
ABC and CBS Spike Ohioans Rejection of ObamaCare Mandate, NBC Sees Vot
Conservatives had some significant victories in Tuesday’s scattered elections across the country, but the broadcast network evening newscasts on Wednesday night – with the exception of one topic on NBC – decided to only highlight, as did the morning shows earlier in the day, setbacks for conservatives.
“Ohio voters rejected a Republican-backed measure that limited the collective bargaining…
November 9th, 2011 8:58 PM

Violence? What Violence? CBS Plays Up Crosby, Nash Concert For 'Occupy
Elaine Quijano continued CBS's consistently glowing coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement on Wednesday's Early Show by spotlighting how two-thirds of Crosby, Stills, and Nash gave a concert for the protesters in New York City. Quijano played 12 clips from the concert and from the demonstrators, without once mentioning the growing examples of violence involving the left-leaning movement […
November 9th, 2011 7:23 PM

Chris Matthews Ignores Reality, Spins: 'Most Voters' Went Dem on Tuesd
According to Chris Matthews, Tuesday's off-year elections were a big win for liberalism. The MSNBC host proclaimed, "From Ohio to Mississippi, from Arizona to New Jersey to Maine and beyond, most voters went the Democrats' way." In fact, Republicans and conservatism won big victories in several states, including Mississippi, Virginia and Ohio.
Matthews could hardly contain himself, opening…
November 9th, 2011 6:08 PM
Occupiers' Ignorance Exploited by the Left
Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!" There are other Americans, on both the left and the right — for example, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner — who call for reductions in corporate taxes. But the University of California, Berkeley's pretend economist Robert Reich disagrees, saying, "The…
November 9th, 2011 5:35 PM

ABC and NBC Spike Eric Holder’s 'Fast and Furious' Testimony
NBC and ABC in their evening and morning newscasts completely ignored the grilling Eric Holder received on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, over his role in the Fast and Furious scandal. Senate Republicans forced Holder to admit his initial statements to Congress about his department’s role in gunwalking were "inaccurate," and that he never apologized to the family of a Border Agent killed by a Mexican…
November 9th, 2011 4:43 PM

Flashback: CNBC GOP Debate Moderator John Harwood Blamed 'Crazy' Repub
Before being tapped to be one of the moderators at CNBC's upcoming Republican presidential debate, John Harwood was ranting against the GOP for causing the summer debt crisis. Appearing on NBC's Today in July, Harwood warned: "...the House Republican caucus...would not accept what President Obama needed to make a deal...It's crazy politics, what they're doing..."
When the U.S. later lost its…
November 9th, 2011 4:23 PM

Bashir Hypes Dem 'Gains' in Miss., But GOP Kept Governorship, Likely t
The Election 2011 day-after spin is as laughable as it is predictable on MSNBC.Take network anchor Martin Bashir, who said on his eponymous program today that it was "a big night for Democrats in Mississippi, Ohio, and around the country" last night.
Yet Republicans kept the governor's mansion in Mississippi by a landslide, and may well have captured control of the state House of…
November 9th, 2011 4:12 PM

NYT's Steven Greenhouse Cheers on Big Labor-Occupy Wall Street Romance
New York Times labor beat reporter Steven Greenhouse took to the front of Wednesday’s Business Day to tout increased Big Labor involvement in the leftist Occupy Wall Street camp-out, “Standing Arm in Arm – Occupy Movement Inspires Unions to Embrace Bold Tactics.” Greenhouse employed his standard pro-labor promotional tone:
November 9th, 2011 3:43 PM

Networks Cheer 'Big Victory' for Unions in Ohio, Ignore Rejection of O
On Wednesday, all three network morning shows found time to tout the defeat of an Ohio law curbing union power in Tuesday's election, while ignoring passage of another ballot initiative that made the ObamaCare heath insurance mandate illegal in the state.
On NBC's Today, news anchor Natalie Morales declared: "In Ohio, voters rejected a new law that would limit the collective bargaining…
November 9th, 2011 2:54 PM

New York Times Finally Notices Crime, Dangerous Environment at Occupy
The New York Times is belatedly starting to commit actual journalism on what’s actually happening at the Occupy Wall Street camp-out in Zuccotti Park. Cara Buckley and Matt Flegenheimer reported for Wednesday's Metro section: “At Scene of Wall St. Protest, Rising Concerns About Crime,” mostly abandons the chirpy promotionalism that has infected the paper’s coverage of OWS, catching up to what…
November 9th, 2011 2:48 PM

AP: Ohio's Turndown of Union Limits a National Story, But Not Rejectio
Perhaps partially explaining the treatment of Ohio's ballot issues on shows like MSNBC's "Morning Joe" as noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters earlier today, I have found that the Associated Press predictably trumpeted the 61%-39% rejection of Issue 2, which would have required cost-sharing for public-sector employee health and pension benefits while curbing the scope of collective bargaining…
November 9th, 2011 2:47 PM

Glee: Gay or Straight, Method Acting for High School Musical Enough Re
Teens pursuing sex for mercenary and trivial reasons is celebrated by media as 'loving and responsible.'
November 9th, 2011 2:15 PM

CNN Sets Up Dem Strategist to Gush Over Cain Accuser Who Worked for He
For information on one of Herman Cain's accusers, CNN interviewed her former boss on Wednesday – who just also happened to be a former Clinton advisor and a Democratic strategist at present. Not surprisingly, interviewee Maria Cardona gave the accuser, Karen Kraushaar, a giant thumbs-up and told CNN that Kraushaar had referred to her old boss Herman Cain as a "monster."
Anchor Kyra Phillips…
November 9th, 2011 1:18 PM

Networks Hit Cain With 117 Stories; ABC: Accusers Seek 'Safety in Numb
[Updated with video. See below.] Good Morning America's Brian Ross on Wednesday played up fears that Herman Cain supporters might physically attack the women who have accused the Republican of sexual harassment. Meanwhile, the total number of Cain harassment stories reached an astonishing 117 stories in less than 10 days.
Reporting for GMA, Ross intoned, "Overnight, [accuser Karen] Kraushaar…
November 9th, 2011 12:58 PM