Only Fox News Aired Bush's Texas Homecoming Ceremony Tuesday

It seems inaugural attendees weren't the only ones cheerful about George W. Bush's departure from Washington, D.C., Tuesday, for only the Fox News Channel aired a live broadcast of the homecoming ceremony held in Midland, Texas, for our 43rd President.As the Los Angeles Times reported: The rest of the networks, however, did not see the Bush address as news fit to broadcast. At 6:40 p.m. EST,…
Noel Sheppard
 

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NB Staff
 

Jon Stewart: Obama's Inaugural Address Sounded Just Like Bush

It appears the good folks at Comedy Central noticed the same thing that many on the right have been saying for many months: Barack Obama's vision of hope and change when distilled down is actually nothing new.In fact, according to "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, parts of Obama's inaugural address Tuesday sounded like what George W. Bush has been telling the nation for eight years.Strap yourselves…
Noel Sheppard
 

Mitchell: Cell Cameras 'Seemed Like Stars Shining Back' at Obama

NBC's Andrea Mitchell encapsulated the veneration for Barack Obama and what his inauguration means to the media elite as she began a Tuesday NBC Nightly News story about her day watching the festivities: “It may take days or years to really absorb the significance of what happened to America today, even for those of us who were lucky enough to have a very close up front view.” Showing a clip of…
Brent Baker
 

Gwen Ifill Book Party: My 'Truth' Won Out Over Conservative Bloggers

The liberal media elite piled into David Bradley's Embassy Row mansion in northwest Washington DC on Monday night to celebrate PBS anchor Gwen Ifill's book The Breakthrough, touting the ascent of black Democrats in the Age of Obama. (FishBowl DC has a nice photo of the hope-and-change Barack Obama cookies at the party.) So didn't writing this book taint her as a debate moderator? Ifill told the…
Tim Graham
 

'What Else Should a Reporter BE' But a Liberal

WARNING... Video Below Fold So what do you get when you mix a Canadian TV hostess with the venerable Helen Thomas? An admission of bias so strong that it could ward off a vampire. Just why the image of the undead first came to my mind is anybody's guess, but there you have it. On a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning TV interview show called "Sun Day," Thomas was interviewed on how she…
Warner Todd Huston
 

On Nightline, Obama's Ascension = 'America the Beautiful

Brent Baker
 

Pulpit Culprits: Mainstream Media Compares Inauguration to 'Spiritual

Networks tout occasion as 'sacred,' calling incoming crowds, a 'pilgrimage.'
Erin Brown
 

ABC: 'National Pride' Made Cold Feel Warmer as Seagulls 'Awed

Offering the most hyperbolic take of the night on the crowds who attended President Obama's inauguration, on World News ABC's Bill Weir delighted in wondering “can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer?” He decided it can indeed since “never have so many people shivered so long with such joy” while “from above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.” Weir was…
Brent Baker
 

Unofficial Inaugural Parties Struggle Tonight, Will Nets Report

A  reported one to two million people attended the inauguration today.  For the amount of glowing reports about how many people attended, who would have thought that certain inaugural parties are being cancelled due to lack of interest?   The Washington Post’s gossip columnists Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger reported today that those with official ball tickets sponsored by the Presidential…
Kerry Picket
 

FNC's Shep Smith: If We Taxed Inaugural Parade Carbon, Would Be Expens

Ken Shepherd
 

Matthews Criticizes Anti-Bush Booing as ‘Bad Form,’ Olbermann Not

During Tuesday morning’s inaugural coverage on MSNBC, when spectators were heard booing President Bush as he was introduced, Chris Matthews seemed to become uncomfortable and criticized the protest as "bad form," remarking, "Don’t do that. Don’t boo, don’t boo, don’t boo." But minutes later, when protesters could be heard singing "Hey, hey, goodbye," co-anchor Keith Olbermann seemed to suggest…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Tom Brokaw's Revenge? Calls Out 'Bigots and Rednecks' on Obama Inaugur

Tim Graham
 

NBC News Panel 'Emotional' Over Obama's Inauguration

The truly historic moment of the first African-American to be sworn-in as President cannot, nor should not, go without some comment but to the degree NBC News' anchors and reporters were willing to share their personal feelings, on air, about the moment was a bit remarkable for purported objective journalists. During NBC News' live coverage on Tuesday of Barack Obama's Inauguration, Meredith…

Geoffrey Dickens