National Review contributor Jim Geraghty pointed out on Thursday's American Morning that the national unemployment rate during President Obama's two years has been higher than at any time during the Bush administration. Geraghty was arguing that Republicans could use that fact against Obama in the coming election.Co-host Ali Velshi interrupted him and slammed his argument as "silly" -- without…
CNN Capitol Hill producer Ted Barrett told anchor Carol Costello Wednesday morning that the testy behavior and evasive answers of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) in a Tuesday interview raises some doubts about his professed innocence in his recent Twitter fiasco. A flustered Weiner called Barrett a "jackass" Tuesday after he pressed Weiner repeatedly about the lewd picture sent from his Twitter…
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman lampooned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warm reception by Congress. Appearing on Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Friedman criticized Netanyahu's negative response to President Obama's Mideast speech and dismissed the significance of his good relationship with Congress.
CNN's Jessica Yellin Tuesday called the media's "chasing around" of the Palin tour bus "a media low-point." However, her own network mentioned the tour almost every hour from Monday morning through Tuesday afternoon, and made several live broadcasts from one of the tour stops -- including three full news hours broadcast live from one tour stop.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria, who admitted recently that he has had face-to-face meetings with President Obama on foreign affairs, said right after Obama's Mideast speech that he would be "surprised" if anyone in Israel objected to the speech. After Israeli prime minister Netanyahu objected to some of the stipulations laid out in the speech, Zakaria criticized him for refusing to budge on negotiations.
CNN's Randi Kaye offered a weak defense Thursday of Ed Schultz's calling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a "slut." She tried to argue that Schultz may have meant to use another context of the word in referring to Ingraham.
ABC's The View spent more time Thursday gabbing about Joy Behar's casual use of the word "slut" on the program than focusing on the vileness of Ed Schultz's referring to Laura Ingraham as a "slut."
At the end of CNN's 2 p.m. EDT news hour, anchor Randi Kaye blurred the lines between journalism and advocacy and offered her own glowing praise of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's smoking ban for outdoor parks, beaches, and plazas.
After former congressman and recovering alcoholic Patrick Kennedy told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta that he sympathizes with Jared Loughner as a fellow person suffering from a mental illness, Gupta asked him who or what "failed" Loughner.
In the wake of attacks from the far left of the African-American community on Obama, CNN's Carol Costello made every effort to defend the president during Friday's 10 a.m. EDT hour. CNN made no such attempt to defend President Bush when it endorsed letist Spike Lee's conspiracy theory film about Hurricane Katrina.