Sunday Shows Go Full Out On Immigration

April 6, 2013 | Filed Under ABC, CBS, CNN, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Fox News, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NBC, President, Progressives, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

It looks like the Sunday morning political shows got the same memo that Immigration is the topic of the day for April 7.

The big three networks and CNN are all hosting guests that certainly lean toward amnesty for illegals if not out right in support of the same.

CBS’ Face the Nation

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State

NBC’s Meet the Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Bill Richardson, former U.N. Ambassador and New Mexico governor (D)
Michele Flournoy, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

Bashing Benedict: Networks Slam Retiring Pope

March 1, 2013 | Filed Under ABC, Bible, Catholicism, CBS, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NBC, Progressives, Religion, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

A new study by the Culture and Media Institute of Pope Benedict’s retirement reveals constant attacks, ridicule, and repeated allusions to scandals as ABC, CBS, and NBC reported on Benedict’s final days.

The survey reveals that the Catholic Church was repeatedly deemed “troubled,” the Church was attacked for not “modernizing,” the real-world Church was constantly compared to the fictitious world of novelist Dan Brown and his Da Vinci Code series of books, and late night TV hosts turned Benedict into a butt of jokes.

On February 11, Pope Benedict announced his retirement due to ill health setting off the big three networks into attack mode.

“From Benedict’s Feb. 11 resignation through the evening of Feb. 27, the day before it took effect, the networks referred to the Catholic Church as a troubled institution 122 times and aired the word ‘scandal’ 87 times in 112 reports. Anchors and reporters suggested that the Church must modernize (32 times) and pressed for change in issues regarding women (7 times) and gays (13 times). At times, they trivialized the first resignation of a Pope since the 1500s as ‘worthy of a Dan Brown novel’ (ABC’s Harris again.) and sensationalized it by entertaining theories about other reasons Benedict might be stepping down.”

On the lighter side, over the two-week period, network morning shows continuously aired jokes about Benedict staged by late night comedy shows such as Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien.
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When Indicted, Networks Barely Mentioned Jesse Jackson, Jr’s Misuse of $750,000 in Campaign Cash

February 21, 2013 | Filed Under ABC, Budget, Campaign Finance, CBS, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Jesse Jackson, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NBC, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

A survey of news coverage by the big three networks of the indictment of former Chicago Democrat Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was sparse to non-existent for the first three days after the indictment was made public. Even when his trouble was reported, the fact that he is a Democrat went unmentioned.

Jackson was indicted on Friday, February 15, but as Friday, then the weekend rolled on, the big three networks didn’t seem much interested in covering the story. In fact, a survey of the coverage found that the big nets gave the story scant attention that Friday and, while there were a few ultra short reports on the indictment on Saturday, there was no coverage at all on Sunday.

On Friday, for instance, NBC’s Nightly News gave the story short attention. By Saturday, Good Morning America gave the story a whole 18 seconds. Worse, even when the network news shows did report the story on Saturday evening, Jackson’s party affiliation was never mentioned.

Interestingly, not one of the Sunday morning politics shows mentioned the indictment at all.
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Dan Rather: Bush AWOL Documents ‘Not Proven’ False

February 11, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, George W. Bush, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Dan Rather is back to defending the story that essentially got him fired from network television by claiming that the documents he presented in 2004 as proof that George W. Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard have never been proven to be forgeries.

On February 7, Dan Rather hosted a Q&A on reddit.com where he took questions from reddit users. The session was a lively discussion and many questions were asked of the one-time anchor of CBS Evening News. One question focused on the story that essentially led to the end of the anchor’s career on network TV: the Bush National Guard story also known as Rather Gate.

Rather was asked if his AWOL story was true despite the “beating” he took over it.

In response, the newsman reiterated his long-time claim that his story was 100% true saying, “no one had ever established that the documents were forged.”
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Big Three Nets Slant Overwhelmingly For Obama’s Gun Ban Campaign

February 8, 2013 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, ABC, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, CBS, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NBC, President, Progressives, Regulation, States Rights, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

A new study of coverage by the big three networks of President Obama’s anti-gun crusade shows an overwhelmingly positive slant toward the President’s policy ideas at an 8 to 1 ratio.

