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'Progress' Gets Cancelled

Activists counted 11 cancelled shows that featured regular gay characters. That bothersome thing called the market: why must it get in the way!
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CNN's Banfield: 'Take Me Off the Ledge' and Tell Me IRS Audits Weren't Political

After Friday's IRS testimony before Congress, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield begged CNN host Candy Crowley to "take me off the ledge" and explain that the agency was simply doing its job looking for ...
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WashPost's Milbank: GOP Should 'Waste' Time So 'They'll Be of Less Harm to the Country'

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's PoliticsNation show on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank mocked House Republicans for repeatedly holding unsuccessful votes to repeal ObamaCare as he ...
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NBC's Williams Ready to Move On: 'It's Tough to Know the Staying Power of Any Given Scandal'

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, after proclaiming President Obama to be "on the offensive" amid growing scandals, anchor Brian Williams hinted at those controversies being only temporary ...
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Charlie Rose Wonders If Republicans Will 'Overplay Their Hand' on Obama Scandals

In the latest instance of liberal journalists thinking alike, Charlie Rose asked practically the same question on Friday's CBS This Morning that ABC's George Stephanopoulos did on Good Morning ...
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MSNBC's Joy Reid: 'Only Thing That Really Unites' GOP is 'Hatred' of Obama

On Thursday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC contributor Joy Reid claimed that Republicans are going after Obama administration scandals because "the only thing that really unites ...
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Nightline in 1987 Decries Media Obsession With Crime; Nightline in 2013 Hypes O.J. and Skimps on IRS

On Wednesday night, the journalists at Nightline allowed a mere 31 seconds to the exploding scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives. This was after anchor Terry ...
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NBC Touts Obama 'Trying to Move Past' Scandals, Believing It's 'Just a Blip'

On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer described how President Obama was "trying to move past" the scandals plaguing his administration. In the report that followed, chief White House ...
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ABC Lectures: 'Real Concern' GOP May Be 'Overplaying Their Hand' on IRS

The reporters at Good Morning America on Friday continued White House damage control efforts on the growing scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups. Former ...
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CNN Legal Analyst Scoffs at Notion of 'Earth-Shaking' IRS Scandal, Calls for 'a Little Less Hysteria'

CNN's senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin complained on Thursday morning's Newsroom that there's too much "hysteria" over the IRS scandal and that it really may not have been that big of a story ...
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