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Networks Ignore Over 100,000 About to Lose ObamaCare
September 16th, 2014 11:07 AM
NBC, ABC, and CBS completely ignored the latest setback for ObamaCare after news broke Monday that around 115,000 people were expected to lose health insurance coverage at the end of September due to their failure to verify their legal status as United States citizens.
Not only did CBS skip any mention of the bad news for President Obama's signature legislation, but on Tuesday's CBS This…
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CBS, NBC Fawn Over Hillary In Iowa; Refuse to Cover Benghazi Bombshell
September 15th, 2014 9:57 PM
CBS and NBC continued to provide positive coverage of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Democratic Senator Tom Harkin’s steak fry event in Iowa on Monday night after both networks gushed over her appearance in their morning shows and NBC’s Meet the Press wondered on Sunday if she might not be liberal enough for Iowa Democrats in 2016. The nearly three minutes of coverage between the two networks was…
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CBS Hypes 'Progressive' Pope; Ignores Francis's Defense of Marriage
September 15th, 2014 3:50 PM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Don Dahler played up how Pope Francis presiding at the wedding of 20 couples in St. Peter's Basilica is "yet another example of just how progressive [he] has been." Dahler zeroed in on how "according to the Church, some of these couples are technically living in sin. Many have been living together prior to getting married, which is forbidden in Catholicism. Some even…
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NBC and CBS Gush Over Hillary In Iowa: 'Can She Do It This Time?'
September 15th, 2014 11:44 AM
After fretting on Sunday's Meet the Press that Hillary Clinton may not be liberal enough for 2016 Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa, on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell eagerly touted the Clinton campaign machine: "This time, Clinton organizers say they've learned their lesson, busing in volunteers from all over the country."
A clip played of Mitchell shouting a question to the…
Feminist Blasts Women 'Working Tirelessly to Screw Over Other Women'
September 12th, 2014 6:04 PM
Far-left Amanda Marcotte launched her own war on women in a Thursday article for the Alternet website. Specifically, she targeted nine conservative women who, in her view, "have made a career out of opposing women's struggle for social, political and economic equality." Marcotte asserted that the nine "argue for continuing social systems that perpetuate women's inequality, male dominance, and…
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Tavis Smiley: 'Racism, Poverty & Militarism' Behind Ferguson Shooting
September 12th, 2014 1:32 PM
PBS's Tavis Smiley shamelessly invoked Dr. Martin Luther King on Thursday's CNN Tonight, as he commented on the ongoing controversy surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown: "It underscores that Martin [Luther] King was right about what he called the 'triple threat' almost 50 years ago....He said what's threatening our very democracy is what he called the triple threat of racism, poverty, and…
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NBC’s Jansing: Midterms Could Change if Americans ‘Rally Around' Obama
September 11th, 2014 10:23 PM
On Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing provided not only spin favorable to President Obama a day after his prime time speech on ISIS, but also suggested that this could help the President in the midterm elections. At the conclusion of her report, Jansing told viewers that: "It's a war the President inherited with decisions made now shaping his legacy and…
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CNN Hounds McCain: 'Help the Administration Succeed' with New Strategy
September 11th, 2014 7:07 PM
On Thursday's New Day, CNN's Kate Bolduan hounded Senator John McCain to back President Obama's new strategy to combat the Islamist terrorist group ISIS and help him gain congressional support: "We talk about how you are a critic of the administration. But now that there is a strategy, Senator – now that there is going to be action...how are you going to help the administration succeed now in…
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NBC Touts Obama ISIS Strategy NBC Reporter Called 'Wildly Off-Base'
September 11th, 2014 5:08 PM
On Thursday's NBC Today, several hours after NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel ripped President Obama's strategy to combat ISIS as being "wildly off-base," correspondent Peter Alexander promoted the commander-in-chief's Wednesday primetime address: "President Obama announced that he would lead a broad coalition to destroy ISIS....The war will be more like those in Yemen and Somalia,…
More Polling Press Will Ignore: Trust in Fed. Govt. at All-Time Low
September 11th, 2014 1:38 PM
A new Gallup poll reports that Americans trust the federal government less than they ever have. Given that President Obama has increasingly insisted on acting on his own, it's not unreasonable to infer that this result means, consistent with other polling the press has stubbornly ignored — documented in a new Media Research Center study — that they also trust his leadership less than they ever…
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NBC Frets Over 'Country Club Snub' Upsetting Obama's Golf Game
September 10th, 2014 4:41 PM
Wednesday's NBC Today was the only network morning show to cover President Obama being refused tee times at several top golf courses during his Labor Day weekend trip to New York, with co-host Matt Lauer declaring: "...the President has faced some criticism recently over the time he spends playing golf....[now] more problems tied to his favorite hobby." [Listen to the audio]
Fellow co-host…
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Powers Defends O'Reilly Against State Dept.'s 'War on Women' Police
September 10th, 2014 4:05 PM
In recent days, the State Department has tried to paint Fox News's Bill O'Reilly as a sexist monster because he characterized Jen Psaki as "out of her depth." O'Reilly's criticism has a great deal to do with how Ms. Psaki often appears to be, well, out of her depth. The other member of the non-dynamic duo then pounced. Marie Harf claimed that O'Reilly used "sexist, personally offensive language…
CNN Hires Former Obama Flack Jay Carney As A Commentator
September 10th, 2014 1:04 PM
CNN senior vice president Sam Feist announced on Wednesday that former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who left the Obama administration in June 2014, will be joining the liberal news network as a political commentator. Feist praised Carney's "unique experience as both a journalist and a White House press secretary" which will supposedly "make him an invaluable voice for the network as we…
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NBC: ISIS Forcing 'Reluctant' Obama to Be 'Wartime President'
September 10th, 2014 12:24 PM
At the end of a report on Wednesday's NBC Today about President Obama's upcoming speech on combating ISIS terrorists, correspondent Peter Alexander sympathetically observed: "The primetime nature of this speech really underscores its stakes, but also a significant shift for this President, who wanted to leave the White House as a peacetime president. But now...is likely to commit the country to…