More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. At the top of MSNBC's Daily Rundown on Wednesday, host and NBC political director Chuck Todd triumphantly declared: "What a difference a shutdown makes. Picking their poison, Republican leaders retreat on the debt limit, handing President Obama a victory....Are we done with the days of the debt ceiling being wielded as a political weapon?"…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. All three network morning shows on Wednesday cheered House Republicans giving up on trying to attach conditions to raising the nation's borrowing limit. On NBC's Today, news reader Natalie Morales proclaimed: "America is one step closer to being able to pay its bills next month." None of the coverage acknowledged that the move actually meant…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During her MSNBC show on Monday, host Andrea Mitchell tried to dismiss unflattering revelations about Bill and Hillary Clinton found in a series of documents from a close confidante: "...they're some of the same headlines we read fifteen years ago. The latest 'breaking news,' quote, excerpts from an archive belonging to a close friend of…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Between Monday's network evening newscasts
and Tuesday's morning shows, NBC, ABC and CBS failed to provide a
single full report on President Obama unilaterally issuing another
ObamaCare mandate delay for businesses. In addition, only a single
sentence on Tuesday's CBS This Morning described the controversial move as the President "rewriting…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.After University of Missouri football player and NFL draft prospect Michael Sam came out as gay in interviews over the weekend, all three network morning shows on Monday veered into gay rights activism as they celebrated the announcement. On CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O'Donnell described the development as "a potential watershed moment in…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell gave left-wing environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a platform to denounce the Keystone Pipeline. Kennedy ranted: "The people who are promoting this are the Koch brothers, who spent $2 million trying to hurt him [Obama], the Tea Party people in Congress, and the Republicans who have been trying to…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Friday's The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, host and NBC political director Chuck Todd proclaimed that the Republican decision to put off immigration reform until after 2014 "is a long-term disaster for the GOP." He further declared: "If the House refuses to pass immigration after the Senate did so last year, it will become clear to the public,…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On her 1 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell saw immigration reform as a way to save Barack Obama's floundering presidency: "This would be, you know, the jewel in the crown for this administration, they've had so few legacy things that have not been complicated. Health care is obviously complicated by the downsides.…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. On Thursday's CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose described how most of California was suffering from "extreme or exceptional drought" but fretted that "the crisis is turning into a political football."In the report that followed, correspondent Bill Whitaker explained: "House Republicans passed a bill to divert water to California's parched…
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. During a panel discussion on Wednesday's Special Report on Fox News, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer denounced the "incredible lack of curiosity of the mainstream media" regarding the Obama administration's IRS scandal and observed: "...had this been a Republican abusing the IRS, you can be sure the mainstream media would have been…