The study conducted by the Media Research Center reviewed coverage from December 14 to January 17, or from the day of the crime at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, to the day after Obama made a speech surrounded by children who purportedly sent him letters pleading for more gun control. MRC reviewed the evening newscasts as well as the three networks’ morning shows.

The results showed that stories that pushed for more gun control vastly outnumbered stories that opposed gun control by 99 to 12, or a ratio of 8 to 1.
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ABC Ignores Tim Scott’s Senate Appointment in Dec., By Jan. Hails Mo Cowan’s as ‘History’

February 4, 2013 | Filed Under ABC, Anti-Americanism, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Journalism, Liberals, Massachusetts, Media, Media Bias, NBC, Progressives, Senate, South Carolina, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In December, ABC’s World News saw no news at all in the historic appointment of African American Tim Scott to the Senate in South Carolina. No mention was made of it during the broadcast.

Only a month later, though, the same program suddenly hailed African American William “Mo” Cowan’s appointment to the Senate as history making.

When Republican Tim Scott was appointed to fill retiring Senator Jim DeMint’s Senate seat he became the first African American from South Carolina to be sent to the Senate since 1881. Further, when he took his seat he was the only black Senator from either party in Washington D.C. But despite all these notable historic facts, ABC’s World News never mentioned Scott’s appointment.

However, this month when the Governor of Massachusetts appointed African American, Democrat Mo Cowan to finish out John Kerry’s term, ABC suddenly found it to be a moment worthy of coverage.
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Bob Schieffer Illicitly Bestows Harvard Degree on Actor Affleck

December 24, 2012 | Filed Under CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Foreign Policy, Hollywood, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Movies, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Recently on CBS, Bob Schieffer generously bestowed a Harvard degree on actor Ben Afflack — a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, no less. This would be a surprise to Mr. Affleck because the actor only attend a little college, never got a degree, and certainly never attended Harvard.

During a tease spot on Thursday, Schieffer told Norah O’Donnell how “serious” Afflack was and then ballyhooed about his “Harvard degree.”

He was here to talk about, he has this organization called Eastern Congo Initiative where he’s tried to do something. He appeared yesterday before the House Armed Services Committee to talk about some way to make things better over there… He’s a very committed – a very serious person. You know, he went to Harvard and majored in Middle Eastern studies.

Apparently all one needs do to be considered a “serious person” is to appear in a movie about something.

Still, this “degree” does not exist. Ben Affleck never got a degree in any Middle Eastern anything. He didn’t go to Harvard, either. He did briefly attend the University of Vermont and he played around with a few classes at Occidental College in L.A. when he moved west to become an actor. But he never graduated and got a degree from these institutions.
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Appointment of Only African American Senator Unmentioned by ABC, CBS

December 19, 2012 | Filed Under ABC, Anti-Americanism, CBS, Civil Rights, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, GOP, Government, House of Representatives, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, NBC, Progressives, Race, Republicans, Senate, Tim Scott, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that she was appointing U.S. Congressman Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim DeMint. When he is sworn in on January 3, Scott will be the lone African American of either party in the Senate but this historic news didn’t seem to interest ABC or CBS as neither mentioned the news that night.

Unsurprisingly, both ABC and CBS had segments on gun control during their respective Monday, December 17 broadcasts. But not a word about Senator to be Tim Scott was uttered.

One would think that the “diversity” of this story alone would be of interest to the big networks. After all, we have a female Governor who is the daughter of Sikh immigrants appointing the only African American to the Senate. We also have a Senate seat that is famed for having once been occupied by Strom Thurmond, a one-time Dixiecrat, segregationist turned repentant Republican. And we have the first black Senator from a southern state since Blanche Bruce of Mississippi in 1881. This is almost “diversity” overload.

