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The MRC's Collection of Media Bias Caught on Tape

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December -- MRC's Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting
November -- MNF's Al Michaels; CNN's Al Hunt; and Alec Baldwin
October --
Schwarzenegger: Bush is well ahead; Matt Lauer; and Dan Rather
September -- Geraldo Rivera celebrates Barbara Walters' birthday
August -- Convention coverage and Dan Rather
July -- Cheney coverage; Katie Couric; and Sam Donaldson
June --
Bryant Gumbel about a conservative guest: "What a f***ing idiot"
May -- Robin Williams at DNC event; Gumbel kisses Letterman
April -- Actor Andy Garcia: growing up in Cuba is "a fate worse than Hell." 
March -- MRC's Tim Graham on FNC; Peter Jennings; and Maria Shriver 
February -- Al Sharpton; tough questions for Hillary Clinton?
January -- Tim Russert vs. Steve Forbes; NBC's Brian Williams is booed

  • December 29
    FNC's Fox News Watch took up the MRC's Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.
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  • December 20
    Dan Rather asked Clinton to recommend a movie to Bush. "'High Noon', cause Gary Cooper does the right thing."
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  • December 15
    To guffaws, Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn asserted Al Gore always asks: "What would Jesus do?"
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  • December 14
    "Politically and ideologically motivated U.S. Supreme Court...handed the presidency to Bush."
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  • December 6
    CBS's Scott Pelley oddly wondered if Bush would make his brother the AG and pushed him to drop his tax cut. 
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  • December 1
    ABC's Bill Maher joked that "America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris."
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  • November 30
    "Captain Dan, the newsman." FNC showed Dan Rather discredited certification by the Secretary of State.
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  • November 29
    MSNBC anchor Ashleigh Banfield compares Gore teleconference with prom date.
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  • November 28
    After a play on ABC's Monday Night Football Al Michaels called Katherine Harris an "American heroine."
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  • November 21
    On The Early Show someone held up a sign about Gumbel: "With Your Biased Reports, You'll Soon Be Irrelevant."
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  • November 20
    Al Hunt went into a tirade when Bill Bennett suggested Gore operatives have used "thuggish tactics."
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  • November 17
    Lynne Cheney contested ABC's Jack Ford on polls; Dick Cheney argued the networks "distorted the process."
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  • November 14
    ABC showed how a Gore fundraiser "used cigarettes to get residents of homeless shelters to vote."
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  • November 13
    Alec Baldwin denounced GOP hypocrisy in not following the "legal process" and urged a re-vote. 
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  • November 9
    The Late Show audience booed when David Letterman brought up Hillary Clinton.
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  • November 9
    Tom Brokaw suggested people will "get sufficiently aroused" to get the Electoral College "yanked."
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  • November 9
    CBS focused on Florida voting "improprieties" that are "adding up as fast as the votes are being recounted."
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  • November 6
    CBS quizzed the agenda of fly-fishing capped "eccentric" Tom Connolly.
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  • November 6
    ABC's 20/20 gave Barbara Streisand a forum to defend Bill Clinton, denounce George Bush and promote Al Gore.
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  • October 31
    For Halloween, Today co-host Matt Lauer dressed up as Jennifer Lopez.
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  • October 30
    Fox's Brit Hume argued media focus on the "Daisey II" ad over the NAACP ad was "a wonderful example" of media bias.
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  • October 26
    FNC played an NAACP ad which equated Bush's opposition to a hate crimes bill to a man getting "killed all over again."
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  • October 24
    Arnold Schwarzenegger upbraided Matt Lauer for saying the race is even. He insisted Bush is well ahead.
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  • October 20
    Letterman argued against Bush's environmental plans and asked why Texas has the "worst" air pollution.
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  • October 19
    The West Wing demonized a Dr. Laura character as the President denounced her "ignorant tight-ass club."
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  • October 18
    Dan Rather listed three errors made by Bush, but only admonished Gore for not outlining a policy.
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  • October 17
    ABC's quiz show ruled that "Al Gore was the basis" for Love Story. Regis: "It's true, it's true."
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  • October 12
    Criticizing Bush's "circle of advisors" Rather asked if Cheney would be "the hidden hand President?" 
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  • October 11
    On NBC's Today Lisa Myers quizzed Rush Limbaugh about his criticism of Al Gore.
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  • October 6
    The son of the "Can Lady" told FNC she doesn't have to collect cans to pay for her medication.
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  • October 5
    Treading where the media won't, ABC's quiz show asked who urged "eliminating the internal combustion engine?"
