Demonstrating that he would have made the same news judgments hostile to Mitt Romney as the journalists who succeeded him at ABC News, in an address Thursday night to students at Quinnipiac University, Charles Gibson declared “the Republican Party has done Romney no favors by forcing him so far to the right that he may not be able to scramble back by November 6th,” castigated Grover Norquist’s…
From CNN’s The Situation Room on Tuesday, September 18. As recounted by the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard in a September 20 post:“‘You go look at these polls. How is it poll after poll over-polls 10 percent to 15 percent [more] Democrats? This is not a legitimate poll in 2012,’ Romney surrogate Bay Buchanan told CNN of their ‘rotten...poll.’“Appearing Tuesday with reporter Joe Johns, she…
President Barack Obama will appear on tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman for the second time during his presidency. Below, a reprint of my short rundown of his first appearance on the CBS show back on Monday, September 21, 2009:David Letterman, who still regularly ridicules former President George W. Bush – and has even accused him of committing “war crimes” and lacking “humanity” – didn't…
“Listen for it,” CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley urged viewers Friday night in trumpeting what he hailed as “a remarkable moment of candor” from President Barack Obama “when he told us the sacrifices he makes being President wouldn’t be worth it except for one thing.”Viewers soon heard from Obama how all the sacrifice he must suffer through as President, such as “the inability to just take a…
Mitt Romney was correct in his critique of President Barack Obama’s “Arab Spring” policies but, on the timing, The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes cautioned on FNC’s Special Report, Romney should have known the media would use it against him:
You knew the media were going to obsess on this and obsess on
it they did. They’re so now fascinated by this process story, using this
process story…
Washington Post columnist/editorial writer Colby King on the September 7 Inside Washington carried by Washington, DC's WETA (26) and WJLA (7): “The amount of hate that the Republicans have for Barack Obama is just astounding. It’s not just political differences, it’s really raw, visceral hate. And you hear it week after week, day after day, moment after moment, to the Fox crowd.”And when Charles…
David Gregory teased Sunday Meet the Press by highlighting a
clip of himself pushing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to
upset conservatives in getting a budget deal, presumably by agreeing to
raise taxes. “We go behind the scenes and on the record with Governor
Romney less than two months before the election to press him on how he
will turn around the economy and solve the…
How would the media – which barely noticed the platform dispute at the
Democratic convention in which the chair clearly didn’t get the required
two-thirds majority from the floor to revise embarrassing platform gaps
by adding a reference to God and identifying Jerusalem as the capital
of Israel – react if such an incident occurred at the Republican
convention?
On FNC’s Fox NewsWatch, Jim…
CNN’s Brianna Keilar cued up Sandra Fluke, Obama’s poster girl for “free” contraception and forcing religious institutions to violate their beliefs, to tar Mitt Romney and all Republicans with a derogatory comment made by Rush Limbaugh: “I’m wondering, do you think that Rush Limbaugh – now he called you, and these are his words, ‘a slut.’ Do you think that his views represent Mitt Romney and the…
Playing to a crowd of Democrats in Charlotte cheering on Democratic operative Chris Matthews as he hosted his MSNBC program, Howard Fineman blurted “I survived Tampa and am now glad to be here in Charlotte” before he derided the Republican gathering: “That convention was like dropping a bowling ball in a sand box.”Fineman, who used to be Newsweek’s chief political correspondent and is now…