Perhaps one mitigating factor for the old networks is that all of this “diversity” was wrought by Republicans?
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CBS Praises Obama for Hurricane Sandy Visit, Attacked Bush for Katrina Visit

November 19, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, George W. Bush, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, New York City, President, Progressives, TV, TV News, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On November 16, CBS News aired a segment full of praise for President Obama’s visit to Staten Island in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. But this positive spin is in stark contrast to the scolding the network gave President Bush when he visited the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005..

In the report on CBS This Morning, correspondent Elaine Quijano favorably included Obama in her report on Sandy storm damage showing the President shaking hands with big smiles all around, pledging government support for the victims, and hugging and meeting with individual storm survivors. Mr. Obama was shown as a sympathetic figure ready to help — quite despite that the business of setting the area aright has gone on for weeks without as much progress as residents have hoped.

But this favorable treatment for Obama stands in stark contrast to the attacks CBS leveled against President Bush when he went to visit storm ravaged areas after 2005′s Hurricane Katrina.
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CBS and Another Obama is Lincoln Story

November 18, 2012 | Filed Under Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, CBS, Civil War, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, History, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Sadly, the debut of Director Steven Spielberg’s epic film about our 16th President is being used by many Old Media outlets as propaganda to push the concept that Barack Obama is in the same league or, worse, is somehow just like Abraham Lincoln. On November 15 it was CBS This Morning’s turn to couple one of our most famous presidents to the current resident of the White House.

On the network morning show recently breaking in as the top rated morning program, CBS This Morning hosts Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell kicked off their Lincoln segment attempting to link Abe Lincoln and Obama by gravely wondering if there was a “lesson for Obama, now in his second term, with Lincoln?”

The pair were interviewing liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin, whose book Team of Rivals was used as source material for Spielberg’s new movie.

In response, Kearns-Goodwin made the facile claim that Obama has done the same thing Lincoln did by filling his cabinet with rivals that he’d beaten for the nomination for president. This of course, is nonsense. While Obama did chose former rival Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State, the rest of his cabinet were not serious Obama rivals. On the other hand, Lincoln appointed nearly all his most powerful rivals to his cabinet — all of whom were leading party powers of their day.
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CBS ‘The Good Wife’ Pushes Global Warming, Anti-Tea Party Themes

November 8, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, CBS, Climate Change, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Judges, Law, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, Tea Party, The Law, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

TV’s The Good Wife, an episodic drama on CBS, wears its left-wing politics on its sleeve and this week’s episode was no exception as a TV courtroom judge was depicted pushing global warming from the bench. This isn’t the first time as the same character has in the past pushed anti-conservative themes.

As the courtroom scenes opened, the character portraying the judge in a sexual harassment case entered spouting global warming tropes. “I hope you’re staying cool today on this unusually hot November day.” He then joked, “I hope you don’t mind me saying: Global warming 1, skeptics 0.”

The court case in the episode had nothing at all to do with science or global warming but centered on a male soldier sexually harassing a female army officer.

Admittedly, it was sort of amusing how the show depicted the courtroom’s reception of the judge’s global warming “joke.” After he delivered it, the scene was a dead silent, stonefaced crowd. Immediately after his global warming line, the “judge” went on to slam the U.S. government essentially for misusing America’s armed forces.

“I have great respect for all those in uniform, no matter how our government sees fit to employ them,” the character said.
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NCIS: Los Angeles — Of Republican Pigs and Democrat Saviors

October 26, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, CBS, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Entertainment, Ethics, Government, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In chronicling the left-wing drum beat viewers are constantly subjected to by the entertainment industry we often find TV episodes that are stuffed full of anti-conservative messages and with this week’s NCIS: Los Angeles we were treated to one of the most blatant examples that has hit the airwaves in quite sometime.

The October 23 episode of the lesser of the NCIS series, titled Dead Body Politic, wasn’t like most TV shows where they slyly slip in a few anti-conservative comments here and there in a sort of unobtrusive manner. No, this one was rife with the most boring, old tropes you can imagine.

