Campaign 2012

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NBC Hypes GOP in 'Hot Water' With 'High-Profile Distractions'

At the top of Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie seized on controversies involving Republican members of Congress and proclaimed: "Hot water....Two distractions for the GOP with the ...
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Michigan's Moderate GOP Gov. Gets NYT Kudos for Rejecting Conservative Policy

For the New York Times, this is an unambiguously good thing: "In this political age of ideological purity, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan is an enigma....Snyder, a former accountant who has ...
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Maureen Dowd: 'Hysterical' Paul Ryan's Moderate Mien Hides 'Full-Tilt Virulence'

Times columnist Maureen Dowd: "Both men [Paul Ryan and former VP Dick Cheney] are way, way out there. It is, to use a phrase coined by French doctors, la belle indifférence, or 'the beautiful ...
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NYT's Stelter: PBS Host Gwen Ifill 'Livid' Over Not Being Chosen to Moderate Presidential Debate

Dismissing conservative concerns of liberal bias on the part of moderators for the presidential debates as a predictable Rush Limbaugh talking point, New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter ...
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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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Egan's Peculiar Omission in Bashing Romney as 'Olympic Caliber' Flip-Flopper: Mitt's 2002 Olympics

Former New York Times reporter Timothy Egan mocks Romney's ancestors for polygamy (though President Obama's family tree is similarly encumbered) and mocks Romney as an "Olympian" flip-flopper ...
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New York Times Trumpets Mitt Romney's Tax Rate in Friday Lead Slot

The Times predictably put Mitt Romney's tax return announcement in its lead slot, but reporter Michael Shear noted that "Mr. Romney and his wife would still have had a higher income tax rate than ...
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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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Noble Obama Lowering the Temperature, Staying 'Out of the Fray' on Campaign Trail, Claims New York Times

Times reporter Helene Cooper gave Obama credit for lowering the rhetorical temperature of the campaign, skipping completely the false and vicious attack from Priorities USA, an ...
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