On the May 15, 2001 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, CBS anchorman Dan Rather insisted that, despite Bill Clinton's lies during the Lewinsky scandal, the former President was still "an honest man." Rather told an incredulous Bill O'Reilly: "I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."
In a ludicrous attempt to criticize the new Bush administration's review of Clinton-era regulations, Time's Margaret Carlson hyperventilated on the April 7, 2001 edition of CNN's Capital Gang: "If the Bush administration keeps trying to kill health and safety regulations at this pace, soon we won't be able to eat, drink or breathe."
Interviewing GOP vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney's wife Lynne on ABC's Good Morning America on August 2, co-host Charles Gibson fretted that the Republican platform is "very strongly pro-life and rejects abortion rights," and is "against gay unions....So is this really an open, compassionate, tolerant party?"
Debating gun control on PBS's To the Contrary back on May 13, 2000, shortly after the Million Mom March, conservative Linda Chavez pointed out that living in a rural area, the police could not arrive fast enough to adequately protect her from a potential murderer or rapist.Host Bonnie Erbe retorted: "I would bet that you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning, Linda, than -- living…
On the February 21, 2000 (President's Day) edition of CBS's The Early Show, Bryant Gumbel dropped his pen in horror when his co-host, Jane Clayson guessed that a poll of historians might have picked Ronald Reagan as the best U.S. President. "No!" a horrified Gumbel rebuked. "Reagan wasn't even in the top ten."
At a January 6, 2000 GOP candidates debate in New Hampshire, NBC's Tim Russert pushed back against George W. Bush's comment that Jesus was his favorite philosopher: “Governor Bush, in the last debate when you talked about Jesus being the philosopher-thinker that you most respected, many people applauded you. Others said what role would religion have in the Oval Office with George W. Bush. Fifteen…
Interviewing Bill Clinton back in November 7, 1999, ABC anchor Carole Simpson asked the President of the United States: "How does it feel talking to me?" Clinton gamely replied: "It's a great country."
Talking about the House Republicans assigned to make the case against Bill Clinton during the impeachment drama in early 1999, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift venomously likened the House managers to the Ku Klux Klan: "All they were missing was white sheets. They're like night riders going over."
Discussing the support some women voters were giving Bill Clinton during the height of the impeachment saga, ABC Good Morning America co-host Lisa McRee asked a guest: "Is that because Bill Clinton’s been such a great President whom they elected in great part, or is there something -- I want to say almost sexy about a man who can get away with things over and over again?"
Continuing his campaign against independent counsel Ken Starr, on the July 21, 1998 edition of his CNBC show, Rieral Live, host Geraldo Rivera sang a politicized version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."Twinkle, twinkle Kenneth StarrNow we see how crude you are.Up above your jury high,Like the judge up in the sky.Twinkle, twinkle little Starr, Now we see how wrong you are. When you drag the…