On Wednesday night’s (May 30) The Daily Show, even Jon Stewart presumed liberal media bias is real: “This idea of liberal bias and the idea, you know, in your experience, haven't most journalists, haven’t their politics been somewhat more liberal?”But the discredited CBS News anchor was in denial: "No, it hasn't been my experience." He proceeded to rationalize that journalists get "a reputation"…
Ex-CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, now with ABC, gave Sunday's commencement address at her alma mater, the University of Virginia. When it came to her time at CBS News, Couric cast herself as a "mistreated" "trailblazer," who got "burned" by critics.Couric suggested her critics were motivated by sexism: "In those first few months at CBS, TV critics wrote about my clothes, my hair, my make-…
In February of 2008, NewsBusters first highlighted MSNBC’s Chris Matthews oozing “I felt this thrill going up my leg” while listening to a speech by Barack Obama. Conservatives reminding him of it has certainly annoyed Chris Matthews ever since, so much so that he lashed out at C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, sinking to including the non-profit cable network’s senior executive producer as amongst the “…
The Sunday interview show hosts all reacted with disbelief toward House
Speaker John Boehner’s pledge to demand spending cuts equal to the debt
ceiling increase, with CBS’s Bob Schieffer the most derisive as he
declared “it was a week when you couldn’t believe your ears”
because, when Boehner said the same thing last year, “Congress tied
itself in such a knot that America’s credit rating…
In a particularly sleazy allegation, David Letterman on Tuesday night alleged former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney “went soft” on finding Osama bin Laden “because they were worried about upsetting their Saudi Arabian royalty buddies.” Talk about a lack of civility and respect for elected officials.Letterman’s impugning of the former administration came during a…
What is a ludicrous answer for $800? The response from Chris Matthews when a naive Alex Trebek asked him on Jeopardy!: “Do you approach it from the point of view of I have an opinion about the subject that’s going to be discussed today, or you have your researchers look into that subject and then form an opinion?”Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball where he consistently spews left-wing views and…
From the end of Wednesday night’s Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, a Tonight Show rendition of a college-era love letter from Barack Obama which Baier suggested may “shed some light on his early political leanings.”Cross-posted on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
NBC’s Wednesday night (May 2) Rock Center, sub-titled "Inside the Situation Room,"
delivered an entire hour devoted to celebrating President Obama’s
cerebral decision-making to approve the military operation to kill Osama
bin Laden,
including this wonderment from Brian Williams in awe of Obama's "even
keel":“Keeping this
secret also meant going on about the business of the presidency.…
Catching up with Bryant Gumbel from a couple of weeks ago, on the April edition of his Real Sports show on HBO, the NBC News and CBS News veteran came to the defense of Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen, who caused outrage amongst Cuban-Americans when he declared “I love Fidel Castro.” In an end of the program commentary, Gumbel couldn’t resist taking a jab at conservatives, charging:Whipping…
On Sunday’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos stumbled into the truth when he told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Mitt Romney’s statistic, about how 92.3 percent of all job losses since President Obama took office have occurred to women, “is accurate.” That, however, contradicted the liberal party line espoused by ABC reporter David Muir on Wednesday’s World News when he stated:”The non-…
