Scott Pelley conducted a very tough interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which aired on Sunday's 60 Minutes, but on Monday’s Early Show Pelley was very generous in his personal assessment of the man. Host Harry Smith and Pelley agreed that Ahmadinejad is "crazy like a fox" while Pelley also hailed Ahmadinejad as "incorruptible" and "modest." Pelley contended the dictator, who…
On the May 17, 2007 edition of ABC's The View, Rosie O'Donnell stunned her co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck when she suggested that American soldiers are the real terrorists in the Middle East: "655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?"
On ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos suggested racists are all Republicans: "Anyone who's not going to vote for Barack Obama because he's black isn't going to vote for a Democrat anyway."
At a May 3, 2007 GOP candidates' debate held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Politico's executive editor Jim VandeHei confronted the candidates with left-wing questions selected from those submitted by Politico's readers, while moderator Chris Matthews posed absurdities such as "would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?"
On the January 21, 2007 This Week, ABC's George Stephanopoulos lobbied Democrat Bill Richardson to support increasing taxes: "Aren't higher taxes the best way to get people to conserve?"
As liberal Nancy Pelosi took charge of the House of Representatives on January 4, 2007, ABC World News anchor Charles Gibson offered a fawning review. Zeroing in on a picture of Pelosi holding her infant grandchild, Gibson cheered: "It seemed the ultimate in multitasking: Taking care of the children, and the country."
During MSNBC's Election Night coverage in 2006, Chris Matthews salivated at the prospect of Democrats winning both the House and the Senate: "Well, that'll be fantastic news. It'll be huge news, I should say, because if that happens, then we have a government run by the Democrats, and an executive branch run by the Republicans, President George W. Bush, having to actually negotiate every aspect…
Nearly two weeks before Election Day in 2006, ABC's Claire Shipman was already celebrating with then-Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi. "Do you let yourself think, for example, maybe before you go to sleep at night, 'Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi?'" she asked Pelosi in an October 26, 2006 puff piece on World News.
On ABC's This Week back on October 22, 2006, Sam Donaldson declared it would be "a good thing" if Democrats took control of Congress and began using subpoenas to investigate the Bush administration:
ABC's Sam Donaldson: "What we'll see is subpoenas, if they [Democrats] take control, and these subpoenas will delve into every nook and cranny of the Republican administration for the last six years…
On the September 12, 2006 edition of The View, co-host Rosie O'Donnell indulged in moral equivalence between the U.S. and those attacking us. "As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their countries....Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam."