1. Networks Refuse to Report Latest IRS Scandal Revelations
The saga of Lois Lerner’s missing emails took a bunch of twists and turns this past week, but you wouldn’t know that if you only got your news from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks. On July 21, it was reported that even more IRS officials had their hard drives crash on them, including employees who “routinely corresponded” with Lerner. What a coincidence! On that same day it was revealed that a top IRS official was uncertain if backup tapes of Lerner’s lost emails still existed. The next day the story changed again when it was reported that Lerner’s hard drive was only “scratched” and the data was recoverable. More: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/networks-refuse-report-latest-irs-scandal-revelations
2. CBS and NBC Continue to Ignore Federal Judge Overturning D.C. Gun BanOn Saturday, July 26, federal judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. ruled that Washington D.C.’s ban on carrying a gun in public was unconstitutional and since the decision the “big three” networks have remained virtually silent on the Second Amendment victory. Beginning Saturday night and continuing through the evening of Monday, July 28 only ABC’s Good Morning America has acknowledged the ruling. ABC’s Ron Claiborne gave the story a scant 18 seconds on Sunday morning whereas CBS and NBC’s morning and evening newscasts, as well as ABC’s World News have ignored the story altogether. More: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cbs-and-nbc-continue-ignore-federal-judge-overturning-dc-gun-ban |
3. Geraldo: Every Time You Say ‘Illegals’ It’s Like Fingernails on a Blackboard!Geraldo Rivera hates it whenever any one around him refers to people illegally crossing the border as “illegals.” On Monday’s edition of Outnumbered he challenged FNC’s Ainsley Earhardt when she dared to use that phrase in his presence. Rivera barked: “Every time you say ‘illegals,’ it’s like fingernails on a black board!” More: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/geraldo-every-time-you-say-illegals-its-fingernails-blackboard |
4. CBS’s Rose Allows Hamas Leader to Compare Palestinian Terrorism to U.S. Defeating British in Revolutionary WarCBS This Morning aired multiple excerpts on Monday morning of co-host Charlie Rose’s interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, that will air on Rose’s PBS show on Monday night. In the excerpts that were aired, Rose allowed him to compare the Palestinian people in their fighting with Israel to Americans waging war with the British in the America Revolution. Further, Meshaal denied any possibility that, in his mind, a state of Israel could co-exist with any Palestinian state. After dimissing a quote from former President Bil Clinton about Hamas having a strategy “designed to force Israel to kill their own civilians so the rest of the world will condemn them,” Meshaal launched into into a ridiculous comparison between the Palestinians fighting the Israelis and the Americans fighting the British during the American Revolution: “You in America, the American Revolution, was it peaceful? Did you not kick the British out?” More: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cbss-rose-allows-hamas-leader-compare-palestinian-terrorism-us-defeating-british-revoluti |
5. NBC Reporter Frets Over Hamas Getting ‘Nothing’ in Cease-Fire With IsraelOn Monday’s NBC Today, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel worried that Hamas was not getting enough out of a temporary cease-fire agreement with Israel: “What is Hamas getting in return? So far, nothing. No deal, no immediate lifting of the closure of the Gaza Strip. Just a reprieve from Israel’s assault that has flattened entire Gaza neighborhoods and killed more than a thousand Palestinians, many of them civilians, many of them children.”Engel continued to outline the demands from the Palestinian terrorist organization: “The war could easily escalate again. Hamas wants an agreement to end the fighting, not for Israel to unilaterally scale back the assault on its own terms.” More: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-reporter-frets-over-hamas-getting-nothing-cease-fire-israel |
6. CBS Promotes Obama Fist Bump In Wake of New Study on Reducing Spread of Germs
On Monday night, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley used a new study showing that high fives are five times more hygienic than shaking hands as a way of promoting President Obama’s use of the fist bump. Fill-in anchor James Brown, who hosts The NFL Today on CBS, gushed at how “in his line of work, President Obama does a healthy amount of handshaking but a study out today says high fives will be more hygienic. They transfer only about half as many bacteria.” More: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cbs-promotes-obama-fist-bump-wake-new-study-reducing-spread-germs
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