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ABC: Chris Christie 'Lashes Out' While Hillary Shows 'Softer Side'

By Scott Whitlock | October 30, 2014, 12:19 PM EDT

Good Morning America' s Jon Karl on Thursday couldn't help but contrast Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton as "lashing out" vs. the "softer side." Featuring the two possible 2016 contenders, George Stephanopoulos chided, &quo ...

ABC Skips Own Reporter's Battle With White House, Gushes Over Clooney

By Scott Whitlock | October 1, 2014, 5:10 PM EDT

The viewers of ABC News might not know it, but one of the network's senior reporters, Jon Karl, grilled White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Friday about claims that al Qaeda had been "decimated." From Friday to Monday, ABC ignored t ...

ABC Ignores Growing Bipartisan Criticism of Obama's ISIS Indecision

By Kyle Drennen | September 4, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT

While both NBC's Today and CBS This Morning on Thursday highlighted Republicans and Democrats in Congress taking President Obama to task for failing to have a strategy to combat the ISIS terror network, ABC's Good Morning America skipped any men ...

ABC Yawns as Jon Karl Grills Obama: Are You an 'Imperial President?'

By Scott Whitlock | August 7, 2014, 11:55 AM EDT

ABC journalist Jon Karl dared to push Barack Obama on his use of executive power, demanding to know if the commander-in-chief is an "imperial president." But Karl's own network ignored the question, declining to air it on Wednesday's W ...

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 ...

ABC's Jon Karl Presses Obama Spox on Deportation of Minors, Will ABC Report?

By Jackie Seal | July 7, 2014, 10:33 PM EDT

During Monday afternoon’s White House press briefing, recently-installed Press Secretary Josh Earnest was forced by ABC’s Jon Karl to defend the White House claims of deportation of minors at the border. Citing an article in the Los Angeles Times which ex ...

ABC Ignores Its Own Journalist Hounding Carney on Obama's 'Accomplishments' in Iraq

By Matthew Balan | June 13, 2014, 8:17 AM EDT

Thursday's World News on ABC led with the rapid advance of an Islamist group into the heart of Iraq, but glossed over how correspondent Jonathan Karl grilled outgoing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over how this development casts doubt on two ...

CBS Gushes Over Obama Dumbbell Workout, ABC Fears 'Security Breach,' NBC Ignores Viral Video Altogether

By Ken Shepherd | April 29, 2015, 3:41 PM EDT

It's the latest viral video burning up the Internet, the talk of watercooler conversation all over the country today: President Obama looking positively goofy strenuously working out with a set of dumbbells. [I'll pause to let you write your own ...

The Day Before the Mass Exodus at White House, Jay Carney Got Grilled on VA Scandal

By Scott Whitlock | May 30, 2014, 4:16 PM EDT

On Thursday, the day before a double resignation at the White House, ABC's Jon Karl grilled Jay Carney over Barack Obama's confidence in Eric Shinseki. Less than 24 hours later, the press secretary and Veterans Administration head had both quit. ...

ABC Hypes Michelle Obama's 'Rare Political Move' Against Republicans

By Scott Whitlock | May 27, 2014, 6:04 PM EDT

Although the journalists at Good Morning America  on Tuesday found no time to discuss what NBC called a "potentially dangerous mistake" by the White House, reporter Jon Karl devoted a report to promoting Michelle Obama's latest efforts on h ...

ABC's Jon Karl Grills WH Press Secretary, ABC World News Ignores It

By Jackie Seal | May 22, 2014, 12:59 PM EDT

Yesterday morning, President Obama made an overdue statement regarding the widening VA scandal. That afternoon, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney held his regularly scheduled Press Briefing. Understandably so, the briefing dealt primarily with the pr ...

ABC Ignores Correspondent Grilling Carney Over VA Scandal; Exalts Walters' Exit Instead

By Matthew Balan | May 21, 2014, 5:20 PM EDT

Friday's World News on ABC mentioned the ongoing scandal surrounding the Veterans Administration only in passing, despite the fact their own chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, hounded Press Secretary Jay Carney at the regular White House ...

NBC Grants Bill Clinton 63 Seconds to Defend Hillary; ABC Spotlights Mrs. Clinton's Absence

By Matthew Balan | May 15, 2014, 12:07 PM EDT

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams continued his network's defense of Hillary Clinton by setting aside 63 seconds of air time to a soundbite of Bill Clinton " firing back at Karl Rove, after comments Rove made about Hillary Cli ...

NBC Hypes 'Late Surge' to Make ObamaCare Deadline, Allows a Mere 22 Seconds for New Problems

By Scott Whitlock | April 1, 2014, 12:17 PM EDT

All three morning shows on Tuesday hyped an "eye-popping" surge on the final day of ObamaCare sign-ups, but NBC's Today minimized the latest problems for those attempting to meet the deadline. Despite two segments on the topics, the four-ho ...

ABC and CBS Drop the Ball: Take an Hour to Notice ObamaCare Website Crash

By Kyle Drennen | March 31, 2014, 3:34 PM EDT

While Monday's NBC Today began its 7 a.m. ET hour coverage of the ObamaCare enrollment deadline by noting the healthcare.gov website had crashed yet again, it took an hour for ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning to notice the malfunc ...