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Fearing that America was one step closer to becoming a theocracy with the opening of the privately-funded Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., on Thursday and Friday, CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today hyped the supposed “controversy” swirling around the institution, even claiming that a “cloud of suspicion” hung over the building as it opened its doors. “Coming up on CBS This Morning, I’ll tell you why this museum is generating some controversy. It’s just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol,” warned correspondent Chip Reid on Thursday. Introducing the segment minutes later, co-host Charlie Rose emphasized that the...

Amid the media mourning and eulogizing of Fidel Castro, on Monday, the network morning shows turned to worrying about the impact President-elect Donald Trump would have on American/Cuban relations, declaring the opening of diplomatic relations with the authoritarian regime to be the “centerpiece” of President Obama’s “legacy.” On NBC’s Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell – who on Sunday fondly reminisced over her past meetings with Castro – proclaimed: “The White House sees Obama’s opening to Cuban as the centerpiece of his legacy. Direct commercial flights starting this week, postal service with the U.S., credit cards and banking, internet service. Cracks in...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney barely survived the briefing today. CBS' Chip Reid was clearly fed up watching the administration do nothing about Libyan atrocities while claiming they were responding with "unprecedented" speed. Today the clock ran out on the White House and their dithering was exposed. Q On no-fly zone, what exactly is the U.S. -- the administration's position before the Security Council? MR. CARNEY: Our position, Chip, remains that we are evaluating a number of options, military options, including -- Q But a decision has to be made now. MR. CARNEY: -- including a no-fly zone. We...

Here is video of CBS News White House Correspondent Chip Reid saying the Obama White House, while publicly speaking optimistically about the November 2 Midterm Election, are privately “deeply worried” they will lose the House, and perhaps the Senate as well.

Chip Reid tries to ask Obama a question immediately after the Freedom of the Press Act siging, Obama says he's 'not doing a press conference today'....Reid responds to the incident in an interview (Video)

Is the luster finally wearing off the love affair between the White House press corps and President Barack Obama? It is, if CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid's analysis of President Barack Obama's latest Wall Street proposals is anything to go by. Reid appeared on the Fox Business Network's Jan. 25 "Imus in the Morning" program and offered an update on the president's financial and economic advisers, mainly Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers. He said both Geithner and Summers should survive, despite a run-in with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who...

Here is video of CBS News' Chip Reid grilling White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs over whether or not President Obama intends to keep his campaign promise to broadcast Health Care negotiations on C-Span. Obama promised at least eight times to do so when he was running for President, and has never once even made a move to try and make good on that promise. Gibbs would not respond, instead referring Reid to "yesterday's transcript" where he claimed he "addressed the question." Actually he dodged a question about it yesterday, but has never addressed it. The truth is that candidate...

Even Big Lib Helen Thomas (2nd half) pipes in: "The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness ... Could this be the beginning of the end of the slobbering love affair with the press?

CBS' Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the "tightly controlled" town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of "controlling the press." She said almost all White House/Obama events are "prepackaged." She accused the White House of not "having any answers."

Here is video of CBS News Reporter Chip Reid at the White House Daily Briefing today beginning a question with "Democrats also raising their ugly heads today on the Hill ...." That is a perfect description of the Democratic leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid! Way to go Chip! . . . . . (Watch Video)

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 5/13 - 5/14 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: It's Mother's Day - they want the day off to be with Mom.Put Biden and Hagel on... it's autopilot time... we can phone this one in!We say that the NSA programs are all bad, therefore they're bad.  Don't listen to anyone else.See?  We're not being mean to (Laura) Bush, which means we're fair and...

by Mark Finkelstein May 6, 2006 Let's imagine it was, oh, Karl Rove who had been involved in a car accident under circumstances identical to those surrounding Patrick Kennedy. Think the Today show would be focusing on his 'courage' and largely taking at face value his claim that prescription medicines caused the crash? Or would they be asking another question: was Kennedy telling the truth when he claimed that no alcohol was involved? That 'Today' was in a decidedly forgiving mood was clear from the show's very opening. Note the graphic Today attached to Kennedy's image: "Seeking Treatment". Not "Telling...