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Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters.
On the last night of the Democrat convention, Sen. Cory Booker drew an AP Fact Check for suggesting a $15 hourly minimum wage would lift everyone above the poverty line. The AP gently called that "improbable."
On Tuesday night's NBC convention coverage, Chuck Todd was back in front of the network's interactive map, touting how easily Joe Biden would trounce President Trump right now....but then NBC co-anchor Savannah Guthrie ruined the mood by noting this is exactly what Chuck and others said four years ago, about how Trump really didn't have a path to victory.
In the hour leading up to Night 3 of the Democrat convention, PBS profiled Joe Biden's career, and was praised for defeating the Robert Bork nomination to the Supreme Court, and then criticized for being unfair to Anita Hill -- and letting Clarence Thomas be confirmed to the Supreme Court. NPR reporter Nina Totenberg was their expert witness.
CNN still allows a conservative analysts or two to make trouble on the set. With five minutes to go before the DNC convention program launched on Tuesday night, analyst Scott Jennings wondered out loud why Bill Clinton hasn't been canceled in the #MeToo era.
CBS This Morning led off the interview portion of Monday’s show by letting co-host Gayle King interview her good friend Sen. Cory Booker – without disclosing their friendship.
PBS NewsHour pundit Mark Shields plays the conspiracy kook, comparing Trump's moves at the Post Office as "nothing less than Bull Connor in the streets of Birmingham" enforcing racial segregation.
On Thursday night, HuffPost White House reporter Shirish (or S.V.) Date made a viral video by lecturing President Trump in a press conference about "all the lying....you have done."
Vice President Mike Pence discussed voter fraud and the November election on The Story with Martha MacCallum.
Could Bill Maher be any smarmier about Trump? The answer is Yes.
PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff offered Jill Biden a soft-soap forum to sell Biden for President.