Networks Nearly Mum on Hobby Lobby’s Religious Freedom Suit

January 2nd, 2013 3:49 PM
Usually when President Obama’s opponents are handed a defeat, ABC, CBS and NBC are quick to crow about it. That’s why their silence on the Supreme Court’s Christmas ruling against retail chain Hobby Lobby is so curious. Hobby Lobby’s owners, the Green family, filed a suit against the Federal government earlier this year, arguing that ObamaCare’s so-called contraception mandate would “violate…

ABC Skips Occupy Connection to Terror Case, But Falsely Smeared Tea Pa

January 2nd, 2013 12:30 PM
ABC News, the same network which falsely linked the Tea Party to a mass killing in Colorado, on Wednesday ignored an alleged connection between Occupy Wall Street and a wealthy New York City couple apparently planning a terrorist spree. Instead, a Good Morning America journalist referred to the investigation as a "preppy terror case." The New York Post on Monday reported that Morgan Gliedman…

Media Bias Year-in-Review: The Biggest Obamagasms of

December 30th, 2012 9:34 AM
As 2012 winds down, we're reliving some of the worst media bias of the year with our Best Notable Quotables of 2012. Yesterday, I recounted some of the nastiest barbs journalists threw at the GOP ticket; today, a look at some of the most egregious favors committed on behalf of Barack Obama's campaign. While conservatives like Rick Santorum were often cast as radical or weird, journalists…

CBS Glosses Over Reid's 'Dictatorship' Smear of Boehner In Democrat-He

December 28th, 2012 12:16 PM
With four days until the "fiscal cliff," CBS This Morning peppered its report on the Congressional negotiations with four Democratic sound bites compared to just one from Republicans. Chief White House correspondent Major Garrett quoted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) three times and simply relayed his smear of Rep. John Boehner's Speakership as a "dictatorship." Both ABC and NBC…

NBC, CBS Report Outrage Over Paper's Gun Map; ABC Ignores

December 27th, 2012 2:45 PM
Both NBC and CBS covered the outrage Thursday morning over a New York newspaper publishing the names and addresses of gun permit holders in two counties. ABC made no mention of the controversy, however. "A suburban New York City newspaper is in the middle of a big controversy this morning after it put up online the names and addresses of everyone with a gun permit," reported CBS This Morning…

Barbara Walters Has No Political Questions for Obamas; Asks About Fami

December 27th, 2012 1:09 PM
ABC’s Barbara Walters' "interview" with the Obamas on Thursday's Nightline ran much more like a celebrity infomercial. Walters was her usual self, asking questions void of substance and fawning over every detail of the First Family. With the fiscal cliff looming just weeks after the interview originally took place, Walters had no questions on any matter of political significance. She did find…

Obama: Keeping Secret Service 'With Guns Around At All Times' to Prote

December 27th, 2012 7:59 AM
The anti-gun Obama isn't so anti-gun when it comes to protecting his own family. During a predictably gooey interview with Barbara Walters on ABC's Nightline Wednesday, the President joked about his daughter Malia dating boys saying, "I always talk about how one of the main incentives for running again was continuing secret service protection so there are men with guns around at all times" (…

ABC Repeatedly Celebrates Gay 'Marriage' of Weatherman Sam Champion

December 27th, 2012 7:35 AM
ABC News repeatedly celebrated weatherman Sam Champion's gay "marriage" to Rubem Robierb from Friday through Monday. On Monday's "Good Morning America," entertainment reporter Lara Spencer relayed: "We have so many stories to tell you this morning, including the surprising story of this woman. She is accused of being, we're not making this up, too sexy for her job. Her boss said she was too…

ABC Hypes Obamas' Love Life, Barely Mentions Impending Fiscal Cliff

December 26th, 2012 12:27 PM
ABC’s Good Morning America barely talked about the upcoming fiscal cliff on Wednesday but found time for another Obama-promoting fluff piece. Previewing Barbara Walters's upcoming interview with Mr. and Mrs. Obama on Wednesday evening’s Nightline, GMA picked a clip of Walters fawning over the couple's romance. Walters touted "the most-shared photograph in the history of Twitter" of the…

Serena Williams Rebuts Claims That Wozniacki's Impression of Her Was R

December 23rd, 2012 9:35 AM
A few weeks ago, tennis player Caroline Wozniacki during an exhibition match did a comical impersonation of Serena Williams that some in the media immediately called racist. On Wednesday, Williams told USA Today that she considers Wozniacki a friend and didn't agree with those that were offended by the gag:

Christiane Amanpour's Biblical 'Road Trip' Set to Air: Will It Be As B

December 21st, 2012 6:48 PM
Former This Week host Christiane Amanpour's reputation for biased reporting precedes her, despite her own denials. Despite this, ABC thought it fit to air a two-part special starting on Friday evening titled Back to the Beginning. The network's press release trumpeted, "Join...Christiane Amanpour on the ultimate road trip as she travels to the lands of the Bible....to investigate the roots of…

GMA Slams Boehner, GOP on Fiscal Cliff Talks

December 21st, 2012 10:10 AM
With 11 days until the United States goes over the fiscal cliff, ABC's Good Morning America focused squarely on Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Republicans for the failure to reach a negotiation with President Obama.  On Thursday, newly-appointed Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl began his first story hyping Boehner's "crushing" loss when his "Plan B" was aborted for lack…

Kimmel Compares Leno To Serial Killer Jason In 'Friday The 13th

December 21st, 2012 8:18 AM
The late night talk show wars are heating up with the announcement that ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live is moving to 11:35 PM to compete with the CBS Late Show and the NBC Tonight Show. According to TMZ, Kimmel during a Wednesday conference call about this change made a disparaging reference to Jay Leno:

At ABC, Wanting More Guns Is 'Controversial' But Obama Pushing Gun Con

December 20th, 2012 12:36 PM
For ABC's Good Morning America, favoring more guns on the streets is "controversial" but President Obama's plea for gun control is simply news. "Those who argue that the best way to stop mass killings is to have more guns in the right hands at the right time, even in the classroom. It's a controversial debate," reported co-host George Stephanopoulos on Thursday. In contrast, ABC's Jake…