ABC Helps Obama Get the Word Out About 'Nefarious' Romney

July 6th, 2012 4:28 PM
In Thursday's campaign report by ABC's Jake Tapper, the Obama campaign received four soundbites as opposed to just one for Romney surrogates. The sharp imbalance was capitalized by Tapper choosing the word "nefarious" to describe the Obama campaign's caricature of Romney. "Others in the Obama campaign discussing wealth Romney has invested overseas in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda painted an…

ABC Hypes Obama's Bain Attacks: Romney 'Can't Escape' Ads that Are 'Br

July 3rd, 2012 4:35 PM
ABC's World News on Sunday hyped Barack Obama's attack ads against Mitt Romney's past work for Bain Capital. Anchor David Muir even played a clip of one of the President's ads.  Washington editor Rick Klein trumpeted, "Democrats are definitely breaking through by calling into question what Romney wants to be his biggest strength." Muir hyped, "If you live in those battlegrounds, you can't…

ABC Hyped Bill Clinton's Work to 'Save a Continent,' But Skipped Georg

July 3rd, 2012 12:30 PM
When Bill Clinton went to Africa in 2007 to fight AIDS, ABC hyped his important work "to save a continent." Diane Sawyer interviewed the ex-President and Kate Snow followed him to Africa. However, the same network has, thus far, skipped former President George W. Bush's efforts to fight cancer in the same area. On the July 24, 2007, Good Morning America, Kate Snow excitedly related, "In…

Paul Ryan Exposes Stephanopoulos's Strange Failure to Note Interview w

July 2nd, 2012 7:03 PM
After ignoring its own 2009 clip of Obama denying his health-care law was a tax increase, ABC finally played the snippet of the President on Sunday's This Week -- but bizarrely, they failed to mention that it was theirs. Host George Stephanopoulos highlighted an ad from Americans for Prosperity that included the clip, but omitted that he conducted the interview where the President made this…

Even Former Clinton Operative Stephanopoulos Doesn't Buy Jack Lew's Sp

July 2nd, 2012 1:58 PM
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional under the taxing powers of Congress, the Obama administration can’t seem to call it a tax.  Instead, they’re trying to peddle the “tax” as a penalty. White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew did his run through the Sunday morning talk shows with this entertaining spin. Even former Clinton operative…

ABC Gushes Over John Lewis, Who Once Compared the GOP to Nazis: A 'Her

July 2nd, 2012 12:21 PM
The hosts of Good Morning America on Monday fawned over Congressman John Lewis, who once compared Republicans to Nazis. GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts gushed that the liberal Democrat is a "living legend." Weatherman Sam Champion described him as a "true hero." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Lewis appeared on the show to promote his new book on the civil rights era, but at no time did he…

ABC Skips Its Own Footage of the Supreme Court Contradicting Obama on

June 29th, 2012 4:36 PM
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that ObamaCare is constitutional as a tax, a number of media outlets played the now-embarrassing clip of Barack Obama insisting the law isn't a tax. Despite the footage coming from a 2009 interview on This Week, ABC's journalists studiously avoided highlighting their own footage. CBS, however, played it. Even The Daily Show on Comedy Central…

ABC Cheerfully Highlights How 'Statesman' John Roberts 'Saved' Obamaca

June 29th, 2012 12:04 PM
Good Morning America's Terry Moran on Friday highlighted how Chief Justice John Roberts "saved" Obamacare, featuring voices that lauded the "statesman" and only one clip of Mitt Romney condemning the ruling. In comparison, CBS showcased an interview with Republican Congressman Eric Cantor. Instead of allowing much conservative opposition, Moran delicately spun, "Roberts's opinion reframed…

ABC's Terry Moran and Yahoo! News Preach Roberts 'Saved' the Supreme C

June 29th, 2012 9:22 AM
The top of the Yahoo home page on Friday asked "Did Chief Justice Roberts save the Supreme Court?” That’s channeling the incessant spin of ABC Nightline anchor Terry Moran, who announced on Yahoo's web show Top Line: “Roberts rode to the rescue of the Obama health care plan, and maybe rode to the rescue of the Supreme Court, a little bit, as well.”  "We live in an era of punditry and hyper-…

NBC Uniquely Notes Some Dems Voted to Sanction Holder

June 29th, 2012 8:59 AM
Uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, the NBC Nightly News, not only ran a full report on the House of Representatives vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, but the network also noted that some Democrats joined Republicans on the vote. By contrast, ABC's World News and the CBS Evening News only mentioned the dozens of Democrats who walked out of…

TV Networks Gush Over Chief Justice Roberts: 'The Man of the Hour' Who

June 28th, 2012 9:09 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts may have angered conservatives with his decisive vote in favor of ObamaCare today, but he was, in CBS anchor Scott Pelley’s words, the “man of the hour” on all three network evening newscasts Thursday night. ABC’s Terry Moran complimented Roberts’ lurch to the left, saying it “did give heart to many Court watchers,” who were worried the Court “was at risk of becoming…

Media Gush Over Chief Justice 'On the Side of History' With 'Clever La

June 28th, 2012 4:42 PM
During NBC's noon et hour special coverage of the ObamaCare Supreme Court ruling, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams declared that Chief Justice John Roberts sided with liberals on the Court in upholding the unpopular law in order "to be on the side of history." Legal analyst Savannah Guthrie praised Roberts for having the wisdom of King Solomon: "I guess you'd call it a Solomonic decision." […

ABC's Moran Hypes Dem Talking Points on ObamaCare: Women Would Have Su

June 28th, 2012 12:10 PM
Good Morning America's Terry Moran on Thursday hyped Democratic talking points, parroting fears that if ObamaCare was struck down, women would suffer more. Moran ran through the President's complaints. He fretted, "And, finally, a lot of people haven't paid much attention to this: Women will pay more. Right now, women pay more for health care than men." (Moran didn't mention how much…

ABC Fawns Over 'Umpire' Roberts Upholding Mandate: 'Discretion Is the

June 28th, 2012 11:37 AM
In live coverage right after the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare, ABC's anchors and reporters praised Chief Justice John Roberts for siding with the liberals. George Stephanopoulos insisted that the judge proved he really was an "umpire." Barely restraining himself, Terry Moran fawned, "Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor for the court. Sometimes letting the politics of the thing…