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Andrea Mitchell Plots Dem Strategy: 'Many of Us in the Media' Touted More Spending

2/21/2014 6:00 PM ET
MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell on Friday openly plotted strategy with a senior Democratic adviser, complimenting him on successful efforts to convince Americans to think that raising the debt ...
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Relieved Chuck Todd: Are We Done With 'Debt Ceiling Being Wielded as a Political Weapon?'

2/12/2014 3:22 PM ET
At the top of MSNBC's Daily Rundown on Wednesday, host and NBC political director Chuck Todd triumphantly declared: "What a difference a shutdown makes. Picking their poison, Republican leaders ...
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Networks Applaud GOP Caving on Debt Ceiling: 'America One Step Closer to Being Able to Pay Its Bills'

2/12/2014 10:56 AM ET
All three network morning shows on Wednesday cheered House Republicans giving up on trying to attach conditions to raising the nation's borrowing limit. On NBC's Today, news reader Natalie ...
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Networks Hype Threat of Default, But Were Wrong about ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Impact

10/16/2013 8:48 AM ET
Five failed predictions of ‘fiscal doomsday’ the networks hyped during cliff crisis and sequester.
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58% of Network Stories Claim Default Inevitable by Oct. 17; Experts Disagree

10/16/2013 8:24 AM ET
Market insiders: Default would be weeks away, if even then.
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Moody’s Disputes Warnings about Shutdown and Debt Ceiling

10/11/2013 11:11 AM ET
As administration and media warn of economic doom, Moody’s says US credit rating safe.
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CNBC Outs Obama's Strategy of ‘Scaring the Market’

10/3/2013 1:35 PM ET
Treasury claims possible debt standoff would be ‘worse’ than 2008; CNBC says fear is White House ‘aim.’
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CBS Hypes Senate GOP Attacking 'Crazy' Tea Party's ObamaCare 'Suicide Note'

9/19/2013 6:18 PM ET
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes repeatedly played up how an unidentified Republican in the U.S. Senate attacked a House proposal to de-fund ObamaCare ...
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PBS’s Woodruff: Is Debt Limit ‘An Appropriate Tool’ to Restrain Government Spending?

9/18/2013 4:29 PM ET
PBS anchor Judy Woodruff asked a question on Monday’s NewsHour that perfectly captured the modern liberal mentality about government spending and debt. During a taped interview with former ...
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Debt Ceiling Logic

9/18/2013 7:02 AM ET
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