Taking the “Green Car Challenge” on Thursday night's Jay Leno Show, a svelte Rush Limbaugh -- declining to don a helmet -- hopped into the electric Ford Focus on Leno's track, but instead of driving around the hanging cut outs of Al Gore and Ed Begley Jr., Limbaugh ran right into them. Then he accepted the penalty against his time score and stopped, backed up and ran into them again.
NBC on Tuesday night joined the effort to undermine the anti-Obama tea party participants by smearing them as racists. Brian Williams touted how “former President Carter spoke up and spoke out about” the supposed racism. Williams alleged the tea party marches "have featured racial and other violent themes."
ABC on Tuesday night joined the effort to undermine the anti-Obama tea party participants by smearing them as racists. Dan Harris framed a story around the proposition “some prominent Obama supporters are now saying” the opposition to Obama is “driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.”
At the end of Monday's World News, ABC played a new Tom DeLay-focused promo for Dancing with the Stars, featuring a twirling and swirling former House Majority Leader: "For the first time ever, the Republican hammer moves to the left. Tom DeLay is Dancing with the Stars. Live, three-night premiere, next Monday, 8, 7 Central, on ABC."
Friday night on his HBO show, Bill Maher tried to discredit critics of President Barack Obama, including those concerned about his talk to school children, by smearing them as racists – before he pointed to a Drudge Report headline, “POLL HELL: OBAMA NEGS RISE,” as somehow an example of the ways “some of the right-wingers are always dropping subliminally racist messages.”
Some very friendly assessments of President Barack Obama's health care address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann hailed it as “a broad and forward thinking speech” with “a touch of greatness.”
“It's a sad day to see a man of good work get so little credit,” CNN senior political analyst David Gergen regretted about Van Jones on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, complaining about the coverage of the Obama “green jobs” czar who resigned late Saturday night after his radical views were exposed: “I mean, there's no balance to understanding just how many good things he's done.”
CBS used President Barack Obama's first full day of vacation as a pivot to spin his “wee wee'd up” miscue, which certainly would have been widely mocked if uttered by Bush, into an admirable positive. “Mr. Obama,” Katie Couric contended, “has continued a presidential tradition, what Thomas Jefferson called neology, making up a new word or giving new meaning to an old one.”
Katie Couric trumpeted President Obama’s appearance in the White House briefing room to dial back his comments on Gates -- which the CBS Evening News ran for an uninterrupted four solid minutes -- as “extraordinary” before she pouted over how “the timing could not be worse. Just as he was pushing so hard for health care reform and having some pretty serious setbacks.”
Expounding on a formulation he's propounded this week on his radio show in pivoting off Senator DeMint's prediction health care could become President Obama's “Waterloo,” in an interview with FNC's Greta Van Susteren aired Thursday night, Rush Limbaugh asserted: “The press has met their Waterloo and it's Obama.”
