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U.S. President In ABC Prime Time: ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in Constitution and ‘So Was Slavery’

ABC’s Scandal, which has a fresh episode tonight (Thursday), last week featured “President Fitzgerald Grant,” supposedly a Republican, channeling Piers Morgan as he used the State of the ...
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CBS: Mitt Romney A 'Political MVP' in 2014; Obama Not So Much

In the only coverage of the upcoming midterm election on Thursday's network morning shows, CBS This Morning offered a surprisingly positive profile of Mitt Romney's popularity on the campaign ...
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Rosie O'Donnell Endorses: Jimmy Carter Is 'My Favorite President Ever'

View co-host and 9/11 Truther Rosie O'Donnell on Thursday gushed over Jimmy Carter: "He's not just a Democrat. I think he is a man of peace."  O'Donnell, who on Tuesday blamed the creation of ...
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ABC and NBC Ignore Report Claiming White House Lied About Prostitution Scandal

On Thursday morning, the Washington Post  reported that senior White House officials knew that an Obama volunteer hired a prostitute during the infamous Columbia prostitution scandal of ...
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CBS Buries Results of Own Poll Showing Poor Ratings for Obama, Democrats Ahead of Midterms

On Wednesday night, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley made no mention of the results from the latest CBS News poll that gave President Obama and Democrats poor marks ahead of the November 4 ...
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CBS Highlights Mark Pryor's Selfie with Bill Clinton, Skips His Awkward Ebola Response

On Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-anchor Gayle King was charmed by Democratic Senate candidate Mark Pryor’s selfie with Bill Clinton as she effused: “Everybody likes a selfie.” However King, ...
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One-Sided CBS Airs Pro-Euthanasia Segment Without Dissenters

Wednesday's CBS This Morning promoted an Oregon woman's planned suicide, to the point that all three anchors of the morning show acted like cheerleaders for the cancer patient. Charlie Rose lauded ...
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John Heilemann: Clinton’s Hands Are ‘Like the Paintbrushes of Picasso’

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of the controversial 2008 campaign book Game Change, have a new show on Bloomberg called With All Due Respect and the two liberal journalists seem to be ...
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Charlie Rose Scolds Panetta: Shouldn't You Wait Until Obama's Out of Office to Criticize Him?

In an interview aired on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose lectured former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on criticizing President Obama in a new memoir: "There are those who say, ...
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CBS Hypes Facebook Criticism of GOP Campaign Ad: ‘Sick, Pathetic, And Disgusting’

Following a Tuesday night report in which the CBS Evening News blasted GOP campaign ads on ISIS, Wednesday’s CBS This Morning went even further in playing up the supposed outrage at a GOP ...
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