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10/3/2012 4:39 PM ET
Unlike the journalists at NBC,
who dismissed as old news a just released 2007 video of Barack Obama
discussing race, ABC's Jake Tapper highlighted the tape of the
then-senator praising the ...
10/3/2012 12:55 PM ET
In September, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos hyped Mitt Romney's "47 percent" tape as sending "shock waves"
through the presidential race. ABC analyst Matt Dowd called it a "six ...
10/2/2012 6:21 PM ET
Politico edged ever closer towards total parody on Tuesday with a headline that seriously wondered, "Joe Biden: Sex symbol?" Senior Washington correspondent Jonathan Allen gushed, "Joe Biden’s ...
9/28/2012 12:05 PM ET
Economic growth grew at an incredibly sluggish 1.3 percent in the second quarter, revised down from 1.7 percent. According to business writer Jim Pethokoukis,
this is "dangerously slow." ...
9/27/2012 12:28 PM ET
ABC's David Muir on Thursday hyped the presidential election as
"slipping away" from Mitt Romney and pushed the idea that next week's
presidential debate is "do-or-die" for the Republican. ...
9/26/2012 4:38 PM ET
ABC News found scant time for the just-passed political conventions, coming in dead last according
to a Media Research Center study. But the network on Tuesday did manage
to, yet again, ...
9/26/2012 2:29 PM ET
Good Morning America on Wednesday touted "stunning" new polls
out of Ohio that show Mitt Romney trailing. ABC reporter David Muir
pushed a minor comment by the Republican as a "sudden shift." ...
9/25/2012 1:54 PM ET
George Stephanopoulos and Barbara Walters on Tuesday fawned over the
"fun," loving marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama. Walters appeared on
Good Morning America to promote the President's ...
9/24/2012 1:01 PM ET
CBS News political director John Dickerson on Sunday conceded the
obvious, advising Mitt Romney to make Libya an issue in the campaign
because the media "isn't necessarily going to make that ...
9/21/2012 4:01 PM ET
The three networks devoted less than seven minutes to a "blistering" new
report from the Justice Department on the Fast and Furious scandal. In
comparison, the same programs deluged the public ...
9/20/2012 4:19 PM ET
The same networks that have been hyping secret video of Mitt Romney
talking about who pays taxes, hyperventilating about the Republican's
"seismic" bombshell," have, thus far, completely ...
9/19/2012 12:57 PM ET
On Tuesday night, the journalists at ABC continued to hype a "secret video" of Mitt Romney in the most hyperbolic terms. World News anchor Diane Sawyer went so far as to call it a "political ...
9/18/2012 6:15 PM ET
In a bizarre display, Chris Matthews began his show on Tuesday by
singing "If I Were a Rich Man" as a way of mocking Mitt Romney for being wealthy. Chris Matthews makes an annual salary of $5 ...
9/18/2012 12:13 PM ET
The hosts and reporters of ABC's Good Morning America on
Tuesday launched a hyperbolic attack on Mitt Romney's "secret tapes,"
trumpeting the "bombshell" that is sending "shock waves" through ...
9/17/2012 12:33 PM ET
Clint Eastwood appeared on Monday's Good Morning America to
promote his new movie, but still had to deal with media fallout from his
"controversial" "chair stunt" at the Republican National ...
9/14/2012 10:06 AM ET
Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos on
Friday landed an exclusive interview with Mitt Romney and proceeded to
taunt the Republican presidential candidate: "But ...
9/13/2012 12:43 PM ET
The NBC and CBS morning shows on Thursday both pushed the theme that
Mitt Romney made a gaffe with his handling of Libya. At the same time,
they shielded Barack Obama. Good Morning America's ...
9/12/2012 4:39 PM ET
ABC journalist Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday compared the rioting and murder that followed Middle Eastern anger over an anti-Islamic movie to yelling "fire in a crowded theater." Regarding ...
9/12/2012 12:02 PM ET
Angry journalists repeatedly lashed out at a defiant Mitt Romney,
Wednesday, pushing the Republican at a press conference to renounce his criticism of Barack
Obama's handling of the crisis ...
9/11/2012 4:34 PM ET
Good Morning America co-anchor George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday attacked Bob Woodward and his new expose from the left, worrying that "Speaker Boehner [is] using your book as a sign that voters ...
