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CBS Hypes 'Split' in House GOP Between 'Staunch' Tea Party and 'Mainstream'

Monday's CBS Evening News unsurprisingly ginned up the ideological struggle inside the Republican Party as it covered the ongoing partial government shutdown. Chip Reid spun the face-off inside ...
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MSNBC's Wolffe Sees Tea Party 'Crazies,' GOP 'Killing Themselves' Politically

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's The Last Word, MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe joined MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell in tagging Tea Party Republicans as "crazies" as O'Donnell fretted ...
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MSNBC's O'Donnell Hits GOP as 'Default Deniers,' 'Frighteningly Ignorant and Childish'

On Wednesday's The Last Word on MSNBC, host Lawrence O'Donnell opened the show by calling Republicans "frighteningly ignorant" and "childish" because of the battle over the debt ceiling issue. ...
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Flashback to 1995/96: Networks Mourn Victims of Shutdown, Single Out Republicans for Blame

“After the President vetoed several spending bills, not one story blamed him for the shutdown, but nearly two dozen declared the GOP culpable. Furloughed workers and other ‘victims’ were ...
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CBS Hounds Pelosi Over Shutdown: 'You've Called Them Arsonists'

CBS This Morning has a long established history of conducting softball interviews of liberal/Democratic guests, while unleashing on conservative/liberal ones. But on Friday, the morning newscast ...
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CBS Notices Harry Reid's Kids' Cancer Research Gaffe; ABC, NBC Out to Lunch

Nancy Cordes stood out on Wednesday's CBS Evening News for pointing out Senator Harry Reid's eyebrow-raising "why would I want to do that" answer to a question about approving funding for cancer ...
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CBS's Nancy Cordes Points the Finger at GOP Over Government Shutdown

For two straight days, Nancy Cordes strongly hinted on CBS This Morning that House Republicans were to blame for the ongoing government shutdown. On Tuesday, Cordes hounded GOP Congressman Robert ...
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ABC 'World News' Spins For White House On Shutdown, ObamaCare

Monday night’s edition of ABC World News delivered a double dose of advocacy as Diane Sawyer and her team essentially served as a mouthpiece for President Obama’s position on the government ...
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CNN Shutdown Bias: Republican 'Suicide Caucus' Is 'Hurting Families'

Before and during Tuesday's government shutdown, CNN hosts, reporters, and anchors blasted Republicans and blamed them for the shutdown. New Day co-host Chris Cuomo told Rep. Darrell Issa ...
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CNN Keeps Paddling Republicans Who Voted to Defund ObamaCare

On Monday morning's New Day, CNN continued whacking Republicans who voted to defund ObamaCare after comparing them to "inmates" who were "running the asylum" on Friday. CNN contributor John Avlon ...
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