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ABC's Tapper: White House Hails A 'Good Week' After 'Gift' From Joe Barton

On Friday's Good Morning America on ABC, White House correspondent Jake Tapper described White House reaction to Republican Congressman Joe Barton calling BP's $20 billion escrow fund the result ...

Network News Shows Largely Skip President's $50 Billion Spending Request

The network morning and evening news shows have all but ignored President Obama's Saturday letter to congressional leaders asking for $50 billion in additional spending to prevent the "massive ...

Alter Regrets 'We Didn't Show Up' for Obama, Obama as 'Jesus in the White House'?

Three noteworthy quotes from journalists I tweeted over the holiday weekend: Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, author of the 'The Promise: President Obama, Year One,' on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher ...

NBC and CBS Touted Lib Boycott of AZ; Silent on Offer to Turn Out L.A.'s Lights

All three broadcast evening newscasts have repeatedly touted, as if it is a valid representation of national sentiment, the "boycott" of Arizona by liberal municipalities such as San Francisco and ...

Nets All Showcase Fearful 2nd Grader's Question to FLOTUS on Lacking 'Papers,' ABC Heralds It As 'Poignant'

ABC, CBS and NBC all showcased a second grader's question to Michelle Obama: "Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn't have papers," but "my mom doesn't have papers." ABC suggested it ...

ABC's George Stephanopoulos Marvels That Obama Is 'Largely Escaping Blame' for Oil Spill

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday cited a new poll and marveled to viewers that Barack Obama "is largely escaping blame for his handling of the [oil spill] crisis." Reporter ...

Bennett's Loss in Utah a 'Damn Outrage,' 'Non-Violent Coup,' Part of Larger Intolerant GOP Narrative

"This is a damn outrage," a disgusted David Brooks declared on Sunday's Meet the Press reacting to Republican Senator Bob Bennett's loss at Utah's GOP convention. Brooks fretted he was punished ...

Emerging Anti-Tea Party Line: Lack of Opposition to Arizona Proves Racism and Hypocrisy

Comments on two Sunday shows reflected an emerging new liberal line of reasoning, which uses the lack of opposition to Arizona's new immigration enforcement law, as a means to discredit ...

Thanks to Obama, 'Today American Nuclear Strategy Finally Caught Up with History'

"The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, and today American nuclear strategy finally caught up with history," as the Obama administration has recognized "the greatest threat is no longer ...

Barbour on ABC: Media's Given Obama 'Longest Wet Kiss in Political History'

On ABC's This Week, Mississippi's Republican Governor, Haley Barbour, quipped: "I am surprised that the numbers in the Washington Post poll weren't better. I mean, since this thing passed last ...
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