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NBC Churns Out Full Story with Soft Piano Music Looking at Obama's Year in Photos

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 1:50 PM EST

Closing out 2015 on the Thursday morning newscasts, NBC’s Today churned one of its most fawning pieces on President Obama as NBC News correspondent Ron Allen reviewed Obama’s top photos by White House photographer Pete Souza while hushed, soft piano music ...

NPR’s Inskeep Rules Obama’s Trashing of Media on Terrorism Was ‘Not a Very Outlandish Idea’

By Curtis Houck | December 22, 2015, 4:22 PM EST

NPR’s Steve Inskeep continued his media tour on Monday promoting his fawning sit-down interview with President by appearing with CNN Tonight host Don Lemon and, when asked about the President attacking the media for supposedly overhyping threats posed by ...

CNN and FNC Slam ‘Outrageous’ NYT for Deleting Obama Quote on Cable News/Terrorism; ‘Perplexing’

By Curtis Houck | December 21, 2015, 8:18 PM EST

Both of the media-centered programs on CNN and the Fox News Channel covered on Sunday the move by the New York Times from Friday to delete a line from an article about President Obama not fully realizing “the anxiety” of Americans following terror attacks ...

Todd Pushes Ryan to Denounce Ingraham, Levin; Hounds Him on How He’ll Cooperate with Obama

By Curtis Houck | December 21, 2015, 9:00 AM EST

Appearing exclusively on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd repeatedly pressed Speaker Paul Ryan to denounce conservative radio talk show hosts Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin over their criticism of the recently-passed omnibus bill and Todd demanded to kn ...

Brit Hume Unloads on Obama over Cable News/Terrorism Comment; Seems ‘Impatient’ with Americans

By Curtis Houck | December 21, 2015, 7:33 PM EST

Commenting on how The New York Times removed a phrase from a Friday article explaining how President Obama told a group of columnists that he hadn’t consumed enough cable news to fully understand the anxieties of Americans over terror attacks in Paris and ...

Networks Censor NYT Deleting Obama Quote Saying He Didn’t ‘Appreciate the Anxiety’ Post-Terror Attacks

By Curtis Houck | December 18, 2015, 9:56 PM EST

The major broadcast networks on Friday morning and evening showed no interest in reporting to viewers that The New York Times had scrubbed from an article on its website that contained a quote from President Obama telling columnists that he did not watch ...

Krauthammer: Obama's Wrong When He Claims We're Winning Against ISIS

By Randy Hall | December 15, 2015, 7:58 PM EST

While a panelist on Monday night's edition of the Special Report program, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama for “ trying to convince us that we are actually prevailing, winning, pushing in on ISIS (the Islamic ...

Networks Omit Obama Criticism on ISIS, Tout Pentagon Visit; Forced to ‘Reassure an Anxious Nation’

By Curtis Houck | December 14, 2015, 9:36 PM EST

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all prominently touted on Monday night President Barack Obama’s visit to the Pentagon to discuss the fight against ISIS, but skimped on reporting any criticism of the administration’s strategy but instead lamenting tha ...

CBS’s Bouie: Trump Supporters Symbolize ‘Racial Resentment and Anti-Black Attitudes’ Toward Obama

By Curtis Houck | December 13, 2015, 1:19 PM EST

Discussing a focus group of Trump supporters convened by Frank Luntz that aired on Sunday’s Face the Nation, CBS News political analyst Jamelle Bouie promptly trashed them as representing the belief among social scientists (i.e. fellow liberals) that ther ...

CBS Hypes Trump Poll Numbers, Skips Obama’s Poor Marks on ISIS, Terrorism, Growing Gun Rights Support

By Curtis Houck | December 11, 2015, 9:25 AM EST

The December edition of the CBS News/ New York Times poll came out on Thursday and, naturally, the results were covered on the CBS Evening News but, as per the liberal media’s usual pattern, it left out a slew of poll results in which voters gave Presiden ...

CBS Pushes Report on Income Inequality, Decline of Middle Class; No Mention of Obama’s Policies

By Curtis Houck | December 9, 2015, 11:00 PM EST

In the middle segment of Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, the newscast promoted a new Pew Research Study that illustrated the decline of the middle class in the years since the Great Recession to the point that, as anchor Scott Pelley highlighted, “[t]he mid ...

Zakaria Oozes: ‘Cool’ ‘Fireman’ Obama Used Speech ‘to Douse’ Donald Trump’s ‘Flames’

By Curtis Houck | December 8, 2015, 8:53 AM EST

In the latest analogy put forth by a member of the liberal media to praise President Obama, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria opined on Monday’s CNN Tonight that the President used his speech to the nation on Sunday to come across as the “cool” “fireman” who will “dou ...

CNN Split; Political Analysts Praise Obama Speech as Foreign Panelists Pan His ‘Self-Congratulation’

By Curtis Houck | December 7, 2015, 2:38 AM EST

Following President Obama’s Sunday night address, the always large post-event panel on CNN had plenty to say, but it was quite the disconnect as many of their political commentators hailed the “straightforward” speech by the President while two of their f ...

ABC and PBS Extol ‘Stern and Direct’ Obama Speech; ‘Struck’ by Pledge to ‘Destroy’ ISIS

By Curtis Houck | December 7, 2015, 2:07 AM EST

While NBC’s Lester Holt was wondering before President Obama’s speech Sunday night if it would “be a defining moment for this presidency,” his counterparts on ABC and PBS picked up where he left off afterward by enthusiastically praising how “struck” they ...

NBC’s Lester Holt: Will Obama’s Speech ‘Be a Defining Moment for His Presidency?’

By Curtis Houck | December 6, 2015, 8:26 PM EST

Seconds before President Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt gave viewers a quick preview with Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and wondered to Todd if the speech will mark “a defining mo ...