Several journalists have reportedly used fake names to buy Obama campaign merchandise inside media-only areas of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. Politicker author Hunter Walker recounts that a seller at a souvenir stand revealed the practice when he declined
Yesterday, Politico reported that the GOP had hit upon a new strategy to defeat Barack Obama in the upcoming 2012 presidential election: focus on the fact that he has been a disappointment. As Jonathan Allen, an Obama administration acolyte, writes:
I make the mistake of watching ABC’s Good Morning America most mornings. It’s out of habit, having worked on air at an ABC affiliate for 25 years (plus, who wants to see Charlie Rose first thing in the morning?) These
ABC has now doubled down on its “happy talk” towards gang warfare. I don’t know what else to call this. This is about Serena Williams and the Crip Walk, Part II. After the weekend crew called the “Crip Walk” a
George Stephanopoulos is the anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” So doesn’t the buck stop with him and with the show’s producers for what happened Friday morning? Using the scantest of circumstantial evidence, investigative reporter Brian Ross chose to use
Rahm Emanuel on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos
The long-awaited Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has determined that the individual mandate is an unconstitutional penalty under the Commerce Clause but upheld it as a tax! What we now have is a precedent which
Actresses Salma Hayek and Blake Lively stopped by the set of Good Morning America on Wednesday to promote their new movie, “Savages.” “Savages,” in theatres July 6th, goes into the gritty details behind the Mexican drug cartels and their
The effective aggressiveness of the Romney campaign has been on full display this week, starting with Romney’s very wise decision not to jump in the media trap of repudiating Donald Trump all the way to yesterday, when Romney out-community-organized Team
I was looking forward to watching “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos for his heavily promoted interview with House Speaker John Boehner. I was particularly excited to hear Stephanopolous ask about Operation Fast & Furious, as promotional spots for the show
George Stephanopoulos: “Whatever people think about this issue, we know it’s controversial, there’s no denying when a president speaks out for the first time like that, it is history,” Robin Roberts” “Let me tell you, George, I’m getting chills again,”
On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos that Americans are “in a much better position to deal with” soaring gas prices because “the overall cost of energy for consumers is down.” Then, in another Sunday appearance, Mr.
Because I was on vacation, there will be no podcast this week. I don’t have any strong feelings of nostalgia for the Muppets. Like most kids, I watched “Sesame Street,” occasionally caught “The Muppet Show,” and I even remember seeing
Sen. Rick Santorum vented to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that then-candidate John F. Kennedy’s famous speech about his Catholic faith and its role in the public arena makes him want to “throw up.”Kennedy’s remarks in the speech that incensed the Pennsylvania
When the Republican presidential candidates gathered in New Hampshire on Jan. 7 for the first debate of 2012, former Clinton communications guru George Stephanopoulos surprised Gov. Mitt Romney with a question about contraception that no one–on stage or in the
This Wednesday, in what has practically become a weekly ritual this election season, the four remaining Republican Presidential contenders will gather in Arizona for their 26th debate together. While political junkies like myself will probably tune in anyway to comment on any
At the time it seemed like a very unusual topic for the New Hampshire debate. In fact, most commentators were complaining that the debate wasted so much time on the obscure topic of contraception and federal mandates superseding state’s rights.
Who cares about jobs? Who cares about the economy? Who cares about Obamacare? Who cares about Operation Fast & Furious? Who cares about our debt? Who cares about national security? Obviously not George Stephanopoulos or Diane Sawyer. Last Saturday they
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos came under fire for spending 20 minutes of last week’s GOP debate on questions about the legalization of contraception. In his first public remarks on the subject, he joked about the issue with Comedy Central’s Stephen
Oscar winner George Clooney doesn’t think it makes sense for actors to campaign for their favorite politician. Then why does everyone with access to a TV or web platform know of his undying affection for President Barack Obama? Clooney, currently
ABC’s “This Week” is bringing back George Stephanopoulos little more than a year after Christiane Amanpour replaced him and sent him to NYC for their morning show. There were rumors of Amanpour’s departure for some time, that the shakeup came
Potential good news via the New York Post: Christiane Amanpour may soon be giving up the anchor chair on ABC News’ “This Week.” Sources say network honchos are mulling who might replace the award-winning journalist, who has struggled in the
From the Media Research Center: Over a period of just three and a half days, NBC, CBS and ABC have developed an insatiable hunger for the Herman Cain sexual harassment story, devoting an incredible 50 stories to the allegations since
Let’s all remember what the MSM has worked so hard to teach us over the past few years, and that’s that any criticism or diminishing of Barack Obama is… racism. So the question is, if the word “basketball” is coded
From ABCNews: A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong. Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll
Ex-Clintonista George Stephanopoulos did his very best to torpedo Michele Bachmann yesterday on his ‘news’ show. In the course of his extremely smarmy interview, he asked her about a quote of hers to the effect that the Founding Fathers worked
Very stark difference between Jake Tapper and George Stephanopoulos’s reporting and that of Andrea Mitchell. Stephanopoulos/Tapper reported the fallout from the videos, namely, that it has resulted in the canning of NPR’s two chieftains and more momentum behind the push
Here at Big Journalism we’re pretty tough on the media when they behave badly, but we also try to offer kudos where they are deserved, even if that’s only with benefit of hindsight. Yesterday I pointed out that three high
When news broke that ABC would air the first “live interview” with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld since 2006, I determined to tune in. The host was George Stephanopoulos, the setting was Good Morning America (GMA), and the topic was
From George Stephanopoulos, ABC News: Last week we saw a Florida Pastor – with 30 members in his church – threaten to burn Korans which lead to riots and killings in Afghanistan. We also saw Democrats and Republicans alike assume
The embattled congresswoman gave George Stephanopoulos an exclusive interview on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Here’s everybody’s favorite Clinton-era apparatchik/hack masquerading as a “newsman,” George Stephanopoulos, starting the Obama drumbeat early and often. Let the shilling begin! Shame on Steffi, and worse shame on ABC for employing a political operative and trying — unsuccessfully, thankfully
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos details the “achievements” of the Obama Administration during an interview on Good Morning America. “That’s quite a legislative record, isn’t it?”
Seriously? Sasha and Malia doing babysitting to earn extra cash and Barack Obama says he is not that far removed from what most Americas are going through? What is this, a Saturday Night Live Skit? Nope—a morning interview on ABC
William Buckley achieved notoriety, if not celebrity, with the publication of God and Man at Yale in 1951. The book was asuccès de scandale. In it Buckley attacked the undergraduate education on offer at Yale for its hostility to Christianity