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CBS Hosts: It’s ‘Hard’ to Have Our Boss Be Accused of Sex Assault
September 10th, 2018 12:48 PM
Almost ten months after bombshell accusations that ex-CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose allegedly sexually harassed and abused women, co-host Norah O’Donnell lamented how “hard” it was to have “my boss,” departing CEO Les Moonves, be accused of sexual assault. After a full report opened the show, O’Donnell began her personal remarks with self pity: “This is hard for everybody as CBS News.”

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Whoopi Defends Aretha's Funeral Having Farrakhan, CBS Hits Pastor
September 4th, 2018 10:01 PM
On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, as the regular team of hosts returned from the Labor Day holiday, the group caught up with NBC's Today show in fretting over a pastor at Aretha Franklin's funeral who delivered a conservative message, but they still did not mention the controversy around Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan being allowed to share a stage with former President Bill Clinton and…

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CBS Asks John Kerry: Should Congress Remove Trump From Office?
September 4th, 2018 3:49 PM
During a softball interview with former Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, to promote his new memoir, the hosts of CBS This Morning invited the Democrat to speculate on President Trump being removed from office, denounce Republicans, and talk about the possibility of a 2020 presidential run. Not one tough question was put to him about his tenure in the Obama administration.

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CBS Fawns Over Obama’s Iran Negotiator: What Advice Do You Have?
August 31st, 2018 12:40 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Friday fawned over the woman who negotiated Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, the same person who worked for the Clinton State Department. Asking Wendy Sherman no tough questions, the hosts instead wondered how Sherman’s skills could be used in the everyday lives of Americans.

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CBS Interviews Classified Leaker From Prison: Why Were You Targeted?
August 30th, 2018 2:02 PM
For some reason, CBS This Morning on Thursday decided to devote over six minutes of air time to the leaker of classified information. Live from prison, the show’s hosts interviewed Reality Winner via phone. Many of the questions were softballs, including this one from Norah O’Donnell: “It is the documents you leaked that really brought everyone's attention to the Russians trying to infiltrate and…

Net Coverage of Hunter Scandal Nearly Quadruples in Past 24 Hours
August 24th, 2018 5:35 PM
After the morning newscasts of ABC and CBS spent a total of 4 minutes and 44 seconds covering the criminal indictment of California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter in the first 36 hours since the story broke, the number increased four-fold following another news cycle, with the total standing at 17 minutes and 13 seconds as of Friday morning.

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Nets Agree: Trump Impeachment Now ‘Front and Center’ in Midterms
August 22nd, 2018 11:15 AM
Following the conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and guilty pleas from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on various federal charges on Tuesday, all three network morning shows on Wednesday declared the president’s impeachment to now be the main focus of the upcoming midterm elections.

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MSNBC Hints ICE Not Be 'Honored' Until Illegal Families Reunited
August 21st, 2018 5:34 AM
On Sunday's MSNBC Live, fill-in host Gigi Stone Woods seemed to suggest that President Donald Trump should not hold a ceremony to honor ICE agents until after illegal immigrant children have been returned to their parents, and declared that children are being used as "political pawns."

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CBS Rewrites History: The Polls Weren’t Wrong in 2016
August 20th, 2018 12:12 PM
CBS attempted to rewrite history on Monday with This Morning co-host Norah O'Donnell and network director of elections Anthony Salvanto declaring that the polls in 2016 weren’t wrong. That might be a surprise to anyone who trusted the polling in Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania. Helping Salvanto promote his new book on polling, O’Donnell wondered: “People said that proved that the polls were…

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CBS Tosses Softballs to Trevor Noah: Will Our ‘Crazy Moment' Pass?
August 2nd, 2018 6:02 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Thursday brought on liberal Daily Show host Trevor Noah to pontificate as a serious political analyst and not a comedian. With no hint of Noah’s hard-left politics, the hosts tossed him softballs such as this one from Alex Wagner: “My question to you is do you think this crazy moment we're in is passing crazy or permanent crazy?”

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CBS Whines: Rubio’s Family Leave Bill Will Rob ‘Retirement Security’
August 2nd, 2018 12:57 PM
CBS This Morning deserves credit for having Marco Rubio on the program to discuss a conservative proposal, his alternative for paid family leave. The other two networks on Thursday, ABC and NBC, couldn’t be bothered to talk about his legislation. However, CBS’s hosts complained about the idea of allowing Americans to borrow from their Social Security in order for paid time off with a new child.

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Media Relieved Ginsburg Plans to Stay on Court ‘Five More Years’
July 30th, 2018 4:42 PM
On Monday, the liberal media breathed a collective sigh of relief over 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s announcement over the weekend that she plans to stay on the high court for at least another five years. The coverage demonstrated how even the thought of Donald Trump naming the liberal justice’s replacement strikes terror into the hearts of reporters.

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NYT Head: Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Media Criticism Will Get Journalists Hurt
July 30th, 2018 1:27 PM
Responding to a tweet from President Trump about his meeting with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, the liberal newspaper released a lengthy statement Sunday afternoon in which Sulzberger explained that he confronted Trump over his “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric” that he warned will cause journalists to be physically harmed.

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Nets Tout Dems ‘Launching All-Out War’ Against Kavanaugh
July 11th, 2018 11:32 AM
On Wednesday, network morning show coverage of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh dropped off significantly, with combined air time of less than two minutes. However, the ABC, NBC, and CBS broadcasts still managed to use that brief amount of reporting to tout Democrats “launching all-out war” against the federal judge.