CBS, NBC Go Numb With Obama Farewell Preview; ‘He Was the Embodiment of Hope’

Curtis Houck | January 10, 2017
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To the surprise of probably no one who visits NewsBusters, CBS and NBC went soft in their Tuesday evening newscasts previewing President Obama’s farewell address, touting Obama as having been “the embodiment of hope and the personification of change.”

With zero allusions on either network to his many scandals, NBC Nightly News instead showcased the first soundbite from anchor Lester Holt’s ride on Air Force One to Chicago with the President in which Holt wondered if this speech will be “a hard one” to deliver.

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