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NYT's Stelter Hails OWS '99%' Slogan, Compares It To 'Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death'

Times media reporter Brian Stelter embraces the OWS and its ubiquitous slogan, making audacious historical comparisons: "Slogans have emerged from American protest movements, successful and ...

MSNBC Touts Touts Tax Evader Charlie Rangel as an Ethics Expert Against Gingrich

MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Friday offered tax evader Charlie Rangel the opportunity to deride Newt Gingrich for being insufficiently concerned about the poor. Talking to Rangel, who was censured on ...

CBS Harps on Newt's 'Baggage'; Cain Only Has 'Die-Hard' Support Left

CBS's Jan Crawford played up Newt Gingrich's "baggage" on Friday's Early Show, underlining how the Republican presidential candidate is "going to be hit hard for his ties to corporate interests, ...

NBC and ABC Hit Gingrich for 'Outrageous' Child Labor Comments that 'Left Some Critics Slack-Jawed'

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams fretted over comments made by Newt Gingrich about providing school jobs for inner-city students: "The Newt Gingrich that a lot of folks will ...

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Agrees: America One Of World's Most 'Socially Unjust' Societies

On Friday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Carter national security advisor and father of show co-host Mika Brzezinski, ranted: "The United States is becoming rapidly one of the ...

George Stephanopoulos Convicts Cain, Refers to Accuser as His 'Girlfriend'

George Stephanopoulos, who did his best in the '90s to extract Bill Clinton from charges of infidelity, on Friday continued his attacks on Herman Cain. Stephanopoulos appeared to convict the ...

NBC Cheers College Course on Rapper Jay-Z By Left-Wing Professor Michael Eric Dyson

On Friday's NBC Today, MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin gushed over a new class at Georgetown University taught by liberal professor Michael Eric Dyson: "Race, class, gender, culture, all things that ...

NBC's Ann Curry to Joe Biden: With No WMD, Can U.S. 'Claim Victory' in Iraq?

In an interview with Vice President Joe Biden in Iraq aired on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry depicted the war effort there as a failure: "In a war that was started to protect the world ...

NBC's Matt Lauer Praises Richard Branson's 'Different Kind of Capitalism' Not Driven By Profits

Introducing an interview with CEO Richard Branson about his new book, "Screw Business As Usual," on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: "...Sir Richard Branson argues the driving ...

ABC Forecasts Doom for GOP Candidates: Can Cain 'Survive?' Is Romney 'on the Ropes?'

Good Morning America's reporters and hosts on Thursday continued to hype their own impact in the Herman Cain scandal. Co-anchor Robin Roberts gloated that Cain is "under a lot of pressure right ...
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