By Kyle Drennen | October 27, 2015, 2:47 PM EDT
On her Tuesday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell reminisced over CNBC’s Washington correspondent John Harwood tripping up Rick Perry during a 2011 Republican presidential debate. After playing a clip of the infamous “oops” moment, Mitchell turned to Harwoo ...
By Matthew Balan | September 11, 2015, 9:59 PM EDT
ABC, CBS, and NBC's Friday evening newscasts all barely mentioned former Texas Governor Rick Perry suspending his second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Altogether, ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News ...
By Scott Whitlock | August 20, 2015, 5:03 PM EDT
Liberal Washington Post political reporter Ben Terris on Thursday offered a sneering article on Rick Perry, deriding the presidential candidate as a "zombie" "specimen." The story mocked Texas's longest-serving governor for having ...
By Brad Wilmouth | August 18, 2015, 12:34 PM EDT
As GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry appeared as a guest on Tuesday's New Day, co-anchor Alisyn Camerota challenged the former Texas governor for vetoing a Texas bill on equal pay, as she demanded, "Don't women deserve equal pay?" ...
By Curtis Houck | August 7, 2015, 8:43 AM EDT
On Thursday’s network evening programs, ABC’s World News Tonight was the only newscast to make no mention of the 5:00 p.m. EDT debate between the bottom seven Republican presidential contenders ahead of the 9:00 p.m. EDT event featuring the top ten candid ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | July 20, 2015, 8:40 AM EDT
Building on comments he made on NBC’s Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd wondered if Donald Trump’s attack on John McCain were a “reap what you sow issue here for the Republican Party?” Todd brought up the “reap what you sow” argument during an i ...
By Tom Blumer | July 17, 2015, 10:22 AM EDT
As usual, much of the press has responded to scandalous behavior by leftist sacred cows by making the story about Republicans criticizing the actions instead of the scandal itself. On the one hand, are we really supposed to believe that only pro-lifers ar ...
By Tom Blumer | June 6, 2015, 12:16 AM EDT
On Thursday, the Associated Press's Will Weissert demonstrated that the ignorance of our nation's founding documents exhibited by Meredith Shiner at Yahoo Politics in March is not isolated to her. Readers may recall that Shiner, reacting to Ted ...
By Curtis Houck | June 5, 2015, 4:38 PM EDT
After providing minimal coverage of former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry’s 2016 announcement on Thursday night, ABC and NBC moved on from the story all together with zero mentions of Perry or the 2016 campaign on their Friday morning newscasts. Wh ...
By Curtis Houck | June 5, 2015, 10:01 AM EDT
Former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry announced a second presidential campaign on Thursday afternoon, but viewers on the Thursday evening network newscasts may have missed the news altogether if not careful since the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC ...
By Kyle Drennen | June 4, 2015, 5:07 PM EDT
During live coverage on Thursday just moments before former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his 2016 presidential run, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell preemptively dismissed his candidacy: “Why does Rick Perry think that the second time around will work gi ...
By Geoffrey Dickens | June 5, 2015, 12:53 PM EDT
If his 2012 presidential run is any indicator, Rick Perry’s jump into the 2016 presidential race will bring a flurry of the liberal media’s favorite pejoratives for Republicans. Racist? Anti-science? Religious bigot? Gun nut? Heartless cutter of programs ...
By Matthew Balan | May 29, 2015, 5:42 PM EDT
Friday's Morning Edition on NPR did its best to try to promote the liberal cause of expanding Medicaid in Texas. Wade Goodwyn lined up six soundbites from pro-expansion talking heads, versus only two from former Texas Governor Rick Perry, an opponent ...
By Randy Hall | May 21, 2015, 6:16 PM EDT
Even though the 2016 presidential election is more than 16 months away, two cable news outlets announced on Wednesday the criteria for the first two GOP debates. The initial event, which will be hosted by the Fox News Channel and take place on Thursday, A ...
By Tom Johnson | January 31, 2015, 4:04 PM EST
Daily Kos writer Hunter thinks that conservatives’ quintessential activity these days isn’t arguing for or against ideas, but rather throwing a pity party for themselves. In a Thursday post, he asserted that “conservatism has devolved into a prolonged mon ...
