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Getting carried away with her enthusiasm, Diane Sawyer opened ABC's World News on Tuesday night by proclaiming: “As of today, it is the law of the land that every man, woman and child in America will have health care coverage.” CBS's Harry Smith, however, filling in for Katie Couric, led by reporting the bill President Obama signed “will ensure that 94 percent of Americans have health insurance, the closest the nation has ever come to universal coverage.”
Sawyer couldn't resist reminding viewers of the “Kennedy Legacy” (the on-screen tag) as she highlighted a photo of his son's grave side note: “You heard the President pay tribute to Senator Ted Kennedy, who devoted his career to health care reform. But there was another quiet tribute at the Senator's grave. A note left by his son, Congressman Patrick Kennedy. It said simply: 'Dad -- the unfinished business is done.'”
Sawyer led the Tuesday, March 23 World News on ABC:
Good evening. As of today, it is the law of the land that every man, woman and child in America will have health care coverage. And at the White House, the President signed the bill and marked this day in history, while Republican opponents marshaled forces, hoping to undo the law...
Sawyer Claims Everyone Will Be Covered
& Shows Kennedy's Grave, CBS Displays Obama's Signature: 'What History
Looks Like'
By Brent Baker (Bio | Archive) Tue, 03/23/2010 - 20:07 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/03/23/sawyer-claims-everyone-will-be-covered-shows-kennedys-grave-cbs-display
Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer and ABC journalist George Stephanopoulos lauded Barack Obama for his handling of the banking crisis on Thursday. Sawyer even saw the government administered stress tests as a "mission accomplished" moment. On the news that many of the banks given billions in bailout money won't need more, the morning show anchor cooed, "So, George, is this the day that this administration can say, on the banking front, they've sailed through the eye of the needle? They've landed a Hail Mary pass?"
At this point, Sawyer engaged in some belated bashing of George W. Bush. In an allusion to the banner above President Bush during his 2003 visit to an aircraft carrier, the host held up a sign that read "mission accomplished." She joked, "And dare I say- I had this sign made just for you. Dare they say it?" Joining in, Stephanopoulos, the "This Week" host and former Clinton aide, quipped, "You're the last person who is ever going to hold up one of those signs. I think President Bush ruined it for everybody."
DIANE SAWYER: And If we were ever in need of a bottom line and a big picture, it's today. Here's chief Washington correspondent, host of "This Week," George Stephanopoulos, to bring it to us. So, George, is this the day that this administration can say, on the banking front, they've sailed through the eye of the needle? They've landed a Hail Mary pass? And dare I say- I had this sign made just for you. Dare they say it? [Holds up a sign that reads "mission accomplished."
SAWYER: You can really exhale and say the banks have been saved? Today, we can say that?
ABC's Diane Sawyer Waves 'Mission Accomplished' Sign
for Obama on Banks
By Scott Whitlock (Bio | Archive) Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:16 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/05/07/diane-sawyer-touts-mission-accomplished-obama-banks
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