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CBS Downplays Sanders vs. Clinton-DNC Data Scandal; Merely a ‘Brewing’ ‘Family Feud’

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2015, 2:12 AM EST

On Friday, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC covered the new scandal brewing inside the Democratic presidential campaign with the data breach involving the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns (plus the Sanders camp suing the Democratic Nationa ...

Networks Cheer Hillary as ‘Grown Up’ on ISIS Compared to GOP, Chelsea Joining Campaign Trail

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 8:23 PM EST

Just after the undercard Republican presidential debate began on Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered previews of the impending “freewheeling and fiery slugfest” debate and contrasted that with plenty of laudatory rhetoric ...

CBS Hypes: Ted Cruz ‘Deeply Unpopular’ With GOP Leadership

By Kyle Drennen | December 14, 2015, 12:41 PM EST

On Monday’s CBS This Morning, while covering Ted Cruz’s rise in the polls, correspondent Nancy Cordes noted the Republican presidential candidate’s “outspoken opposition to ObamaCare and his willingness to take on both sides of the Washington establishmen ...

NBC, CBS Promote NY Daily News's 'Terrorist' Smear of the NRA's CEO

By Matthew Balan | December 5, 2015, 12:45 AM EST

Friday's NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News both spotlighted the New York Daily News's latest anti-conservative front page, which denigrated Wayne LaPierre of the NRA as a " terrorist." CBS's Nancy Cordes touted how " the ...

CBS Morning News Tees Up Boxer, Hillary to Lament ‘Reluctant’ Congress on Gun Control

By Curtis Houck | December 3, 2015, 6:14 PM EST

In report that didn’t make the cut for Thursday’s CBS This Morning amidst the San Bernardino shooting coverage, the CBS Morning News aired congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes’s latest attempt to push gun control and lament how Congress is “reluctant ...

CBS Hints at GOP Double Standard on Gun Control vs. Syrian Refugees

By Matthew Balan | November 20, 2015, 2:15 PM EST

Friday's CBS This Morning hyped that " thousands on the government's terrorist watch list... bought firearms in the last decade... and all of the sales were legal." Nancy Cordes played up that a bill to " close that loophole " ...

ABC’s Jonathan Karl to Ted Cruz: Isn’t It ‘Un-American’ to Put Restrictions on Syrian Refugees?

By Curtis Houck | November 18, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

In a combative exchange that aired on the Tuesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight, chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl hinted to Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) that he was “un-American” for suggesting that only Syrian refugees who are Ch ...

CBS Debate Co-Moderator Nancy Cordes’ Worst Liberal Outbursts

By Geoffrey Dickens | November 15, 2015, 11:08 PM EST

It’s hard to imagine CBS Democratic debate co-moderator Nancy Cordes drilling Hillary Clinton with hardball questions when she’s already dubbed her the “undisputed frontrunner.” Cordes, who will be sharing moderating duties with Face the Nation host John ...

CBS Shocked GOPers Criticize “Undisputed Front-Runner’ Hillary Clinton

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 12, 2015, 9:38 AM EST

On Thursday’s CBS This Morning, reporter Nancy Cordes went to bat for “undisputed front-runner” Hillary Clinton and appeared dismayed that the GOP presidential candidates spent so much time talking about her during this week’s debate on Fox Business. Afte ...

NBC Boosts Politico's Retracted 'Fabrication' Headline on Carson's West Point Claim

By Matthew Balan | November 9, 2015, 8:26 AM EST

On Friday's NBC Nightly News, Chris Jansing touted Politico 's scoop about Dr. Ben Carson's "scholarship" claim about West Point, underlining how the liberal outlet "call[ed] Carson's story a 'fabrication.' &qu ...

Journalists vs. the 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' House GOP

By Rich Noyes | October 28, 2015, 10:05 AM EDT

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American politica ...

Notable Quotables: GOP = 'Far-Right' 'Hardline' Hostage Takers

By Scott Whitlock and Rich Noyes | October 26, 2015, 9:49 AM EDT

Now online: the October 26 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, weighing in on the race for a new Speaker, journalists sneer at the "far-right," "hardline ...

CBS’s Dickerson Chides Benghazi Committee for ‘Fighting Like Cats and Dogs’

By Curtis Houck | October 22, 2015, 10:06 PM EDT

Analyzing Hillary Clinton’s performance before the House Benghazi Committee, CBS News political director John Dickerson stated on Thursday’s CBS Evening News that Clinton “avoid[ed]” falling into any “pitfalls” as those questioning her fought “like cats a ...

Networks: GOP in ‘Disarray’ as Ryan Deals With ‘Far-Right’ ‘Hardliners’

By Scott Whitlock | October 21, 2015, 12:03 PM EDT

All three networks on Wednesday spun Paul Ryan as dealing with the “far-right” “hardliners" in Congress.  ​ Good Morning America's  George Stephanopoulos lectured, “Paul Ryan steps forward toward the top job in Congress with a challenge to fello ...

CBS Plays Up Paul Ryan Battling ‘Hardliners’ Within the GOP

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 21, 2015, 9:43 AM EDT

On Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, reporter Nancy Cordes previewed Congressman Paul Ryan’s expected bid to be the next Speaker of the House by repeatedly playing up the potential conflict he will have with the supposed “hardliners” within his own party.  Th ...