Distressed by the poor reaction to his moving next door to Sarah Palin while he works on a biography of the ex-Alaska Governor, Joe McGinniss on the June 1 Today show slammed what he said were "the same kind of tactic that the Nazi troopers used in Germany."
On the May 3 CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric fretted how illegal immigrants in Arizona "no longer feel welcome," while correspondent Kelly Cobiella profiled an illegal immigrant moving out of Arizona: "Manuela says she's lost hope in this state."
Promoting his new cover story on Islamophobia, Time writer Bobby Ghost showed up on CNN's Newsroom August 19 to decry what he saw as "the accepted form of racism in this country" (even though Muslims can be of any race).
On the August 16 Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann darkly warned that the anti-Islamic sentiment he saw around the Ground Zero mosque debate is not equal to "the unimaginable nightmare of the Holocaust. Such a comparison is ludicrous -- at least, it is now."
After the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Time's Richard Stengel and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went over the top in adoring President Obama's comic skills. Comparing Obama to event speaker Jay Leno, Scarborough sycophantically gushed: "It was like Secretariat against my 17-year-old dog."
On her August 1 debut as host of ABC's This Week, Christiane Amanpour approached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from the Left, flummoxed that the "successful" Democrats having "passed so much legislation" would now face the prospect of losing their congressional majorities.
MSNBC host Contessa Brewer warned that the GOP would look cruel if they tried to out-do President Obama's "big proposal to slash spending."
On MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews used the Egyptian revolution as an opportunity to attack the Bush administration over the war in Iraq.
On ABC's World News, anchor Diane Sawyer championed a "mutiny in America" by public employees in Wisconsin in the wake of the state's Republican governor calling for those workers to contribute more to their costly benefit packages.
On Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge attempted to portray Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's efforts to curb costly benefits for public sector unions in his state as purely political but got the facts wrong.
