Sunday Obamathon Turns Into Media Critique; Says Press is Perpetuating

September 20th, 2009 5:37 PM
They say you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you. But the 44th President of the United States doesn't seem to be worried about that. President Barack Obama, still with no fear of being overexposed, made the rounds on five Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 20 to make another attempt at winning the hearts and minds over on his vague health care proposal. According to Obama, alleging he wasn't…

George Will on 'Liberal McCarthyism': 'When In Doubt, Blame Racism

September 20th, 2009 12:47 PM
Leave it to George Will to perfectly explain in just two words all the recent accusations by Democrats and their media minions that anti-government sentiment sweeping the nation is caused by racism.Liberal McCarthyism.Delicious. Fortunately for those not understanding the reference, Will explained further when the Roundtable discussion on Sunday's "This Week" turned to all the recent…

Nets Catch Up with Van Jones, Sure 'Sour Note' in 'Summer Squall' Won

September 6th, 2009 4:31 PM
It took Van Jones' resignation, around midnight Saturday night on a holiday weekend, for ABC and NBC to mention him for the first time in Sunday morning news shows which broached, but failed to quote, the insidious “911truth” petition he signed, while ABC's George Stephanopoulos, seemingly trying to rationalize ABC's spiking of the subject, came aboard Good Morning America to dismiss the matter…

George Will Answers Critics Concerning Call to Leave Afghanistan

September 6th, 2009 1:20 PM
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, syndicated columnist and ABC News contributor George Will created quite a firestorm last week with his call for American troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan.Readers are encouraged to review the article in question as well as the criticisms here.  On Sunday, at the beginning of the panel segment of ABC's "This Week," Will took on his critics by reading a letter…

Liz Cheney Takes On Sam Donaldson, TV Critic Calls Her 'Rude

September 1st, 2009 11:42 AM
Liz Cheney fans got to see quite a faceoff between her and Sam Donaldson on Sunday's "This Week."As the panel discussion turned to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to investigate the terrorist interrogation procedures of the CIA, Cheney and Donaldson predictably shared opposing views.Despite both parties being guilty of interrupting and stepping on one another, television critic Tom Shales…

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Pleads With McCain to Denounce Death Pan

August 25th, 2009 3:28 PM
During an interview with John McCain on Sunday’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos practically begged with the Arizona senator to repudiate "death panel" claims by former Governor Sarah Palin. Speaking of the health care bill, Stephanopoulos attacked euthanasia worries and lobbied, "[Obama] called that an extraordinary lie. And he is right about that, isn't he?" The former top Clinton aide turned…

Stephanopoulos Lets Geithner Blame Soaring Deficits On Bush

August 2nd, 2009 4:27 PM
A common theme of the new administration and their media minions is that all the problems associated with the economy and the rising budget deficits are George W. Bush's fault.On Sunday's "This Week," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said (video available here, relevant section at 9:40):Remember we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. The cumulative consequences of the policies this country…

Bright Side to Media's Jacko Obsession: It's Time Not Spent Pushing Go

July 13th, 2009 5:24 PM
Catching up on a short item I noticed over the weekend, conservative columnist George Will has finally found a bright spot to the media's wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Jackson over the past couple of weeks: at least it's time not spent pushing a liberal big government agenda. Will pointed out on ABC's This Week: "When the mainstream media is preoccupied with this, it's probably doing, on…

ABC's Stephanopoulos Suggests Pelosi ‘Vindicated’ in Her Charge th

July 13th, 2009 7:19 AM
In light of recent reports that Vice President Cheney had ordered the CIA to withhold information about a counterrorism program that was being planned during the Bush administration, on Sunday ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on both Good Morning America and on This Week suggested that the revelations may be "vindication" for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or that they at least "bolster" her claims about…

Tucker on ABC: Palin 'Nixon Without the Policy Knowledge or the Experi

July 5th, 2009 1:29 PM
Sarah Palin hasn't had it as tough as Hillary Clinton and at her Friday announcement Palin “came across as petty and vindictive. Richard Nixon without the policy knowledge or the experience,” Washington, DC-based Atlanta Journal-Constitution political columnist Cynthia Tucker contended during the roundtable on Sunday's This Week on ABC. Both George Stephanopoulos and George Will pointed out, that…

Stephanopoulos and Krugman: Democrats Punish Adulterers More Harshly

June 28th, 2009 3:38 PM
"Politicians of both parties stray. The Democrats actually seem to punish their strayers more harshly." So said -- with a straight face no less! -- the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Sunday's "This Week."Even more laughable, for at least the third time in so many days, former Clinton advisor, and current "This Week" host, George Stephanopoulos agreed.Make sure there isn't any food or…

Stephanopoulos: Obama 'Obsessed' with FNC; NYT's Keller Denies Pro-Oba

June 21st, 2009 4:13 PM
ABC's This Week roundtable took up the media's favoritism toward President Obama. George Stephanopoulos marveled at “how obsessed the President and White House are with Fox News,” prompting George Will to observe that's because “it's the discordant note in an otherwise harmonious chorus.” New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, however, cautioned “don't confuse attention with love” as he…

Stephanopoulos 'Struck By' Obama's Obsession With Fox News

June 21st, 2009 4:09 PM
"I’ve always been struck by how -- and it’s not too strong a word -- how obsessed the President and the White House are with Fox News." So said ABC's George Stephanopoulos during the Roundtable segment of Sunday's "This Week."I kid you not.With an on-screen chyron shockingly asking, "Free Media Ride For Obama?" the former member of the administration exceedingly paranoid of what it declared was a…

George Will Tells Dirty Little Secrets of Universal Healthcare

June 14th, 2009 4:57 PM
As President Obama tours the country advancing his universal healthcare initiative, there are some dirty little secrets that he and his minions in the media don't want Americans to know.On Sunday, George Will during the panel discussion on ABC's "This Week," exposed some inconvenient truths about this controverial subject that would likely change much of the public's view if they were regularly…