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As Much on Byrd's Fiddle Playing as Klan Days; 'Like Constitution and Bible, Permanent Fixture of the Senate'

The networks Monday night skipped lightly over the late Senator Robert Byrd's segregationist and racist record, devoting as much time to the Democrat's fiddle-playing prowess as his years in the ...

ABC Frets Over Pickle McChrystal Has Put Obama Into: Look 'Petulant' or 'Weak'

ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos despaired over the position in which General McChrystal has put Obama. Sawyer fretted that Obama "now faces a mind-boggling choice," before ...

ABC and NBC Describe Arizona Law as 'Anti-Immigration' and 'Harsh'

Network anchors can't resist misconstruing Arizona's upcoming immigration enforcement law. The latest instances came Friday night when Diane Sawyer erroneously described the anti-illegal ...

Stephanopoulos Enchanted By Obama's 'Martial Language' and 'Feel of FDR'

President Obama's Oval Office address certainly impressed George Stephanopoulos. "What struck me tonight," he informed Diane Sawyer, is: "Oval Office addresses are often used when the nation is at ...

ABC Gives Jerry Brown Platform to Declare Whitman Dangerous, 'Soul of California is at Stake'

ABC anchor Diane Sawyer greeted Meg Whitman's victory in California's Republican gubernatorial primary by forwarding Democrat Jerry Brown as the savior: "Jerry Brown told us today, he wants the ...

ABC Touts Calderon's 'Sharp Words' Swipe at U.S. for Inadequate Gun Laws

With "Sharp Words" forming the on-screen graphic, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Thursday night championed the domestic gun control argument espoused by a foreign leader trying to shift the blame for ...

Voters Throwing Out Pols Who Work Across Party Lines, Stephanopoulos Frets

After ABC's Jonathan Karl painted Senator Arlen Specter's troubles as emblematic of how "the national anti-incumbent wave has hit Pennsylvania," George Stephanopoulos fretted on World News about ...

Only CBS IDs Kagan as on Left; Others Tout Her as 'Powerhouse,' 'Accomplished Poker Player, Opera Lover' Who 'Loves Softball'

In quite a contrast to tagging of the Bush and Obama Supreme Court nominees as "conservative," on Monday night ABC and NBC refrained from applying any ideological description to Supreme Court ...

ABC Live Coverage: No Kagan Criticism, Conservative Support?

During ABC's 10am ET special report, the network failed to mention any of the controversies surrounding Supreme Court pick Elena Kagin, while correspondent Terry Moran - citing the Obama White ...
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