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Ashleigh
Banfield
NBC News took Banfield to task for anti-network remarks she made at Kansas State University. The network issued a statement saying it was “deeply disappointed and troubled” by her comments.
(CyberAlert,
April 29, 2003)
“I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again -- to fight another war,” Banfield said in the Kansas State speech, “because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor." She also complained of cable news operatives who “wrap themselves in the flag.”
(CyberAlert, April
28, 2003)
MSNBC dumped the little-watched On Location with
Ashleigh Banfield and replaced it with reruns of
MSNBC Investigates.
(CyberAlert,
October 15, 2002)
Banfield highlighted the results of a competitor’s (CBS
News-New York Times) poll that reported that 70 percent of respondents said they wanted to hear more about improving the economy than about war with Iraq. But only half of those polled
were asked that question.
(CyberAlert,
October 9, 2002)
Banfield championed California’s mandate for family leave, calling it “great news,” but did note how its critics thought it would be bad for the economy.
(CyberAlert,
September 27, 2002)
Banfield featured two left-wing protestors who managed to sneak a banner into a House hearing with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and cause a disruption. Banfield did ask tough questions noting that “a lot of people consider” their methodology “to be pretty darn rude,” and suggesting to them that they are out of touch.
(CyberAlert,
September 20, 2002)
The news show host conceded that her Israeli producer, who lives in the U.S., is "somewhat
leftist.”
(CyberAlert, April
11, 2002)
Banfield had earlier claimed she would “absolutely” like to interview Osama bin Laden. After being criticized, Banfield lamented, “I always find it sad that people think by being the messenger you're somehow branded as actually believing in the message yourself.”
(CyberAlert, April 9, 2002)
Banfield said she was eager to give terrorist murder mastermind Osama bin Laden a forum from which to pontificate. “Personally, absolutely I would like to interview Osama bin Laden,” she declared on her show, since “I'd be fascinated by anything Osama bin Laden would have to say.”
(CyberAlert, April
4, 2002)
Banfield revealed that when she is in Pakistan or Iran she is sure to point out that she is a Canadian, not an American citizen. With that known, “I tend to get a warmer reception,” she told
David Letterman on the Late Show.
(CyberAlert,
February 20, 2002)
According to Banfield, those in Pakistan who hate the U.S. are best described as the “religious right.”
(CyberAlert,
October 18, 2001)
Banfield appeared on Don Imus’s radio show and gushed that the Taliban displayed “media savvy” by inviting Jesse Jackson to mediate their dispute with the U.S.
(CyberAlert,
September 28, 2001)
Awaiting a public conference call between Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, Banfield likened her excitement to “waiting for my prom date to call and invite me to the prom — and I’m not going to tell you how many years ago that was."
(CyberAlert,
November 29, 2000)
Tom Brokaw
Entries on Brokaw go back to January 2002. Use the search engine to find Brokaw items dating back as far at 1987.
Brokaw couldn’t refer to partial birth abortion without attaching the “so-called,” prefix to the term on the October 21
NBC Nightly News.
(CyberAlert,
October 23, 2003)
(CyberAlert,
October 22, 2003)
NBC’s anchor called Lt. General Jerry Boykin’s comments about religion and Islam “divisive.”
(CyberAlert,
October 20, 2003)
(CyberAlert,
October 17, 2003)
In an interview with California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brokaw suggested that the groping allegations several women had made against him could be considered sexual assault.
(Notable Quotables,
October 13, 2003)
Network analysts were quick to suggest the recall of Davis represented widespread anger with incumbents and that this mood could specifically spell trouble for President Bush next year. Brokaw teased: “Is there a message for President Bush in the California vote.
(CyberAlert,
October 9, 2003)
The MRC celebrated Brokaw’s 20th anniversary as
NBC Nightly News anchor with a Media Reality Check that examined some of his slanted reporting.
(Media Reality Check,
September 3, 2003)
A highlight from the biased summer of ’03. Brokaw claimed President Bush’s use of the Iraq-African uranium link in the State of the Union meant, “a vital argument for going to war against Iraq is not true.”