The episode centered around a hit-and-run murder of a staffer for a left-wing Democrat for Senate. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents (NCIS) immediately imagined that the real threat was to the candidate — a likely consideration, of course.

But as the plot developed what we got was one Hollywood stereotype after another about the candidates and their parties.

The Hispanic female candidate for whom the NCIS agents were worried was presented as the serious, idealist that was going to “change the world.” She supported women, liberal causes, and the Occupy Wall Street movement. And why not? She was, after all, “The People’s Politician,” as we are told.
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Fox News Channel the Big Winner for VP Debate Viewers

October 15, 2012 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Cable, CBS, CNN, Elections, Entertainment, Fox News, Joe Biden, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, NBC, Paul Ryan, President, TV, TV News, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Fox News Channel won the race during the vice presidential debate this week; the ratings race. Fox brought in more than twice as many viewers as MSNBC and CNN… combined. Not only that, but Fox even drew more viewers than each of the big three networks individually.

Here is how the ratings panned out:

9:00 PM – 10:30PM

FNC: 10,019,827 in total viewers (3,057,099 in 25-54)
MSNBC: 4,378,671 in total viewers (1,619,542 in 25-54)
CNN: 4,145,951 in total viewers (1,523,882 in 25-54)
CBS: 8,308,421 in P2+ (3,400,620)
ABC: 8,287,610 in P2+ (2,995,352)
NBC: 7,851,757 in P2+ (3,560,307)

Morely Safer is ‘Appalled’ By New Media

October 10, 2012 | Filed Under Blogging, CBS, Computers, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Inernet, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, New Media, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last month, broadcast TV lifer Morely Safer of CBS’s 60 Minutes fame appeared on CSPAN and pronounced himself “appalled” by the denizens of the new media.

Citizen journalists aren’t trained well enough to be trusted as a source of news, Safer declared to CSPAN’s Brian Lamb on Sept. 13.

In fact, he’s downright “appalled” by the whole idea of Internet journalism and seems to wish it would all just go away. We need to leave the “reporting” to him and his professional class of “real” journalists, Safer sonorously declared.

The question about citizen journalism was put to Safer after host Lamb showed the aged newsman a clip of former Daily Caller correspondent Michelle Fields. On the clip, Fields was seen celebrating the advent of the new media.

Safer, a Canadian, admitted that he “sounds like a Neanderthal” with his hatred of citizen journalism — which, he said, he’d trust as much as he’d trust “a citizen surgeon” — nonetheless he rejects the idea that mere citizens can be a legitimate source of news reporting.
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ABC, CBS, CNN, & MSNBC All Knock Obama For Campaigning Instead of Governing

September 26, 2012 | Filed Under ABC, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, CBS, CNN, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Every once in a while the Old Media takes a jab at their most favorite president of all time and Obama’s decision to skip any meetings with the world leaders that are gathering at the UN this week seems to be one of those times.

Just to name a few, Chuck Todd of MSNBC, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, ABC’s Jake Tapper, and the CBS Evening News all took swipes at the president for doing campaign stops, TV entertainment shows, and softball interviews instead of doing his job as our nation’s chief foreign policy representative by meeting with the world leaders who are this week visiting New York at the United Nations.

CBS slapped Obama saying “diplomacy gets a backseat to campaigning” on Monday in a piece by Nancy Cordes.

Noting that last year Obama conducted “13 one-on-one meetings with major leaders,” this year not so much.
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Attack: CBS’ Rose Interrupts Romney Adviser Six Times in 50 Seconds

September 25, 2012 | Filed Under CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

While Obama’s surrogates seem to get all the time they want on network TV to spew out talking points and push their desired narrative, Romney surrogates aren’t so lucky. Witness the otherwise soft spoken Charlie Rose of CBS who didn’t seem willing to allow Romney spokesman Dan Senor to get a word in edgewise without Rose’s constant interruptions. shockingly, Rose interrupted Senor six times in 50 seconds during a recent CBS This Morning interview.

