More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams made a sexually suggestive remark accusing politicians in Washington of essentially screwing over the American public, citing last year's government shutdown as the chief offense. Williams offered the blue commentary while reporting on a baby boom in Washington D.C.: "It appears last year'…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Friday, only CBS This Morning covered the latest developments on House Speaker John Boehner's lawsuit against President Obama over a 2013 executive order delaying the ObamaCare employer mandate. NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America completely ignored Boehner's office releasing the House resolution to sue the President.However, those…
MRC President Brent Bozell appeared on FNC's The Kelly File on Thursday, July 10 to discuss comments made by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on the Hobby Lobby decision and the Supreme Court's gender makeup plus the media's lack of coverage in criticizing her remarks.
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Talking to political director John Dickerson on Thursday's CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O'Donnell tried to dismiss Texas Governor Rick Perry calling the current border crisis President Obama's "Katrina moment": "Is there some truth to that or is there, as we say in Texas, is that a bunch of bull?"Dickerson flippantly replied: "Well, you…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In an interview with White House adviser Cecilia Munoz on her Wednesday 12 p.m. ET hour show, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell actually tore into the President's poor handling of the immigration crisis and his refusal to visit the border: "...the reality is that the White House has been slow to react. And that there is something to be said for…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to link House Republican opposition to Democrat-backed immigration reform legislation to the current border crisis: "There's also this immigration reform bill that's been passed in the Senate, it's dead on arrival in the House....is it a situation where you think members of Congress…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. Appearing on Meet the Press's web-based feature Press Pass, New York Times opinion editor Clay Risen told NBC host David Gregory that just as Republicans "had to be convinced" that civil rights legislation in the 1960s "was a moral issue," so too would the GOP have to convinced on the issue of "gay rights": "...a lot of people who, when it…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. All three network morning shows on Tuesday noted how President Obama agreed to meet with Governor Rick Perry to discuss the illegal immigration crisis, all labeling the Texas Republican to be the "harshest" and "strongest" "big critic" of the commander-in-chief's mishandling of the chaos on the border. The only problem was that none of the…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. In a report on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Miguel Almaguer portrayed illegal immigrants surging across the U.S. border as bystanders caught up in politics: "As most Americans celebrated Independence Day, thousands of undocumented immigrants from Central America – mostly women and children – find themselves in the middle of a raging…
In a report on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Miguel Almaguer portrayed illegal immigrants surging across the U.S. border as bystanders caught up in politics: "As most Americans celebrated Independence Day, thousands of undocumented immigrants from Central America – mostly women and children – find themselves in the middle of a raging debate with an uncertain future..."Almaguer touted "A show…