(CyberAlert, August
29, 2003)
The NBC anchor went to Baghdad and provided an up-beat report. “Despite the daily violence and the chaos, everywhere you go, Iraqis express their gratitude for the war that removed Saddam Hussein from power,” Brokaw said.
(CyberAlert, July
17, 2003)
Brokaw provided a different look at post-war Iraq by profiling an Iraqi family that had left San Diego to move back to Iraq. “Despite the daily violence and the chaos,” Brokaw said, “everywhere you go, Iraqis express their gratitude for the war that removed Saddam Hussein from power.”
(CyberAlert, July
17, 2003)
Brokaw relayed that soldiers felt “like prisoners of peace” and one soldier said that “morale sucks.” But Brokaw also featured a soldier with a better outlook, who said, “I believe everybody's entitled to their basic rights from freedom, you know, from anything and I think that's why I'm here.”
(CyberAlert, July
16, 2003)
Brokaw highlighted former U.N. arms inspector David Kay, now working for the U.S. in Iraq, said he is confident that within six months he’d have “a substantial body of evidence” to prove Saddam Hussein had a weapons of mass destruction program.
(CyberAlert, July
16, 2003)
After the White House admitted that its claim that Iraq had received uranium from Niger was based on forged documents, Brokaw was among those who made broad assertions about how the concession undermined a premise for war.
(CyberAlert, July
9, 2003)
At the top of NBC Nightly
News, Brokaw announced: “It has been another dangerous and bloody day for American forces in Iraq….Still, administration officials are insisting they're gaining ground and current polls show the American people continue to support the war.”
(CyberAlert, July
2, 2003)
NBC was among the networks that treated a minor change in an upcoming EPA report as a scandal. On the
Nightly News, Brokaw warned: “All of this is raising questions on Capitol Hill for a White House that’s already been criticized for bailing out of the Kyoto global warming treaty.”
(CyberAlert, June
20, 2003)
On NBC Nightly News, Brokaw explained that President Bush’s tax cut was being “roughed up by Democrats” because low-income groups were “left out,” but failed to point out that these groups don’t pay income taxes in the first place.
(CyberAlert, June
9, 2003)
Brokaw announced that “leaked” excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s book “show that she’s a lot more candid about her personal life and feelings than many had expected.”
(CyberAlert, June
5, 2003)
(Notable Quotables,
June 23, 2003)
Brokaw seemed uncomfortable with Tom DeLay’s tough words for the Chinese. DeLay called China “a backward, corrupt anachronism run by decrepit tyrants which should not be allowed to impose its murderous ideology on Taiwan.'"
(CyberAlert, June
3, 2003)
At the beginning of Nightly
News, Brokaw teased: “Cut out. Why millions of lower-income families may not be getting the help they expected from President Bush's new tax cut." Brokaw, like his fellow anchormen made this the top story and insisted that the plan had “an embarrassing omission.”
(CyberAlert, May
30, 2003)
Brokaw greeted President Bush's signing of the tax cut bill by lamenting how “yesterday there was no ceremony for the President’s signature on a bill allowing the government to borrow almost $7.5 trillion.”
(CyberAlert, May
29, 2003)
Brokaw reported that the Texas Department of Public Safety tried to use the federal office of Homeland Security to find the Democrats who walked out of Texas state legislature to keep a congressional redistricting plan from passing.
(CyberAlert, May
19, 2003)
Brokaw implied that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan opposed Bush’s tax cut, saying he “issued a warning that tax cut need to be matched by spending cuts or budget deficits will drive up interest rates.”
(CyberAlert, May 1,
2003)
The “Wahoo Gazette” on cbs.com reported that Brokaw just barely made it to NBC studios to anchor the
Nightly News after taping the Late Show with David Letterman at CBS, six blocks away and only 30 minutes earlier.
(CyberAlert, April
17, 2003)
According to a 2002 New Republic article, Brokaw and NBC News did
some groveling with the Saddam Hussein regime to gain access to Baghdad.
(CyberAlert, April
17, 2003)
In an appearance on David Letterman Late
Show, Brokaw was critical of CNN’s Eason Jordan for that network’s admitted non-coverage of news in order to keep a presence in Baghdad, Iraq during the 1990s.
