Brad Wilmouth

a News Analyst
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ABC Team Obsess Over Romney's $10,000 Challenge to Perry

After ABC's Republican presidential debate on Saturday night, several members of the ABC team spoke of Mitt Romney's attempt to make a bet with Rick Perry about whether Perry was correct in ...

ABC and CBS Highlight Rick Perry 'Oops' Moment

ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's the The Early Show on Saturday, as well as Friday's World News on ABC, seized on GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry forgetting the name of Supreme Court ...

NBC Sets Up Obama to Run Against 'Do-Nothing Congress,' Lumps in 1995 GOP Congress

Friday's NBC Nightly News ran a report touting the prospect that President Obama could portray the current Congress as a "Do-Nothing Congress," based primarily on the number of bills passed rather ...

ABC and CBS Skip Label of Jon Corzine as Democrat

As the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday reported former New Jersey Democratic Senator Jon Corzine's testimony before Congress on the billion dollars in investor money that ...

NBC's Quintanilla Wonders If Gingrich Is 'Pandering' on Illegal Immigration

As Thursday's Today show on NBC gave attention to GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's support for allowing some illegal immigrants to gain legal residency status rather than face ...

CBS Highlights 'Agonizing' Plight of Illegal Immigrants in Alabama

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid filed a report which took a sympathetic look at a family of illegal immigrants in Alabama who fear enforcement of the state's new law ...

NBC's Gregory: Obama Foreign Policy May Be Too 'Successful' for GOP to Attack

Appearing on the Sunday, November 13, Today show on NBC to discuss Saturday night's GOP presidential debate that focused on foreign policy, Meet the Press host David Gregory suggested that, ...

ABC Highlights SNL Jab at Perry, 'Americans Still Can't Forget' Perry's 'Brain Freeze'

On Sunday's Good Morning America, ABC co-host Bianna Golodryga declared that "it seems Americans still can't forget" GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry's "53-second brain freeze" from last ...

CNN's Morgan Asks Powell If He Felt 'Used' on Iraq, Compares to Libya War

As he interviewed former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN host Piers Morgan seemed to suggest that the war against Muammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya was ...

ABC Highlights Pakistani Complaints Against U.S. Drone Attacks on Terrorists

On Sunday's World News on ABC, correspondent Nick Schifrin filed a report recounting complaints by Pakistanis that CIA drone attacks that have successfully killed high-profile terrorist figures ...

ABC Skips Corzine Resignation, CBS and NBC Avoid Democratic Label

ABC's World News this week failed to mention that former New Jersey Democratic Senator Jon Corzine is mired in a scandal involving $600 million in missing funds from the financial firm MF Global. ...

ABC Skips Subpoena of Obama E-mails on Solyndra Funding

Thursday's World News on ABC skipped the congressional decision to subpoena White House emails related to the Solyndra solar energy company that went into bankruptcy after receiving tax dollars. ...

NBC's Mitchell Gushes Over Michelle Obama As 'Not So Secret Political Weapon'

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell filed a report in which she gushed over First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign skills, dubbing her as President Obama's "not so secret ...

NBC's Isikoff Warns Cain's 9-9-9 Plan May Mean 'More Pain' for 'Struggling Families'

On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Michael Isikoff filed a report recounting criticisms of GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, as Isikoff asserted that "critics see ...

NPR's Totenberg: Income Gap as Bad as 'People Came to this Country to Avoid'

On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, NPR's Nina Totenberg incorrectly claimed that the "top tenth of one percent" of income earners in America "controls something like 20 or 30 percent" of the ...

Maher Bets $1 Million 'Token Black Guy' Cain Loses GOP Nod

During the monologue of Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher referred to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain as a "token black guy" as he asserted that establishment ...

FNC Notes Democrats 'Least Tolerant' of Mormons While Nets Focus on GOP

While morning and evening newscasts from all three broadcast networks in the last few days have focused on anti-Mormon sentiment within the Republican Party, FNC's Special Report with Bret Baier ...

Fox's Chris Wallace Hits Santorum from Left on Gays in Military

On today's Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace sparred with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, challenging the former Pennsylvania Senator's opposition to gays serving openly in the ...

Bill Maher: Perry's 'Racist Rock' is 'Metaphor' for GOP

During the "New Rules" segment ending Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher asserted that the painted over "N****head Ranch" rock on Texas Governor Rick Perry's hunting territory ...

Politico's Evan Thomas: U.S. a 'Great Giant' That 'Stomped On' Other Countries

On PBS's Inside Washington on Friday, the Politico's Evan Thomas - formerly of Newsweek - characterized the United States as a "great giant" that would go on to "stomp on" other countries after ...