Rose asked Romney’s adviser what would be the “first thing” Romney would do about Iran and its “effort to have a nuclear capacity.”
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Big Three Networks Ignoring Lie-Filled Obama Ad Portraying Romney as Murderer

August 12, 2012 | Filed Under ABC, Barack Obama, CBS, CNN, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, NBC, President, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

For two straight days, now, neither ABC, CBS, nor NBC have bothered to mention the roiling controversy over the lie-filled ad that Obama’s Super PAC put out intimating that Mitt Romney killed a steel worker’s wife. The ad is being called the nastiest, most misleading ad of this election cycle by newspapers, talk radio and even the cable news stations — CNN and MSNBC both, yet — but thus far the big three are ignoring the whole story.

Despite the growth of the Internet and cable news, more Americans still get their news from the three traditional TV networks and these organizations are run almost exclusively by liberals, so it isn’t too surprising that none of them seem willing to report the truth about this despicable Obama ad. It is, however, still a breach of their responsibilities not to report the news of the day.

The cable stations, on the other hand, have been eviscerating Bill Burton, the spokesman for Obama’s super PAC Priorities USA Action, over the obvious lies in his campaign ad.
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Slamming Romney for ‘Lies’ in Advertising, CBS News States Its Opinion as Fact

August 3, 2012 | Filed Under Barack Obama, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, President, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a piece on “lies” in campaign advertising, on the July 30 episode, CBS Evening News correspondent Nancy Cordes gave Mitt Romney a slap for “taking the President out of context” in his ad about Obama’s July 13 “you didn’t build that” screed. What “proof” did CBS present that Romney lied? Nothing really. Cordes simply stated her opinion and presented it as fact.

The piece started off well enough pointing out that an Obama ad simply lies outright about Romney’s position on exemptions for abortions. The Obama ad claims that Romney would back an abortion law that would ban abortions even for women who were victims of rape and incest and even if the woman’s life were in danger.

CBS News points out that truth detector site Politifact rates this a “pants on fire” claim noting that Romney has repeatedly said that he agrees with exemptions and would not back a 100% ban on abortions in all cases.
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CBS News: Blacks are Unsatisfied With Obama

July 29, 2012 | Filed Under Barack Obama, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Race, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Much as we on the right like to carp about how sold-out the Old Media is to Obama’s reelection effort and how the media establishment is loathe to say anything negative about Obama, sometimes it does publish a piece that raises troubling concerns for the President.

This week it was CBS’ turn with a piece that notes that Obama has a “complicated relationship” with black America. According to CBS, blacks are largely unsatisfied with Obama.
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After Days Big Networks/CNN Finally Notice Obama’s ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Remarks

July 22, 2012 | Filed Under ABC, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, CBS, CNN, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NBC, President, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Strangely enough it took four to five long days for CNN and the big three networks to notice that Obama told his audience at a Virginia campaign rally that business owners and other successful Americans aren’t responsible for their own success. Worse, it took advisors for Mitt Romney to comment before these news organizations deigned to report on the incident.

In Roanoke, Virginia on Friday, July 13, the President said to business owners, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” causing an uproar on both sides of the aisle as Republicans expressed shock at Obama’s comments and liberals defended the President’s anti-business remarks.

Obama’s off-script comments, alternately considered a gaffe and his true feelings emerging, quickly became the talk of the Internet and talk radio. But ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN don’t seem to have uttered a word about the controversy until days later.
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ABC’s Kimmel Calls Palin ‘Crazy Moose Lady’

July 21, 2012 | Filed Under ABC, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Liberals, Media, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

From the mouth of Jimmy Kimmel, the late night comedian that said it was impossible to make fun of President Obama because he was too “cool,” comes the hilarity that Sarah Palin is a “crazy moose lady.” This was so hilarious that CBS This Morning had to replay it hours later on its morning show.

