On Feb 17 CBS Evening News CBS, Chip Reid trumpted "in Washington, D.C. about 20 people are working on this road project" where "manager Matthew Johns calls the stimulus a lifesaver."
On Thursday's Hardball Chris Matthews brought on his liberal compatriot from Salon.com Joan Walsh to slander the tea partiers as racist nuts and slammed those who signed the Mount Vernon Statement, as increasingly irrelevant as Matthews blurted: "What does a patriot mean these days?"
Director/producer James Cameron was invited on the Today show, for a second time, to promote his movie Avatar on Wednesday's show and co-host Meredith Vieira allowed Cameron to brag about screening his anti-military sci-fi flick to servicemen and women on an aircraft carrier but never brought up the criticism, coming from the enlisted, that his movie portrays them as villains.
Since the announcement of his resignation from the Senate the common label (from CNN to MSNBC) of Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh seems to be that of a "centrist." On Monday's Hardball both Chris Matthews and his guest panelist NBC News' Chuck Todd called Bayh a "centrist," which is an inaccurate label for someone who has a lifetime ACU rating of 20 and ADA of 70.
Geraldo Rivera, on Fox News' Geraldo At Large on Sunday, essentially accused Dick Cheney of treason for criticizing the Obama administration over the weekend, as he asked panelist Ann Coulter if the former VP was "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."
NBC's Matt Lauer, along with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, spent a whole segment on Monday's Today show wondering if Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party supporters she appeals to, posed a problem for the GOP, with the Today co-anchor going as far to boldly state: "Republicans are afraid of Sarah Palin. Republicans have a right to be afraid of some of the people she was talking to also."
Chris Matthews demanded Republicans be punished for their, as he put it on Tuesday's Hardball, opposition to "everything that tries to solve the country's problems."
Michelle Obama sat down for an exclusive, multi-part interview with NBC's Matt Lauer on Wednesday's Today show and the co-host pressed the First Lady on health care reform: "Will it pass? Can your husband get it done?"
Newsweek's Katie Connolly, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, determined that Barack Obama, even in the face of the stunning loss in Massachusetts, needs to become more entrenched in his liberal ways and not bother working with the GOP as she advised the President to “bully Republicans.”
Chris Matthews on Tuesday's Hardball, blared that a vote for Republican Scott Brown was a vote to commit "deliberate, premeditated murder for health care!"