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…
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March 17th, 2009 12:10 PM | Kyle Drennen
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…
February 5th, 2009 2:16 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update: The highlight thus far is the testy exchange between Gibbs and Tapper. Checking the tape again it appears he did answer Tapper's second question, albeit tersely muttering the response,…
February 5th, 2009 2:03 AM | Brent Baker
NBC anchor Brian Williams, apparently still bristling over former President George W. Bush's failure to admit mistakes (at least in media interviews), twice in 24 hours felt it newsworthy to contrast…
February 2nd, 2009 1:53 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update (14:33): News conference just ended. Gibbs faced numerous questions on Tom Daschle, including one from each major broadcast network's correspondents. [audio excerpt available here]
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January 30th, 2009 9:25 AM | Brent Baker
After years of agitation over what they saw as President George W. Bush's self-righteous moral certitude, journalists on Thursday night embraced President Barack Obama's vilification of those working…
January 27th, 2009 3:54 PM | Ken Shepherd
Once again I'm going to live-blog the daily press briefing. I'll be focused on the reporters' questions, not so much Gibbs's answers. I also caution this is a rough transcript and may contain…
January 26th, 2009 1:44 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update/Closing thoughts (14:34): Hearst columnist Helen Thomas continues to make a cartoon of herself in her using her perch to parrot ultra-left-wing talking points. Her question today was on…
January 26th, 2009 8:14 AM | Tim Graham
Bill Steigerwald of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has the first interview with author and former CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg about his brand new book. You'll love the title: "A Slobbering…
January 23rd, 2009 1:20 PM | Ken Shepherd
Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs is conducting his second-ever press conference right now. Below you'll find my live-blogging of the questions. I can't promise verbatim rendering of the…
January 19th, 2009 1:59 PM | Tim Graham
NBC News personalities were clear on Sunday’s Meet the Press that Barack Obama needs to bring the fiscal "pain" and sacrifice to the voters with higher taxes. In his interview with incoming chief…
January 7th, 2009 9:23 PM | Brent Baker
Prompted by the CBO's forecast of a $1.2 trillion annual federal budget deficit, the NBC Nightly News on Wednesday commiserated with the challenge ahead for the incoming President. “On our broadcast…