On MSNBC this morning, NBC White House reporter Chuck Todd decried how Googling has ruined the Old Media's ability to submerge smear stories about national politicians. But in 1999 and 2000, the…
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April 27th, 2011 12:26 PM | Scott Whitlock
Meet the Press host David Gregory on Wednesday derided the Republican National Committee Chairman as "low-minded" for his response to the release of Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate.…
April 13th, 2011 12:10 PM | Rich Noyes
Reporters are eagerly anticipating President Obama’s budget speech this afternoon, with NBC’s Chuck Todd assuring viewers of Wednesday’s Today show that now, finally, “the President’s going to…
April 12th, 2011 11:55 AM | Kyle Drennen
During the panel discussion on Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, host David Gregory gushed over President Obama's Friday night address to the nation on the budget deal: "The message was clear.…
April 11th, 2011 12:49 PM | Scott Whitlock
Both NBC and CBS on Monday highlighted footage of Barack Obama at the Lincoln memorial on Saturday as they portrayed a President ready to cut the deficit. In the wake of an averted government…
April 1st, 2011 4:29 PM | Scott Whitlock
The network morning shows on Friday ignored a front page report in the New York times that government regulators have casually approved very generous compensation packages for executives at the…
March 30th, 2011 10:25 AM | NB Staff
We'll take what we can get. A few days after calling Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann a very unpleasant name for a certain part of the female anatomy, Bill Maher was asked by MSNBC's Chuck Todd…
March 29th, 2011 3:26 PM | Scott Whitlock
Only Good Morning America's Jake Tapper on Tuesday pointed out the relatively low public support for Barack Obama's military actions in Libya and the harsh criticism from both the right and the…
March 22nd, 2011 11:58 AM | Rich Noyes
The Obama administration launched its air war against Moammar Qaddafi’s Libya after a vote of the UN Security Council, but without any congressional authorization — and apparently not even very…
March 22nd, 2011 10:20 AM | Chuck Norris
After a decade of playing one on television, I, along with my brother Aaron, was blessed a few months ago to become a real Texas Ranger in the presence of Gov. Rick Perry, fellow Texas Rangers…
March 21st, 2011 6:34 PM | Lachlan Markay
Twitter and other social networks have provided social scientists with unprecedented means of measuring human interaction. As it turns out, that fact has implications for the media bias debate…
March 17th, 2011 12:38 PM | Scott Whitlock
MSNBC's Chuck Todd on Thursday fretted over the blame Barack Obama is enduring for making televised NCAA picks during the ongoing crises in Libya and Japan. After gushing over the President's…
March 16th, 2011 12:15 PM | Scott Whitlock
MSNBC's Chuck Todd on Wednesday hyped the fact that Barack Obama will be making his NCAA tournament picks on ESPN. The Daily Rundown anchor enthused, "You got about 27 hours to get your brackets…
March 13th, 2011 6:16 PM | Noel Sheppard
Chuck Todd on Sunday bashed Republican governor Mitch Daniels for his state having a 9.1 percent unemployment rate.
The substitute host of NBC's "Meet the Press" must not be aware that…
March 11th, 2011 5:51 PM | Ken Shepherd
Hundreds if not thousands of people are dead due to a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But at least it gave Barack Obama an avenue to remind everyone he was born in Hawaii. That's…
March 8th, 2011 2:44 PM | Alex Fitzsimmons
On MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" today, Steve Liesman robustly defended raising gasoline taxes as a way to address rising oil prices.
The CNBC senior economics reporter minced no words to…
March 8th, 2011 12:47 PM | Scott Whitlock
The three evening newscasts on Monday and the morning shows on Tuesday mostly ignored Barack Obama's abandonment of a campaign pledge to close Guantanamo Bay and end trials of detainees there.…
March 1st, 2011 12:23 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd, on Tuesday's Today show, had no problem labeling Republican governors like Scott Walker, "conservative," but for some reason just couldn't get…
February 28th, 2011 8:01 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Shades of bitter-clingers! Chuck Todd has developed an interesting device to delegitimize support for Gov. Scott Walker, depicting his backers as uneducated, frustrated, blue-collar people who…
February 14th, 2011 5:04 PM | Scott Whitlock
Of the three morning shows on Monday, only ABC's Good Morning America aggressively pushed the Obama administration on a lack of substantial cuts in the 2012 budget. NBC's Today and CBS's Early…
January 27th, 2011 12:57 PM | Scott Whitlock
Of the three evening newscasts, only NBC's Chuck Todd on Wednesday offered no critical analysis of Barack Obama's call for both new spending and deficit reduction. ABC's Jake Tapper actually…
January 21st, 2011 8:12 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Is David Gregory trying to raise his profile by becoming more overtly partisan? Gregory struck what at one point seemed to me a hostile tone in his questioning of conservative Sen. Tom Coburn on…
January 20th, 2011 12:30 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
NBC's Matt Lauer was joined by his colleague Chuck Todd, on Thursday's Today show, as the two trumpeted "good news" for President Obama in the latest results from a new NBC News/Wall Street…
January 20th, 2011 9:15 AM | Brent Baker
“The health care law may not be popular, but many of the provisions now in effect are,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl asserted in his Thursday night look at the House vote to repeal ObamaCare as he…
January 17th, 2011 10:27 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Another young product of Columbia J-school, another typical MSMer . . . Appearing on MSNBC's Daily Rundown today, NBC reporter Domenico Montanaro spoke of "the notorious Lee Atwater." What…