In one of the many hostile questions posed to the GOP candidates at the October 28 CNBC debate, moderator Carl Quintanilla pressed Florida Senator Marco Rubio:
“You’ve been a young man in a hurry ever since you won your first election in your 20s...Now, you’re skipping more votes than any senator to run for President. Why not slow down, get a few more things done first, or least finish what you…
MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry is so politically correct, she gets offended if someone uses a phrase like "hard worker." From the October 24 edition of her eponymous MSNBC show:
Alfonso Aguilar, Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles: “If there’s somebody who is a hard worker when he goes to Washington, it’s Paul Ryan....”Host Melissa Harris-Perry: “I want us to be super…
On the October 14 editon of ABC's The View, co-host Joy Behar said she found socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders "hot," confessing: "I actually am aroused by him."
“I actually am aroused by him. I’m serious. I find him to be eye candy, not ear candy, eye candy....I like an old Jewish guy who’s a socialist. That’s my type of guy. Everybody is talking about [former Maryland Governor…
Appearing on the Fox Business Network's Varney & Co., MRC President Brent Bozell blasted disgraced NBC anchor Brian Williams, who now covers breaking news on MSNBC, for immediately injecting a liberal gun control agenda into coverage of the Oregon college shooting on Thursday. Bozell called it "obnoxious" and "offensive" for the media to push for liberal action without waiting for the facts,…
On the September 19 edition of The McLaughlin Group, The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift attacked GOP candidate Carly Fiorina for her criticisms of the abortion provider Planned Parenthood at a Republican debate:
“She [Carly Fiorina] played real fast and loose, though, with the facts around Planned Parenthood and I think she really is overreaching in the criticism she’s making of an organization…
On the August 24 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos argued that there's no philosophical difference between Donald Trump and other Republicans:
“Let’s remember that Donald Trump is a creation of the Republican Party. The same ideas that other Republicans have espoused in the past, but only that he expresses them with more violence and in an extreme way.”
On MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid argued that Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal was much ado about nothing:
“I have been utterly bored with the story to the point where I only recently began to really sort of dig into it....The more I look into it, I think it’s one of those cases where the trailer is really simple, but the movie is kind of too hard to…
At an August 19 press conference, ABC News correspondent Tom Llamas upbraided Donald Trump for using the phrase "anchor baby," telling him it was "hurtful" and "offensive." Llamas incorporated the exchange into his report for Good Morning America the next day:
“We asked Trump about a phrase he's using more and more — 'anchor babies' — to describe children of undocumented immigrants born in the…
On ABC's This Week on August 2, longtime ABC and NPR contributor Cokie Roberts applauded Hillary Clinton for playing the grandmother card on th campaign trail:
“She does have a new message out from the last time, which is the grandmother message, and she’s using it very well. On climate change for instance, when she says, ‘Everybody says I’m not a scientist.’ She says, ‘I’m not a scientist…
On the July 25 edition of CBS This Morning: Saturday, correspondent Paula Reid tried to insulate Hillary Clinton from news, first broke by the New York Times, that the FBI was investigating her handling of classified material on a non-government e-mail server:
“This particular issue really shouldn’t have any impact on Clinton. The issue of the e-mails has been out there for a long time. This is…