Matthew Balan | November 2, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] Former CNN president Jon Klein ran to his network's defense on the 1 November 2016 edition of Fox News Channel's Kelly File over their response to acting Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile's leak of a town hall question to Hillary Clinton's campaign. Klein reacted to Joe Concha of The Hill's call for an internal…
Matthew Balan | November 1, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 1 November 2016 edition of CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello spotlighted President Obama's appearance on Samantha Bee's TBS program, Full Frontal, where the liberal pair bemoaned Donald Trump's "sexist" attacks against Hillary Clinton. Costello zeroed in how "Bee makes no bones about it. She does want Hillary Clinton to become president…
Matthew Balan | October 29, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] Jeff Pegues touted one of James Comey's "critics" on the 28 October 2016 edition of CBS Evening News, after the FBI director wrote to Congress that new e-mails related to Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private server had been uncovered in an unrelated investigation. Pegues underlined that "the timing of today's revelation has angered some…
Matthew Balan | October 27, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 27 October 2016 of NBC's Today, Kristen Welker touted Michelle Obama's "powerful, one-two punch" with Hillary Clinton, as the First Lady joined the Democratic presidential nominee on the campaign trail. Welker added that despite their "complicated relationship in the past," Mrs. Obama "has become Clinton's not-so-secret weapon —…
Matthew Balan | October 25, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On 25 October 2015, the Big Three networks' morning newscasts all hyped President Obama's appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live the previous evening. On CBS This Morning, Gayle King, a political donor for the Democrat, marveled how the President's "timing is good. He seems to have a lot of fun with 'Mean Tweets.' He takes it all in stride…
Matthew Balan | October 24, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 24 October 2016 edition of Today, NBC's Savannah Guthrie and Tom Hanks boosted the supposed crisis of overpopulation, which is part of the plot of the actor's new movie, Inferno. Guthrie touted "Malthusian theory" during the interview. Hanks revealed that a former professor of his introduced him to "the concept that eventually, the…
Matthew Balan | October 21, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] Carl Bernstein unleashed on Donald Trump on the 21 October 2016 edition of CNN's New Day, attacking the billionaire presidential candidate as a "neo-fascist...sociopath." Bernstein used his "neo-fascist" label two more times during the segment, and predicted that Trump is "setting himself up as the head...of a real neo-fascist movement and…
Matthew Balan | October 20, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] The 20 October 2016 edition of CBS This Morning was the first Big Three newscast to notice the latest Project Veritas undercover videos that exposed how Democratic Party operatives worked to disrupt Donald Trump rallies. During a fact check of Wednesday's presidential debate, Nancy Cordes spotlighted how "Democratic contractors were caught…
Matthew Balan | October 19, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] CBS was the only Big Three network on the evening of 18 October 2016 and the morning 19 October 2016to continue reporting on the allegations of a quid pro quo between the FBI and the State Department related to Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal. CBS Evening News's Scott Pelley gave a brief about Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy's…
Matthew Balan | October 18, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On 17 October 2016, Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller blog spotlighted NBC's Chuck Todd and his wife's apparently cozy relationship with Hillary Clinton's campaign communication director, Jennifer Palmieri. The Todds sent out invitations for a September 2015 event at their house honoring Palmieri and her husband, Jim Lyons. The Todds invited…