ABC, CBS and NBC Hype Romney's 'Binders' Over Biden's 'Bullets' by 11 to 1 Margin

Media Research CEnter ^ | October 19, 2012 | Geoffrey Dickens

[yoe]

The Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) gave the faux furor over Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” statement in Tuesday’s debate a whopping 22 mentions through Friday morning. Yet when Vice President Joe Biden, on Thursday, told an audience member that Republican “young guns” like Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan had “bullets” aimed at him the networks delivered just a scant two total mentions (on NBC and CBS, ABC skipped the gaffe entirely.)

On the morning after the debate ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, on Good Morning America, singled out the “binders” comment: “You remember the Big Bird line that dominated the conversations online and around the water cooler, in essence, after the first debate? Last night, it was another Romney comment, ‘binders full of women’ that caused the heat to turn on.”

NBC’s Brian Williams, on Wednesday’s Nightly News, told viewers: “While a lot of facts were thrown around that stage, a lot was said. There were some enduring images and enduring lines, like the Romney quote about ‘binders full of women,’ which took on a life of its own today.

Over on CBS’s This Morning, on Wednesday, Norah O’Donnell asked Vice President Joe Biden “what did you make of that remark?”

However Biden’s uncivil insult about the GOP aiming “bullets” at Americans was mentioned just twice on the Big Three networks this week. NBC’s Chuck Todd, on Thursday’s Nightly News, delivered the following report:

TODD: Vice President Joe Biden, in Nevada, fired back at Mr. [Paul] Ryan, playing off the title of Ryan’s book Young Guns,’ using some eyebrow-raising rhetoric.

JOE BIDEN: Unfortunately, the bullets are aimed at you.

[yoe]

The credibility of ABC, CBS, and NBC is nil.....Baghdad Bob looks pristine next to those reporters. Michelle Obama is lying to Black America to get them to vote for her husband...she is really racist!

[TheCornerOffice]

The entire reason for hyping the "binders" comments (which really isn't offensive to very many women at all) was to completely bury and distract from the point Romney was making -- that he had given women a very prominent role in his administration in Mass.

That's why this head-scratcher of a word game is happening -- and it worked!

Sleazy and tricky political game, but it was very effective in accomplishing its goal.

[BenLurkin]

The left’s game plan is simple: find one distraction and count on the legions of fellow travellers in the phony news media to harp on it. of

[Buckeye McFrog]

All weekend long their newscasts were leading off with that lame “Romnesia” bit above everything else.

“In other news....Japan destroyed by giant reptiles...”

[Leep]

It’s the binders,stupid.

[Enterprise]

What is this ABC, CBS, and NBC of which you speak?

[DManA]

Is binder a dirty word now? Impossible to keep up.

[Rinnwald]

They just don’t want the world to know that President Obama was niggardly in hiring women.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

I hope the left keeps harping on ‘Big Bird’, ‘binders’ or whatever other feeble attempts at sabotage they try. Such pettiness only hurts THEIR cause, not ours.