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So Much for Civility: Times Embraces Obama's 'Hostage-Taking' Rhetoric

The sedate, responsible New York Times advances the cause of civility on its editorial page: "President Obama was right to use the metaphor of hostage-taking to describe the Republicans' tactics."

ABC, FNC Highlight Dem Senator's Comparison of Republicans to Terrorists

On Saturday morning, FNC's Fox and Friends Saturday and ABC's Good Morning America highlighted Democratic Senator Bob Menendez's assertion that negotiating with Republicans over taxes is like ...

Times Cheers Schumer's 'Millionaire's Tax' Formula After Despising GOP's 'Death Tax'

Jennifer Steinhauer greets Sen. Chuck Schumer's tax-cut word games with approval. Yet the Times loathed what it considered the unfair and misleading Republican phrase "death tax" to describe the ...

ABC: 'Concentration on Policy' Caused Obama's 'Shellacking,' No 'Mandate' to GOP for 'Gridlock'

On ABC's World News Sunday, correspondent David Kerley seemed to accept as fact President Obama's claim that "concentration on policy issues" was the reason for his party's recent election losses. ...

Columnist Nicholas Kristof on America, 'The Banana Republic'

Then move! Nicholas Kristof argues things are worse off in the United States than Guyana: "The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in ...

MSNBC's Mitchell: 'How Does Extending Tax Cuts for Millionaires Help the Unemployed?'

During her 1PM ET show on MSNBC on Friday, host Andrea Mitchell decried President Obama showing willingness to extend all the Bush tax cuts: "We got the big hint from Robert Gibbs yesterday that ...

Obama the Tax Cutter: A Network Fairy Tale: Executive Summary

Despite Obama's tax hikes and campaign against 'tax cuts' for the wealthy, broadcast evening news shows portray president as taxcutters' champion.

The Times Helpfully Reminds Voters of Obama's $7-a-Week-Tax Cut

Michael Cooper tries to get out the word on Obama's tax cuts before it's too late: "What if a president cut Americans' income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed?....At Pig Pickin' and ...

Small Business Hit By Tax Hike on 'The Rich'? NYT Says It's Just a Myth

Reporter David Kocieniewski rejects "conservative advocacy" concerns that a tax hike would cripple small business" "Despite that emotional appeal, Internal Revenue Service statistics indicate that ...

CNN's John Roberts Anguishes Over Need to 'Bump Up' Govt's 'Revenue Stream'

A majority of economists support extending the Bush tax cuts for all income groups, a CNN/Money survey found. But on Monday's American Morning, co-anchor John Roberts rued the conundrum of needing ...
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