Daily Bias Alerts

Wash Post Journalist: 'Maybe the Founders Were Wrong' to Guarantee Free Exercise of Religion

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 5:26 PM EST

Washington Post political writer Melinda Henneberger shockingly stated, Wednesday, that "maybe the Founders were wrong" to guarantee religious liberty. Henneberger appeared on Hardball to discuss the Obama administration's decision to force the Catholic Church to provide birth control in health care.

CNN Asks anti-Prop 8 Plaintiffs If They're 'Considered Heroes', When They're Getting Married

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:23 PM EST

CNN's Randi Kaye granted quite the soft interview to the plaintiffs in the case to overturn same-sex marriage in California.

NBC Liberals All Agree: GOP Should 'Be Quiet' on Chrysler Ad, Obama Did 'Save the Auto Industry'

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:11 PM EST

In a panel discussion on Wednesday's NBC Today, committed liberal and advertising executive Donny Deutsch denounced critics of Chrysler's Super Bowl ad: "Republicans should be quiet because by saying this is a Barack ad, you're saying this is America the beautiful, America is on its way back....They're looking like fools."

Barbara Walters: It's 'Heartbreaking' to Force Women to View an Ultrasound Before an Abortion

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:13 PM EST

The liberal women on The View, Wednesday, shrieked at the "totalitarian" decision by a Texas judge to uphold a law requiring women to look at an ultrasound before having an abortion. Co-host and journalist Barbara Walters found the legal ruling– and not the act of abortion itself-- to be "heartbreaking."

NBC Gives Author Platform to Bash Rick Santorum as a 'Crazy Man' That 'No One Would Believe'

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:42 AM EST

Hocking his new novel on Wednesday's NBC Today, author Josh Bazell launched into a rant against the GOP and Rick Santorum specifically: "If I were to create a character who, say, had been the senator from Pennsylvania...get up at a debate and say that global warming was a hoax and that we had to change the Constitution to limit the rights of gay people. No one would believe that."

Even Chris Matthews Questions Obama's 'Frightening' Birth Control Decision

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:13 PM EST

Even Chris Matthews, who famously gushed about the "thrill" Barack Obama gave his leg, is troubled by the President's "frightening" decision to force Catholic charities to provide birth control through health care. Discussing the issue on Tuesday's Hardball, the host sputtered, "...How can you make the [religious] teacher pay for birth control without losing their authority, their moral authority?...

• Wash Post Journalist: 'Maybe the Founders Were Wrong' to Guarantee Free Exercise of Religion
• CNN Asks anti-Prop 8 Plaintiffs If They're 'Considered Heroes', When They're Getting Married
• NBC Liberals All Agree: GOP Should 'Be Quiet' on Chrysler Ad, Obama Did 'Save the Auto Industry'
• Barbara Walters: It's 'Heartbreaking' to Force Women to View an Ultrasound Before an Abortion
• NBC Gives Author Platform to Bash Rick Santorum as a 'Crazy Man' That 'No One Would Believe'
• Even Chris Matthews Questions Obama's 'Frightening' Birth Control Decision

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Still Thrilled by Obama

The Media Research Center’s review of the ABC, CBS and NBC weekday morning news programs finds the networks are disparaging the Republican candidates and casting them as ideological extremists. But four years ago, those same network shows promoted the Democratic candidates and cast their strong liberal views as mainstream.

Counting the Reasons to Defund

As Congress considers whether or not to grant public broadcasting’s request for $495 million dollars for FY 2014, they should consider the refusal of the taxpayer-subsidized public-broadcasting empire to attempt balance and objectivity in all “programming of a controversial nature,” as required by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Instead, PBS and NPR programmers continue to lurch hard to port to please liberal Democrats and radical-left activists.

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