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Not a Parody: Politico Hypes Joe Biden as a 'Sex Symbol'

Politico edged ever closer towards total parody on Tuesday with a headline that seriously wondered, "Joe Biden: Sex symbol?" Senior Washington correspondent Jonathan Allen gushed, "Joe Biden’s ...
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NBC Claims 'Awkward Stumble' for Scott Brown Admiring 'Ultra-Conservative' Justice Scalia

In a report on Tuesday's NBC Today, correspondent Kelly O'Donnell described "awkward stumbles" for Senator Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren in a Massachusetts senatorial debate on ...
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CBS Highlights Kerry's Debate Prep Help for Obama; Omits He Lost '04 Election

Talk about missing the elephant (or is it donkey?) in the room – on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes reported that Senator John Kerry is "playing Mitt Romney in mock debates" with ...
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Hard-Hitting NYTimes Hails Michelle Obama's 'Elegant Arms' and Barack's Shirtless Photos

More of that hard-hitting New York Times journalism. Joyce Purnick praised Michelle Obama's "bare, toned, elegant arms," while Stuart Emmerich focused the fact that "Barack Obama shirtless" gets ...

Don't Worry Readers, Obama Not Like Carter, Assures NYT Reporter Scott Shane

Not if the media has anything to say about it: New York Times reporter Scott Shane insisted "the deaths of American diplomats in Libya are not a continuing crisis."
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NYT Cover Book Review Claims 'Loathing' Conservatives Need Therapy in Age of 'Moderate' Obama

Mark Lilla in the cover story for the New York Times Book Review: "Whenever conservatives talk to me about Barack Obama, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. But what ...
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Brooke Baldwin Dismisses Effectiveness of Media Bias Accusations

Ignoring other conservative condemnations of liberal media bias, CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Monday afternoon pulled tape of former President George H. W. Bush all the way from 1992 ranting about ...
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Reuters's Freeland Thinks Paul Ryan's Gotten 'Pretty Fabulous' Media Coverage

In an irony of ironies, a CNN roundtable on media bias featured a liberal figure of the institutional media, Chrystia Freeland, claiming that Paul Ryan has gotten "pretty fabulous treatment" ...
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David Carr in NYTimes: Conservatives Should Stop 'Tired' Whining About Liberal Bias

New York Times media reporter David Carr denies a "partisan conspiracy" on the part of the press (which no one is suggesting), but fails to truly defend his colleagues against the charge of ...
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NBC Eagerly Touts Kennedy for Congress: 'A New Generation Has Stepped Forward'

On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie promoted "a congressional battle in Massachusetts featuring a very familiar name" and wondered, "Could another Kennedy be headed to Congress?" ...