Networks Still Boosting Wendy Davis' 'Epic' Pro-Abortion Filibuster Al

July 1st, 2013 5:40 PM
The Big Three networks still can't get enough of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, nearly a week after her extended filibuster against pro-life legislation on June 25, 2013. All three brought on Davis during their Sunday morning talk programs, and continued hyping the supportive response on social media that Davis received in response to her "epic eleven-hour filibuster", as NBC' s Janet…

Nets Pull Their Punches in Covering Liberal Alec Baldwin's Anti-Gay Ra

July 1st, 2013 1:26 PM
The three major networks devoted four times as much coverage to obsessing over Paula Deen's use of a racial epithet 30 years ago than they did of outspoken liberal Alec Baldwin's anti-gay rant on Twitter. Over the first three days of the revelation that Deen used the N-word in 1983, ABC, CBS and NBC featured the story for 32 minutes and 41 seconds. Over the three days since Baldwin's tirade,…

Pelosi Hails ObamaCare: It ‘Captures the Spirit of Our Founders

July 1st, 2013 12:30 PM
Independence Day is the perfect day to remember that liberal Democrats want Americans to be dependent on government. Nancy Pelosi reminded Americans of that on June 27 with her remarks to the press about the national holiday, where she essentially argued that the Founding Fathers would have loved ObamaCare. “[W]hen we celebrate Independence Day we’ll also be observing health independence.…

Matthew Dowd: 'I Wouldn't Be Taking Political Advice From Bill Kristol

July 1st, 2013 10:13 AM
As NewsBusters routinely reports, one of the tricks the liberal media employs to discredit conservatives is to seek opinions from supposedly right-leaning commentators who are really nothing more than Republicans In Name Only often sharing much the same views espoused by the left. One such "conservative" media darling is ABC political contributor Matthew Dowd who on Sunday's This Week said, "…

ABC News Defends Alec Baldwin, Calls Homophobic Attack ‘Alleged Slur

June 30th, 2013 10:11 AM
It was a metaphysical certitude that liberal media members were going to once again show their hypocritical colors and defend Alec Baldwin’s homophobic attack on a British reporter Thursday. ABC’s David Muir came through for the high-strung actor on Saturday’s World News actually calling the attack an “alleged slur” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Big Three Hype Social Media Sending Pro-Abortion Filibuster Into 'Stra

June 28th, 2013 6:02 PM
Since Wednesday, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have all played up the social media frenzy over Texas State Senator Wendy Davis' multi-hour filibuster on Tuesday against a pro-life bill. On Friday's Today, NBC's Tamron Hall claimed that the Davis story is "another example of how social media can turn a story into a whole other stratosphere. I think without Twitter and…

Networks Slam Rick Perry Getting 'Very Personal' With 'Folk Hero' Wend

June 28th, 2013 5:45 PM
In the wake of her filibuster in the Texas state senate on Tuesday, NBC, ABC, and CBS all expressed their outrage at Texas Governor Rick Perry daring to criticize their anointed abortion "folk hero" Wendy Davis. On Friday, Today co-host Matt Lauer announced: "The battle over abortion gets very personal as Governor Rick Perry takes on a female senator whose filibuster helped block a…

ABC, NBC Skip Announcement That IRS Aggressively Targeted Conservative

June 28th, 2013 5:14 PM
ABC and NBC on Thursday night and Friday morning ignored an announcement by the Internal Revenue Service inspector general that liberal organizations were not forced to endure the same invasive investigations as conservative, Tea Party groups. Only CBS This Morning covered the development. This contradicted earlier claims.  This Morning co-anchor Norah O'Donnell explained, "The IRS said this…

ABC, CBS & NBC Too Excited by Wendy Davis to Recognize Her Side is Los

June 28th, 2013 4:36 PM
The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks were so excited by Democratic Texas state senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster they failed to notice she is on the losing side of the abortion debate. Anchors like NBC’s Brian Williams and ABC’s Diane Sawyer were so busy hailing Davis’s “epic” filibuster and her rise to “folk hero” status that they failed to report the findings of a National Journal poll…

ABC Pushes 'Historic' Immigration Bill, Laments Fate in 'Inhospitable

June 28th, 2013 12:20 PM
The journalists at Good Morning America on Friday worried that "inhospitable" Republicans in the House would leave the Senate immigration bill as "half-made history." Reporters Dan Harris and Jim Avila offered little in the way of explanation as to why a GOP Congress member might possibly oppose such a bill. Avila lectured, "...History has been half-made. Now, the big question, will the…

Broadcast Networks Fawn Over Pro-Abortion Texas Legislator

June 27th, 2013 5:09 PM
ABC, NBC, and CBS began their Wendy Davis love fest on June 26 during their evening newscasts, but it was also rehashed for their morning shows.  Davis, a Texas state senator, has become a rock star of the left for a filibuster, which temporarily scuttled a bill, which was vociferously opposed by pro-choice advocates, to regulate the state's abortion clinics. The liberal Democrat became a…

Tangled Web: Claire Shipman, ABC Reporter/Wife to Top Obama Aide, Head

June 27th, 2013 3:36 PM
 ABC's Claire Shipman isn't just another pro-Obama journalist. She's also married to Jay Carney, the President's press secretary. If that wasn't enough of a conflict, Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator recently revealed that Shipman has served on a White House panel in her official capacity as a journalist. A series of 2010 videotapes shows Shipman's role in the "Council on Women and…

Rainbow Rapture: Networks Cheer Gay Marriage Rulings with 86 Percent F

June 27th, 2013 1:54 PM
It’s hard to know where yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage met with the most jubilation: West Hollywood, the Castro District, Greenwich Village? Or the newsrooms of ABC, CBS and NBC? Combined, the three broadcast networks devoted an astounding 25 minutes, 54 seconds of their evening news shows to the Supreme Court’s decisions striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and…

No Objectivity Needed: Robin Roberts Thrilled Over 'Wonderful' 'Jubila

June 27th, 2013 11:31 AM
The journalists at Good Morning America seem to have decided that the gay marriage debate no longer has two sides. On Thursday, co-anchor Robin Roberts opened the program by spinning Wednesday's Supreme Court decision only as a good thing. She extolled, "And some wonderful pictures to show you of jubilation. People dancing in the streets in cities all around the country." [See video below. MP3…