Not only did Kimmel slam Palin — who really has not been much in the news of late and is not a factor in this presidential campaign — he also used his joke to slam GOP candidate Mitt Romney as somehow worse than Palin, a claim that no one is making, not even Obama’s people. This shows how extreme Kimmel is, really.

Adding to a news account of Mitt Romney’s release of tax returns during his 2008 run for the GOP nomination, Kimmel joked, “Romney actually did back in 2008. McCain took one look at him and said, you know what? I’m going with the crazy moose lady instead.”
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CBS Radio News: Still Attacking Sarah Palin in ‘News’ Reports

February 17, 2012 | Filed Under CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Radio, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a report on the recent FCC rules tightening requirements for telemarketers, CBS Radio couldn’t resist loosening a shot at Sarah Palin even though she has been out of office for several years already and has taken no part in political robocalls for some time. (Listen to audio HERE)

There is one area of media bias that many of us overlook and that is radio. All the big News outfits have radio shows, newsbreaks, radio offerings of all sorts, but we rarely talk about them for one reason… it’s hard to link to a just finished radio broadcast! Radio newsbreaks come and go in a nearly ephemeral manner and rarely can you catch it again, not to mention that rarely do you have something on hand to record it. Once you hear them they are gone so it’s hard to report on the bias constantly revealed in radio broadcasts. But the bias is there nonetheless.

Another reason radio is often ignored is that few of the networks put their newsbreaks up on the Internet so that you can review them. And those that do put them on the Internet, well they don’t make finding specific bits easy to track down. Then again, network radio news is not now a big focus of media with print and TV taking precedence.
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CBS Featured No Pro-Lifers in Photo Essay About Pro-Life Rally

January 30, 2012 | Filed Under Abortion, CBS, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

If you want a case of clear bias, the Washington D.C. affiliate of CBS will surely fill the bill for its bias against pro-life supporters. On January 23 the DC affiliate featured on its website a photo slide show of pictures taken at the March for Life rally held annually at the nation’s capitol. Curiously, though, there wasn’t a single photo of any pro-lifers. Instead the photo essay featured only photos of abortion-supporting protestors that stood on the sidelines taunting the pro-life marchers.

The photo slide show initially featured seven photos of abortion supporters such as one of marchers holding signs saying “Family Planning Saves Lives Worldwide,” one featuring women holding signs saying that abortion should be kept legal, and another showing a woman sporting an abortion on demand sticker.

Upwards to 50,000 pro-life supporters turned out in the DC cold to participate in the March for Life, yet apparently CBS could only find the small handful of pro-abortion supporters to photograph.
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CBS This Morning Losing to Fox And Friends?

January 20, 2012 | Filed Under Atlanta, Cable, CBS, Chicago, Detroit, Entertainment, Fox News, Hollywood, Media, TV, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently it is not morning in America for CBS. The big network roll out of its revamped morning show, CBS This Morning, is struggling to gain a foothold. It’s so bad that even the Fox News’ morning show, Fox and Friends, is beating the network morning extravaganza. In Chicago, Fox and Friends even beat the debut episode of CBS This Morning despite the fact that Gayle King, a long-time Oprah confidante, was one of the main features of the program.

In fact, CBS This Morning isn’t even beating its own former iteration when it was called The Early Show. The new show is down 10 percent in total viewers and down 13 percent in the key demo of 25-45 year-old viewers. Interestingly, Fox and Friends is beating CBS in four of the top 20 national markets in total viewers (Atlanta, Detroit, Orlando, and Tampa).

