Appearing on the Daily Show, PBS's Bill Moyers argued that radical preacher Jeremiah Wright was really "assassinated by soundbites....played through the meat grinder of our national press."
In a May 8 interview, NBC's Brian Williams showed Barack Obama a magazine cover declaring him the Democratic winner and asked him about his mother.
In a May 9 interview with John Edwards, "Today Show" co-host Matt Lauer brought up "swift-boating" to suggest that Republicans would unfairly link Barack Obama to his radical ex-preacher, Jeremiah Wright.
Years before she admitted her own affairs with married men, ABC's Barbara Walters pressed Monica Lewinsky about her affair with a married Bill Clinton: "Did you ever think about what Hillary Clinton might be feeling?"
In a May 8 Nightly News interview, anchor Brian Williams fawned over Barack Obama, showing him a flattering magazine cover and asking him to speculate about his mother's reaction to her son's success.
During election coverage May 6, MSNBC's Chris Matthews denounced Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" as "mischief-making" by "a talk jock." Matthews scolded: "What a ridiculous way to use the vote for which people fought and died."
On CNN's American Morning, anchor John Roberts declared it a "Reverend Wright-free zone," asking Barack Obama if he'd mind avoiding the embarrassing topic. "That sounds just fine," Obama replied.
On the May 4 CBS Evening News, reporter Dean Reynolds asserted that Republicans will call Barack Obama "out of the mainstream," which he claimed was code for "unpatriotic."
BBC reporter Justin Webb stood next to a line of 18-wheelers and told his British audience: "Many Americans drive private cars not much smaller than this truck."
On PBS's Charlie Rose, Washington Post writer Sally Quinn bemoaned how Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, had "his career completely destroyed by three 20-second soundbites," adding: "We are still a racist country."