CNN’s Cuomo Slaps Republicans for Taking Americans ‘Hostage’ Over Spending Cuts
CNN’s Chris Cuomo pounded Republicans on Tuesday’s New Day for demanding offsetting spending cuts in exchange for extending jobless benefits.
“Are they holding these people hostage? I mean, shouldn’t these be extended and then have a legitimate jobs policy discussion?” Cuomo asked in disbelief of Republicans holding out for a deal on jobless benefits. Cuomo is the brother of New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, and once again sounded like a Democratic strategist going after Republicans.
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NBC: Bush to Blame for ‘Security Vacuum’ in Iraq Created by Obama’s Troop Withdrawal
Introducing a report on Monday’s NBC Nightly News about Al-Qaeda forces seizing control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, anchor Brian Williams went out of his way to blame the President George W. Bush for the deteriorating security situation: “U.S. fighting forces are gone from Iraq. But as so many predicted when President Bush chose to go to war there after 9/11, the fighting has started up again.” [Listen to the audio]
However, in the report that followed, correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin featured a soundbite of President Obama – not President Bush – celebrating the “historic moment” of an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal from the country after failing to negotiate a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. Mohyeldin noted: “Some warned the U.S. withdrawal left a security vacuum.”
Whoopi Goldberg to Mary Matalin: Who is Going to Separate GOP from the ‘Kooky Folks?’
On Tuesday’s edition of The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg pressed former Republican strategist Mary Matalin for her early favorites for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination as she wondered who in the party would be able to separate themselves from “the kooky folks?”
For her part Matalin, who was invited on with husband James Carville to promote their new book Love & War, dodged Goldberg’s slam and proceeded to offer her pick for the GOP nod.
NBC Skips Big Win for Second Amendment, Hypes Bigfoot Reality Show Instead
Both ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on Tuesday covered a big win for the Second Amendment in the courts. NBC’s Today couldn’t make time for the ruling by a federal judge that struck down Chicago’s ban on retail gun sales. Instead, the morning show devoted almost five minutes to a new reality show about the Bigfoot monster.
Good Morning America’s Josh Elliott explained, “A federal judge has struck down Chicago’s ban on gun sales, calling it unconstitutional…Chicago’s murder rate was the highest in the nation last year.” [MP3 audio here.] Over on This Morning, Charlie Rose informed viewers that “[U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang] says banning the sale of firearms in Chicago is unconstitutional. He’s not convinced it helps with gun violence.”
ABC Gushes Over Michelle Obama’s ‘Extended Vacation,’ Shows No Interest in Cost
The journalists at Good Morning America on Tuesday offered a gushing, excited look at Michelle Obama’s “extended vacation” in Hawaii, offering no questions or skepticism about what the trip will cost taxpayers. Entertainment reporter Lara Spencer enthused, “This morning, there are reports that Mrs. Obama is spending the rest of her stay with her good friend Oprah Winfrey at her estate on the island of Maui. Winfrey will also be celebrating a milestone birthday.” [MP3 audio here.]
Spencer hyped the First Lady’s impending birthday, touting, “Word is there won’t be a formal dinner but there will be plenty of dancing. She does love to dance and we wish her a very happy birthday.” On Monday, Fox News reporter Ed Henry quizzed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: “The First Lady stayed behind and the White House said that was an early birthday present from the President. Does that mean he’s paying for the flight back or taxpayers?”
NBC Promotes Left-Wing Criminals Who Stole 1,000 FBI Documents, Likens Them to Snowden
In a fawning report on Tuesday’s NBC Today, national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff touted the exploits of two left-wing activists who stole a thousand FBI documents in 1971 and just confessed to the crime: “In an exclusive NBC News interview, the burglars, anti-Vietnam War activists, admit they committed the crime to expose what they believed were illegal activities by the FBI.” [Listen to the audio]
Isikoff dramatically described the heist: “Bonnie Raines cased the office posing as a college student, leaving no fingerprints….Her husband, John Raines, a retired religion professor, drove the getaway car.” He then proclaimed: “The documents exposed FBI efforts to spread paranoia among left-wing groups and COINTELPRO, a surveillance program started years earlier by then-director J. Edgar Hoover.”
Where’s the Media Outrage? Virginia Democrat Compares Republicans to Violent Rapists
In an outrageous ad aired on the local Washington D.C. NBC affiliate WRC-4, Virginia Democratic state senate candidate Jennifer Wexton – running to replace newly elected Virginia attorney general Mark Herring – made a shocking comparison between violent rapists that she once tried as a prosecutor to “Tea Party Republicans” in the Virginia legislature. [Listen to the audio]
After describing women being assaulted and “traumatized again by facing the criminal in court,” Wexton made this declaration: “…as a prosecutor I put violent offenders in prison. In the Virginia Senate, I’ll fight just as hard against Tea Party Republicans who would take away a woman’s health care and her right to choose, even in cases of rape and incest.”
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