BiasAlerts

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A Day After Juvenile 'Mitt Happens' Joke, Jake Tapper Dismisses Romney as 'Elmer Fudd'

According to Good Morning America's Jake Tapper on Friday, Mitt Romney is "Elmer Fudd" to Newt Gingrich's "Bugs Bunny." This remark came one day after the reporter made a vulgar joke that "Mitt ...

NBC's Chuck Todd Declares: Obama Would 'Love' to Debate GOP on Foreign Policy

On Friday's NBC Today, following a sound bite of President Obama attacking Republicans for using the word "appeasement" to describe his foreign policy, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd ...

ABC and CBS Eat Up Obama's 'Sharp' and 'Pointed' Retorts

"In the presidential campaign," CBS anchor Scott Pelley announced Thursday night, "President Obama fired back today at Republican opponents who criticized his foreign policy using words like ...

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 ...

ABC, NBC Omit Blagojevich's Party ID; CBS: Is Sentence 'Too High'?

ABC, NBC, and CBS all reported on former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich receiving a 14-year prison sentence for corruption on their evening news programs on Wednesday and their morning shows on ...

NBC and CBS Frame 'Morning-After' Pill Decision as 'Politics' vs. 'Science'

At the top of Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams fretted: "The Obama administration blocks a plan to make the 'morning-after' pill more easily available to young girls. Is this ...

NBC's Lauer to Dan Quayle: Wasn't Romney 'Wrong' and Obama 'Right' on Auto Bailout?

In an interview with former Vice President Dan Quayle on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pushed Quayle to admit that Mitt Romney was wrong to oppose Obama's auto bailout: "[He] said, 'You ...

New Tone: Howard Fineman Smears Newt Gingrich as a Mad Bomber

Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman on Wednesday trashed Newt Gingrich as a mad bomber, smearing, "...Newt's main appeal and his main skill is as a guy who knows exactly where to put the ...

CBS Gives Blagojevich's Party ID in Sentencing Preview; ABC, NBC Punt

The Big Three network morning shows on Wednesday highlighted the upcoming sentencing of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, but only CBS's Early Show identified the disgraced politician as a ...

Former AP Writer Touts Obama's 'Searing,' 'Historically Poignant' Call for More Taxes

Former Associated Press writer Ron Fournier on Tuesday praised Barack Obama's call for higher taxes as "one of his best, a searing and historically poignant account of the greatest challenge of ...
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