ABC’s Sawyer Gushes: Obama Nobel Win Is ‘Olympic Gold of Internati
October 9th, 2009 11:17 AM
Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer on Friday used an odd expression to fawn over Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize win. She cooed that the award is "the Olympic gold of international diplomacy." (Was this Sawyer’s way of saying the prize makes up for the Chicago Olympic failure?)In a follow-up segment, former top Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos touted what an enormous…
CBS Skips Any Mention of Massive Deficit Numbers Under Obama
October 8th, 2009 2:14 PM
Wednesday’s CBS Evening News With Katie Couric and Thursday’s Early show completely ignored any mention of the fact that the deficit has risen to a staggering $1.4 trillion, triple what it was a year ago. The Early Show, however, did find time to report the incredibly important news that Levi Johnston will be posing for Playgirl. Just one year ago, on October 7, 2008, Katie Couric made sure to…
GMA Hypes Food Scare with Latest Doom-and-Gloom CSPI Study
October 6th, 2009 4:04 PM
If you thought figuring out what to eat was difficult before, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has released a new study called "The Ten Riskiest Foods," which slams four of the five food groups. On Oct. 6 "Good Morning America's" Sharyn Alfonsi devoted an entire segment to the doom-and-gloom study. But of course she conveniently forgot to mention that CSPI is a radical left-wing…
Claire Shipman’s Bizarre Logic: ‘Olympic Loss Actually a Boost for
October 6th, 2009 3:00 PM
According to ABC correspondent Claire Shipman, the botched Olympic bid by Barack Obama is actually a "good" thing for the President. Writing an online column for True/Slant, Shipman (see file photo at right) bizarrely spun, "It would have been great had he come home a winner. Great for all of us. But maybe not so much for him. Why? Because then he would have then [sic] really irked his critics…
ABC’s de Nies Swears: Michelle Obama’s ‘Work Here Is Done’ Wit
October 2nd, 2009 5:19 PM
On Friday, just hours before the International Olympic Committee rejected Barack Obama’s appeal for Chicago to be awarded the 2016 Olympic games, ABC’s Yunji de Nies swore that Michelle Obama and her husband thrilled the crowd. She enthused, "Their work here is done. They are on their way home. The presentation was everything they promised, emotional, heartfelt, energetic." On Thursday, de Nies…
Networks Allow Letterman to Play ‘Victim
October 2nd, 2009 12:57 PM
Just contrast the current David Letterman sex scandal against the 2004 Bill O'Reilly sex scandal.
Last night, left-leaning CBS Late Show Host David Letterman announced on his program that he had sex with female staffers. Letterman's announcement was spurred by the plot of a CBS producer to force the host to pay $2 million in exchange for his silence on the matter.
ABC, CBS and NBC largely…
ABC’s Claire Shipman Tosses Softballs to Jimmy Carter at ‘Incredib
October 1st, 2009 4:31 PM
ABC’s Claire Shipman on Thursday fawned over Jimmy Carter, celebrated his 85th birthday and the "incredible" presidential library bearing his name. Offering few tough questions, the Good Morning America correspondent instead thrilled, "This is really incredible. I mean, the center looks amazing."Appearing with Carter and wife Rosalynn in Atlanta, Georgia, she completely ignored the Democrat's …
ABC’s de Nies Prognosticates: Not ‘a Dry Eye in the House’ for M
October 1st, 2009 12:15 PM
Good Morning America correspondent Yunji de Nies on Thursday touted White House talking points when she highlighted Michelle Obama’s pitch for the 2016 Olympics to be in Chicago. De Nies parroted, "We're told there won't be a dry eye in the house by the time she's done." She was "told" this? Was she also told that the First Lady would "bring down the house" or that "Michelle will hit a home run…
ABC’s Tim Johnson Finds Yet Another Way to Lobby for Government Heal
September 30th, 2009 11:55 AM
On Wednesday’s Good Morning America, co-host Diane Sawyer and Dr. Tim Johnson touted the treatment members of Congress get as an example of the unfairness of the health care system. Sawyer speculated, "The question is continually raised, in this land of equal opportunity, should all Americans have, do all Americans deserve the same access to health care that members of Congress have?" Johnson, a…
Day Two of ABC’s Polanski Coverage: ‘Hunted’ Director Subject to
September 29th, 2009 12:57 PM
ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday America continued to raise questions about the arrest of Roman Polanski in Europe, spinning the case as a "31 year-old prosecutorial obsession." According to reporter Nick Watt, the film director has "been hunted since 1978." The network correspondent observed that Polanski, who is wanted for child rape and was detained in Switzerland, "has some powerful…
ABC Touts European Outrage Over Polanski Arrest; Sawyer: It’s an
September 28th, 2009 3:33 PM
Hosts and reporters on Monday's Good Morning America hyperventilated about the arrest of fugitive Roman Polanski. Co-anchor Diane Sawyer worried that the detention of the director accused of child rape has created a "true international incident." Co-host Robin Roberts played up the supposed complexity of situation, referring to the event as an "international chess game."Reporter Nick Watt fretted…
AP Fact Checks Michael Moore; Does the Work ABC Wouldn’t
September 24th, 2009 10:32 AM
The Associated Press on Thursday released a fact check of Micahel Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, the director’s socialistic new movie. And while writer Rachel Beck asserted "some of [Moore's] arguments...fall apart on closer inspection," ABC managed no such scrutiny when it offered 13 minutes to the filmmaker on Tuesday and Wednesday. For instance, while talking to Nightline host Terry Moran…
