NBC Does Entire Segment on U.S. Egypt Policy Without Mentioning Obama

August 16th, 2013 1:06 PM
In an impressive display of journalistic gymnastics on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory managed to have an entire discussion about U.S. policy in Egypt without mentioning President Obama by name. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Plenty of vague substitutions were used, including "the President" "the White House" "…

After Gauzy Promotion of Bin Laden Raid, NBC Scolds Obama Aide for Rev

August 15th, 2013 5:04 PM
While NBC marked the one-year anniversary of the Bin Laden killing with a fawning Inside the Situation Room profile of President Obama, on Thursday, the cast of Today chided former White House aide Reggie Love for revealing that he and the President "must have played 15 games of spades" during the 2011 operation. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] After playing the sound…

RNC Comm Director Blasts NBC, CNN: 'Not the Be-All and End-All' of New

August 15th, 2013 2:58 PM
MSNBC host Thomas Roberts took a hostile tone with RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer in a Thursday interview on MSNBC Live, suggesting the GOP just wants “to scream into an echo chamber” during the 2016 presidential cycle. Roberts appeared to take issue with the RNC’s campaign against planned Hillary Clinton projects from CNN and NBC, asking if the RNC was “making a huge mistake with this…

NBC Suddenly Gets Tough on Clintons In Wake of Hillary Biopic Controve

August 15th, 2013 12:59 PM
Perhaps in response to the backlash against a planned miniseries on Hillary Clinton, Thursday's NBC Today aired an unusually critical story about the "chaos" at the Clinton Foundation and the possible negative political fallout for the would-be 2016 presidential contender. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] White House correspondent Peter Alexander informed viewers: "As…

ABC, CBS Fail to Label Scandal-Tarred Jesse Jackson Jr. a Democrat

August 15th, 2013 11:45 AM
On Thursday morning, neither ABC nor CBS labeled former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. a Democrat as they reported on his 30 month jail sentence. NBC's Today did not report Jackson's sentence on Thursday, but on Wednesday they covered it without identifying him as a Democrat. "Jesse Jackson, Jr. will spend two and a half years in prison. The former Illinois congressman was sentenced Wednesday…

NBC ‘Nightly News’ Rare Media Outlet to Report Businesses Cutting

August 14th, 2013 2:44 PM
Economists, business owners and employees are worried that the Affordable Care Act is resulting in fewer hours for workers. The networks had been ignoring this shift toward part-time work and its relationship to Obamacare earlier this year, but NBC has let the cat out of the bag. On the Aug. 13, “Nightly News” Lisa Myers reported on an NBC News investigation into the issue.

NBC's 'Today' Ignores ObamaCare Failures, Touts Downfall of Obama-Mock

August 14th, 2013 1:23 PM
While NBC's senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers did a full report on Tuesday's Nightly News about ObamaCare causing cutbacks in worker hours across the country, Wednesday's Today couldn't find time to even mention the damage the law was inflicting. Instead, the morning show updated viewers on a rodeo clown that mocked President Obama at a state fair finally facing justice. News…

MSNBC Geography Fail: Cities on Obama Bus Tour Shown in Wrong Location

August 14th, 2013 1:11 PM
Maybe part — but certainly not all — of the reason President Obama basically got away with claiming that Jacksonville, Flordia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia are ports "along the Gulf" is that the press is so geographically ignorant that it did not recognize the obvious mistake until someone outside of their bubble pointed it out. I say that because the geniuses at MSNBC…

ObamaCare Suffers Another Setback, ABC and NBC Ignore

August 14th, 2013 12:38 PM
On Tuesday morning, The New York Times reported the Obama administration had delayed a “significant consumer protection” in the Affordable Care Act, a provision that limits how much individuals and families can pay out-of-pocket for health care, until 2015. Under ObamaCare, the limit on out-of-pocket health care costs was set at $6,350 per year for individuals and $12,700 per year for families…

NBC, CBS Minimize Coverage of Jesse Jackson, Jr. Sentencing; Skip Part

August 14th, 2013 12:20 PM
CBS This Morning and NBC's Today couldn't be bothered to give Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s political affiliation as they devoted just 35 seconds of air time on Wednesday to his upcoming sentencing. Both morning newscasts merely identified the onetime Democratic politician as a former congressman. The same morning, ABC's Good Morning America completely ignored the story about Jackson, who pled guilty…

After Obama Criticism of Reality Show Culture, Kardashian-Obsessed NBC

August 13th, 2013 5:14 PM
While NBC's Today has done 35 stories on the Kardashians in the past six months and frequently promotes the family's reality show, a panel discussion on Tuesday's program posed this question: "Are We Keeping Up Too Much With the Kardashians?" Why the sudden introspection? It might have something to do President Obama being critical of a culture in which kids are "monitoring every day what Kim…

Out of the Habit: Nets Favor Liberal Nuns

August 13th, 2013 3:25 PM
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious begins its annual assembly today in Orlando. The group of Catholic nuns from various orders is certain to be considering a response to the Vatican’s finding that LCWR’s liberal activism strays from Church doctrine on a variety of issues. But the sisters probably aren’t too worried. They have something the Vactican doesn’t – a friendly news media.

Hypocritical Ex-DNCer Karen Finney Blasts Priebus Over Debates; In

August 13th, 2013 2:17 PM
It’s hardly surprising that MSNBC host and former DNC communications director Karen Finney took issue with Reince Priebus’ campaign against the liberal media on Saturday’s Disrupt. Finney mocked “Reince’s rage” and suggested that the Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman is “full of you know what.” What is surprising is that Finney’s searing critique came despite the fact that she and…

Greta Van Susteren: Fox Should Sign Jay Leno To Compete With NBC

August 13th, 2013 12:53 AM
Jay Leno got quite a vote of confidence Monday. Posting at her blog, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren wrote, "Fox Broadcast should sign him up and compete against his old network":