Shortly after Bill Clinton named Al Gore as his running mate, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift appeared on the July 10, 1992 edition of CNN's Inside Politics. Sounding like a complete sycophant, she gushed about the new Democratic ticket: "I must say, I was struck by the expanse of their chests. They may have to put out their stats."
Commenting a year after the end of the first Persian Gulf War, NBC's John Chancellor was distressed by a Greenpeace report that claimed 198,000 Iraqis died vs. a couple of hundred American soldiers. "The disparity is huge and somewhat embarrassing," Chancellor huffed, as if the U.S. should apologize for tactics that kept their soldiers mostly safe.
On the July 7, 1991 edition of Inside Washington, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carl Rowan disparaged newly-named Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas as anti-black. Referring to KKK leader David Duke, Rowan smeared: "If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you'd think you had David Duke talking."
Making his sympathies obvious in the 1988 presidential race, ABC anchor Peter Jennings mourned the departure of Arizona's Bruce Babbitt from the campaign. "When he entered the race nearly a year ago, he had the courage to say that as President he would probably have to raise taxes," Jennings intoned. "And he never recovered from his courage."