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  • October 4
    George Stephanopoulos cheered Gore's performance: "He was strong, he was detailed, he was specific..."
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  • September 28
    NBC: "A woman of dignity, walking her Midwest town to survive...Embraced by her country's Vice President."
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  • September 28
    Networks showcased the "poignant story" of a woman at a Gore event who must pick up cans to pay for her drugs.
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  • September 27
    FNC's Jim Angle corrected Al Gore's claim that Bush-backed Gingrich tried to "cut" Medicare. 
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  • September 26
    Monday morning on ABC's The View Geraldo Rivera popped out of a cake to celebrate Barbara Walters' birthday.
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  • September 22
    MSNBC's Brian Williams conceded the media's bias: "Had that happened to Bush the news media would have..."
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  • September 19
    FNC showed Al Gore fumbling over mammograms and making up drug costs for his mother-in-law and dog.
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  • September 18
    Julia Roberts at Gore event: "Republican in the dictionary comes just after reptile and just before repugnant."
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  • September 18
    New York Times reporter Rick Berke conceded "it took me several viewings" by a Gore operative "to notice the RAT."
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  • September 15
    On Late Night with Conan O'Brien Democratic VP candidate Joe Lieberman sang "My Way."
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  • September 14
    In the NY Senate debate Hillary was pressed by Tim Russert: "Do you regret misleading the American people?"
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  • September 12
    Oprah twice played video of "the kiss," gushing: "Notice the hug, it's a full body pull me in...whoa baby." 
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  • September 12
    The CBS Evening News showcased a couple who pleaded for taxpayers to pay for their prescription medicine. 
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  • September 11
    Adam Clymer shot back at Bush: "Using bad language while promising to restore dignity...is a contradiction."
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  • September 8
    ABC News blamed Firestone tire blowouts on budget cuts 18 years ago by Ronald Reagan. 
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  • September 5
    CBS's Gloria Borger scolded Joe Lieberman for crossing the line on religion. Oops. George Washington said that.
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  • September 1
    A new ad prompted ABC to recall how Bush treated McCain: "Negative campaigning is nothing new for Governor Bush."
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  • August 28
    Matt Lauer lectured a car dealer: "If you give someone a CD player, they can't go out and kill someone with it."
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  • August 24
    The August 4 CBS Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn put "Snipers Wanted" over video of George W. Bush. 
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  • August 24
    Networks treated cancelled ad as unfair, but Clinton had already lied when in 1994 Gore said he hadn't.
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  • August 23
    Matt Lauer pressed Tom Clancy about his Limbaugh-like "simplistically conservative philosophy."
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  • August 21
    Dan Rather falsely reported a "carefully orchestrated story leak" tied to the "Republican-backed special prosecutor."
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  • August 11
    FNC noted CBS's Apology for The Late, Late Show's "Snipers Wanted" words over a picture of Bush.
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  • August 9
    Case study of Dan Rather's Bias: Introducing the Democratic ticket he relayed their glowing spin...
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  • August 9
    ...but when he set up CBS's July story on the Bush-Cheney debut he highlighted liberal attacks on them.
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  • August 9
    Bryant Gumbel asked if Republicans, "however quietly," will make Lieberman's Judaism "an issue?"
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  • July 28
    On Today Matt Lauer grilled Dick Cheney from the left, demanding he explain his House votes.
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  • July 27
    CNN pointed out how in the '80s Al Gore voted just like Dick Cheney on guns and abortion. 
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  • July 26
    Bryant Gumbel applied an extremist label: "Cheney's politics are of the hard-right variety."
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  • July 20
    Katie Couric flexed her muscles Wednesday night for Jay Leno. 
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  • July 18
    Jeff Jacoby appeared on FNC's O'Reilly Factor to talk about his suspension from the Boston Globe.
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  • July 14
    Unlike CBS and NBC, FNC reminded viewers of how Bradley denounced Gore during the primaries.
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  • July 12
    FNC's Hannity & Colmes went frame by frame through Bryant Gumbel's "What a f***ing idiot" outburst.
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  • July 11
    Only FNC showed the fed-up Mayberry family moving out of the house they rented from Al Gore.
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  • July 5
    Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen blasted as "incredibly nauseating" Jim Avila's pro-Castro reporting.
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  • June 30
    "What a f***ing idiot" Bryant Gumbel blurted out about a conservative guest.
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  • June 30
    NBC on Elian's Cuba: "First rate" health care & education; the Pioneers are "very much like the Cub Scouts."
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  • June 29
    NBC showed how inside Elian's home his photo is in corner of one of "revolutionary hero" Fidel Castro.
