Barely two days after GOP Senator Jim Bunning put a hold on a $15 billion unemployment extension so Congress could pay for the new spending, CNN's Dana Bash touted the "devastating effect" Bunning…
Appearing during the 2pm ET hour of MSNBC Live on February 11, Huffington Post political reporter Ryan Grim agreed with Joe Biden that Iraq may be a "great achievement" for President Obama and --…
On the January 21 Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann hyperventilated over the Supreme Court's ruling that it is unconstitutional to ban independent political advertising. "This is a Supreme Court-…
Just a few hours after Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, NBC's Meredith Vieira asked Brown how his phone call with Vicki Kennedy went, "knowing that you plan to do…
During a Facebook video chat, CBS anchor Katie Couric said America had become "a very angry nation." She also rued how public disagreement was preventing action on health care, claiming that "45,…
On the December 4, 2009 Hardball, Chris Matthews was bemused to hear President Obama take a jab at the press: "Why would you ride the ref when he's calling all the plays for you?"
On the December 8, 2009 Early Show, co-host Harry Smith confronted RNC Chairman Michael Steele with Harry Reid's "very sober" accusation that GOP opposition to health care was similar to…
In the wake of Army Major Nidal Hasan's killing of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, ABC's Bill Weir argued that "Muslims in uniform today face a challenge not seen since Japanese-Americans fought in…
Just a few hours after word broke on November 9, 1989 that the Berlin Wall would be opened to permit free travel out of East Germany, former President Ronald Reagan appeared on ABC's PrimeTime…
Just a few hours after word broke on November 9, 1989 that the Berlin Wall would be opened to permit free travel out of East Germany, former President Ronald Reagan appeared on ABC's PrimeTime…
Three days before Governor Deval Patrick named an interim replacement for the late Ted Kennedy, CNBC's John Harwood predicted the Senate seat would remain vacant until a January 2010 special…
Hours after Senator Ted Kennedy passed away, NBC anchor Brian Williams related an e-mail he received: "In lieu of flowers, pass health care reform."
In an August 15, 2005 appearance on Hardball, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan went on at length about how the U.S. was using Iraq "as a base for spreading imperialism." An impressed Chris Matthews…
When anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was protesting President Bush's war policies by camping out near his Texas ranch, NBC reporter Carl Quintanilla wondered if Sheehan "may be evolving as an icon…
On MSNBC's Hardball on August 11, host Chris Matthews rejected the idea that conservatives were upset at the liberal direction Barack Obama is taking America. "I think some of the people are upset…
NBC's Andrea Mitchell celebrated how Bill Clinton and Al Gore, once "a Boomer buddy team" had both become "international superstars."
Appearing on CNN's Situation Room on July 27, 2009, HBO's Bill Maher slammed the United States as "a stupid country" that gets "dumber and dumber every day," to which CNN's Wolf Blitzer riposted…
Back on May 7, 2003, NBC's Katie Couric fell for a Washington Post parody of Floriday Senator Bob Graham's diary-keeping habits. Reading from the absurd Style-section joke item, she credulously…
In an interview shown on the July 23 Early Show, CBS's Harry Smith mocked the notion of journalists asking President Obama tough questions: "People in the mainstream media have been accused of…
When CNBC anchor Mark Haines challenged liberal Representative Barney Frank about his plans to have the government police private sector pay, Frank pulled out his earpiece and terminated the…
In a commentary just two weeks after Chinese troops killed thousands of pro-democracy protesters, NBC's John Chancellor bemoaned how the story was dominating the news. Talking about the need for…
Talking about the Chinese army's brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tienanmen Square in 1989, CBS's Eric Engberg wondered if the massacre that killed hundreds would "be something…
When NBC News spent a day inside the Obama White House for a prime time news special (a tradition for new presidents going back to 1981), Brian Williams enthused about how Barack Obama was "so…
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on May 12, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown slammed Vice President Cheney's criticisms of Obama's lenient approach to terrorism, calling it a "…
Supposedly covering the April 15 anti-tax "tea party" protests, CNN reporter Susan Roesgen began debating the protesters with pro-Obama talking points and angrily dismissed the event as a "party…