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Salon: Detroit is Bankrupt Because Racists Like Sean Hannity Hate Motown Music

Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has fingered the main culprits behind Detroit’s bankruptcy. According to him, it’s none other than Fox News host Sean Hannity and all his fellow racist conservatives who ...
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ABC's Cynthia McFadden Lectures Pro-Life Protester: You Don't Sound Very 'Loving'

Nightline co-anchor Cynthia McFadden on Wednesday spent the entire show investigating the possible closing of the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi. For a series that's devolved into a ...
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As Terrorist Threats Force Shutdown of U.S. Embassies, Networks Barely Mention Benghazi

Late Thursday, news broke of the State Department ordering numerous U.S. embassies across the Middle East closed on Sunday, August 4 due to terror threats from Al Qaeda. While the Big Three ...
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MSNBC Distorts 'Lester Maddox' O'Reilly While Accusing O'Reilly of Distortion

On Wednesday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC host Al Sharpton not only accused FNC's Bill O'Reilly and other right-leaning hosts of "distorting" the actions of Democrats on the issue of racial ...
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CNN Drops Its Own Scoop on Benghazi; Networks Fail to Even Pick It Up

CNN's Arwa Damon scored an exclusive interview with a suspect in the Benghazi attacks, yet CNN chose to air it only once. Aside from a brief mention of it on Thursday morning, the network ...
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'Today' Panel Proclaims 'Watershed Moment' for Gay Catholics, Demands Women Priests

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about comments from Pope Francis on homosexuality, co-host Matt Lauer asked the group of usual liberal pundits if the Pontiff's remarks were a ...
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ABC Features James Carville for Weiner Lecture, NBC Frets Over 'Damage' to Hillary

ABC and NBC on Thursday continued to fret over the implications the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal will have on Hillary Clinton. Today's Matt Lauer worried, "By association, does this do damage to ...
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NBC Asks: 'If I Answer the Wrong Question, Is My Teacher Going to Shoot Me?'

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about some school districts arming teachers to defend against mass shootings, fill-in co-host Carson Daly teed up New Jersey American ...
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MSNBC Slams Right's 'War on the Poor,' WashPost's Henderson Sees 'Antipathy,' 'Dangerous Tone'

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton complained that a "war on the poor" has been "launched" by the right, prompting Washington Post political reporter Nia-Malika -Henderson to ...
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Nets Minimize Filner Scandal Coverage, Won't ID Him As A Democrat

ABC and CBS both failed to point out San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's Democratic party affiliation on their Wednesday morning newscasts. Good Morning America devoted just one 17-second news brief to ...
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