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NBC Boosts Bloomberg Gun Control Group's Misleading Figure on School Shootings

Miguel Almaguer hyped on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News that "since the mass shooting in Newtown a year and a half ago, there's been at least 74 school shootings across the country – roughly one ...
Chris Matthews and Cynthia McFadden on the June 11, 2014 Hardball.

MSNBC's Matthews: 'Dead Broke' Was Mere 'Half Gaffe' by Hillary

Comparing Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices book tour to an "out of town play getting ready in New Haven," MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday night dismissed the former Secretary of State's ...
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ABC, NBC Too Busy With O.J. Simpson Police Chase Anniversary To Cover V.A. Scandal

CBS Evening News was the only Big Three evening newscast on Wednesday to report that the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the V.A. scandal. Neither ABC's World News nor NBC Nightly ...
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After Cantor Loss, Frank Luntz Declares: 'We Republican Pollsters Suck'

Appearing on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Republican pollster Frank Luntz attacked his own profession following the surprising primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: "Right now ...
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Lois Lerner Sent Confidential Taxpayer Info to FBI Right Before 2010 Midterms, Networks Ignore

On Monday the House Oversight Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal released new e-mails that showed Lois Lerner sent a database of tax exempt organizations to the FBI, right ...
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Andrea Mitchell: GOP ‘Looks Like An Episode of House of Cards’ Following Cantor’s Loss

Following the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to his Tea Party challenger, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell rushed to claim that the GOP is in disarray following the election Speaking ...
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Networks Promote President Obama Saying America ‘Should Be Ashamed’ Following School Shooting

On Tuesday morning a high school student in Oregon open fire in a high school killing another student before taking his own life. Following the tragedy, all three morning network news shows played ...
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Networks Fear Immigration Reform 'Dead' After Cantor Loss, ABC Urges Obama 'Act On His Own'

After Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning primary defeat Tuesday night, the broadcast networks Wednesday morning wrung their hands over the loss and fretted that ...
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‘Big Three’ Networks Ignore Latest ObamaCare Delay

On Tuesday, June 10, the Obama Administration issued a delay that allows 18 states not to implement a portion of ObamaCare’s small business health insurance exchange until 2016. Despite the delay, ...
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NBC’s McFadden Reads Hillary Her Own Book: ‘Evidence...Why I Think You Are Actually Running for President’

Hillary Clinton sat down with NBC’s Cynthia McFadden for an interview which aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, June 10 to promote her new book “Hard Choices.” While the NBC reporter brought up ...
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