The best they could muster was to frame the "park" as controversial. NBC's "Today" show featured a segment on a memorial in Lebanon to Hezbollah's struggle with Israel. The segment was uncritical and unrevealing of the memorial's terrorist roots.
ABC's "Good Morning America" spun California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's charges into a no-win situation for her. Although accused of having knowingly employing an illegal immigrant in the past, Whitman herself has denied the charges. ABC reads that the political risk for Whitman is that she appears as either "heartless" or "hypocritical," with no possibility of vindication.
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough defended Obama's assertion of his Christian faith Wednesday.
Scarborough went so far as to call those questioning Obama "haters," and said the Christian thing to do would be to take Obama at his word.
MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer has made no bones about hiding her affinity for the gay-rights movement. However, she grilled freshman Democrat Alan Grayson for his attack ad on opponent Daniel Webster.
Grayson, an outspoken Florida congressman and no stranger to controversy, accused his opponent of degrading women, calling him the "Taliban" and selectively editing his speech on marriage.
Joe Scarborough told former President Clinton on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that many of his viewers would like to see him run for President again, if he could.
Scarborough bemoaned the fact that candidates cannot run again for President after a "one or two term" break, due to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg sneered that Christine O'Donnell is a GOP "post-Sarah Palin" candidate "with not a fully-functioning human brain."
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" ran a segment Tuesday titled "Keep Calm and Carry On." Co-host Joe Scarborough featured quotes from his colleagues Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz as prime examples of how not to maintain calm debate within the political forum.
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" favored Mayor Bloomberg's support of moderate candidates Monday, speaking out against extremist rhetoric from both the Right and the Left.
While not directly endorsing candidates, the show's hosts implored viewers to "resist the pull of those people on the far Right and the 'Professional Left' who seek division."
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to showcase his feature column in New York Magazine, Chris Smith described Stewart as bi-partisan in his criticism of the media.
As a media critic, Stewart, Smith writes, is "invaluable" and "Cronkite, the most trusted man in America."
Despite some parents having the choice to opt their children out of class during President Obama's televised address to students Tuesday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz believed differently.
Schultz asserted that the speech should have been mandatory attendance for all students, despite what their parents or teachers thought.