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CNN Spins Pope's 'Blunt Words' on Abortion as Reply to 'Conservative' Catholics' Criticism

Tuesday's New Day on CNN followed the lead of Reuters in giving ideologically-tinged reporting about Pope Francis's latest condemnation of abortion. Kate Bolduan hyped the "blunt words from Pope ...
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A Gloating Chris Matthews: 'Only' Christie Could Have Beaten Hillary in 2016

A gloating Chris Matthews on Tuesday appeared on The View and labeled the wounded Chris Christie as the "only" candidate who could have beaten Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Hardball anchor sneered, ...
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MSNBC's Alter-nate Reality: Network Contributor Dishonestly Claims There've Been No ‘Ongoing Revelations’ In IRS Scandal

While discussing Chris Christie’s bridge controversy, MSNBC's Jonathan Alter brought up the Obama administration’s IRS scandal. He remarked that the IRS matter "would still be a story" if there ...
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CNN: ObamaCare Sign-ups 'Good'; Blames Insurance Industry for Lack of Young Adults

On Tuesday's New Day, CNN's Chris Cuomo and Elizabeth Cohen applauded the 2.2 million reported enrollments in ObamaCare as "good," but also lamented that only 25 percent of the sign-ups are young ...
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CBS Hypes Michelle Obama's Latest 'Fashion Milestone,' Skimps on Health Care Setback

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday hyperventilated over the latest "fashion milestone" for Michelle Obama, donating four minutes to the First Lady's second inaugural dress appearing at ...
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NBC Devotes Nearly 11 Minutes to Christie, Only 41 Seconds to Bad ObamaCare Numbers

Between Monday's Nightly News and Tuesday's Today, NBC devoted ten minutes and forty-four seconds to coverage of the now six-day-old controversy surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. ...
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CBS Ends 6-Month Censorship of IRS Scandal to Tell Viewers FBI Won't File Charges

CBS finally ended its almost six-month long ban on the IRS-Tea Party investigation to announce to its viewers, on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, that the FBI is not expected to “file criminal ...
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Saturday GMA Devotes 10x More Coverage to De Blasio's Pizza Faux Pas Than ObamaCare News

Some important ObamaCare news broke late on Friday, but Saturday's Good Morning America reduced it to a news brief in the second half of their show. In the first half of the show, they ran a ...
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Liberal 'Meet the Press' Panel Shouts Down Lone Conservative to Defend Obama Against Gates

In a panel packed with Obama sycophants on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, lone conservative Rick Santorum was shouted down the moment he observed that Robert Gates's new memoir showed "that the ...
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CNN All But Ignores Own Scoop That Al Qaeda 'Appears to Control' More Arab Land Now Than Ever

On January 7, CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen wrote on CNN.com that "al Qaeda appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history." ...
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