In a commentary just two weeks after Chinese troops killed thousands of pro-democracy protesters, NBC's John Chancellor bemoaned how the story was dominating the news. Talking about the need for school reform, Chancellor insisted: "We can and we should agonize about the dead students in Beijing, but we've got a bigger problem right here at home."
Talking about the Chinese army's brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tienanmen Square in 1989, CBS's Eric Engberg wondered if the massacre that killed hundreds would "be something like Kent State was for our military?"
When NBC News spent a day inside the Obama White House for a prime time news special (a tradition for new presidents going back to 1981), Brian Williams enthused about how Barack Obama was "so different from all the men who've gone before him... We've seen people moved to tears after just the briefest encounter with him." The two-hour special, which aired over several nights during the first week…
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on May 12, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown slammed Vice President Cheney's criticisms of Obama's lenient approach to terrorism, calling it a "crazy jihad," and "this one man, kind of, hate fest that he runs on cable shows."
Supposedly covering the April 15 anti-tax "tea party" protests, CNN reporter Susan Roesgen began debating the protesters with pro-Obama talking points and angrily dismissed the event as a "party for Obama bashers," "anti-government, anti-CNN" and "promoted by the right-wing conservative network, Fox."
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On his syndicated The Chris Matthews Show on March 8, Chris Matthews slammed conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh as "a human vat of vitriol" and compared him to "over-the-top movie villians" who "issue ludicrous commands to snuff out the good guys."
On the February 27 edition of Inside Washington, NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg was giddy over Barack Obama's first speech before a joint session of Congress: “It made me feel pretty good. I thought it was a great speech....You know, a friend of mine said, ‘Oh, my God, we have a President again!’ Now, in some ways, that’s not fair to Bush, but that’s the way you felt. You felt this was a guy…
Opening the February 25 edition of Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews was tickled by President Obama's speech before Congress on Tuesday: “It was his debut and he wowed us. That’s the running headline from last night’s presidential address to Congress.”
Journalists were thrilled by Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration. On ABC's World News that night, correspondent Bill Weir enthused: “We know that wind can make a cold day feel colder, but can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer? It seems to be the case because regardless of the final crowd number estimates, never have so many people shivered so long with such joy.”