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FNC's Smith: W.H. Omitted ‘News’ From Fox News Card During POTUS Lunch
January 21st, 2015 12:27 PM
Prior to Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama sat down for an annual lunch with various journalists, including the network news anchors and hosts of several Sunday morning talk shows. During his Shepard Smith Reporting program on Tuesday afternoon, the Fox News anchor revealed that during the lunch with President Obama, unlike the anchors of ABC, NBC and CBS, his place card “doesn’t say…
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NBC’s Richard Engel Slams Obama's SOTU on Foreign Policy
January 21st, 2015 7:07 AM
While NBC News was up to its usual business in praising and defending President Obama both before and after his State of the Union speech, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel emerged as a rare voice that instead took to the liberal network’s airwaves to condemn the President’s rhetoric on foreign policy as both unrealistic and, in many cases, simply not true.
After being asked by anchor…
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Brian Williams Blames Rep. Joe Wilson for Decline in SOTU Decorum
January 21st, 2015 2:12 AM
During NBC’s coverage of President Obama’s seventh State of the Union speech, anchor Brian Williams remarked how there’s been “change in tone and tenor and ambiance” inside the House chamber from over the past few years and chose to link it to Republican Congressman Joe Wilson (S.C.) telling the President “you lie” during a 2009 speech before a joint session of Congress.
After saying how “some…
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Chuck Todd: Obama ‘Got the Post-Election Honeymoon' and Not the GOP
January 20th, 2015 8:29 PM
While previewing President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News had on Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, who told viewers that the President will set out to “do a little victory lap about the state of the economy” and opined how Obama “got the post-election honeymoon, not the Republicans” thanks to his moves on illegal immigration and Cuba.
Following the move…
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ABC, NBC Cheer Obama’s Liberal Proposals, Poll Numbers Before SOTU
January 19th, 2015 9:58 PM
Ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the networks offered previews of his speech during their Monday evening newscasts with ABC and NBC working particularly hard to paint a rosy picture for Obama with rising poll numbers and having “redefined” the “model of how to sell the State of the Union.”
All Three Networks Fall for 'Meaningless’ ‘Hottest Year’ Claims
January 19th, 2015 3:18 PM
The broadcast networks hustled to report NASA and NOAA data that claimed 2014 was a record hot year. But now both government agencies are being criticized by scientists accusing them of “deception” over the statistics.
Investor’s Business Daily noted in a recent editorial that debate is over minute details. If 2014 was the hottest, it was “by no more than four-hundredths of a degree” and is…
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Flashback: Journalists Thrilled By All of Obama’s SOTU Speeches
January 19th, 2015 9:05 AM
Tuesday night, Barack Obama delivers his second-to-last State of the Union address, this time as a lame duck President with relatively low approval ratings and facing a Congress entirely controlled by the opposition party. But if history is a guide, he can count on encouraging reviews from many in the establishment media.
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NBC Nightly News Hypes Obama’s ‘Paid Sick Leave’ Mandate
January 16th, 2015 12:22 AM
Following the lead of ABC and CBS from Thursday morning, NBC Nightly News cheered President Barack Obama’s newest initiative that would require private businesses “to guarantee” their employees “at least seven” paid sick days and affect 43 million Americans.
While senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing interviewed the owner of a Maryland carpet company opposed to the President’s…
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Andrea Mitchell: ‘Cold War Will Be Over' on Friday with Cuba Changes
January 15th, 2015 10:25 PM
During Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell enthusiastically promoted the new and “dramatic changes” set to go into effect on Friday that will allow Americans to more easily trade with and travel to/from Cuba as causing the Cold War to end.
In leading off her report, Mitchell announced to viewers: “In Havana, dramatic change after more than a…
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NBC: Huckabee 'Preaching to the Party's Right Wing' Ahead of 2016
January 14th, 2015 12:49 AM
On Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC News national correspondent Peter Alexander reported on the current makeup of the Republican presidential field in 2016 on the heels of news that the Republican nominee in 2012, Mitt Romney, has begun reassembling his campaign staff to make a third bid for the White House.
In the course of mentioning former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as one of those…
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ABC, CBS Tag Team to Barely Cover Obama’s Absence From Paris March
January 12th, 2015 10:34 PM
On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley did their best to move on from the Obama administration’s decision to not have President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, or Attorney General Eric Holder attend the march against Islamic terrorism in Paris on Sunday that drew well over one million people.
All told, ABC ran…
NBC Anchor Defends Daughter's Anal-Oral Sex Scene on HBO
January 12th, 2015 1:41 PM
On the same night Lena Dunham was complaining on TV about “deranged neocons” trashing her on Twitter, Dunham was putting an anal-oral sex scene on HBO – starring the naked rear end of Alison Williams, the daughter of NBC anchorman Brian Williams. This comes just 37 days after the nepotism beneficiary played “Peter Pan” in live musical theater on NBC.
How embarrassing was this for Williams? In an…
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NBC Boosts Obama's 'Ambitious' College Plan; Touts His 'Generosity'
January 9th, 2015 9:03 PM
Friday's NBC Nightly News enthusiastically promoted President Obama's proposal to provide "free" community college education, to the tune of $60 billion over ten years. Brian Williams hyped the "ambitious offer that could help so many families." Chris Jansing asserted that the President's plan is a "a goal everyone can agree on," but also underlined that the multi-billion dollar program is going…
More Bad News For California’s Finances, Despite NBC's Brown Praise
January 9th, 2015 2:14 PM
On Monday’s NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams heaped praise on liberal Democratic Governor Jerry Brown of California, who was sworn in for a record fourth term. Williams hailed Brown as someone who was had “finally been able to turn around California's troubled finances.”
As highlighted on this site Monday night, the State of California’s finances are far from stellar when examined more closely.…