MattH | May 1, 2014
Wednesday's Colbert Report, in an apparent boost to Democrats before November's mid-term elections, mocked GOP congresswoman Renee Ellmers and hosted her Democratic opponent Clay Aiken for a friendly interview.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz30VDGc1yi
MattH | May 1, 2014
Wednesday's Colbert Report, in an apparent boost to Democrats before November's mid-term elections, mocked GOP congresswoman Renee Ellmers and hosted her Democratic opponent Clay Aiken for a friendly interview.
MattH | April 30, 2014
MSNBC guest Dorian Warren thinks that racism is behind the GOP's opposition to Medicaid expansion and a minimum wage hike.
MattH | April 25, 2014
RNC communications director Sean Spicer flayed the media for its double standard over Republican and Democratic controversies, on CNN on Friday morning. CNN's Carol Costello had asked him if Cliven Bundy's racist statements "affect the Republican Party as a whole" given that certain notable Republican figures had supported his stand against the federal government.Read more: http://…
MattH | April 25, 2014
RNC communications director Sean Spicer flayed the media for its double standard over Republican and Democratic controversies, on CNN on Friday morning. CNN's Carol Costello had asked him if Cliven Bundy's racist statements "affect the Republican Party as a whole."
MattH | April 25, 2014
The Friday before the Catholic church would celebrate the canonization of two popes, NBC's Today hyped the "controversy" of the jubilant fans of Blessed John Paul II "drowning out dissent" from those who felt "stomped on" during his papacy.
MattH | April 24, 2014
For the first time on the evening news casts, the broadcast networks picked up Cliven Bundy's standoff with the federal government – but only after Bundy's racist comments went viral and his conservative supporters denounced them.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2014/04/24/sleazy-abc-notes-sean-hannitys-support-cliven-bundy-ignores-his-condemna#ixzz2zrSU47gI
MattH | April 24, 2014
Thursday's NBC Nightly News decided it was newsworthy to air a Democrat's tentative support for a hypothetical Hillary Clinton presidential run. NBC's Chuck Todd pressed U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy on the matter.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2014/04/24/nbc-again-talks-about-caroline-kennedy-supporting-hillary-presidential-r#ixzz2zrA2NeX1
MattH | April 22, 2014
On Tuesday's Hardball, fill-in host Joy Reid compared the Supreme Court upholding a state ban on affirmative action to upholding Jim Crow laws, and implied white supremacy.
MattH | April 22, 2014
The broadcast networks gleefully reported the White House Easter festivities on Monday evening while ignoring President Obama's new plan to step around Congress and consider clemency for thousands of drug offenders.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2zeX3brS8