Imagine being Laura Bush and turning on the television and watching the absolute deluge of sticky-sweet syrup being poured all over Michelle Obama during her European debut as First Lady. It is as…
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April 6th, 2009 8:23 PM | Brent Baker
Giving a warm wind-up to President Barrack Obama's overseas trip as it comes to an end in Istanbul, NBC's Chuck Todd declared Monday that the decision to make Turkey the last stop “could prove to…
April 2nd, 2009 9:23 PM | Brent Baker
The broadcast networks continued their infatuation Thursday night with Michelle Obama as ABC anchor Charles Gibson teased: “Center stage. With substance and style, the First Lady steps onto the world…
April 2nd, 2009 8:06 AM | Brent Baker
“There is so much to cover on this day,” ABC anchor Charles Gibson announced Tuesday night from London as the network anchors and reporters reflected their awe over how, as NBC anchor Brian Williams…
March 31st, 2009 7:00 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
An enraptured Chris Matthews began his Tuesday edition of "Hardball," by singing Obama's praises, as he arrived in England, cheering: "He is the new us! That's right, President Obama is in London…
March 25th, 2009 3:12 PM | Julia A. Seymour
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is in trouble. He’s faced multiple controversies since his nomination, beginning with his own failure to pay all his taxes to his recent admission that Treasury…
March 24th, 2009 10:45 PM | Brent Baker
The NBC News team of Brian Williams, Chuck Todd and Keith Olbermann were all enamored with President Barack Obama's explanation that “it took us a couple of days” to express outrage over the AIG…
March 20th, 2009 4:09 PM | Erin R. Brown
Afraid that the AIG executive bonus bailout just may be the demise of the Democratic Party, MSNBC’s Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd trivialized the death of Terry Schiavo by suggesting…
March 20th, 2009 1:02 PM | Scott Whitlock
NBC's "Today" show on Friday minimized and neglected a gaffe by Barack Obama that his bowling skills are on the level of the "Special Olympics or something." In contrast, ABC's "Good Morning…
March 17th, 2009 5:09 PM | Mike Sargent
Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe”, showed her father's aptitude for foreign policy this morning. The daughter of one of the Carter administration's chief foreign policy wonks started…
March 17th, 2009 12:10 PM | Kyle Drennen
Near the end of the 3:00PM EST hour on MSNBC on Monday, anchor Norah O’Donnell attacked former Vice President Dick Cheney for arguing that the Bush administration should not be blamed for the…
March 16th, 2009 9:57 PM | Brent Baker
The Obama administration is just flummoxed by the burdens of power, ABC's George Stephanopoulos fretted on Monday's World News. Discussing the public backlash over how AIG used bailout funds to pay…
March 11th, 2009 4:20 PM | Julia A. Seymour
On Election Day 2008, as people anticipated Obama’s victory, global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), called the biggest Election Day rally since 1984 an “Obama effect.”
Look at the…
March 11th, 2009 2:02 PM | Brent Bozell
On March 3, President Obama said something remarkably stupid, wrong and politically tone-deaf. Our Obama-loving media either ignored it – or actually quoted it without comment. He claimed "The stock…
March 7th, 2009 6:47 PM | Brent Baker
“Demonstrating that not even weekends are safe from Democratic Party-sponsored anti-Rush Limbaugh attacks,” Brian Maloney observed on the Radio Equalizer blog on Saturday, “the talk titan is now…
March 6th, 2009 10:43 AM | Brent Baker
President Obama's health care summit at the White House played into receptive television news hands Thursday night as NBC displayed “Fixing Health Care” on screen before reporter Chuck Todd…
March 4th, 2009 11:34 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
According to the Politico Democratic strategists, months ago, planned to paint Rush Limbaugh as a bad guy to hurt the GOP and on Wednesday, the "Today" show followed that blueprint as Matt Lauer…
March 2nd, 2009 2:23 PM | Scott Whitlock
MSNBC host Tamron Hall on Monday talked to a contributor from the liberal Nation magazine who bashed Rush Limbaugh and also highlighted a historical…
March 2nd, 2009 9:36 AM | Scott Whitlock
NBC White House political director Chuck Todd appeared on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" on Monday to dismiss Rush Limbaugh as "looking backward" and deride the radio industry as a "dying medium." Todd (…
February 23rd, 2009 10:06 PM | Brent Baker
ABC, CBS and NBC reporters over the past two days have relayed how the Obama administration proposes to cut the annual federal deficit from $1.3 trillion to $533 billion in four years by cutting…
February 17th, 2009 2:22 PM | Tom Blumer
The Wall Street Journal's editorialists noted something last week ("Obama's Press List"; HT to Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters) about the extemporaneous speech-impaired President Obama's February…
February 12th, 2009 8:38 PM | Brent Baker
ABC, CBS and NBC centered their Thursday night stories, on Senator Judd Gregg's decision to withdraw as Commerce Secretary-nominee, around his disagreement with the Obama administration's “stimulus”…
February 11th, 2009 2:09 PM | Ken Shepherd
Waiting for the press conference to start. I may also tweet some over at Twitter.
I'll be particularly looking for any questions on Wall Street's reaction to Geithner's plan (382-point drop…
February 9th, 2009 10:26 PM | Brent Baker
Some quick takes on the very brief presidential press conference wrap-ups on ABC, CBS and NBC before each returned to entertainment shows a bit after 9 PM EST: - ABC anchor Charles Gibson lauded how…
February 9th, 2009 11:52 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Matt Lauer invited on two Senate supporters and no opponents of Barack Obama's stimulus bill, on Monday's "Today" show and asked pro-stimulus bill questions to his guests, even chiding those who…