(CyberAlert, April
16, 2003)
After the fall of Baghdad, Brokaw asked former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft if
he had had any second thoughts about his opposition to the war.
(CyberAlert, April
10, 2003)
As U.S. forces closed in on Baghdad, Brokaw provided a dour assessment of the war.
(CyberAlert, April
3, 2003)
Brokaw emphasized the negative in a late March report, claiming the wrong turn that led seven American being captured s was a “high-profile blunder.” Brokaw also said the two captured helicopter pilots were adding to a “growing list” of American casualties.
(CyberAlert, March
25, 2003)
A comparison of Brokaw’s and Jennings’ reports from Saturday, March 22. Jennings report stressed dissent while Brokaw merely noted the progress of the war.
(CyberAlert, March
23, 2003)
The night the war started Brokaw hit the air at 9:32 p.m., the same time as Dan Rather. ABC’s Peter Jennings came on a full half-hour later.
(CyberAlert, March
20, 2003)
Brokaw offered the first network of coverage of the controversial remarks of Virginia Congressmen Jim Moran, who claimed the U.S. was going to war because of the “strong support” of the Jewish community.
(CyberAlert, March
13, 2003)
The anchor claimed Congress had gone practically mute on the war after passing resolutions that allowed the President to proceed. “The debate has been spotty, and with just a few exceptions, it has been timid,” Brokaw said.
(CyberAlert, March
5, 2003)
Before President Bush’s speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Brokaw made sure viewers knew AEI was a conservative organization.
(CyberAlert,
February 28, 2003)
Brokaw cracked a bad joke on Late Night with Conan
O’Brien. The elevated terrorist warning was an attempt to break up anti-war protests, the NBC anchor quipped.
(CyberAlert,
February 10, 2003)
Brokaw appeared on David Letterman’s Late Show and admitted Iraqis were afraid to criticize Saddam Hussein because it could get them killed.
(CyberAlert,
February 7, 2003)
Brokaw used Ronald Reagan’s 92nd birthday to deliver an oddly timed commentary about terrorism, war and a sick economy.
(CyberAlert,
February 7, 2003)
The NBC anchor used both “record deficits” and “huge tax cuts” in a story on President Bush’s proposed budget.
(CyberAlert,
February 4, 2003)
Brokaw and Tim Russert made sure viewers knew that top Senate and House Republicans were cool to the President’s proposed tax cut.
(CyberAlert,
January 29, 2003)
Brokaw story on 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade depicted pro-life gains not as a threat to the right to abortion, but as an indication that pro-life forces are gaining in strength.
(CyberAlert,
January 23, 2003)
Al Sharpton made his presidential bid official and Brokaw skipped over the new candidate’s racial hatemongering. Brokaw also neglected to identify Sharpton as a liberal.
(CyberAlert,
January 22, 2003)
The NBC anchor pointed out that President Bush’s decision to oppose the affirmative action lawsuit before the Supreme Court came on Martin Luther King’s birthday.
(CyberAlert,
January 16, 2003)
In an interview with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Brokaw asked twice if there had to be a “smoking gun” before the U.S. went to war in Iraq.
(CyberAlert,
January 10, 2003)
Brokaw stressed that President Bush’s tax cuts were more “trickle down economics” but reporter Campbell Brown at least admitted that most savings would go to the “richest Americans who pay more in taxes.”
(CyberAlert,
January 8, 2003)
In contrast to the other networks, Brokaw opened the
Nightly News by citing the Bush administration’s claim that the tax cut package would help all Americans, not just the wealthy.
(CyberAlert,
January 3, 2003)
Another Brokaw-Jennings contrast. ABC anchor reported U.N. inspections in Iraq were going well. Brokaw told viewers that signals were “not encouraging.”
(CyberAlert,
December 3, 2002)
Brokaw scolded President Bush and Republicans for cutting taxes and “rolling up record deficits.”
(CyberAlert,
November 8, 2002)
After the 2002 Congressional elections, Brokaw noted that President Bush had more power than any Republican president since Eisenhower.
