Upset because North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had blocked the nomination of liberal Republican William Weld to be Ambassador to Mexico, ABC's Sam Donaldson thought the incident showed that beneath Helms' "courtliness beats the heart of a dictator, and I think the country is appalled.""Or a terrorist," then-political analyst George Stephanopoulos interjected. "The President is really, I think…
On the January 8, 1997 Tonight Show, ABC's Sam Donaldson equated Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich with the first communist dictator of Russia. “Newt Gingrich’s problem, I’ve always thought, he’s like Lenin. They both made a revolution by shooting people — Newt shot Democrats, Lenin shot everybody — and then they didn’t have enough sense to stop shooting once they won."
Interviewing an anti-welfare reform advocate on the September 23, 1996 Today show, NBC's Bryant Gumbel suggested a terrible fate was awaiting America's kids: "In light of the new welfare reform bill, do you think the children need more prayers than ever?" Gumbel asked liberal Marian Wright Edelman.
Talking about the announcement that Jack Kemp would join the GOP ticket as Bob Dole's running mate, CNN's Bill Schneider on August 9, 1996 offered this backhanded slap at the Republican Party: "[Kemp] is a rare combination — a nice conservative. These days conservatives are supposed to be mean. They’re supposed to be haters."
Talking about Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber" who killed three people in a bombing campaign on behalf of an anti-industrialization agenda, Time magazine Washington reporter Elaine Shannon on the April 7, 1996 edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal rationalized:"He [Ted Kaczynski] wasn’t a hypocrite. He lived as he wrote. His manifesto, and there are a lot of things in it that I would agree with…
Opening the March 16, 1995 CBS Evening News, anchor Dan Rather used ridiculously loaded language to describe the GOP legislative agenda, calling it a plan to "demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor."
Previewing a segment on the January 3, 1995 Dateline, NBC's Jane Pauley charged: "Still ahead, the latest round of bloodshed and violence at abortion clinics. The anti-abortion movement has been creeping to the edge of bloody fanaticism for a decade."
A couple of days after the 1994 elections, in which the GOP won the House and Senate for the first time since the 1950s, Newsweek's Evan Thomas mourned: "This is a rotten time to be black. Blacks are just going to take it in the chops."And Thomas explained why conservatives fared well this way: "A lot of middle-class people thought they were taking my money and giving it to poor black people and…
As he prepared to retire in 1994, CBS's Charles Kuralt confessed that "it is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life." He added this jab at those who might disagree: "What did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?"
Appearing on C-SPAN's Journalists' Roundtable on December 31, 1993, longtime UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas scoffed at the suggestion of a liberal bias in the media: "A liberal bias? I don’t know what a liberal bias is. Do you mean we care about the poor, the sick, and the maimed? Do we care whether people are being shot every day on the streets of America? If that’s liberal, so be it…