Devastating Critique' of Obama, Biden
January 8th, 2014 7:36 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC ballyhooed former Defense Secretary Robert Gates's attacks on President Obama and other high government officials on their Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning newscasts. NBC's Brian Williams and CBS's Norah O'Donnell also trumpeted the former Cabinet official's "devastating critique" of the President in his upcoming memoir. All three networks also played up Gates's self-…
Pre-Election Notable Quotables: 'The GOP's Agenda Has to Be Stopped
November 1st, 2010 10:37 AM
One day before Election Day, the MRC has a fresh new edition of Notable Quotables posted over at MRC.org. Topics this week include: the liberal media’s pre-election meltdown, with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann frothing that the election of “unqualified, unstable” Tea Party Republicans “would destroy America from within,” and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter engaging in open electioneering: “The GOP’s agenda…
CBS Puffs Pelosi: 'One of the Most Effective Speakers in Congressional
October 18th, 2010 1:18 PM
On CBS's Sunday Morning, correspondent Rita Braver conducted a fawning interview with Nancy Pelosi, portraying the widely unpopular Speaker of the House as a strong leader taking on her opponents: "Nancy Pelosi is considered one of the most effective speakers in congressional history....Believe it or not, Republicans are out to fire Pelosi and Madam Speaker is firing back." Braver began the…
CBS: Eric Holder 'Ignoring Political Pressure;' Given 'Hero's Welcome
September 13th, 2010 12:05 PM
In a puff piece on Attorney General Eric Holder on CBS's Sunday Morning, correspondent Rita Braver praised his professionalism: "...ignoring political pressure is Holder's constant message as he talks to Justice Department lawyers....Though he was a key advisor to the Obama campaign and considers the President a friend, Holder says he now keeps it purely professional." [Audio available here]…
Never Liberal Enough: Networks Also Doubted Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Pr
May 30th, 2009 9:15 AM
Thursday night, as my colleague Brent Baker noted, ABC and NBC fretted that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might not adhere to a strict liberal orthodoxy on abortion. NBC reporter Pete Williams said Sotomayor’s views on abortion were a “mystery,” while ABC’s Jan Crawford Greenburg declared “both sides in the contentious debate want to know more.”On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News,…
Pile of National Media Stars Turn Up for Ted Kennedy's D.C. Birthday T
March 9th, 2009 4:45 PM
Many liberal media outlets have reported the Kennedy Center birthday party Sunday night for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Few have mentioned the media turnout. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, the former Executive Washington Editor of the Wall Street Journal, joined Caroline Kennedy in awarding Sen. Kennedy the Kennedy Library’s "Profile in Courage" Award. Frank Mankiewicz, the former president of National…
