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Mika: Ted Cruz ‘Deflecting’ For Citing Precedent for Iran Letter
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, co-host Mika Brzezinski accused Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) of “deflecting” for citing numerous examples of precedent to justify the Republican letter to the Iranian leadership over their ongoing nuclear negotiations with the Obama administration. Cruz detailed numerous other times in which members of Congress have taken similar action as Senate…
March 17th, 2015 11:18 AM
Only CBS Points Out Top Obama Aide Is Working to Defeat Netanyahu
On Monday night and Tuesday morning, all three networks covered the down-to-the-wire election in Israel. But only CBS noticed that Barack Obama's 2012 national field director is hard at work trying to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu. This Morning reporter Barry Peterson explained that the left-leaning Labor Party "hired Jeremy Bird who ran the Obama campaign ground game in 2008 and 2012."
March 17th, 2015 11:13 AM
Only ABC Notices E-Mail Scandal 'Taking a Toll' on Hillary
On Tuesday, only ABC's Good Morning America reported a new CNN poll showing a decline in Hillary Clinton's popularity following the e-mail scandal, with a majority of Americans viewing the controversy as a "serious problem" for the 2016 Democratic contender. Neither NBC's Today nor CBS This Morning mentioned the poll results.
March 17th, 2015 10:56 AM
CBS Touts Obama Slamming GOP Letter to Iran, Blaming Bush for ISIS
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning introduced its coverage of the ongoing U.S. nuclear negotiations with Iran by promoting President Obama blaming the rise of ISIS on the Bush administration as well as his condemnation of the Republican letter to the leadership of Iran.
March 17th, 2015 9:03 AM
WashPost Takes After Climate 'Deniers,' Compares to... Bull Connor?
Liberal arrogance about global warming led the Style section of The Washington Post on Tuesday. “Climate deniers” were singled out with the headline “BLOWING SMOKE, WITH A SMILE: Corporate baloney peddlers, especially ones who deny climate change, are the target of Robert Kenner’s latest documentary.” The online headline said it “shines light on climate-change deniers.”
Post film critic Michael…
March 17th, 2015 8:59 AM
Scarborough: 'More and More' Insiders Say Hillary Might Not Run
Imagine you're David Brock, James Carville or Lanny Davis. Stop: no! Can't do that to our Newsbusters readers. Let's just picture someone in the Hillary camp—even Herself. He/she's settled in front of the tube this morning, Grande, two-pump Vanilla, Non-Fat, Extra Hot Latte in hand, and tuned to fave show: Morning Joe.
Suddenly, from an array of people, you hear these phrases: "in jail for…
March 17th, 2015 8:15 AM
Letterman Whines About Clinton E-Mail Scandal; Fallon Mocks Presser
In a contrast of how two network late night comedy hosts addressed the Hillary Clinton email scandal on Monday, CBS’s David Letterman whined about the attention and effort being devoted and given to the scandal while NBC’s Jimmy Fallon took to mocking Clinton’s long-winded, confusing responses during her press conference as to why she used just one account and one phone.
March 17th, 2015 12:49 AM
NYT's Krugman Accuses Netanyahu of 'Wagging the Dog' Before Election
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman found a new way to be hostile to Israel, by employing the paper's new left-wing hobby horse, "income inequality." In his column "Israel's Gilded Age," Krugman longed for the socialist 1960s ideals of the Israeli kibbutz, and had a conspiratorial take on Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress warning of the dangers posed by a nuclear…
March 16th, 2015 9:49 PM
Nets Skip Clinton E-Mail Scandal; ABC, NBC Omit Foundation Controversy
On Monday night, ABC, CBS, and NBC combined to ignore the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal with zero coverage of it in their evening newscasts. ABC and NBC also failied to mention the growing controversy surrounding the millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments and individuals. The CBS Evening News, however, stood out with a report that scrutinized the…
March 16th, 2015 9:26 PM
CNN's Acosta Parrots Obama Spin Re: 47 Senators' Open Letter to Iran
Filing his report from the North Lawn of the White House on Monday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN's Jim Acosta uncritically parroted President Obama's falsehood regarding 47 Republican senators' open letter to the government of Iran.
March 16th, 2015 8:54 PM
Disarm Ferguson Cops, Urges Ed Schultz - Even After Two Officers Shot
Odd indeed that Ed Schultz is not proposing this for police where he lives.
Never one to refrain from embracing a dumb idea, Schultz doubled down on one last week in response to a Justice Department report criticizing police in Ferguson, Mo., for racial bias in law enforcement -- the MSNBC action hero made the novel suggestion that Ferguson police, or at least "some" of them, should disarm.
March 16th, 2015 6:58 PM
Lisa Myers: TV Politics News Has 'All the Depth of Twitter'
Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS investigative reporter whose book Stonewalled exposed liberal bias, has been no wallflower when it comes to speaking out about the kind of standards (or lack thereof) seen in journalism today.
In former NBC reporter Lisa Myers, she finds a kindred spirit. On Friday, she wrote “Lisa Myers sounds like me. She is also a former network news investigative journalist.…
March 16th, 2015 6:08 PM
Chuck Todd 'Proud' of How NBC Handled Brian Williams Scandal
Talking to former CBS political analyst Jeff Greenfield at an event for 92Y in New York, NBC's Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd praised his network's handling of the Brian Williams scandal: "Look, I am proud of my news organization, that it proved that nobody's bigger, nobody is above integrity and credibility. Period." That declaration was prompted by Greenfield taking a shot at how Fox News…
March 16th, 2015 5:58 PM
MSNBC's Scarborough Shifting Leftward on Rhetoric Re: 47 GOP Senators
Relax folks. The planet is back on its axis. The momentary blips of genuine journalism are over and MSNBC is back to toeing the leftist line. Case in point is the evolution of Morning Joe’s token "conservative" host Joe Scarborough.
March 16th, 2015 5:23 PM