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Journalists Would "Recoil in Horror" at Palin Presidency; Hoping Weiner Hangs on Like "Beloved" Bill Clinton

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Vol. 24, No. 13

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Journalists Would "Recoil in Horror" at Palin Presidency

Weinergate: The Story the Networks Never Liked

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MRC Study Finds Twice as Much Intensity for Republican Scandal in 2006 Than Sexting Scandal of 2011

Tim Graham

As much as liberals might complain the Anthony Weiner scandal was some sort of feeding frenzy, the networks did not attack it, especially the evening news. They seemed to agree with just-departed CBS anchor Katie Couric, who asked on Twitter: "I'm curious if anybody thinks this Anthony Weiner Twitter scandal is a legit news story or just fodder for late-night comedians."

NBC Laments Weiner Resignation as 'Sad Ending' to 'Bright, Promising Political Career'

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:54:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

As news broke Thursday morning of Congressman Anthony Weiner's upcoming resignation, congressional correspondent Luke Russert appeared on NBC's Today and sympathetically declared: "...this is really a sad ending, a lot would say, to what was once a bright, promising political career."

Chris Matthews: Weiner Press Conference 'Sort of Like the Hanging of Saddam Hussein'

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Chris Matthews came up with a bizarre analogy on Thursday, suggesting that Anthony Weiner's resignation press conference was "sort of like the hanging of Saddam Hussein." While offering criticism of Weiner, the Hardball anchor also praised the event: "At his best, he had dignity today. He had a measure of class, which has been missing in all of this."

NBC: Weiner Resignation Announcement 'Showed Much of His Strength as a Congressman'

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:30:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

During Thursday's NBC News special coverage of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner announcing his resignation, congressional correspondent Kelly O'Donnell remarked to Nightly News anchor Brian Williams: "Anthony Weiner showed much of his strength as a Congressman in what he talked about just now in trying to talk about a message that was something other than this scandal." [Audio available here]

Was Anthony Weiner Victim of New Washington 'Puritanism'?

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Kate Zernike on Anthony Weiner, victim of Washington "puritanism"? "But technology keeps adding new and in many ways more seductive temptations to the mix. And this is happening at a time when, many argue, a more prying press corps, stricter public standards and greater partisanship have combined to make Washington oddly more puritanical than it once was."

Clay Waters

Was disgraced Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, who carried on several inappropriate online chats with young women, a victim of a newly 'puritanical' climate in Washington? That's the inference from Kate Zernike's front-page story for the Times' Week in Review, 'Naked Hubris...While digital flux makes it easier for politicians to stray,' a companion piece to Sheryl Gay Stolberg's 'When it comes to scandal, boys will be boys.' She wrote:

CNN Gives Maher Platform to Accuse GOP Candidates of 'Horrible Society-Killing Ideas,' Call Cheney 'More Psychotic' Than Weiner

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:50:00 +0000

Brent Baker

The night after CNN's debate in New Hampshire with seven Republican presidential candidates, Anderson Cooper brought aboard left-wing 'comedian' Bill Maher to ridicule them. Asked if he 'had to vote' for one of them, he named Ron Paul since 'he's a cut from a different cloth than the rest of those people who are of course selling their souls to the corporate interests who back them and who have just horrible, society-killing ideas about America.'

Tea Party "Not So Bright," Maybe Like Hitler's Mobs; Anchor Targets Sarah Palin's Outlaw Bus

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Vol. 24, No. 12

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CNN Host: Tea Partiers Not Bright, Like Hitler's Mobs?

Barbara Walters Insists Weiner Should Stay and Be the Next Bill Clinton

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:13:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

Disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner may currently be lacking in Democratic allies on Capitol Hill, but he at least has one on ABC's The View. Co-host Barbara Walters held hope Thursday that Weiner can survive his scandal and be an "effective" congressman.

"He was a good congressman, and maybe he can weather this all and be effective," Walters offered on Thursday's edition of The View.

Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because His Behavior Offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:42:00 +0000

Geoffrey Dickens

On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews determined that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could be in danger of being forced out of Congress by Blue Dog Dems who face uphill battles in red states because, as he put it, "people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally - you can say backward if you want...don't like this kind of stuff."

NBC: 'Puritanical' Americans Must Become 'Anesthetized' to Sex Scandals

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:29:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, advertising executive Donny Deutsch and psychotherapist Robi Ludwig both agreed that the American people should not stop being "shocked" by political sex scandals. Deutsch declared: "...we have to stop being shocked and amazed....when men who are conquerors by nature also chase women....we as a society have got to become a little more anesthetized to this."

NBC Touts Bill Clinton's Unhappiness with Embarrassment of Weiner Sex Scandal

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:55:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

During a report on growing calls for Anthony Weiner to resign from Congress on Thursday's NBC Today, Politico's Maggie Haberman noted how former President Bill Clinton was particularly troubled by the sex scandal: "Bill Clinton is very unhappy with Anthony Weiner right now. The Clintons are not thrilled with this."

Newsmag Double Standard: Two Cover Stories and 15 Pages vs. 160 Tiny Words

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:58:00 +0000

Tim Graham

As Brent Bozell reminded readers of his column, the broadcast networks piled on 152 stories about Rep. Mark Foley in the story's first 12 days in the fall of 2006, but they weren't the only ones with a vast left-wing disparity. Time and Newsweek each devoted cover stories and multiple pages to the Foley scandal.

NBC's Vieira: Why Should Anthony Weiner Resign?

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:01:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

Talking to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday's NBC Today, outgoing co-host Meredith Vieira questioned calls for disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner to resign: "Nancy Pelosi has formally asked the Ethics Committee to look into this. So why not just let them do their job and then let the chips fall where they may

Gullible Wolf Blitzer: I 'Sort of Believed' Weiner's Lie

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:37:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's Wolf Blitzer admitted Monday that he believed Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) when the congressman told him in an interview that he did not send a lewd photo of himself over Twitter. Blitzer related to CNN's Piers Morgan Monday evening his thoughts immediately after the interview.

"I'm saying to myself, you know what, it sounds to me like it may have been his picture, but it was out there, but somebody else hacked it and somebody else sent it out to embarrass him. I sort of believed, you know, that line," he confessed.