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NBC anchor 'impatiently waits' for Lester Holt's 'Nightly News' retirement: report
November 1, 2024 | 10:28amHolt, who is reportedly earning a hefty wage of around $10 million per year, has been anchoring the "Nightly News" since 2015.
Harris roasted in NYT report over TV interview performances
September 27, 2024 | 9:59pmA New York Times report admitted Thursday that televised interviews are a major "weakness" for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden can’t stop bashing the press as his political career careens to conclusion
July 18, 2024 | 10:13pmIn what could be one of his final interviews as a presidential candidate, Joe Biden again took aim at what’s become one of his favorite targets: fake news.
Donald Trump and the GOP are shifting to a party for the working class
July 16, 2024 | 11:25pmThe new party emerging before our eyes at the Milwaukee convention is one whose No. 1 focus is the well-being of working-class Americans.
Dem calls for Biden to step aside 'could start back up soon,' sources say
July 16, 2024 | 1:28pmDemocratic efforts to convince President Biden to relinquish the party's nomination could restart "soon," three congressional Democratic sources tell The Post — saying the assassination attempt Saturday against former President...
Lester Holt interview shows Joe Biden's a vapid, sullen old crank
July 16, 2024 | 12:36pmThe Lester Holt interview with Biden saw the prez snap and snarl and whine his way through what should have been an easy sitdown.
Bull's-eye Biden should admit his violent talk is partly why Trump got shot
July 16, 2024 | 10:06amPresident Biden, during his latest rambling, incoherent, bad-tempered, and often excruciatingly awkward TV interview, was very clear about one thing regarding Donald Trump’s shooting: don’t blame me, pal!
Biden refuses to debate Trump before September showdown, insists he's 'on the horse'
July 15, 2024 | 10:42pm“I’m on the horse, where have you been,” Biden shot back. “I’ve done 22 major events, met thousands of people, overwhelming crowds, a lot's happening. I’m on the horse.”
Biden snaps repeatedly at Lester Holt in combative NBC interview days after Trump assassination attempt
July 15, 2024 | 9:17pmMILWAUKEE — President Biden repeatedly scolded NBC anchor Lester Holt in an interview Monday — exclaiming at one point, “What’s with you guys? Come on, man!” — as he defended his criticism...
Biden sets up primetime interview with NBC's Lester Holt as calls for him to withdraw from election mount
July 10, 2024 | 8:03pmNBC News announced Wednesday that President Biden will be sitting down with "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt for a primetime special Monday.
TV sports insulting viewers' intelligence at rapid pace
June 20, 2024 | 9:32pmNot that I’ve ever been accused of brevity, but today’s broadcasters seem compelled to say far too much as opposed to just enough.
VP Kamala Harris ducked most media for year after 'disastrous' sitdown
February 7, 2023 | 12:26pmVice President Kamala Harris eschewed televised interviews for nearly a year after a "disastrous" sit-down with NBC News' Lester Holt.
How 'dangerous' George Soros co-opts the media, keeps criticism down
January 23, 2023 | 6:21pmA new report from the Media Research Center has exposed connections between billionaire liberal financier George Soros and 54 prominent media figures.
Merrick Garland's deranged 'one-sideism' on terror
July 27, 2022 | 5:54pmAttorney General Merrick Garland yet again emphasized, in a Wednesday interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, his bizarre claim that only right-wing extremists are to blame for political violence in the...
Biden rages and rambles in interview because he has no good answers on inflation or masks
February 11, 2022 | 8:01pmYou’d think President Joe Biden would’ve learned in 50 years in elected office how to handle tough questions with grace. Yet he got testy with NBC anchor Lester Holt’s simple...
Biden snaps at 'wise guy' Lester Holt for noting how president was wrong about inflation
February 10, 2022 | 8:01pmBiden called NBC journalist Lester Holt a "wise guy" when the veteran TV anchor pointed out that Biden erroneously said high inflation would be temporary last summer.
Joe Biden says he'd meet with President Trump 'if he asked'
November 24, 2020 | 6:20pmPresident-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday expressed interest in meeting with President Trump after he formally unveiled Cabinet picks and taped his first TV interview since the election "Of course I...
CBS' Norah O'Donnell still No. 3, but her ratings slide has slowed
January 3, 2020 | 7:34pmRatings for the new “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell are still underwater, but they may have finally hit bottom. That’s the hope among network insiders, as ratings for O’Donnell’s...
Lester Holt spends 3 days locked inside 'notorious' prison for story
September 5, 2019 | 7:31pmLester Holt spends Friday’s hourlong “Dateline” episode (10 p.m. on NBC) locked up in a Louisiana prison with some of the country’s most dangerous inmates. Holt’s “incarceration” is part and...
Dad-son anchors Lester and Stefan Holt set for special Father's Day
June 14, 2019 | 9:01pmEvery weekday at 4 p.m., NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt and his son Stefan Holt, who is the co-anchor of NBC 4 New York’s 4 p.m. newscast, come together...