Newsweek's Lisa Miller appeared on CNN's American Morning on Sept. 27 to push her cover story attacking Sarah Palin's "Mama Grizzlies." Miller suggested genuinely good mothers would favor ObamaCare and other big federal health bureaucracies: "It seems like a funny way to say that you're for kids and be against all of these programs."
On the September 20 CBS Evening News, correspondent Nancy Cordes made a point of listing what she termed the "unusual assertions" from a Tea Party-backed GOP candidate, painting Christine O'Donnell, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Mike Lee and Joe Miller as fringe extremists.
On the August 24 Nightly News, NBC's Chuck Todd approvingly cited "one observer" who opined that "if 2008 was the 'hope election,' 2010 may be known as the 'fear election.'"
On the August 31 Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs whether President Obama would credit George W. Bush's surge strategy for the success in Iraq. Instead of answering, Gibbs struck a belittling, patronizing tone. He mocked: Is this an interview or "a tape of you looping the same question over and over again?"
At a 2008 appearance sponsored by Air America's San Francisco affiliate KKGN, host Randi Rhodes crudely criticized former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro and then-Democratic presidential candidate as "f***ing whores" for their criticism of Barack Obama. Rhodes was suspended and later left the network.
On MSNBC's The Ed Show, host Ed Schultz and fellow left-wing talk radio host Stephanie Miller joked giving "a bunch of drunken New Yorkers baseball bats" so they could beat up FNC hosts Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Geraldo Rivera.
Following President Bush's September 15, 2005 speech about Hurricane Katrina, ABC assembled six people displaced to the Houston Astrodome. To the evident surprise of reporter Dean Reynolds, instead of denouncing Bush and blaming him for their plight, they praised Bush and blamed local officials.
On his May 25 Tavis Smiley show, the host challenged persecuted author Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the idea that radical Muslims uniquely rationalize violent acts: "But Christians do that every day....People walk into post offices, they walk into schools, that's what Columbine is." Actually, the Columbine killers targeted Christians.
Interviewed by RabbiLIVE.com on May 27, longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas said her message to Israelis was for them to "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany and Poland. After the video was released, Thomas retired from her Hearst newspaper column, "effective immediately."
On CNN's Larry King Live on January 30, 2006, international correspondent Christiane Amanpour decried the "disaster" of the Iraq war, after a bombing wounded ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman.