Former Times reporter Timothy Egan: "A new Congress, sworn in Thursday, will be less crazy than the old one by only a few degrees of wacko. Gone, at least, are a deadbeat dad and a longtime ...
Despite John Boehner receiving overwhelming support from the Republican
caucus to be reelected as Speaker of the House, NBC Capitol Hill
correspondent Kelly O'Donnell hyped dissension in the ...
In a pair of back-to-back stories leading off Wednesday's NBC Nightly News,
House Republicans were painted as villains for briefly delaying a vote
on Hurricane Sandy relief. First, Capitol ...
At the top of Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teased
an upcoming interview with New York Congressman Peter King by seizing on
House GOP disagreement over when to schedule a vote on a ...
On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, hours before the House of
Representatives approved a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, chief White
House correspondent Chuck Todd wrung his hands over Republican ...
A New York Times op-ed offensively marked the appointment of South Carolina Republican Rep. Tim Scott, an African-American, to the U.S. Senate: "...modern black Republicans have been more tokens ...
On Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams was eager
to seize on any perceived momentum for greater gun control in the wake
of Friday's school shooting: "The President said he would ...
Following a report on Thursday's NBC Today in which political director Chuck Todd touted a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, co-host Matt Lauer tried to spin one finding: "...only
53% say ...
Chris Matthews has found the problem with how the media covered the 2012 election: Unbiased journalists were simply too focused on being "even-handed" and treating Republicans fairly. The Hardball ...
In a report for Tuesday's NBC Today, chief White House
correspondent Chuck Todd touted President Obama supposedly being nicer
to the GOP while in pursuit of a fiscal cliff deal: "Mr. Obama ...