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ABC and CBS Drop the Ball: Take an Hour to Notice ObamaCare Website Crash

While Monday's NBC Today began its 7 a.m. ET hour coverage of the ObamaCare enrollment deadline by noting the healthcare.gov website had crashed yet again, it took an hour for ABC's Good ...
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Hollywood Actress Mindy Kaling Confesses: I'm 'Weirdly Patriotic'

Here’s a real shocker. Someone in Hollywood confessing they are “patriotic.” Mindy Kaling, the star and creator of Fox’s The Mindy Project, admitted on Friday’s Charlie Rose show that she’s ...
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CBS's Norah O'Donnell Smears Global Warming Skeptics as 'Deniers'

CBS This Morning co-anchor Norah O'Donnell on Monday adopted the alarmist language for global warming. She referred to climate skeptics as "deniers." CBS offered two stories on a new United ...
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Chuck Todd Declares ObamaCare is Now 'Unrepealable'

Appearing on Monday's Today, NBC's chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd seized on ObamaCare hitting the six million sign-up mark by the March 31 deadline, ...
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NBC’s Chuck Todd Mocks Mitch McConnell Ad Using Duke Players, Ignores Dem. Opponent’s Gaffe Betting Against Ky. Teams

NBC’s Chuck Todd filled in for David Gregory as moderator of Meet the Press on Sunday and took the opportunity to mock Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for a campaign ad he ran last week. At issue ...
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Washington Post’s David Ignatius Cheers On Obama ‘Trying To Understand’ the Way Putin Sees the World

Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius did his best to shill for President Obama following the President’s interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley. Following ...
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CBS's Pelley Glowingly Wonders How the Pope 'Inspired' Obama; Omits Religious Liberty Spat

Friday's CBS Evening News featured a previously unaired portion of Scott Pelley's softball interview of President Obama on his recent meeting with Pope Francis. The Vatican noted on Thursday that ...
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Piers Morgan Uses Swan Song to Call for the Disarmament of U.S. Citizens

Piers Morgan got in one last word in favor of gun control during the final episode of his CNN program on Friday, and called for the complete disarmament of the American citizenry: "As my brother, ...
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Networks Ignore Ultra-Low Support for ObamaCare; CBS Hypes 'Surging' Website Visits

Friday's CBS Evening News picked up where the Big Three morning shows left off earlier in the day and trumpeted how "visitors have been surging to [HealthCare.gov] – about one-and-half million a ...
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'Nightline' Turns to Democrats to Slam Christie as a 'Bully'

To accompany ABC's tough interview of New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Friday's Nightline quoted New Jersey Democrats slamming him as a vengeful "bully." World News anchor Diane Sawyer noted ...
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