Campaign 2012

Defending Obama, NYTimes' Richard Oppel Turns Tables on Romney, Laments 'Redistribution' to 'Very Rich'

Richard Oppel Jr., refusing to concede anything to Mitt Romney, fiercely defends Obama and, using a liberal trope, laments the alleged redistribution of income to the "very rich": "What is ...
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NBC Cheers 'Poetic Justice' of Jimmy Carter's Grandson Publicizing Romney Video

On Wednesday's NBC Today, correspondent Michael Isikoff offered a congratulatory puff piece on the man who helped release a hidden camera video of Mitt Romney: "[It] became public as a result ...

NYT's Barbaro on Doom and 'Gloom' in Romney Camp, 'Entering McCain-Palin Ticket Territory'

Michael Barbaro: "Mitt Romney's traveling press secretary walked to the back of the candidate’s plane midflight on Tuesday and teasingly asked a pair of journalists in an exit row if they ...
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New York Times Claims Romney 'Decided to Fully Join the Battle on Social Programs'

Times reporters Annie Lowrey and Michael Cooper don't seem to appreciate the arguments of "conservative firebrand" Erick Erickson: "Last year, Erick Erickson, the conservative firebrand, started ...
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New York Times Continues to 'Vex' Romney Over Hidden Video, This Time on Palestinian Issue

Sarah Wheaton wrote: "Just hours after Mitt Romney struggled to explain a blunt cultural assessment revealed in a leaked video from a private fund-raiser, footage of an equally blunt foreign ...
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NYTimes' Journos Agree: Romney Clip 'Devastating,' Feeds Into Idea He 'Doesn't Care About Regular People'

TimesCast host Megan Liberman: "...is this video really as devastating as a lot of people on both the right and the left are saying that it is?....[the clip] seems to feed perfectly into the ...
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NBC Brings on Pelosi to Bash Romney Over Video, A 'Gift from Above' for Democrats

In an interview with Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie teed up the liberal congresswoman to rip into Mitt Romney over a hidden ...
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NYTimes: Hidden Mitt Video Calls Into Question if 'Romney Is, at Base, an Empathetic and Caring Man'

The New York Times' Michael Shear and Michael Barbaro suggest a secretly recorded video of Romney at a fundraiser makes him an uncaring person: "Now, the video has raised the possibility that ...
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NBC: Motivation for Secret Romney Video 'Not Political,' Just 'Simple Curiosity'

Wrapping up a report for Tuesday's NBC Today about the hidden camera video of Mitt Romney speaking at a fundraiser, national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff laughably proclaimed: ...
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New York Times: GOP Ditching 'Partisan Obstreperousness,' 'Tossing Their Teacups' in Favor of Moderation

Jennifer Steinhauer and Jonathan Weisman: "Partisan obstreperousness, the force that propelled Congressional Republicans to widespread victory in 2010, is suddenly for many of them as out of ...
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