Louisiana

ABC, NBC Omit Mention of Vulnerable Democrat Landrieu in Failed Keystone Senate Vote

curtis.houck — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:11:12 +0000

Curtis Houck

While all three major broadcast networks covered the failed vote in the U.S.

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

NBC's Todd Accepts Landrieu's Charge the South Not the ‘Friendliest Place for African-Americans’ Like Obama

curtis.houck — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:44:22 +0000

Curtis Houck

NBC News political director and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd accepted the premise of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu’s charge that anti-Obama racism is behind opposition to her re-election in Louisiana, relaying how she “told me” of the underlying reason for his low standing, which is “more acute here in the South and it was something that” Landrieu “told me has more to do with than his policies. Take a listen.”

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

NBC Sees Controversy in Louisiana Abortion Bill With 'Broad Bipartisan Support'

kyle.drennen — Tue, 27 May 2014 19:19:18 +0000

Kyle Drennen

At the top of Saturday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt proclaimed: "Abortion battleground. The newest state to impose tougher requirements on doctors who perform the procedure. Protecting women or denying them access?" In another tease of the upcoming story minutes later, Holt warned: "...the battle over abortion and a controversial new law about to take effect." [Listen to the audio]

— Kyle Drennen is Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.

Oil Spills and Propaganda Ploys

tim.graham — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:37:05 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Tim Graham

"The Laramie Project” is a agitprop play compiled from real-life interviews that indicted the entire state of Wyoming as homophobic and therefore responsible for the murder of Matthew Shepard. One character announced it was just like “the Germans who looked the other way are guilty of the deaths of the Jews, the gypsies, and the homosexuals.”

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Sees Red Areas Not 'Caring About' Children Being Shot

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:44:59 +0000

Brad Wilmouth

As she appeared on Monday's All In with Chris Hayes show, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry described the conservative "red" parts of her home state of Lousiana as "not thinking about or caring about the 10-year-old children in my neighborhood who are shot while walking down the street" as she and host Chris Hayes discussed a recent mass shooting at a par

"Tainted Senator Rides Anti-Obama Sentiment"

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:27:00 +0000

Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter is riding an anti-Obama backlash, and the Times isn't happy about it: "It is difficult to overstate President Obama's unpopularity in most of Louisiana. He lost handily to Senator John McCain here, picking up only 14 percent of the white vote (the state is roughly two-thirds white)."

Clay Waters

A Friday front-page story by Campbell Robertson about the surprise revival of Republican Sen. David Vitter, who showed up on the client list of a Washington prostitute in 2007, hinted, in hostile fashion, at a brewing anti-Obama election backlash: "In Louisiana, Tainted Senator Rides Anti-Obama Sentiment."

Adam Nossiter: Loves Taxes, Dislikes Southern Conservatives

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:00 +0000

Adam Nossiter again showed his love of tax hikes and his hostility toward Southern conservatives in a story in which he enjoys Louisiana's financial struggles a little too much and condescends to a minority Republican governor: "the Republican Party's national pinup, Gov. Bobby Jindal, has to absorb the brunt of the state's abrupt shift in fortunes."

Clay Waters

Reporter Adam Nossiter, who takes the South as his beat, again displayed his love for taxes and his hostility towards conservative Southern politicians in Friday's "For Louisiana, Bons Temps Proved All Too Brief,"in which he appears to be enjoying Louisiana's day of financial reckoning a bit too much.

Race-Obsessed Nossiter Emphasizes White Turnout in Corrupt Dem's Defeat

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:38:00 +0000

Rep. William "Cold Cash" Jefferson of Louisiana was upset by Republican Anh Cao. But Adam Nossiter found no historic impact in the election of the first Vietnamese-American to Congress, only concern over the white turnout that led to the black incumbent's defeat.

Clay Waters

Southern-based (and Southern-hostile reporter) Adam Nossiter didn't take well the shock defeat of corrupt black Democratic Rep.

Barney Frank Opposes Offshore Drilling For Fishing Industry

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:33:28 +0000

Jeff Poor

With oil trading above $145 a barrel, exploration and drilling for oil could provide economic opportunities for Rep. Barney Frank’s (D-Mass.) struggling congressional district.

That wasn’t enough to persuade Frank, who insisted this would hurt the fishing industry in his district. He made the anti-drilling comments during CNBC’s July 14 “The Call” in anticipation of Bush’s announcement that he would lift the executive order banning oil drilling offshore.

Nossiter Sniffs at Conservative La. Gov. Jindal, Friend of "Fiscal Stringency"

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Scary conservatives afoot in Louisiana, warns reporter Adam Nossiter: "Religion and fiscal stringency have a friendly home at the state Capitol here, with a conservative, Bobby Jindal, in the governors office, a host of straight-arrow novice legislators eager to please him..."

Clay Waters

Southern-based Adam Nossiter's reporting reveals a clear suspicion of conservative Southern (racist!) Republicans, which is muffled but not entirely absent from his Monday profile of Louisiana's new wunderkind Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, "In Louisiana, Inklings of a New (True)

No Liberals in Louisiana? That's What Adam Nossiter Thinks

admin — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:21:00 +0000

Discussing an upcoming special congressional election, Nossiter says the word "liberal" is "an unlikely appellation in a state where at most a handful of black politicians from the larger cities meet the definition."

Clay Waters

More cheerleading for Democrats, albeit a "conservative" one, in Adam Nossiter's Friday story from Baton Rouge on a special congressional election in Louisiana ("Louisiana Democrat Holds His Party at Bay for a Chance at Victory").

Low Taxes: Enemy of Southern States

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:24:00 +0000

Adam Nossiter on Louisiana's new young Republican governor: "[Bobby Jindal] has already talked of cutting taxes on business, prompting questions about whether he will move beyond such traditional Republican economic strategies."

Clay Waters

Adam Nossiter's "New Louisiana Governor Pierces Brazen Style of Business as Usual" is a mostly flattering profile of boy-wonder governor Bobby Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants who became governor of the state at 36.

Finally Times Gets Katrina Coverage (Half) Right

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:56:00 +0000

"There is no doubt that state and local officials were partly to blame for the slow and inefficient response to Hurricane Katrina." But the Times doubted it for years, focusing all the blame on Bush and the federal government's response.

Clay Waters

Some interesting backfill took place in Saturday's story on the swift and effective government response to the wildfires in California - and the marked contrast that made to the flawed reaction on all levels of government after Hurricane Katrina.

Times Oddly Underwhelmed by Victory of Indian-American in Louisiana

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:03:00 +0000

Could it be because Louisiana Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal is a conservative, religious Republican?

Clay Waters

Young Indian-American House member Bobby Jindal won the governorship of Louisiana, a state notorious for its political gumbo of gothic and good-old-boy. Such an achievement would ordinarily be celebrated as the opening of a new civil rights frontier in the P.C. pages of the Times. But perhaps because Jindal is a conservative Republican, Southern-based reporter Adam Nossiter's Sunday newsaccount was rather measured and underwhelming.

NYT Lead Editorial: Rove Can't Dance

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:14:00 +0000

Liberal drama critic (turned political columnist) Frank Rich would be proud of Sunday's lead editorial, "The Rovian Era."

Clay Waters

Eschewing factual argument, Sunday's lead editorial "The Rovian Era," a hatchet job on you-know-who, channels partisan liberal columnist Frank Rich down to the out-of-nowhere pop-culture references no one but Rich under