Rich Noyes | September 17, 2019
So far, former Vice President Joe Biden’s 1987 scandals have been a non-factor in media coverage of his current race for the White House. But our review shows that when the multiple plagiarism accusations first appeared 32 years ago, liberal journalists treated them as Joe Biden’s first big test of character on the national stage — and, in their eyes, he flunked. Read more at MRC's NewsBusters…
Rich Noyes | February 28, 2019
On the November 10, 2016 edition of CNN's New Day, soon after the election, Trump attorney Michael Cohen tells co-host Chris Cuomo he would "100%" take a job if offered to serve in the Trump administration, and ended the interview by saying about his future: "Hopefully it will be in Washington."
Rich Noyes | February 27, 2019
During the first break in Michael Cohen’s testimony on Wednesday, NBC’s panel of anchors, reporters and legal analysts all celebrated his performance. “Michael Cohen has comported himself pretty well,” NBC’s Chuck Todd asserted. NBC News legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg, touted Cohen as “the quintessential cooperating criminal....This is what cooperating witnesses look like, sound like, and feel…
Rich Noyes | February 27, 2019
On their February 27 morning shows, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and NBC's Al Roker tried to set expectations for ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's congressional testimony by likening it to John Dean blowing the whistle on President Nixon during Watergate. For details, see the matching item on MRC's NewsBusters blog: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/02/27/abc-touts-epic-hearing-…
Rich Noyes | January 3, 2019
On the December 31, 2018 edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell touted gridlock as a worthy objective for the incoming Congress: “The Democrats’ number one job in the House of Representatives is to stop every single thing that Donald Trump wants. But the press isn’t going to give them any credit for that because that will be called gridlock.”
Rich Noyes | August 20, 2018
Appearing on the August 18 edition of MSNBC's AM Joy, the network's former daytime host Toure blasted President Trump as a "racist," and the United States as "a white supremacist country."
Rich Noyes | April 27, 2018
After news broke of former correspondent Linda Vester’s sexual harassment allegations against former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, I rummaged through the MRC’s archive and found footage of her first appearance with Brokaw on the Nightly News, a June 30, 1993 report that basically amounted to a press release from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), demanding more government…
Rich Noyes | April 13, 2018
Given the way the liberal networks are salivating over James Comey's new book, you'd think it would be huge news whenever an ex-FBI Director excoriated a President as an immoral "disgrace." But in October 2005, the networks barely noticed Louis Freeh's book scolding Bill Clinton's conduct. Freeh did get 13 minutes from CBS's 60 Minutes, one of the few programs to give his story much attention.…
Rich Noyes | February 19, 2018
One of the revelations in Friday’s indictment handed down by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was that alleged Russian attempts to sow disunity in 2016 included the organization of both pro- and anti-Trump rallies in New York City on the Saturday after Election Day. A check of their coverage on November 12 shows both CNN and MSNBC gave enthusiastic coverage to the Russian-organized anti-Trump rally…
Rich Noyes | January 18, 2018
Back in 2013, with Democrats controlling the Senate and White House, the broadcast networks mostly blamed Republicans for that year's government shutdown. In the midst of the shutdown, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer (now the Democratic Senate leader) actually went on ABC's This Week on October 6, 2013 to proclaim that Democrats would never shut the government down over an issue such as…