Appearing on the June 19 Meet the Press, NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel worried about the cost of combating terrorism and took the opportunity to bash the effort: "You talk about money the U.S. spent fighting this global war on terrorism. I think, which is a terrible misnomer, it's like a war on fear or something like that. And I think in many ways it has been a war of fear."
During June 16 NBC News special coverage of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner announcing his resignation, congressional correspondent Kelly O'Donnell remarked to Nightly News anchor Brian Williams: "Anthony Weiner showed much of his strength as a Congressman in what he talked about just now in trying to talk about a message that was something other than this scandal."
As one of the moderators of ABC's The View, on June 17, 2004, Meredith Vieira proclaimed of the Iraq war: "Everything's been built on lies. Everything! I mean the entire pretext for war."
NBC Today co-host Meredith Vieira accused Massachusetts Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown of planning to "derail" ObamaCare, "what Ted Kennedy called, called 'the cause of his lifetime.'"
Noting usually warm weather on NBC's January 8, 2007 Today, co-host Meredith Vieira proposed the cause may be global warming and fretted: "Are we all gonna die?"
On the September 14, 2010 NBC Today, co-host Meredith Vieira falsely claimed that the Bush tax cuts had failed to stimulate the economy.
Grilling then-Senate candidate Marco Rubio on NBC's April 30, 2010 Today, co-host Meredith Vieira wondered if Florida Governor Charlie Crist leaving the Republican Party was a sign of the GOP being "intolerant."
In a September 21, 2006 softball interview with Bill Clinton on NBC's Today, co-host Meredith Vieira joked with the former president about him having "lots of intelligence."
NBC Today co-host Meredith Vieira and fill-in co-host David Gregory praised President Obama for managing to swat a fly during an interview on the June, 17, 2009 broadcast. Vieira even suggested it was "a subtle warning to the Republicans."
On the October 19, 2006 NBC Today, co-host Meredith Vieira excitedly declared then-Senator Barack Obama to be a "rock star in politics."
