Harsh Attacks Against Christine O'Donnell Continue on ABC: Carville Sl
September 16th, 2010 12:23 PM
For the second day in a row, Good Morning America featured degrading descriptions of Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell. Democratic strategist James Carville appeared on Thursday's show and fumed about the Republican's past financial problems: "Christine O'Donnell doesn't believe in spending, particularly her own money, because, she's a deadbeat. She doesn't pay her loans back."…
TV Networks Smear Christine O’Donnell; Bozell Demands Media Tell the
September 16th, 2010 11:23 AM
Dubbed as "ultra right wing extremist" and "crazy," Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell and her Tea Party supporters have been smeared by every major broadcast and cable network since she won the Delaware primary against GOP establishment candidate on Tuesday night. NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell reacts: This is mudsliging at its ugliest. Pure…
George Stephanopoulos Touts Attacks By O'Donnell Opponents: She's a 'N
September 15th, 2010 4:22 PM
Liberal journalists don't usually highlight Karl Rove as an authoritative voice, but that's what George Stephanopoulos did on Wednesday's Good Morning America. Interviewing senatorial nominee Christine O'Donnell, the ABC host touted the conservative strategist's dismissal of the Delaware Republican for saying "some nutty things." Stephanopoulos also played up charges by Delaware's Republican…
ABC's Crystal Ball: Defeat of 'Mainstream' Castle 'Eliminates' GOP Cha
September 15th, 2010 10:49 AM
Good Morning America's Juju Chang switched into prognostication mode on Wednesday and proclaimed that, along with other Tea Party wins, Christine O'Donnell's upset victory in Delaware "pretty much eliminat[es] the Republicans' chances of taking back the Senate." [MP3 audio here.] She trumpeted, "We begin with an upset victory for the Tea Party and maybe for Democrats." The news anchor announced…
MRC Study: ABC, CBS and NBC Tilt Ground Zero Mosque Debate by Smearing
September 15th, 2010 10:35 AM
By a wide margin — 66 percent to 29 percent, according to the most recent ABC News/ Washington Post poll — the public is opposed to building that proposed $100 million Islamic cultural center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Towers. This is not a lightly-held opinion: more than half (53%) told ABC news they are “strongly opposed” to building it near Ground Zero, vs. only 14 percent who…
George Stephanopoulos: Should Threat of Koran Burning Make Us Rethink
September 14th, 2010 4:22 PM
ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday wondered if a Florida pastor's threat to burn a Koran could "change" and "challenge" the meaning of the First Amendment. [MP3 audio here.]Talking to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the Good Morning America host speculated, "When you think about the internet and when you think about the possibility that, you know, a pastor in Florida with a flock of 30…
The View's Hasselbeck Pummels Valerie Jarrett on Economy; Liberal Co-h
September 14th, 2010 4:16 PM
Interviewing White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett yesterday, The View's liberal co-hosts repelled Elisabeth Hasslebeck's tough questions on President Obama's failed economic agenda by changing the subject and ignoring their conservative colleague's criticism.Refuting the claim that the economy is "certainly moving in the right direction" despite dismal unemployment numbers, Hasselbeck asked…
ABC News Exec Joins Left Wing Firm Which Boasts 'Far-Reaching Role' in
September 14th, 2010 1:32 PM
Emily Lenzner, Executive Director of Communications at ABC News for its DC-based shows, who spent eight months in 2007-2008 as editorial producer for This Week with George Stephanopoulos (for whom she also toiled inside the Clinton White House), has left ABC News for Anita Dunn's “strategic communications firm.” SKDKnickerbocker announced Monday she'll be a Managing Director with the firm led by…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos: Will GOP Landslide Be a 'Blessing in Disg
September 14th, 2010 12:35 PM
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday tried to find the upside to a possible Democratic landslide in November. Talking to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, he wondered if major Republican gains could be "a blessing in disguise for President Obama." [Audio available here.]Stephanopoulos touted the historical model of Bill Clinton losing the Congress in 1994, but being reelected in…
George Will Helps Arianna Huffington Make a Fool of Herself on This We
September 12th, 2010 1:53 PM
As NewsBusters has previously reported, liberal Internet publisher Arianna Huffington is breathtakingly ignorant when it comes to basic economic theory.On Sunday, she proved it again by making an absolute fool of herself on ABC's "This Week." With the "Roundtable" segment beginning on the subject of the economy, Huffington noted how the failure of the banking bailout to stimulate growth was "…
ABC’s Richard Clarke Suggests Obama Inauguration Speech Helped Make
September 11th, 2010 4:13 PM
On Saturday’s Good Morning America on ABC, during a discussion of the Ground Zero mosque and the possibility of Koran burning in Florida by Pastor Terry Jones, after anchor Dan Harris brought up the naive liberal expectation that President Obama would be able to improve relations with the Muslim world because of his family connections to Islam and his inaugural speech reaching out to Muslims, ABC…
Bozell: Jay Leno Knows More About What's News than the 'News' Networks
September 10th, 2010 1:37 PM
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening new shows have yet to notice Fidel Castro's astonishing admission that Cuban Communism does not work. But non-journalist Jay Leno brought the news to his Tonight Show audience on Thursday, joshing: "Most Cubans heard this announcement on a 1954 RCA Deluxe console TV -- beautiful black-and-white, all mahogany...." (Video at right)The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg…
Arianna Huffington Likens Ground Zero Mosque Opponents to Koran-Burnin
September 9th, 2010 1:00 PM
Snatching the proverbial low-hanging fruit off the branch, Arianna Huffington compared the vast majority of Americans who oppose the construction of a mosque close to Ground Zero to the thirty members of a Florida church who plan to burn copies of the Koran on 9/11. Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" today, the liberal publisher criticized the president for not echoing her logical fallacy…
ABC Donates 16 Minutes to Obama; George Stephanopoulos Sympathizes: Do
September 9th, 2010 12:14 PM
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday trumpeted his exclusive interview with Barack Obama and rewarded the President with 16 minutes of air time, just as the midterm election season kicks off.Stephanopoulos served up several softballs during the four part interview. Speaking of the pastor in Florida who intends to burn a Koran on 9/11, he sympathized, "I wonder what this must…