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NBC Blitz: Romney 'Under Intense Pressure' to Release Tax Returns, Issue 'Won't Go Away'

On Thursday and Friday, NBC launched an all out assault on Mitt Romney, urging him to release more tax returns. Opening Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams scrambled to resurrect ...
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ABC Hypes: Mitt Romney 'Finally Ready' to Address Taxes, Network Touts Own Role in Story

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 ...
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Piers Morgan Invokes FRC Shooting to Cry for More Gun Control

CNN's Piers Morgan is up in arms again over guns, and tried to use Wednesday's shooting at the Family Research Council to shill for more gun control. There's one problem – the shooter was not ...
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Less Than a Day After Shooting, CNN Affirms FRC's 'Hate Group' Label

Less than a day after a shooting at the Family Research Council, CNN dug up a 13 year-old FRC quote to support the "hate group" label by the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center. Early Start ...
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CNN's Baldwin Misses FRC Shooter's Political Motive -- Despite CNN Reporting It Earlier

CNN's Brooke Baldwin couldn't find a motive behind the Family Research Council shooting, on Thursday afternoon – despite CNN having earlier reported that "politics" was involved in the ...
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NBC's Morales Demands Ann Romney be 'Transparent' And Release More Tax Returns

In what was billed as a profile of Ann Romney set to air on Thursday's NBC Rock Center, a portion of the interview played on Thursday's Today featured news anchor Natalie Morales grilling the ...
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NYT's Dowd: Paul Ryan Will 'Rain Misery' Down, 'Intend[s] to Hurt Other People'

Times columnist Maureen Dowd praises the Paul Ryan pick: "Who better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?....except that his politics are just a teensy bit ...
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Day Two: CBS Ignores Shooting at Conservative Organization, NBC Offers a Scant 35 Seconds

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). ...
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NBC: 'Ever-Outspoken' Joe Biden is Obama's 'Best Weapon' as 'Attack-Dog-in-Chief'

Reporting for Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent Kristen Welker discussed the "remarkably ugly political week so far" in the presidential campaign following ...
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Chris Matthews' Tortured Logic: Biden's 'Chains' Comment Is 'Historical,' Not Racist Like GOP

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" ...
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