ABC Hypes Michelle Obama's 'Lush,' Luxurious' Spanish Vacation, Hit Ex
Good Morning America's Yunji de Nies on Friday touted Michelle Obama's "five-star," "luxurious" vacation to Spain, skipping any discussion of controversy over the $148,000 trip. In January of 2009, however, the very same program chided Laura Bush for introducing new presidential dinnerware, despite the fact that the bill was being paid by a private organization. De Nies gushed, "They toured the…
Colbert Claims Laura Ingraham's Baby-Back Ribs Jokes Are 'The Most Hid
Conservative talk-show host and The Obama Diaries author Laura Ingraham appeared to promote her book Wednesday night on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Fake-conservative Stephen Colbert suggested the Republicans didn’t have a visible agenda. But he really went after Ingraham in claiming it was somehow one of “the most hideous, hackneyed racial stereotypes” to joke that Michelle Obama ate…
Laura Ingraham Destroys Marc Lamont Hill on Obama, Immigration and Rac
You know the expression "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight?"Well that's exactly what happened when Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill entered the ring against conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham on "Larry King Live" Thursday night.The subjects up for debate included the Obamas, Arizona's illegal immigration law, and racism.To put it mildly, when the final bell had rung, there…
On 'View,' Obama Says Michelle Not Interested In News Shows
Barack might have some 'splaining to do . . . Appearing on The View, the president explained to Barbara Walters that he chose to come on the program because it's a show Michelle actually watches. According to PBO, the First Lady is "like eh" about news shows, grabbing the clicker [see screencap after jump] and turning away from them.Was it really necessary for the President to dis his wife's…
Bozell Column: The NAACP Cries Racism
Almost from the moment Barack Obama declared he would run for president in 2007, our enraptured media elite has been accusing anyone who would stand in Obama’s way with racism. The question was never whether Obama was ready to govern the country, but whether the country was ready for the historic awesomeness of Obama.Pity the NAACP. We now have a black president, and they must convince (racist)…
ABC Uses Michelle Obama's NAACP Speech to Accuse Tea Party of Racism
ABC News on Monday used Michelle Obama's speech before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to accuse the Tea Party movement of racism.The news network prominently featured at its website a story with the headline "Michelle Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party."The problem is the First Lady didn't talk about the Tea Party at her…
Wall St. Journal Reporter Cites Smerconish as a Gaffe Expert: Mrs. Oba
Jeffrey Zaslow of The Wall Street Journal reported on political gaffes on Wednesday, and as an expert he brought on Obama-loving former Republican Michael Smerconish. Unsurprisingly, Smerconish bashed Ann Coulter and forgave Michelle Obama as he discussed his "Muzzle Meter" and the severity of scandalous words: We've become a culture that is unforgiving when it comes to poor word choice, says…
AP Highlights How Girl Admitting an Illegal Alien Mom to Mrs. Obama Is
One of the most popular stories at Yahoo! News on Monday featured Daisy Cuevas, the Peruvian girl who told Michelle Obama her mother was an illegal immigrant. In a story with no space for border-enforcers, AP reporter Carla Salazar relayed that the girl is famous in Peru, and Peru's president sounds just like Mexico's president in lecturing Arizona: Daisy, meanwhile, has become a celebrity in…
Bozell Column: Fox Television's Dung Pile
The Federal Communications Commission is assigned the duty of enforcing broadcast decency provisions of the Communications Act of 1934. But Barack Obama’s FCC seems to think the indecency-discouraging mission of the FCC is as outdated as Glenn Miller, even as the airwaves sound more like Ozzy Osbourne. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is an aggressive regulator, thumbing his nose at a recent court…
Biden and Bo with TV’s Endearing and Cuddly Moments at the Obama Whi
Never missing a chance to highlight events that make Team Obama seem to be loveable characters, ABC and NBC on Thursday night showcased endearing and cuddly moments with Joe Biden and First Dog Bo. You can decide which one is endearing and which one is cuddly.ABC’s Diane Sawyer took time to marvel at how “we heard on The View today that it was the President who told” Joe Biden “we heard” Biden…
MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie Sympathizes With Michelle Obama: Did 'Ugly' S
MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie on Thursday conducted a sycophantic interview with Michelle Obama, urging the First Lady to complain about the "uglier side" of the health care debate. The Daily Rundown co-host sympathetically asked, "There was a lot of vitriol, some pretty hateful things said. And I wondered what your feeling was about that?" [Audio available here.]Guthrie continued, "Was it hard to…
On Day of Michelle Obama Garden Photo-Op, CBS Trumpets: 'One Thing Tha
ABC and NBC on Wednesday night managed to contain to a brief item their enthusiasm for First Lady Michelle Obama planting her garden for the season, but not CBS which dedicated a full story to how the hula-hooping First Lady “is enjoying the kind of popularity her husband would jump through hoops for.”Employing some creative puns playing off the gardening theme, CBS Evening News anchor Katie…
Breaking News on NBC: Michelle Obama Is Not Anti-Twinkie
It's gooey enough that Newsweek awarded Michelle Obama its cover story this week, titled "Feed Your Children Well: My Fight Against Childhood Obesity." On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams added to the popularity-boosting effort by determining that she is not anti-Twinkie: BRIAN WILLIAMS: On the same subject, first lady Michelle Obama today continued her campaign against…
CBS's Rodriguez to Michelle Obama: How Does President 'Unwind' Amid 'P
In part two of her exclusive interview with First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez worried about the toll the presidency takes on Barack Obama: "Your husband is the target of so many of these partisan attacks....He must get frustrated?" Rodriguez later wondered: "Amid all these frustrations, how does he unwind, how does he let that all go?" Rodriguez asked…