(CyberAlert,
November 7, 2002)
On election night 2002, Brokaw asked Gov. Jeb Bush which domestic questions his brother should address.
(CyberAlert,
November 6, 2002)
When the Washington, D.C.-area snipers were arrested, Brokaw, like the other network anchors, ignored their ties to the Nation of Islam.
(CyberAlert,
October 25, 2002)
Israel decided to surround PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s compound after two terrorist bus bombings. Brokaw described the developments as representing “a cycle of violence that seems to be escalating all over again.”
(CyberAlert,
September 20, 2002)
The campaign finance reform law was finally passed but it was on its way to becoming an unfulfilled promise, Brokaw told viewers.
(CyberAlert,
September 18, 2002)
“No deal on drugs. The last hope for a Medicare prescription benefit goes down to defeat in the Senate,” Brokaw lamented.
(CyberAlert, August
1, 2002)
Phil Donahue praised Brokaw for not wearing a flag lapel.
(CyberAlert, July
26, 2002)
Brokaw on President Bush’s decade-old Harken Energy sale: “The timing and the stock's sale – or the delayed reporting of it – continue to raise questions.”
(CyberAlert, July 10, 2002)
Reporting on new rules on power plant emissions, Brokaw attributed to “environmental groups” spin that at least one other anchor treated as fact.
(CyberAlert, June
14, 2002)
In the midst of the feeding frenzy over President Bush’s briefings on Osama bin Laden prior to 9-11, Brokaw led the
Nightly News with “What did the President know and when did he know it in the days before 9/11?”
(CyberAlert, May 17,
2002)
When Republicans came up with a fund-raising scheme that included photos of President Bush on Air Force One during 9-11, Brokaw claimed “this White House has come up with a token for contributors that is raising more than eyebrows.”
(CyberAlert, May
15, 2002)
Unlike other network anchors, Brokaw suggested that a Saudi Arabian telethon might be used to bankroll terrorists.
(CyberAlert, April
15, 2002)
The NBC anchor neglected to mention that Rep. James Traficant’s was a Democrat in a short story on his convictions.
(CyberAlert, April
12, 2002)
Brokaw tagged President Bush’s cloning position as “hard line.”
(CyberAlert, April
11, 2002)
Brokaw worried that loopholes would turn the campaign finance reform law into “business as
usual.”
(CyberAlert, March
21, 2002)
Aaron Sorkin, creator and producer of NBC’s hit political drama
The West Wing, criticized Brokaw for being too soft in an interview of President Bush.
(CyberAlert, March
6, 2002)
The NBC anchor trumpeted an anti-U.S. mob in Iran and claimed they were upset by President Bush’s “axis of evil” reference.
(CyberAlert,
February 14, 2002)
Brokaw made a news story out of
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s claim that most of the Enron wrongdoers were men while most of the whistle-blowers were women.
(CyberAlert,
February 8, 2002)
Brokaw claimed Enron kept California energy prices “artificially high during the power crisis last year” by convincing the Bush team to not impose price controls on wholesale electricity prices.
(CyberAlert,
February 1, 2002)
The Enron scandal was fueling campaign finance reform, according to Brokaw, and the anchor was almost giddy.
(CyberAlert,
January 25, 2002)
Aaron Brown
Brown paid scant attention to the Senate’s passage of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Brown also mischaracterized the ban as failing to provide an exception when the mother’s life is in danger. It does, but lacks a “health exception.”
(CyberAlert,
October 22, 2003)
“Okay, here's the truth of it,” Brown said. “Rush Limbaugh has been more than a bit unkind to me more than once. He's also been unkind to Al Franken, who in turn has been unkind to him. He's taken shots at Michael Wolff,
New York magazine's media critic and Michael is hardly the retiring sort…”
(CyberAlert,
October 13, 2003)
(CyberAlert, October
14, 2003)
Brown devoted the entire hour of
NewsNight to “Leakgate.”
(CyberAlert,
October 4, 2003)
After Rush Limbaugh became the center of controversy for saying the media had pulled for a quarterback to do well because of his skin color, Brown defended the radio host’s right to speak out.
