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NBC Issues 'Disaster Warning' About Climate Change
At the top of Saturday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt scared viewers with an ominous declaration: "Disaster warning. Scientists sound the alarm. If you think this season's wild weather is extreme, wait until you hear what's to come." Introducing the later report, Holt wondered: "...what has been causing all this strange and extreme weather we've been seeing in recent months?"
Holt…
April 2nd, 2012 5:32 PM
Once Again NBC Selectively Edits Audio Tape for Political Means
Given that the NBC network is currently conducting an internal review of its selective editing of a 911 call from the Trayvon Martin case, it would be reasonable to assume that other networks in the NBCUniversal family would take heed. But then, that would take all the fun out of working for a network like MSNBC. On his April 2 program Martin Bashir played a clip from a Mitt Romney campaign…
April 2nd, 2012 5:06 PM
MSNBC's Chuck Todd 'Loves' the History Lesson Bill Clinton Gives, Luke
Different network, same fawning coverage. MSNBC journalists Chuck Todd and Luke Russert fawned over Bill Clinton, Monday, with Todd "loving" the liberal history lesson that the former Democratic President gave on health care.
Rather than show the interview straight through, Russert and Todd would play a clip and then marvel over Clinton's wisdom. Regarding Obamacare, the Daily Rundown…
April 2nd, 2012 4:58 PM
ABC’s Avila Slimes Mother Whose Son Died from E Coli
ABC News senior correspondent Jim Avila has a new target for his “pink slime” crusade – a mother whose 6-year-old son died from E coli. Avila, whose coverage has targeted Beef Products, Inc., went after the company’s supporters at an Iowa press conference.
At the same time, one beef maker has had to file for bankruptcy protection as a result of the media assault. “AFA Foods, a company that…
April 2nd, 2012 3:52 PM
Meet the Press: Even Aborigines in New Zealand Say Romney's 'Not Authe
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman slammed Mitt Romney by suggesting even Aborigines tribes in New Zealand and Australia were mocking him: "I just came back from New Zealand, okay? I mean, you have people living in the outback of Australia who look at Mitt Romney and say, 'Ha, ha. Not authentic.' I mean, it's just so – it is just so obvious." [Listen…
April 2nd, 2012 3:33 PM
NYTimes Frets Over Reduced Visibility of 'Populist' Occupy Movement, T
New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt fretted about the loss of public attention on the "populist" (not left-wing?) Occupy Wall Street movement on Sunday: "For Occupy Movement, a Challenge to Recapture Momentum." (The Times didn't exactly treat the plight of the Tea Party with such sympathetic concern.)
April 2nd, 2012 2:12 PM
On CNN, Andrew Sullivan Attacks the Politics of Catholic Bishops
Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS saw a ridiculing of the Catholic bishops and Republicans for their stances against contraception and the HHS mandate. The liberal panel was quite hostile to conservative Christians when the discussion came to religion and contraception.
The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan ludicrously accused the Catholic bishops and other Christian leaders of using their opposition…
April 2nd, 2012 1:25 PM
MSNBC's Wagner Mischaracterizes 'Child Interstate Abortion Notificatio
As Politico's Dylan Byers reported on March 22, MSNBC insists that its programming from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern is straight news, rather than "point-of-view" programming. Clearly Alex Wagner of the 12 p.m. Eastern Now with Alex Wagner program hasn't gotten the memo.
Take today's program, for example, where Wagner mischaracterized a bill working through the U.S. House aimed at curtailing the…
April 2nd, 2012 1:05 PM
$4 Gas? Networks Fueled Outrage in ‘08 With Nearly 3 Times As Many R
High cost of gasoline was causing plenty of pain just a few years ago, today not as much.
April 2nd, 2012 1:00 PM
NYT Magazine: Van Jones, a 'Lefty Dreamboat
Van Jones, "Lefty Dreamboat"? The New York Times assures us that yes, he is. Jones was the Obama administration's Advisor for Green Jobs until he was booted in September 2009 when his name showed up on a list of people who had signed a 9-11 Truther petition, suggesting he thought there was a Bush administration coverup of what really happened on September 11. In his new book "Rebuild the Dream…
April 2nd, 2012 12:52 PM
Jake Tapper Tosses Softballs to Clinton, ABC Spikes Obama's Bad Week a
Good Morning America offered another typical softball session with Bill Clinton on Monday to promote his latest Global Initiative meeting, but since using George Stephanopoulos might seem too obvious, they sent normally aggressive Jake Tapper to lob the softballs. Oddly, the questions that might actually be defined as news were edited out of the ABC program and left to a much smaller audience…
April 2nd, 2012 12:40 PM
Open Thread: GOP Won't Take Back Senate
Today's starter topic: Will the GOP take the Senate this fall? National Review blogger Jim Geraghty thinks that prospect is not as certain as previously thought:
A Republican-controlled Senate in 2012 looks less likely than it did a few weeks ago, but the prospect for GOP gains is still quite solid.
April 2nd, 2012 11:12 AM
ABC's Bill Blakemore: 'America’s Prestige Damaged by Its Climate Den
One of ABC's chief global warming alarmists Bill Blakemore was at it again Sunday.
At the network's Nature and Environment website, Blakemore actually wrote, "America’s Prestige Damaged by Its Climate Denialism":
April 2nd, 2012 10:29 AM
Bobby Rush: 'Lynched' on the House Floor by Mississippi Republican
When Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie and sunglasses on the House floor as a stunt to publicize his opposition to the handling of Trayvon Martin's death in Florida, McClatchy News Service cooed, "For the 65-year-old former 1960s Black Panther Party activist, an act of civil disobedience never felt so good."
But Washington Post columnist Lisa Miller inflated the stunt way beyond its…
April 2nd, 2012 8:02 AM