Market	Fox And Friends (P2+)	CBS This Morning (P2+)
Atlanta	30,000	17,000
Detroit	19,000	12,000
Tampa	40,000	30,000
Orlando	23,000	19,000

Period	Dates	Program	P2+ AA(000)	% Diff	24-54 AA(000)	% diff
CBS This Morning Launch	1/9/12 to 1/15/12	CBS This Morning	2718		1115
Same Week 2011	1/10/11 to 1/16/11	Early Show	3016	-10%	1287	-13%

(Stats from Nielson)

It should be remembered that Fox News cable channel reaches just over 102 million homes whereas CBS ostensibly gets to 100 percent of the 116 million homes with TVs. Since CBS is one of the “big three” original TV networks, it is interesting that a cable channel has seen such an amazing success rate for its early morning show.
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CBS’ Norah O’Donnell: Dan Rather Was One of ‘The Very Best Journalists in American History’

August 29, 2011 | Filed Under ABC, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, NBC, News, President, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The latest issue of Capitol File magazine has a glowing feature on CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Norah O’Donnell. In it she claims that past journalists that have filled the role of chief White House correspondent for a major network have been “legendary” and “the very best” in the field. Of this “very best” she laughably elevates discredited CBS News anchor Dan Rather into that pantheon.

Capitol File is a magazine that focuses on D.C. elites, the movers and shakers, the bight lights in the City On The Hill. In it’s pages you will see all the beautiful people of Washington D.C. It is, we are told, “a place for power and politics, CAPITOL FILE chronicles and celebrates the most influential players, cultural connoisseurs, fashion sophisticates, and philanthropic leaders in the Washington, DC metropolitan region.”

Apparently Norah O’Donnell is an “influential player” now that she’s been raised up to the role of chief WH correspondent of a major network… even as those same networks have lost so much of their once all encompassing national influence.
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CBS’ Bob Schieffer, Class Warrior: Hey, I know. Let’s Soak the Rich!

April 19, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, CBS, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Paul Ryan, Regulation, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

If there was any doubt about how hostile the Old Media is toward tax cuts, spending cuts, and making government accountable and Constitutionally justifiable, CBS’ Bob Schieffer is happy to dispel that doubt. On the April 17 episode of Face the Nation, Schieffer asked Congressman Paul Ryan (R, WS) why we can’t just soak the rich to solve our budget problems.

In a discussion with Rep. Ryan, the GOP’s go-to budget guy, Schieffer expressed his shock that government doesn’t just tax the bejeebus out of “the wealthiest Americans.” Schieffer was aghast at how the GOP is “reducing the amount of taxes that the richest people in the country pay” and asked Ryan if he, Schieffer, is “misinformed” about the whole tax cut issue.

Ryan was kind not to point out that Schieffer is, indeed, “misinformed”… as usual.

But, perhaps Schieffer isn’t merely misinformed. Perhaps he is ideologically blinded? His comments seem to prove that he is.
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Obama’s Bribes to the Wash. Post and CBS

April 7, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, President, Taxes, TV News, Warner Todd Huston, Washington Post | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington Post have both taken large payments from Obama’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), with the Post getting $573,217 while CBS has received a whopping $722,388.

Matthew Boyle reported that the news of the media giants taking federal cash was revealed at a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week.

The question here becomes one of disclosure. Will CBS and the Washington Post put disclaimers on any story they relate about Obamacare? After all, if we see a positive story about Obamacare from the Washington Post or CBS might we assume the stories are so positive because employees of those media organizations know they could be the beneficiaries of thousands of dollars in federal cash? Might we assume that these Old Media employees might fear that any negative story might put that largess at risk?
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CBS Names Its Palin-Supporting Character After Terrorist

March 1, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Hollywood, Liberals, Sarah Palin, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The CBS drama The Good Wife, a politically charged soap-opera-like series, is coming under fire for naming its Sarah Palin-boosting character after America’s most infamous domestic terrorist, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Matthew Vadum of the Washington-based Capital Research Center says that naming the character “McVeigh” conjures an unmistakable inference. “Calling a character ‘Kurt McVeigh’ conjures up unmistakable images of mass murdering terrorist Timothy McVeigh. Hollywood screenwriters don’t live in a cultural vacuum; they help to create American culture,” Vadum told Fox News.

Even as the TV producers claim that they weren’t trying to discredit Sarah Palin by naming a character that supports her in its series after America’s most murderous homegrown terrorist, they also admit that they purposefully chose the name to invoke anti-government sentiment in the show’s other characters.
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