(CyberAlert,
October 2, 2003)
She started her CIA career at age 10? Aaron Brown passed along how former CIA operative Larry Johnson said Joe Wilson’s wife “was in fact” an undercover agent “for 30 years.” But a
Washington Post story pegged her age at 40.
(CyberAlert,
October 2, 2003)
CNN’s Aaron Brown was befuddled by the relevance of former Amb. Joseph Wilson’s anti-Bush political stance. After correspondent John King noted how Wilson would be meeting with House Democrats, Brown wondered on
NewsNight: “What does Ambassador Wilson's politics have to do with either the leak or his wife's job?”
(CyberAlert,
October 1, 2003)
The “Leakgate” scandal excited Brown, who exclaimed: “It seems like the good old days, doesn't it? Or perhaps the bad old days depending on your point of view.”
(CyberAlert,
September 30, 2003)
While Brown didn’t doubt the value of such a program, he did interview new Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark and wondered whether “the country right now can afford prescription coverage under Medicare?”
(CyberAlert,
September 18, 2003)
Democrats employed the unprecedented tactic of using a filibuster threat in order to block President Bush’s nomination of Miguel Estrada to a DC federal appeals court slot and Brown was one of the few anchors who pointed that out.
(CyberAlert,
September 5, 2003)
Brown claimed that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s refusal to remove the 10 Commandments monument was the equivalent of George Wallace’s defiance.
(CyberAlert, August
21, 2003)
(Notable Quotables,
September 1, 2003)
Brown on Schwarzenegger advisor Warren Buffett: “Mr. Buffett has been known to give to Democratic causes also and he has very sharply criticized the Bush tax cuts but is generally thought of an independent thinker on politics, not quite bound to a rigid party line, sort of like the candidate he's going to advise.”
(CyberAlert, August
14, 2003)
(CyberAlert, August
29, 2003)
(CyberAlert, August
14, 2003)
Previewing next day newspaper headlines, Brown held up a color fax of the
Washington Times and complained: ““Down at the bottom here, I found this interesting. Maybe the paper's leading with its politics a bit. 'Dean's Budget-balancing Act Left Taxpayers in the Red, Bush Campaign Braces to Slam Record.’’ I'm not sure that that's necessarily a great issue for the Bush campaign, but perhaps it is. Anyway, Governor Dean raised some taxes, but he had no deficit. I guess it depends on what you want.””
(CyberAlert, August
11, 2003)
The suicide of David Kelly, the British official who was posthumously identified by the BBC as the source for the story about how the Blair administration “sexed up” intelligence reports on Iraq, led Brown to wonder if Kelly was “Mr. Blair's Vince Foster.”
(CyberAlert, July
21, 2003)
Brown refused to offer a correction after reporting a bogus story from the Web that claimed a CIA consultant had directly informed Bush that Iraq had not bought uranium from Africa. Instead, Brown lectured Bush about truthfulness and credibility and implied he was a hypocrite, since he had campaigned “on the notion that he was the anti-Clinton.”
(CyberAlert, July
15, 2003)
Brown relayed a story circulating the Web that said there had been a conversation between the President and a CIA consultant who had “directly told the President that this African uranium deal was bogus.” The story itself turned out to be bogus and the Web site published a complete retraction four hours before Brown’s newscast.
(Notable Quotables,
July 21, 2003)
(CyberAlert, July
10, 2003)
Brown compared the Bush administration’s doubting that global warming is caused by industrialization to those who punished Galileo for saying the earth was round. Whoops. Galileo said the earth revolved around the sun.
(CyberAlert, June
20, 2003)
Referring to a marquee in North Carolina that read “Pray for Eric Rudolph,” Brown asserted it was hard to understand why some people would hold the suspected bomber in high regard. Brown went on to name criminals in American history who took on an almost heroic quality, including movie characters Thelma and Louise with a list of real historic figures.
(CyberAlert, June
4, 2003)
When the New York Times ran a story taken straight from liberal propaganda about how low-income parents wouldn’t get a child tax credit under the tax cut bill, Brown proclaimed, “Here's why The
New York Times is a great newspaper, ladies and gentlemen, because they actually read the tax cut bill.”
