ABC Fawns: 'Amazing,' 'Ground-Breaking,' 'Historic' Clinton
June 4th, 2008 4:15 PM
With Hillary Clinton's presidential run apparently over, ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday offered a love letter to the New York Senator. Well known Clinton fan Kate Snow and co-host Diane Sawyer rhapsodized about Clinton's "ground-breaking," "historic" campaign. The segment also featured Hillary poetry from author Maya Angelou. Splicing Snow's audio with Angelou's voice, the GMA reporter…
CBS: Obama Making History vs. McCain’s ‘Attacks’ & Lack of ‘En
June 4th, 2008 2:44 PM
On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith began the show by declaring: "A place in history. Barack Obama claims the Democratic presidential nomination. The first African-American to do so." While Obama’s win was indeed historic, correspondent Dean Reynolds later reported on Obama’s "ecstatic" supporters and the Senator’s humility: "...despite the thunderous, indeed ecstatic, applause…
McClellan's Bush-Bashing Book to be Made Into a Movie
June 4th, 2008 1:37 PM
Honestly, do Hollywoodans have no shame?If rumors swirling around Tinseltown about a movie being made about Scott McClellan's new Bush-bashing book "What Happened" are true, the answer to that question is a resounding "No."Yet, according to Jeffrey Ressner at Politico, this disgraceful idea is already being floated (emphasis added):
BET Founder: Election of Obama ‘Greater Than the Emancipation Procla
June 4th, 2008 1:37 PM
BET founder Bob Johnson, despite his consistent support of Hillary Clinton, placed an unequivocal importance on Barack Obama’s election as President during a segment on Wednesday’s "American Morning." "I believe that if Senator Obama leads this country the way he ran the primary, it will become a historic event for African-Americans, probably greater than the Emancipation Proclamation, which was…
Boston Globe Uses Sarcastic Column to Attack McCain, Romney
June 4th, 2008 1:13 PM
In the midst of reports on the historic nature of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s candidacy and as speculation roils about whether he will ask his bitter rival Hillary Clinton to join the ticket, the Boston Globe also found time to take a few jabs at presumptive GOP nominee John McCain and former rival Mitt Romney. Local politics writer Yvonne Abraham, in a June 4…
How Will Media Report McCain's Town Hall Meetings Invitation to Obama
June 4th, 2008 12:23 PM
Hours after Barack Obama apparently locked up the Democrat presidential nomination, Republican nominee John McCain invited the junior senator from Illinois to join him in a series of nationwide town hall meetings to discuss the pressing issues facing America.Given the media's love affair with Obama, as well as their desire to be involved in televised debates, it's going to be very interesting to…
Ex-Journalist Linda Douglass Returns to ABC to Shill for Obama
June 4th, 2008 12:16 PM
Former journalist Linda Douglass returned to ABC and appeared on "Good Morning America" Wednesday in her new role as a strategist and spokesperson for Barack Obama. Expressing no surprise or conflict that a longtime reporter would segue from recounting the news to representing a Democratic presidential candidate, GMA news anchor Chris Cuomo breezily introduced, "We're going to begin with someone…
Brokaw Chides Olbermann for 'Unfair' Crack About Hillary
June 4th, 2008 2:56 AM
During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's Democratic primaries in Montana and South Dakota, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw appeared visibly annoyed at a crack made by MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann at Hillary Clinton's expense -- ironic given the timing of reports that Chris Matthews and Tim Russert are not happy with the ultra-left face Olbermann is giving MSNBC. Shortly before 8:00 p.m…
CNN’s Gergen: Vanity Fair Article on Clinton Ignores His Good Works
June 3rd, 2008 2:43 PM
CNN senior political analyst (and former Clinton adviser) David Gergen, responding to Todd Purdum’s recent Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton during a segment on Monday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," acknowledged that the former President "does have a temper, and he goes off like Mount Vesuvius," but then went on to criticize Purdum’s article, that it "does not give enough weight to what he has done…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Features Tribute Video to ‘Historic’ Democrat
June 3rd, 2008 2:05 PM
On Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Julie Chen introduced a video montage of memorable moments in the Democratic race that could have been produced by the Democratic National Committee: "Well, the long primary season for the Democrats has been historic, marked by the first woman and the first African-American to be serious contenders for the Oval Office. And it has been filled with many…
DenverPost.com Slow On Uptake with Headline 'Clinton Set to End Race
June 3rd, 2008 1:26 PM
Earlier this morning the Associated Press's Beth Fouhy reported that Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) is gearing up to concede the Democratic nomination contest to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in a speech following primary election returns tonight.Not so fast, Clinton aides said, scrambling in short order to protest that Hillary is not going to throw in the towel tonight. Yet the Denver Post as of 1:10 p.…
