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CBS Frets 'Conservative' School Board 'Censoring History'
October 3rd, 2014 3:06 PM
On Friday's CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King promoted protests in Colorado designed to silence local school board members who were considering whether to have a discussion about possibly changing the history education curriculum to reflect a more positive view of the United States: "High school students outside Denver promise more protests today against the Jefferson County School Board. The…
NBC, CBS Promote Governor Perry’s Courthouse Booking: ‘A Humiliati
August 19th, 2014 8:19 PM
On Tuesday night, both the CBS and NBC evening newscasts did their best to play up Texas Governor Rick Perry’s appearance at an Austin courthouse following his indictment on corruption charges. The Texas Republican was indicted after vetoing funding for the state’s Public Integrity Unit after its leader, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, refused to resign following her DWI…
‘Big Three’ Continue To Champion Jose Antonio Vargas: ‘America
July 16th, 2014 11:12 AM
Jose Antonio Vargas, a 31-year-old illegal immigrant, was detained by border patrol agents while trying to board a plane from McAllen, Texas without proper documentation. Following his arrest, the “big three” networks did their best to promote his cause on their Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning broadcasts.
ABC’s Good Morning America did the most to cheerlead for Vargas, with reporter…
Networks Let Obama Escape Blame for Yet Another Crisis of His Making
June 26th, 2014 9:21 AM
On Tuesday, Univision’s Jorge Ramos did something his colleagues at the Big Three networks have been reluctant to do. He pinned the blame for the ongoing border crisis squarely on Barack Obama’s immigration policies.
Writing in the June 24 edition of Miami’s El Nuevo Herald (translation courtesy of MRC Latino’s Ken Oliver-Mendez) Ramos blasted the President: (video after the jump)
CBS News: Man Tries For Week to Sign Up For ObamaCare With No Success
October 9th, 2013 12:30 AM
The CBS Evening News aired a stunning report Tuesday about a Dallas man that’s been trying for a week to sign up for ObamaCare and still has not been successful.
“I don’t accept the excuse of saying the system is just overloaded,” he said (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CBS Concedes ObamaCare May Be 'Tough Sell' Even in Blue Oregon
July 29th, 2013 6:36 PM
On Sunday's CBS Evening News, Anna Werner surprisingly acknowledged that ObamaCare may be a "tough sell" even among the left-leaning population of Oregon. Werner's report on a hokey multi-million dollar campaign trying to get young people to sign up for the West Coast state's health care marketplace came three days after CBS reported that the controversial law's approval rating is at an all-…
CBS's Pelley Covers First Day of Sandusky Trial; Ignored Edwards Trial
June 12th, 2012 6:33 PM
The weekday edition of CBS Evening News with anchor Scott Pelley bizarrely paid no attention to the campaign finance trial of 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards until the jury declared a mistrial on all but one count on May 31, 2012. By contrast, the evening news program devoted a full report to the first day of the trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry…
Obama Administration Pulls Funding, But CBS Scolds Texas for Daring to
March 16th, 2012 10:00 AM
Obama administration officials in the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday they would pull all of Medicaid’s funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program because the state decided to no longer pass those funds along to abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood. Instead of holding the Obama officials accountable for putting the interests of a favored liberal group ahead…