(CyberAlert, May
30, 2003)
After President Bush’s carrier landing and speech, Brown asked Chuck Todd of the Hotline, “Do you think any of the anger, if that's the right word, that Democrats have stems from the fact that the President was in the reserves during the Vietnam era and not in Vietnam itself?”
(CyberAlert, May 8,
2003)
Brown blamed “the looting of priceless Iraqi artifacts dating back thousands of years” on the U.S. military, wondering if it did “enough to prevent the theft.”
(CyberAlert, April
18, 2003)
Brown acknowledged the coalition’s success in Iraq and announced “the beginning of the end” of the war.
(CyberAlert, April
3, 2003)
Brown was one of the few network anchormen who portrayed Tom Daschle’s verbal attack on the White House as a violation of protocol and reminded viewers: “Certain rules have evolved over the years about the right and wrong time for lawmakers to speak out against a President. The unspoken rule being when a war is imminent the time for dissent is over.”
(CyberAlert, March
19, 2003)
When CNN’s Jeffrey Flock reported that the anti-war movement considered criticism of them to be “un-American,” Brown tried to distance himself from the comment: “Well, uh, we're in one of those times and tempers are tight.”
(CyberAlert, March
19, 2003)
Brown argued about the appropriateness of preemptive action with Winston Churchill’s grandson, asking, “Isn't the question, Iraq this week, who next week, who the week after that, I mean, how do you decide?”
(CyberAlert, March
13, 2003)
Despite the dozens of countries that supported U.S. action in Iraq, Brown insisted “the window for international diplomacy seems to be closing fast” and the United States might have to “go it alone.”
(CyberAlert, March
5, 2003)
Brown challenged far-left author Gore Vidal on Iraq, asking why it was not a great liberal issue to liberate a people oppressed by a vicious dictator.
(CyberAlert,
February 10, 2003)
Brown brought much-needed balance to coverage of Trent Lott’s questionable comments by featuring both Lott critic Robert George of the
New York Post and Lott defender Bob Novak.
(CyberAlert,
December 12, 2002)
Brown was upset by Attorney General John Ashcroft’s decision to move accused sniper Lee Malvo’s trial to Virginia, which allows execution of juveniles.
(CyberAlert,
November 11, 2002)
Brown called the Democrats who turned Paul Wellstone’s funeral into a political rally and the Republicans who sent Brown several identical emails complaining about it “equally shameless.”
(CyberAlert,
October 31, 2002)
Brown identified sniper suspects John Mohammed and John Lee Malvo only as “the army veteran and the teenager.” He failed to report that Mohammed was a Muslim with ties to the Nation of Islam and Malvo was an illegal alien from Jamaica.
(CyberAlert,
October 25, 2002)
Brown trumpeted Jimmy Carter’s work to bring peace in Haiti, North Korea, Cuba and Africa credited him with “redefining the role of a former president.”
(CyberAlert,
October 14, 2002)
In previewing the Senate race in Minnesota, Brown described Senator Paul Wellstone as “a liberal in big, block, capital letters,” but claimed, “There aren’t many of those left.”
(CyberAlert,
October 10, 2002)
Brown argued to a baffled Jeffrey Toobin that the New Jersey election law about replacing a candidate mid-campaign was clear: “Fifty-one to me means 51 days.”
(CyberAlert,
October 4, 2002)
Brown played Senator John McCain’s on-air scolding of Democratic Congressmen David Bonior and Jim McDermott for their remarks in Baghdad against President Bush.
(CyberAlert,
October 2, 2002)
When Saddam Hussein supposedly fooled President Bush by readmitting U.N. weapons inspectors, Brown compared Bush’s position to when the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote realizes he isn’t standing on anything but air, while the Roadrunner (Saddam) has managed to stop on the edge of the cliff.
(CyberAlert,
September 19, 2002)
In response to news about the administration’s new efforts to make its case about the dangers posed by Saddam Hussein, Brown remarked, “Clearly, the administration has decided it cannot rely on post-9/11 fear or fervor to win the day. Facts and arguments still count.”
