Continuing his campaign against independent counsel Ken Starr, on the July 21, 1998 edition of his CNBC show, Rieral Live, host Geraldo Rivera sang a politicized version of "Twinkle, Twinkle,…
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…
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…
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…
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: "[…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Shortly after Bill Clinton named Al Gore as his running mate, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift appeared on the July 10, 1992 edition of CNN's Inside Politics. Sounding like a complete sycophant, she…
Commenting a year after the end of the first Persian Gulf War, NBC's John Chancellor was distressed by a Greenpeace report that claimed 198,000 Iraqis died vs. a couple of hundred American…
On the July 7, 1991 edition of Inside Washington, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carl Rowan disparaged newly-named Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas as anti-black. Referring to KKK leader David…
Making his sympathies obvious in the 1988 presidential race, ABC anchor Peter Jennings mourned the departure of Arizona's Bruce Babbitt from the campaign. "When he entered the race nearly a year…