News that Barack Obama had officially won the presidency was greeted joyously by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who declared the moment was like "the night that man landed on the moon for the first time."
On the October 14, 2008 Hardball, Chris Matthews scoffed that the comparison of Sarah Palin with Hillary Clinton "is the comparison between an igloo and the Empire State Building"
On the October 5 Face the Nation, CBS's Bob Schieffer chastised Sarah Palin for turning the campaign "down and dirty," suggesting she was acting as "an attack dog...reminiscent of Spiro Agnew."
Hours before the October 2 vice presidential debate, MSNBC's Chris Matthews mocked Sarah Palin's smarts, asking whether "cute will beat brains."
After the Sept. 26 presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, MSNBC's Chris Matthews disparaged McCain as angry, grumpy, "like a codger" and "troll-like."
60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft fretted to Barack Obama that he knows "for a fact, that there are a lot of people out there...who won't vote for you because you're black."
On CNN's "Newsroom" on Sept. 4, Soledad O'Brien cited "e-mails" as she criticized Sarah Palin for cutting the budget for special needs kids by "62 percent." But FactCheck.org says that's slime -- Palin tripled the budget.
Interviewing Sarah Palin for "World News" on Sept. 11, Charles Gibson confronted her with an out-of-context soundbite from a June speech in which Palin asked churchgoers to pray our soldiers "do what is right."
On the September 3 Today, NBC's Amy Robach posed this loaded question: "If Sarah Palin becomes Vice President, will she be shortchanging her kids, or will she be shortchanging the country?"
On "Good Morning America," co-anchor Bill Weir suggested that GOP vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin could not care for her child with Down's Syndrome, a point that Cokie Roberts quickly scolded as sexist.