ABC'sWorldNews

ABC's Tapper Boasts of Giving Anti-Shutdown Talking Point to President Obama

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:09:00 +0000

Brent Baker

Instead of being embarrassed by how their story generated a talking point for the President to use in a partisan political battle, ABC on Thursday night boasted of how President Obama cited Jake Tapper's coverage to boost his argument. Anchor Diane Sawyer touted how "the President, last night, well, he noticed what Jake was saying."

ABC's Sawyer Publicizes Left-Wing Effort to Tar U.S. and Advocate for Another Entitlement

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:54:00 +0000

Brent Baker

Human Rights Watch released a hardly comprehensive report, one "based on interviews with 64 parents across the country," which complained: "Just three countries definitively offer no legal guarantee of paid maternity leave: Papua New Guinea, Swaziland - and the United States." Picking up on that, Diane Sawyer announced on Wednesday's World News:

Sawyer Forwards Charge of Tea Party Hypocrisy as Couric Frets: 'Is There Danger' Budget Cuts 'Will Be Too Deep?'

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:30:00 +0000

Brent Baker

ABC's Diane Sawyer hit a group of incoming freshmen House and Senate members about presumed Tea Party hypocrisy in accepting farm subsidies and not refusing to accept federal employee health care while CBS's Katie Couric, with three House members, despaired over the "danger" that budget cuts might "be too deep?" Forwarding liberal talking points, in the pre-recorded segment aired on Wednesday's World News

Nets Use Ginni Thomas' Apology Request to Scold Her Conservative Political Efforts

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:46:00 +0000

Brent Baker

In broadcast network stories on how Ginni Thomas left a phone message for Anita Hill ("I would love you to consider an apology sometimes and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband"), a revelation which ABC and NBC decided merited their lead slot, the network journalists couldn't resist scolding her for her conservative political activity.

ABC Chastises 'Nasty' McCain for 'Vicious' Attack on Boxer, Not So Upset by Slap at O'Donnell as 'Nut Job'

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:32:00 +0000

Brent Baker

"With just 16 days left, it is getting nasty out there," ABC reporter David Kerley asserted Sunday night, scolding Republican Senator John McCain because on the campaign trail he "dropped senatorial decorum and viciously attacked a Democratic colleague." On Saturday, in California, McCain said he's "had the unpleasant experience of having to serve" with Senator Barbara Boxer.

ABC's Moran Giddy Over Kagan: 'Ready,' 'Confident,' 'Fluent' and Has 'Some Real Pop on Her Fastball'

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:34:00 +0000

Brent Baker

"On this first Monday in October, the Supreme Court opened its new term today," an excited Diane Sawyer announced Monday night, trumpeting how it's "making history for America's mothers, sisters and daughters." ABC reporter Terry Moran was even more thrilled, marveling that "the most remarkable thing in that courtroom today, on this historic day, was how unremarkable it was."

Amanpour Paints Rauf's Protection Racket as 'a Matter of Vital National Security'

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:05:00 +0000

Brent Baker

Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf chose ABC's Christiane Amanpour to spend "several hours" with on Thursday in New York City, and just as she did back on the August 22 This Week when she featured Rauf's wife and an ally, she again served as his public relations agent, forwarding his claims without challenge.

To Sawyer, Not Raising Tax Rates Means a 'Tax Cut' as She Frames Debate Through Liberal Prism

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:37:00 +0000

Brent Baker

If your income tax rate stays the same next year, would you consider that a "tax cut"? ABC anchor Diane Sawyer sure seems to think so. Adopting the Obama/Democratic spin as fact, that maintaining the same income tax rates in place since 2003 constitutes a "tax cut," even though taxpayers would pay the same amount on the same income, she led Wednesday's ABC World News:

Qur'an Burning Threat Leads Network News to Discover Wisdom of Palin and Pope

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:45:00 +0000

Brent Baker

"Anti-Muslim bigotry is a problem, but it is only exacerbated by the media's tendency to exaggerate and sensationalize it," the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto observed Wednesday in looking at the media's focus on the threat, to burn Qur'ans, by one widely condemned Florida pastor with barely a few dozen followers.

ABC's Diane Sawyer Promotes 'Change Agent' Arianna Huffington and Her 'Innovative Solutions'

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:52:00 +0000

Brent Baker

ABC's Diane Sawyer gave Arianna Huffington a rare gift on Tuesday night: An entire World News segment devoted to promoting the left-winger's new book, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream, and her Huffington Post site.

Nets See 'Mixed Picture,' 'Mixed Bag' and 'Silver Lining' in Rising Unemployment Rate

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:57:00 +0000

Brent Baker

The Labor Department announced the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a point, to 9.6 percent in August so, as the AP noted, it "has exceeded 9 percent for 16 straight months," while the economy lost 54,000 jobs.

On ABC and CBS, 'Conservative' Beck and Allies Countered by 'Civil Rights Leaders'

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:04:00 +0000

Brent Baker

Just as they did in the morning, on Friday night the broadcast network stories on Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, DC were pegged to left-wing complaints his event is scheduled for the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, except the reporters refused to identify the ideology of Beck's critics while showing no such reluctance to tag him and/or his allies.

ABC Confounded Stabber Not Right-Winger, Still Exploits 'Knife Attack That's Cut Deep Into National Debate Over Faith and Fear'

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:08:00 +0000

Brent Baker

ABC News sure wanted to paint Michael Enright, the 21-year-old charged with stabbing Muslim cab driver Ahmed Sharif in Manhattan, as a bigoted hate crime perpetrator who is the inevitable result of Islamophobic opposition to the mosque near Ground Zero.

ABC Works to Rehabilitate Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Reputation After Pining for George W. Bush

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:15:00 +0000

Brent Baker

ABC News set out Monday night to rehabilitate the reputation of the iman behind the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, Feisal Abdul Rauf, trying to discredit criticism of him from the right as Sharyn Alfonsi portrayed him as a model of religious tolerance who condemns suicide bombers, terrorism and Hamas and who deserves admiration because he "eulogized Daniel Pearl."

ABC's Dan Harris, Who Slimed Tea Party, Tries to Discredit Mosque Opposition as Vile 'Islamophobia'

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:11:00 +0000

Brent Baker

Dan Harris, who last year gave credence, by including their attacks in his stories, to those who wished to discredit the Tea Party as "actually largely orchestrated by people fronting for corporate interests" and smeared participants as "driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President," on Monday night read from the same playbook in maligning the motivations of those opposed to building a mosque near Ground Zero.