Daily Bias Alerts

CBS's Smith Frets Over Left-Wing Opposition to Obama Afghanistan Strategy

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 02:30 PM ET

Speaking with Brookings Institution analyst Michael O'Hanlon on Tuesday about President Obama's upcoming decision to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, CBS Early Show co-host Harry Smith worried: “...how much is this going to cost him on the Left? Because I'm – I've got this sense that there will be people on the Left of President Obama who are not pleased by this.”

Nets That Touted 'Deniers' 'Conspiracy,' Now Mum on Left's Global Warming Distortions

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:34 AM ET

So far, the broadcast networks haven't uttered a single word about revelations showing scientists on the left-wing side of the global warming debate plotting to hide data and silence those on the other side. But when liberals charged dissenting scientists with a "conspiracy" to tilt the debate, the networks eagerly jumped on the story and castigated the evil "deniers."

NBC Takes Up Kennedy vs. Catholic Church 'Crossing the Line' Into 'Political Blackmail'

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:55 AM ET

Monday's NBC Nightly News took up the story of liberal Rep. Patrick Kennedy's public feud with the Catholic Church, and NBC's Ron Allen implied something improper in how "the Catholic Church is flexing its religious and political muscle." NBC's screen graphic asked if the church was "Crossing the Line?" A secular-left lobbyist accused the church of being "not above spiritual and political blackmai...

CBS Catches Up with Conservatives and Realizes Obama Has 'Credibility' Problem

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 02:38 AM ET

Long after conservatives and the American people figured it out, CBS on Monday night came to the realization President Barack Obama has a "credibility" problem fueled by the "disconnect" between Obama's promise to reduce the deficit as he pushes for massive new spending.

Suzanne Malveaux Latest to Use Vulgar 'Teabagger' Label on CNN

Monday, November 23, 2009 @ 07:32 PM ET

On Monday's Situation Room, Suzanne Malveaux became the latest CNN personality to use the offensive "teabagger" label to describe opponents of ObamaCare: "Do we expect to see the kinds of big rallies and...the circus atmosphere that we saw...over the summer when you were talking about controversial policy, 'teabaggers' and all that other thing?"

CBS's Schieffer Warns of Excessive Spending...On Military

Monday, November 23, 2009 @ 05:01 PM ET

At the end of CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, host Bob Schieffer fretted over massive government spending but avoided blaming current Democratic proposals: “I'm not even talking about the cost of health care....It is now costing $1 million a year to keep one U.S. soldier on the ground in Afghanistan, not to mention that for every soldier there, we have one civilian contractor.”

• CBS's Smith Frets Over Left-Wing Opposition to Obama Afghanistan Strategy
• Nets That Touted 'Deniers' 'Conspiracy,' Now Mum on Left's Global Warming Distortions
• NBC Takes Up Kennedy vs. Catholic Church 'Crossing the Line' Into 'Political Blackmail'
• CBS Catches Up with Conservatives and Realizes Obama Has 'Credibility' Problem
• Suzanne Malveaux Latest to Use Vulgar 'Teabagger' Label on CNN
• CBS's Schieffer Warns of Excessive Spending...On Military

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Special Report

Special Report: Better Off Red?

Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell, tearing down the Iron Curtain that had sliced Europe in half since the end of World War II. Yet before, during and after those momentous events two decades ago, many in the liberal media continuously whitewashed the true nature of communism, or suggested free-market capitalism was somehow worse. The record compiled over 22 years by the Media Research Center demonstrates how some liberal journalists utterly failed to accurately depict communism as one of the worst evils of the 20th century, and often aimed their fire at those who were fighting communism rather than those who were perpetuating it.

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Diane Sawyer will take the helm of ABC's World News in January, but as the long-time co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America, she has a track record of liberal spin. Sawyer has lauded high-profile liberals like Nancy Pelosi (“galvanized steel with a smile”) and Hillary Clinton (“political mastery,” “dazzling”), while in her infamous 20/20 interview, she targeted Ken Starr’s report on Bill Clinton as “demented pornography, pornography for Puritans.”

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