CBS Gushes Over Obama Dumbbell Workout, ABC Fears 'Security Breach,' N

June 4th, 2014 8:50 PM
It's the latest viral video burning up the Internet, the talk of watercooler conversation all over the country today: President Obama looking positively goofy strenuously working out with a set of dumbbells. [I'll pause to let you write your own punchline] It was video too good to ignore for both ABC's World News and CBS's Evening News, while NBC Nightly News decided to take a pass. Of course…

CBS News’s Crawford Cheerleads for ObamaCare, Touts White House Talk

December 31st, 2013 11:43 AM
CBS must have decided that their 2014 New Year’s resolution was to be a little nicer to President Obama. Acting more as a White House stenographer than an actual journalist, CBS News’s Jan Crawford went to bat for the Obama Administration on December 30th, doing her best to spin a positive light on the disastrous ObamaCare rollout.    In a piece that was better suited for MSNBC, fill-in…

CBS Boosts Obama's MLK Anniversary Speech With Highlight Reel From Pas

August 28th, 2013 2:48 PM

Wednesday's CBS This Morning shamelessly promoted President Obama's upcoming address commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 1963 "I have a dream" speech by featuring nothing but race-related clips from the President's past speeches. Jeff Pegues hyped the "big names" set to speak at the anniversary celebration, but underlined "the headliner: the nation's first black…

On Media Mash, Brent Bozell Slams Media's Effusive Coverage of Obama's

July 26th, 2013 10:53 AM

On FNC's Hannity last night, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell teed off on the media's effusive reaction to President Obama's remarks last Friday about race and the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case. Various journalists had described the President's speech as "extraordinary," "beautiful," and "a symphony." Bozell had a different word: "dishonest." (Video and partial transcript below the…

CBS Fawns Over Obama's 'Quite Memorable', 'Extraordinary', 'Historic

July 22nd, 2013 1:15 PM
Douglas Brinkley predictably gushed over President Obama on Saturday's CBS This Morning, and hailed the Democrat's Friday speech on the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial: "It certainly was historic....I think it elevated the Trayvon Martin story, really, to the annals of DayGlo, top-tier history....it was quite memorable." Brinkley later heralded the President as a "constant…