[Full post at MRC's NewsBusters blog] On March 26, 2003, just hours after returning to Kuwait after the his now-infamous helicopter incident, NBC's Brian Williams on MSNBC likened it to "'Black Hawk Down' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'"
Appearing on the February 6 edition of FNC's Hannity, MRC President Brent Bozell said the evidence was building that Brian Williams had lied about multiple aspects of his claim to have been in a helicopter shot by an RPG during the Iraq war in 2003, and he agreed that Hillary Clinton needs to be questioned about her 2008 lie about facing sniper fire in Bosnia.
On the March 26, 2003 edition of Dateline, NBC's Brian Williams recounted how a helicopter that was part of a U.S. mission in Iraq was shot by an RPG fired by Iraqis in civilian clothes. When Williams told the same story in 2015, he falsely placed himself in the chopper that was hit, something for which he later apologized after soldiers complained.
On the February 3 edition of MSNBC's The Last Word, host Lawrence O'Donnell extolled the "honesty" of Obama's pre-presidency book, Dreams from My Father:
“Long before he was running for President, he had written the answer [to questions about past drug use] in a book called Dreams from My Father. It stands today as the finest literary work ever authored by a President of the United States. The…
Appearing on Ora.TV's Larry King Now, actress and liberal activist Ashley Judd claimed Hillary Clinton might be more qualified for the presidency than anyone since George Washington:
“I mean, obviously, I love Hillary Rodham Clinton....And so seeing her talk about early childhood vulnerability and brain development. Man, that woman is stout. She is stout. So yes, I will be all in when the time…
On the January 29 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, NBC correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin impugned Iraq war hero Chris Kyle, the subject of the movie American Sniper, as a "racist" who went on "killing sprees":
NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin: “When you juxtapose it [the movie American Sniper] with the real Chris Kyle and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was.... a lot of his own personal…
(More on MRC's NewsBusters blog.) Without laughing, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday’s World News Tonight advanced the White House hope that Barack Obama will be seen as Ronald Reagan was in 1987, as the President who rescued the economy and was rewarded by voters.
Opining on the President’s political mission at tonight’s State of the Union speech, Stephanopoulos said the goal was for…
There is no right-of-center politician who has become a hero to journalists for their passionate rhetoric on behalf of conservatism, but ex-NY Governor Cuomo was a hero to reporters precisely because of his ideology and the capability with which he espoused it. “He’s incredibly smart. He’s the most interesting person to talk to that I’ve ever met in politics,” Time’s Michael Kramer told ABC’s…
Longtime Newsweek correspondent Eleanor Clift, who now writes for The Daily Beast, fretted on the December 21 McLaughlin Group that deeper American involvement could wreck "unspoiled" communist Cuba:
“The rest of us are all going to be rushing to get to Cuba before it turns into Miami Beach, while it’s still that unspoiled, seemingly, place with the classic cars....People want to see Cuba as it…
Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops.…