With Exit From Race Near, ABC Fawns Over 'Iconic' Clintons
June 3rd, 2008 12:53 PM
Now that all signs point to Hillary Clinton's exit from the presidential race, Tuesday's "Good Morning America" chose to laud both Bill and Hillary Clinton as "iconic" and speculate, yet again, about an Obama/Clinton "dream ticket." Over the span of just ten minutes, various GMA personalities cooed over video of Bill Clinton on a plane gently placing a hand on his wife's face and shoulder. Co-…
Pat Buchanan Exposes Media's Racial Hypocrisy Concerning Obama
June 3rd, 2008 11:27 AM
Since the first Democrat caucuses and primaries began in January, there has been a consistent media theme that it's acceptable for blacks to vote for Barack Obama because he's black, but racist for whites to vote for Hillary Clinton because she's white.On Tuesday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC's Pat Buchanan exposed how utterly absurd and hypocritical this view is even as the Washington Post's Richard…
WaPo's Capehart: Hard for Media 'Not to Get Swept Up' in Obamamania
June 3rd, 2008 7:32 AM
There's a great moment in the video clip here in which WaPo editorial writer Jonathan Capehart dithers, then palpably decides to bite the bullet and tell the truth: yeah, the media's in the tank for Obama. His admission against interest came in response to a question from Pat Buchanan on today's Morning Joe. PAT BUCHANAN: That brings up the question of the substance of what Clinton said when he…
Clinton Calls Vanity Fair Writer 'Sleazy' 'Slimy' 'Scumbag
June 2nd, 2008 11:36 PM
Bill Clinton's hysterical response to Todd S. Purdum's Vanity Fair exposé hit a fevered pitch on the campaign trail Monday when the former president called the author "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy," and a "scumbag"Even better, he blamed the whole article on "the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama." This followed a statement revealed by FoxNews.com Sunday from the Office of the…
CNN’s Phillips & Malveaux Feel the Obamas’ Pain Over Quitting Chur
June 2nd, 2008 5:24 PM
CNN’s Kyra Phillips and Suzanne Malveaux fretted over Barack Obama’s recent decision to leave his "controversial church" during a segment on Monday’s "American Morning." During her introduction to Malveaux’s report on the decision, Phillips lamented, "You know, he's getting criticized -- okay, he acting like a typical politician.... He's bailing out of the church. Well, he would have been accused…
CBS’s Smith: Will Hillary ‘Ruin the Democratic Party's Chances In
June 2nd, 2008 4:33 PM
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked to Obama supporter Congressman Robert Wexler and asked: "Here's the question though, Congressman. If Hillary Clinton continues the fight this week, does it ruin the Democratic Party's chances in November?" Wexler responded: " I don't think it ruins chances, but it would be a very, very serious matter. And only Senator McCain wants Senator…
ABC Religious Expert Explains Away Obama Church
June 2nd, 2008 3:25 PM
On Monday's "Good Morning America," the morning show featured a new religious expert who explained away some of the radical statements heard at Barack Obama's now former church. Father Edward Beck, the host of "Faith Matters Now" on ABC News's video site ABC News Now, also defended Father Michael Pfleger, the latest religious leader to make incendiary remarks at Trinity United Church. (In a video…
ABC's Tapper Lampoons Messianic Portraiture of Obama
June 2nd, 2008 12:10 PM
Just as a quick follow-up to both Terry Trippany and Warner Todd Huston's posts, at least one major political reporter is chagrined by the MSM's penchant for selecting photographs of Sen. Barack Obama that make him appear rather, um, messianic.From Jake Tapper's Political Punch blog at ABCNews.com:There is Born to You This Day in the City of Chicago a SaviorJune 02, 2008 10:19 AM And His name is…
MRC's Bozell on Obama Quitting Church; Senator's 11 Times on Magazine
June 2nd, 2008 10:27 AM
MRC President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the June 2 "Fox & Friends" to discuss Sen. Barack Obama's decision to leave the controversial Trinity United Church of Christ and the fact that Obama has appeared on the cover of 11 news magazines since the beginning of the year.Partial transcript below by MRC intern Peter Sasso [audio available here]:STEVE DOOCY, "Fox &…
Mika Doubts Americans Care About Winning in Iraq
June 2nd, 2008 8:38 AM
OK With Losing In Iraq? Vote Dem! Not sure that would be a winning campaign slogan for Barack Obama, but on today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski expressed skepticism as to whether Americans really care about winning in Iraq. Mika made her comments in the course of touting Frank Rich's NYT column of yesterday [on which I commented here]. Brzezinski was clearly eager to make her point: after…
MSNBC Promo . . . or Obama Ad
June 2nd, 2008 7:10 AM
With its talk of "change" and images of folks from the Dem demographic, was this an MSNBC promo . . . or an Obama ad? Check out this spot, aired today just before the start of Morning Joe. VOICEOVER [which I believe is that of Joe Scarborough]: A revolution that happens for us every four years is a quiet revolution that begins and ends at the ballot box. It's the American voter that goes in, and…
Aide: Obama's Decision to Leave Church 'Not Political
June 1st, 2008 6:55 PM
Who says there's no humor in politics? Obama communications director Robert Gibbs went on ABC's This Week today, and in one of the better deadpan bits since Buster Keaton actually said that Barack Obama's decision to quit the Trinity United Church of Christ was "not political." GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: In Philadelphia, just in April, Senator Obama said of Reverend Wright "I can no more disown him…
