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8/21/2012 3:23 PM ET
The network morning shows on Tuesday devoted an enormous 20 minutes and
53 seconds to obsessing over a gaffe by a Republican congressman, hyping
Todd Akin's comments for nine separate ...
8/20/2012 5:37 PM ET
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman on Monday's Hardball
compared the Republican vice presidential candidate to a congressman
who is under fire for discussing what makes a "legitimate rape." ...
8/20/2012 2:04 PM ET
All three morning shows on Monday highlighted gaffes involving two
Republican congressmen, touting the "firestorm" that followed a GOP
senatorial candidate who discussed "legitimate rape." ...
8/17/2012 1:59 PM ET
Good Morning America's Josh Elliott on Friday yet again hyped the issue of Mitt Romney's taxes. Guest anchor Elliott touted, "And Mitt Romney finally ready to address that question about his ...
8/16/2012 3:18 PM ET
Over eight hours of broadcast time, Thursday, the network
morning shows devoted a scant two minutes and 57 seconds to Wednesday's
shooting at the conservative Family Research Council (FRC). ...
8/16/2012 10:06 AM ET
Chris Matthews on Wednesday went to embarrassing lengths as he struggled
to explain away a gaffe by the Vice President, offering tortured,
confusing logic to defend Joe Biden's "chains" ...
8/15/2012 5:29 PM ET
Liberal MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, who previously linked Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman to the attempted killing of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, completely ignored the shooting of a ...
8/15/2012 11:40 AM ET
Of the three morning shows on Wednesday, only CBS acknowledged the
racial tinge of Vice President Joe Biden telling a mostly black crowd
that Republicans will "put y'all back in chains." ...
8/14/2012 5:43 PM ET
A cartoonish Chris Matthews on Tuesday managed to mangle a historical
analogy and spew liberal propaganda at the same time as he offered this
ridiculous assessment of Paul Ryan: "This guy ...
8/14/2012 11:44 AM ET
Former Democratic operative turned TV host George Stephanopoulos on
Tuesday immediately set to work on the job of parroting Democratic
talking points about the new Republican presidential ...
8/13/2012 5:51 PM ET
Liberal MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews on Monday revealed his favorite
campaign ad of 2012: The outrageous commercial that features Congressman
Paul Ryan murdering an elderly woman by throwing ...
8/13/2012 11:49 AM ET
Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos on Monday kicked off the program by tagging Paul Ryan as "the former prom king that once drove the Weinermobile."
The ex-Democratic operative ...
8/13/2012 8:16 AM ET
Minutes after Paul Ryan was introduced as Mitt Romney's vice
presidential nominee, Saturday, a sour Andrea Mitchell dismissed the
choice: "This is not a pick for suburban moms. This is not a ...
8/10/2012 3:50 PM ET
MSNBC will be producing campaign documentaries on Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney. Romney's special will be hosted by Republican skeptic Chuck
Todd. Obama's doc will be in the hands of liberal ...
8/10/2012 11:11 AM ET
ABC on Thursday night finally broke the network's silence about a dishonest Obama super PAC ad that, essentially, accuses Mitt Romney of killing a woman. On Friday, Good Morning America's
hosts ...
8/9/2012 11:15 AM ET
All three evening newscasts on Wednesday continued to ignore a super PAC ad by top Obama supporters that accuses Mitt Romney of, essentially, killing a woman. At
the same time, CBS and NBC ...
8/8/2012 4:15 PM ET
Journalist Howard Fineman, who previously slammed Rush Limbaugh as a
"werewolf," who knocked Rick Perry and Sarah Palin as stupid, who
smeared Tea Partiers as "secessionists," touted his ...
8/8/2012 2:27 PM ET
All three evening newscasts on Tuesday and the morning shows on
Wednesday skipped a new Super PAC ad (run by former Obama
spokesman Bill Burton) that blames Mitt Romney for a woman's death ...
8/7/2012 11:40 AM ET
ABC journalist Brian Ross, who on July 20 smeared the Tea Party as connected to a mass killing in
Colorado, on Tuesday described the racist views of another shooter and
his connection to Nazi, ...
8/6/2012 1:54 PM ET
The three networks have, thus far, ignored the revelation that
American taxpayers will only recover a mere $24 million of the $527
million lost on Solyndra, a new report by the Dow Jones ...