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  • June 21
    On The View, Barbara Walters sang the closing number from her late father's nightclub, The Latin Quarter. 
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  • June 12
    A CBS reporter and a liberal activist insisted the anti-estate tax case is "like a fairy tale" and a "lie."
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  • June 5
    Monday night FNC picked up on how the plumbing doesn't work in a Tennessee home rented from Al Gore.
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  • May 31
    Fox News Sunday picked up on the vulgarity used by Robin Williams at the DNC event, running a clip with beeps.
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  • May 17
    "President Bartlet" on NBC's The West Wing: "It's nice when we can do something for prostitutes once in a while." 
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  • May 17
    PBS To the Contrary host Bonnie Erbe insisted older women aren't in danger of being raped and so don't need a gun.
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  • May 10
    The Early Show replayed Bryant Gumbel kissing David Letterman on Monday's Late Show.
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  • May 5
    Chevy Chase insisted socialism and free markets work together "and I think Cuba might prove that."
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  • April 27
    Leonardo DiCaprio with Bill Clinton in a global warming advocacy special ABC will foist upon 12,000 schools.
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  • April 24
    FNC's legal analyst took on Eric Holder for seizing a boy "at the point of a gun" without a court order.
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  • April 21
    To promote Earth Day, CBS's Family Law had a character trade-in her SUV for a gas-electric hybrid.
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  • April 17
    Interviewing Elian's father on 60 Minutes, Dan Rather came near tears: "A father never dries up."
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  • April 13
    On Brit Hume's panel even Morton Kondracke and Mara Liaason were appalled at Cuba coverage.
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  • April 10
    "We should try that," Clinton suggested after joke: "If you'd...let me see you naked, there would be no more racism." 
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  • April 7
    After the Titanic love song, Bill Clinton joked about ABC News chief David Westin: "You're King of the World."
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  • April 5
    To Matt Lauer's astonishment, actor Andy Garcia said growing up in Cuba is "a fate worse than Hell."
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  • April  5
    NBC's Jim Avila listed "perks" awaiting Elian's family in Cuba: a bag of beans and 5 gallons of gas a month. 
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  • March 29
    CNN's Bernard Shaw took umbrage at Peggy Noonan's contention that reporters go easy on Hillary.
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  • March 27
    Maria Shriver used the Today show to promote Marian Wright Edelman's liberal crusade.
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  • March 22
    NBC's drama The West Wing showcased the liberal argument in favor of Census sampling.
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  • March 21
    ABC showed Peter Jennings, his face smeared with magenta-colored powder, dancing in India.
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  • March 17
    MSNBC used a football field to show how George Bush ran "way to the right, almost out of bounds."
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  • March 15
    Tom Brokaw joked to David Letterman about how George Bush has to get to "jug-a-lug contests."
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  • March 14
    MRC's Tim Graham discussed on FNC's The O'Reilly Factor why ABC, CBS & NBC suppressed LaBella memo.
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  • March 13
    FNC's Sean Hannity cited the MRC for proof of how the networks barely touched Maria Hsia's convictions.
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  • March 8
    Live on MSNBC Tuesday night an angry John McCain told Maria Shriver: "Get out of here."
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  • March 3
    FNC showed how McCain received softer treatment from Leno than Bush got from Letterman. 
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  • February 23
    To the idea that historians voted Reagan the best President, Bryant Gumbel dropped his pen, "No!"
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  • February 22
    The media pounded Bush for racial insensitivity, but at its Democratic debate CNN showcased Al Sharpton.
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  • February 14
    60 Minutes plugged the new publisher of a book charging a Bush family cover-up.
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  • February 9
    Buffalo radio's Tom Bauerle pointed out how the media don't pose tough questions to Hillary Clinton.
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  • February 7
    Bill Clinton on Ingrid Bergman: "God I wish I'd known that woman....she's just riveting."
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  • January 27
    On NBC's West Wing an aide convinced the President to use the State of the Union to push bigger government. 
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  • January 18
    On NBC's Law & Order SVU Newt Gingrich was denounced as a "pedantic megalomaniac."
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  • January 14
    In an A&E movie on George Washington crossing the Delaware he is persuaded that just like the hired-gun Hessians, his opposition to British taxes means he too is fighting "for profit."
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  • January 11
    Tim Russert argued with Steve Forbes about Internet taxes in Michigan debate.
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  • January 10
    A South Carolina crowd booed Brian Williams when he pressed George Bush about the Confederate flag.
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  • January 7
    Tim Russert pressing George Bush from the left about his religious views and tax cut plan after Tuesday's debates.
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