(CyberAlert,
September 6, 2002)
Only 14 percent of viewers polled by the Pew Research Center for the People and Press responded that they completely believed Brown’s reporting.
(CyberAlert, August
6, 2002)
(Media Reality Check,
August 5, 2002)
Brown identified James Traficant, the Ohio Democrat expelled from the House, as an “independent.”
(CyberAlert, July
26, 2002)
Brown wondered if President Bush had a credibility problem because he is “not a fan of regulation.”
(Notable Quotables,
July 22, 2002)
Brown worried that the Senate-passed bill on corporate corruption would have to be reconciled in conference committee with the “weaker version” of the bill passed by the House.
(CyberAlert, July
17, 2002)
Justifying his coverage of Bush’s 1990 stock sale, Brown claimed “if this president were Clinton this story would be hyped to death” on the radio, in Congress, and even the Justice Department.
(CyberAlert, July
11, 2002)
(Notable Quotables,
July 22, 2002)
(Media Reality Check,
July 11, 2002)
Fox’s Newswatch host Eric Burns scolded Brown’s narcissistic reporting style: “He uses the first person singular pronoun the way carpenters use nails: always ‘I,’ ‘I’, ‘I.’”
(CyberAlert, June
17, 2002)
(Notable Quotables,
June 24, 2002)
In response to criticism about how he opened the June 10, 2002,
NewsNight with condemnation of the government’s treatment of a suspected terrorist, Brown wondered: “How can we avoid asking questions about the law in this case? What kind of reporters would we be?”
(CyberAlert, June
14, 2002)
(Notable Quotables,
June 24, 2002)
Brown complained at the beginning of his
NewsNight broadcast that an American citizen was being held uncharged in a military brig with no access to a lawyer because the government said he was part of a terrorist plot to detonate a dirty bomb. Brown vilified called the action “governmental abuse.”
(CyberAlert, June
11, 2002)
(Notable Quotables,
June 24, 2002)
Brown scolded Attorney General John Ashcroft for supposedly violating conservative principles in appealing to a federal judge to interfere with local control by overturning Oregon’s assisted suicide law.
(CyberAlert, April
19, 2002)
When former conservative writer David Brock claimed wealthy conservatives had had anti-Clinton conspiracy fueled by anger at Clinton’s anti-segregation policies, Brown failed to challenge anything he said.
(CyberAlert, April
4, 2002)
Brown shared in Senator John McCain’s triumph, after the passage of the campaign finance reform bill, telling him: “You must be extraordinarily happy today.”
(CyberAlert, March
22, 2002)
Steve Doocy of the Fox News Channel’s
Fox and Friends revealed Aaron Brown’s nickname inside CNN is “Skippy.”
(CyberAlert, March
21, 2002)
Brown opened his show with a self-righteous rant about how “the program that competes directly with us on that almost news channel,” FNC’s
On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, booked Tonya Harding for an interview and “little
NewsNight got its backside kicked in ratings.”
(CyberAlert, March
18, 2002)
Brown described Joe Klein’s book
The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton as “very balanced.” Brown asked Klein to list the “good” that Clinton did and called his bad policies just “less successful.”
(CyberAlert, March
8, 2002)
Brown blamed a “plunge” in the Dow Jones on an erroneous report aired by Fox News that American ground forces were in Iraq.
(CyberAlert,
February 28, 2002)
On Ted Kennedy’s 70th birthday, Brown hailed the senator as “easily, one of the most powerful and hardest working Democrats of the past four decades.”
(CyberAlert,
February 25, 2002)
Brown described the movie Black Hawk Down as a “painful reenactment of [the Somalis] past, a past that could come back to haunt them coming at a time when they're looking to the outside world for a helping hand.”
(CyberAlert,
January 25, 2002)
Brown asserted that the “excessive hatred” for Bill Clinton was rooted in “what he did or didn't do or thought or didn't think in the 60s."
(CyberAlert,
January 21, 2002)
Brown was concerned the U.S. decision to link the shipment of 500 tons of weapons and explosives intercepted by Israel to Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority would “not exactly help get the peace process back on track.”
(CyberAlert,
January 11, 2002)
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