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ABC’s Nightline Blasts ‘Bloody’ GOP Debate; Touts Lib Comedians, Chides Christie for Bus Stop Remark

By Curtis Houck | December 16, 2015, 2:56 PM EST

The early Wednesday morning edition of ABC’s Nightline provided the first look at the network reaction to Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate and featured correspondent David Wright ripping it as a “bloody” affair with help from liberal comedia ...

CNN Touts CAIR Accusing GOPers of Inciting Attacks Against Muslims

By Brad Wilmouth | December 15, 2015, 11:41 AM EST

On Monday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN National Correspondent Jason Carroll delivered a heavily one-sided report highlighting charges by the Council on American-Islamic Relations that GOP presidential candidates-- specifically naming Ben Carson, Chri ...

Chris Matthews Offended That Chris Christie Calls ISIS Jihadis 'Animals'

By Ken Shepherd | December 15, 2015, 1:42 AM EST

MSNBC's Chris Matthews seems to have a problem with those who would call the torturers, rapists, and murderers who populate the ranks of ISIS as "animals." The Hardball host made the complaint tonight to frequent contributor and left-wing j ...

Crunching the Numbers: What to Watch For at the Next GOP Debate

By Rich Noyes | December 14, 2015, 8:15 AM EST

After a five-week hiatus, the Republican presidential candidates meet tomorrow night for their next prime time debate, moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Based on how the various networks handled the first four debates, viewers should expect: 1) the questio ...

Mauled in the Morning: GOP Candidates Hit from the Left

By Geoffrey Dickens | December 10, 2015, 9:53 AM EST

As the Republican candidates prepare to meet in their fifth cable news debate, they’ve also been participating in what might be considered a year-long, slow-motion debate on the broadcast TV morning news shows. An MRC analysis of interviews from January 1 ...

PBS's Ifill Sees GOPers Trying to Be 'More Alarmist Than the Last Guy' After Terrorism

By Brad Wilmouth | December 6, 2015, 11:43 PM EST

Appearing as a panel member on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, PBS host Gwen Ifill made a negative characterization of GOP presidential candidates' reactions to recent terrorist attacks as she declared that, "For Republicans, it's goi ...

George Stephanopoulos Badgers Christie on Opposition to Syrian Refugees

By Scott Whitlock | December 3, 2015, 10:23 AM EST

Good Morning America ’s George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday badgered Chris Christie over his opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into the country. The co-host scolded Christie as “coming in for some criticism by one of your predecessors in New Jersey.” ...

Atlantic: Republicans Engage in Race-Baiting, But Might Not Be Racists

By Michael McKinney | November 19, 2015, 4:07 PM EST

On Tuesday, The Atlantic featured an article that lamented decades of Republican race-baiting in presidential campaigns. The piece by Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur allow that race-baiting “does not mean that those who employ them are racists ...

ABC’s Nightline Skewers GOP Debate as ‘Reality Show Getting Realer by the Day’

By Curtis Houck | November 11, 2015, 3:03 AM EST

Without a hint of irony, the most superficial network news show in ABC’s Nightline mocked Tuesday’s Fox Business Network Republican debate on their early Wednesday morning installment as nothing more than a “reality show” along the lines of The Bachelor a ...

IBD Fights Back As Politico and MSNBC's Scarborough Smear Its Historically Accurate Polls

By Tom Blumer | November 10, 2015, 10:23 AM EST

The folks at Investor's Business Daily are more than a little tired of seeing their IBD/TIPP (TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics) polls smeared by establishment press publications and pundits. No similar torrent of criticism has been dire ...

NBC Promotes NYT Calling on Chris Christie to Drop Out after Debate

By Curtis Houck | October 29, 2015, 9:28 PM EDT

In the second of three segments on Thursday reporting on the fallout from Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, NBC Nightly News touted an editorial by The New York Times calling on Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) to drop out of the 2016 field.  ...

Christie Trashes CNBC’s Quintanilla for Fantasy Football Question; ‘Seriously’ ‘Who Cares?’

By Curtis Houck | October 29, 2015, 8:54 AM EDT

In what was an exceptionally bad night for the liberal media and the debate moderators during Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) assailed co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for dedicating a line of questioning to wh ...

Watch Out for Shenanigans! CNBC Debate Moderator's Most Biased Moments

By Geoffrey Dickens | October 27, 2015, 4:23 PM EDT

The RNC may regret its approval of John Harwood as lead moderator for Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate on CNBC if past history is any guide. The CNBC anchor and New York Times columnist admitted he and a producer helped make Rick Perry’s infamous ...

CBS’s Gayle King Tries and Fails to Hit Chris Christie from Left on Guns

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 27, 2015, 10:31 AM EDT

On Tuesday, CBS This Morning aired a friendly interview with co-host Gayle King and Governor Chris Christie and his wife Mary Pat. The CBS host did try to hit the Republican from the left on gun control but failed miserably.  After King asked Christie abo ...

CBS’s Dickerson Desperately Tries to Defend ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 25, 2015, 1:11 PM EDT

During an interview with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson rushed to defend the Black Lives Matter movement after the Republican presidential candidate criticized the group for calling for the murder of police of ...