CNN Touts Obama's State of the Union With Highlight Reel-Style Mash-Up

Wednesday's CNN Newsroom aired an ESPN-style highlight reel of "some of the moments that got us talking" from President Obama's State of the Union address. The mash-up featured dramatic music and bold graphics, and zeroed in on the Democrat's "burn" of congressional Republicans during his speech. Bizarrely, the program also repeatedly played clips of the President winking and Vice President Biden…
Matthew Balan
January 21st, 2015 12:51 PM

FNC's Smith: W.H. Omitted ‘News’ From Fox News Card During POTUS Lunch

Prior to Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama sat down for an annual lunch with various journalists, including the network news anchors and hosts of several Sunday morning talk shows. During his Shepard Smith Reporting program on Tuesday afternoon, the Fox News anchor revealed that during the lunch with President Obama, unlike the anchors of ABC, NBC and CBS, his place card “doesn’t say…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 21st, 2015 12:27 PM

HuffPo Publishes Laughable 'Scoop' About Ted Cruz SOTU Response

The Huffington Post thinks it has some big scoop about Senator Ted Cruz's response to Barack Obama's State Of The Union address last night. However, after all the hype, the scoop falls laughably flat when you actually see his response.  
P.J. Gladnick
January 21st, 2015 12:26 PM

Kos: Obama Approval Rating Up Because ‘Being Liberal Is Popular’

The Daily Kos founder and publisher argues that the recent jump in Obama’s approval rating shows that Obama should have governed as a staunch liberal “from Day One, instead of wasting years of his life trying to make nice with an intractable and hostile Republican Party…Republicans are on a holy war to destroy everything that is good and noble about government. They have no interest in peace.”
Tom Johnson
January 21st, 2015 12:07 PM

NBC's Lauer Accuses GOP of 'Disrespect' & 'Pettiness' During SOTU

In a softball interview with Joe Biden on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer fretted over there being "more tension than normal" during Tuesday's State of the Union address with Republicans in control of Congress and slammed GOP reaction to a line in the speech: "...the President was talking about having arguments that are worthy of the body and the country, and then he said, 'I've run my…
Kyle Drennen
January 21st, 2015 12:02 PM

Bill Maher Calls Out Liberals on 'Extreme Bullying'

On his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, the host addressed the students who protested his invitation to give a  University of California commencement address in December: "You have to tell me, where do I go to protest you?" Maher also went on to say that he’s bothered by the “extreme bullying” techniques used to define free speech so speech doesn’t offend them (how is it free…
Melissa Mullins
January 21st, 2015 11:41 AM

CBS Quizzes Biden on Patriots Cheating, Not on Tax Increases

Joe Biden appeared on all three morning shows, Wednesday, to tout the President's call for new taxes. ABC and CBS both quizzed the Vice President on the process of getting new laws passed, but didn't offer much analysis on the tax hikes. Instead, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King found time to wonder about football. 
Scott Whitlock
January 21st, 2015 11:37 AM

ABC, NBC Boost Obama’s ‘Aggressive’ SOTU Speech

On Tuesday night, President Obama gave his sixth State of the Union address, and on Wednesday morning, ABC and CBS did their best to boost his speech and tout his liberal agenda to their audiences. During their respective broadcasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today made sure to play up Obama’s “renewed swagger” by giving an “aggressive speech” to Congress and America. ABC’s Jonathan…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 21st, 2015 11:33 AM

Big 3 Evening News Shows Spend Only 11 Minutes in a Year on Keystone

Debate in the Senate over the Keystone XL Pipeline is expected to heat up this week, but the popular project has yet to pique the interest of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening news shows.
Geoffrey Dickens
January 21st, 2015 10:49 AM

CAIR Bars 'O'Reilly Factor' From Islamic Confab in Texas

Jesse Watters – the Fox News correspondent whose segment "Watters’ World" is featured on Bill O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Factor -- revealed Monday night that despite having a ticket and appropriate press credentials to enter the “Defend the Prophet” conference in Garland, Texas this past weekend, he was immediately “revoked” by members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) once he landed…
Melissa Mullins
January 21st, 2015 7:11 AM

NBC’s Richard Engel Slams Obama's SOTU on Foreign Policy

While NBC News was up to its usual business in praising and defending President Obama both before and after his State of the Union speech, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel emerged as a rare voice that instead took to the liberal network’s airwaves to condemn the President’s rhetoric on foreign policy as both unrealistic and, in many cases, simply not true.  After being asked by anchor…
Curtis Houck
January 21st, 2015 7:07 AM

Brian Williams Blames Rep. Joe Wilson for Decline in SOTU Decorum

During NBC’s coverage of President Obama’s seventh State of the Union speech, anchor Brian Williams remarked how there’s been “change in tone and tenor and ambiance” inside the House chamber from over the past few years and chose to link it to Republican Congressman Joe Wilson (S.C.) telling the President “you lie” during a 2009 speech before a joint session of Congress. After saying how “some…
Curtis Houck
January 21st, 2015 2:12 AM

Schieffer Swoons: Obama’s SOTU Was ‘Uplifting’ with ‘Soaring Rhetoric'

At the conclusion of President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union speech, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer offered plenty of praise for the President’s address by proclaiming it as “the best speech he’s made in awhile” with “soaring rhetoric” and being “uplifting at the end.” In the moments right after the speech, Schieffer declared that the…
Curtis Houck
January 21st, 2015 1:04 AM

Chris Matthews: GOP Wants to 'Roll Back History'

The push to repeal ObamaCare is part of a Republican effort to "roll back history," thundered Chris Matthews at various points on Tuesday night during MSNBC coverage. The Hardball host first tried out the line on Republican pundit and former RNC chairman Michael Steele during the evening's edition of Hardball.
Ken Shepherd
January 20th, 2015 11:23 PM