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 was having "in the real world." Bash showed an unemployed woman who preposterously suggested she'd be living in a "cardboard box" because of the brief interruption in her government checks.
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 -- going further than Biden -- also said it would be a "great achievement" for the anti-war movement.
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-sanctioned murder of what little actual democracy is left....It is our Dred Scott!" Olbermann thundered.
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 whatever you can to derail what Ted Kennedy called 'the cause of his lifetime.'
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 "45,000 people die needlessly because they simply don't have access to health care, and that seems so unfair and undemocratic."
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 opposition to ending slavery and enacting civil rights legislation. Steele retorted that "it was not a sober moment....It was an ignorant moment."
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 World War II."
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 Live to celebrate the moment. Co-anchor Sam Donaldson told Reagan he would "get a lot of credit for helping bring this moment about."
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 live to celebrate the moment. Co-anchor Sam Donaldson told Reagan he would "get a lot of credit for helping bring this moment about."