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NBC Demands: 'Does the Romney Campaign Believe God Intends Rape?'

With less than two weeks before the November election, it appears as though the media have found their newest manufactured controversy to smear Mitt Romney and other Republicans running for ...
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All Three Networks Hype 'Controversial' GOP Senate Candidate and His 'Ties' to Romney

All three morning shows on Wednesday touted White House talking points linking Mitt Romney to a Republican Senate candidate in Indiana who, while speaking about "the horrible situation of ...
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NBC Brings on Two Obama Supporters to Discuss Election, Bills it as 'Left vs. Right'

On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie brought on liberal MSNBC host Krystal Ball and radio host Michael Smerconish to discuss campaign strategy in the final two weeks before the ...
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Stranger to Erin Burnett: You Work for CNN? 'Yeah You're In the Can for Obama'

If you work for CNN apparently your reputation as a liberal journalist precedes you, at least that what CNN's Erin Burnett revealed to Conan O'Brien on Tuesday night. The OutFront host, appearing ...
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New Gallup Poll Shreds CNN's Speculation on Women, Abortion and the GOP

After a USA Today/Gallup poll showed women in swing states voting abortion the most important election issue, CNN hyped the news and cast a wary eye toward "controversial" Republican positions as ...
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Mark Leibovich's Cover Profile of Paul Ryan for NYT Mag Steeped In His Typical Anti-GOP Hostility

Democrat-friendly Times reporter Mark Leibovich's long magazine cover story on vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was steeped in hostility and cynicism he rarely shows in his profiles of ...
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NBC's Williams Wonders If Debate Was Romney's 'Etch-A-Sketch Moment'

Shortly following the conclusion of the final presidential debate Monday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams posed this question to Richard Haas of the Council on Foreign Relations: "I ...
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Cocky Chris Matthews Dreams of Senate Fame: I'd Have Been a Democratic 'Star'

In an article for the November Philadelphia Style magazine, a cocky Chris Matthews wistfully recounted a considered 2010 run for Senate, bragging at how incredible he would have been: "I'm not ...
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NBC Grills Ryan on Romney's Qualifications; Invites Biden to Slam Romney on Same Topic

At the end of an interview with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie parroted Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's foreign policy credentials: ...
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ABC and CNN Declare ‘False’ What Krauthammer Touted as Romney’s ‘High Point’

“The high point of that debate for Romney is when he devastatingly leveled the charge of Obama going around the world on ‘an apology tour,’” Charles Krauthammer asserted on the Fox News ...
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