In an attempt to twist the Obama administration's Fast & Furious gun running scandal into bad news for Republicans, on the June 20 The Daily Rundown on MSNBC pundit Michelle Bernard proclaimed: "...when you think about just the damage that has been done over the last year to the GOP's brand, this is just another – adds more fuel to the fire."
At the top of her June 19 MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell addressed the fact that her and the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza mocked Mitt Romney for a falsely edited comment on Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, but failed to offer any apology for the deceptive reporting.Read Brent Bozell's NewsBusters blog post about this here.
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin pleaded with President Obama to tell voters: "'I am doubling down on what I did.' He didn't do enough on the stimulus. He didn't do enough investing in the future. The things he believes in, he has to say we need more of it. And that's our future."
Appearing on the June 15 NBC Today, Meet the Press host David Gregory advised the Obama campaign on how defeat Mitt Romney: "What the President's got to do is say, 'Hey, don't forget about George W. Bush. Things got really, really bad under him.'"
NBC provided its first coverage of the Fast & Furious gun running scandal on June 12, providing a scant 30 seconds on Nightly News. In contrast, the June 14 NBC Today devoted a 37-second report to a video of "Obama Boy," a gay activist singing over his support for the President in 2012.
Continuing to beat the drum of Mitt Romney's campaign not being transparent on the June 13 edition of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, fill-in host Luke Russert melodramatically asked: "Is this one of the most secretive presidential campaigns in history?" On Tuesday, regular host Chuck Todd predicted that Romney could be "the least transparent president in a generation."
At the top of his June 12 MSNBC morning show The Daily Rundown, NBC chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd cited the Romney campaign's refusal to release a list of top fundraising bundlers as evidence that "if he wins in November, Romney could very well be the least transparent president in a generation."
On the June 12 NBC Today, correspondent Kristen Welker amazingly shoe-horned a swipe at Republicans into a report about Commerce Secretary John Bryson causing multiple car accidents over the weekend, claiming that a tweet from a GOP super-PAC about the incident was "a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten."
Straining to find a way to excuse President Obama's Friday remark that "the private sector is doing fine," on the June 11 NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry did her best to spin for the White House: "He is right in saying that the private sector is doing better than the public sector, is he not? And so that was his point, that this comment was taken out of context."
Reacting to allegations that the White House leaked several pieces of highly classified national security information to the press for political gain on the June 11 NBC Today, left-wing MSNBC host Chris Hayes demanded: "I think we need more leaks and not less...we should know how the war is operating and what's going on with a kill list that's operating out of the White House or what covert…
