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NBC Still Touts Obama ISIS Strategy After NBC Reporter Slams It As 'Wildly Off-Base'

By Kyle Drennen | September 11, 2014, 6:25 PM EDT

On Thursday's NBC Today, several hours after NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel ripped President Obama's strategy to combat ISIS as being "wildly off-base," correspondent Peter Alexander promoted the commander-in-chief' ...

NBC: ISIS Forcing 'Reluctant' Obama to Be 'Wartime President'

By Kyle Drennen | September 10, 2014, 12:24 PM EDT

At the end of a report on Wednesday's NBC Today about President Obama's upcoming speech on combating ISIS terrorists, correspondent Peter Alexander sympathetically observed: "The primetime nature of this speech really underscores its stakes ...

ABC and NBC Barely Mention Obama Approval Rating 'Near Record Lows'; CBS Ignores

By Kyle Drennen | September 9, 2014, 11:40 AM EDT

On Tuesday, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today, offered mere seconds on President Obama's approval rating hitting "near record lows" amid his reluctance to aggressively combat ISIS terrorists. CBS This Morning skipped any ...

Networks Continue to Hype Perry Indictment, Ignore Prominent Liberals Defending Him

By Kyle Drennen | August 18, 2014, 12:46 PM EDT

All three network morning shows on Monday continued to hype the Friday indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry but none of the broadcasts mentioned prominent liberals like Obama adviser David Axelrod or Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz coming to Perr ...

CBS and NBC Finally Notice Criticism of Obama Fundraising Amid Crises, ABC Still Ignores

By Kyle Drennen | July 24, 2014, 3:50 PM EDT

Both Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's NBC Today offered full reports on President Obama being criticized for attending Democratic Party fundraisers at a time of international crises. ABC continued to remain silent on the growing contr ...

Networks Censor Any Sound Bites of Obama's 'Harshest Critic' Rick Perry

By Kyle Drennen | July 8, 2014, 3:43 PM EDT

All three network morning shows on Tuesday noted how President Obama agreed to meet with Governor Rick Perry to discuss the illegal immigration crisis, all labeling the Texas Republican to be the "harshest" and "strongest" "big cr ...

NBC Continues To Omit Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’ When Discussing Border Crisis

By Jeffrey Meyer | July 3, 2014, 10:21 AM EDT

Ever since the border patrol began sending hundreds of illegal immigrants from Texas to the town of Murrieta, California, despite opposition from local residents, the folks at NBC News have repeatedly failed to use the term “illegal immigrant” to describe ...

ABC, CBS Skip Coverage of Boehner’s Obama Lawsuit; NBC Devotes Only 19 Seconds to Story

By Curtis Houck | June 25, 2014, 5:38 PM EDT

On Wednesday, NBC’s Today was the only broadcast network morning news show to give coverage to House Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama. Today devoted 19 seconds to the story, while both ABC and CBS ignored it completely. During the 7: ...

Networks: IRS Hearing Just 'Another Round of Bitter Partisanship'; Dems Call It A 'Farce'

By Kyle Drennen | June 27, 2014, 2:26 PM EDT

After ten days of ignoring the June13 revelation that the IRS mysteriously lost two years worth of Lois Lerner's emails related to the scandal plaguing the agency, Tuesday's network morning shows finally took notice of the development only to to ...

NBC Notices Dem Who 'Managed to Offend Democrats, Republicans, Gays, and Southerners All At Once'

By Kyle Drennen | June 20, 2014, 3:54 PM EDT

After all three broadcast networks initially ignored offensive comments from former Democratic Montana Governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate Brian Schweitzer claiming outgoing Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor set off his "gayd ...

Only NBC's 'Today' Covers 'Embarrassing' and 'Potentially Dangerous Mistake' by White House

By Kyle Drennen | May 27, 2014, 10:33 AM EDT

On Tuesday, only NBC's Today reported on the White House accidentally leaking the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, which correspondent Peter Alexander described as "an incredibly embarrassing and actually potentially dangerou ...

NBC Fears Colleges Becoming 'Islands of Intolerance' As MSNBC Cheers How Commencement Speakers 'Drop Like Flies'

By Kyle Drennen | May 16, 2014, 6:50 PM EDT

While a Thursday article posted on MSNBC.com celebrated college commencement speakers who "drop like flies" due to to "feisty campus dissent," on Friday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander warned: "On campuses in the l ...

NBC's Today: Caroline Kennedy 'More Dignitary Than Diplomat'

By Jeffrey Meyer | May 7, 2014, 8:14 PM EDT

President Obama began a week-long trip of Asia on Wednesday with a stop in Japan, and NBC's Today dutifully heaped praise on the trip and the American Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy. On April 23, Co-host Matt Lauer gushed at the "Historic ...

NBC Thrilled Bloomberg Using Fortune for Anti-Gun Push...After Fretting Over Too Much Money in Politics

By Kyle Drennen | April 16, 2014, 3:20 PM EDT

In a glowing interview with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie touted the anti-gun activist's latest crusade: "You're putting $50 million into the effort....saying essentiall ...

NBC Warns: Supreme Court 'Opens the Door Even Wider for Unlimited Money in Politics'

By Kyle Drennen | April 3, 2014, 11:13 AM EDT

On Thursday's NBC Today, White House correspondent Peter Alexander decried Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling striking down some campaign finance restrictions: "So just consider this, in just twelve year from the 2000 elections to those in 20 ...