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Newly Obtained E-Mails Show Lerner Gave Tea Party Tax Info to FEC, Big Three Networks Censor

On October 31 the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported the following: “The Internal Revenue Service shared highly confidential tax information of several Tea Party groups in the IRS ...
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Heilemann: Obama's 'Disdain' for Romney's 'BS' to Blame for Bad 2012 Debate Performance

Promoting his new book about the 2012 election, Double Down, with co-author Mark Halperin on Monday's NBC Today, New York Magazine national affairs editor John Heilemann offered Obama campaign ...
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CBS: 'White House Had Years of Warnings' About ObamaCare Debacle

Monday's CBS This Morning revealed how "a trusted Obama health care adviser warned the White House it was losing control of ObamaCare." Major Garrett underlined that "the warnings were dire and ...
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MSNBC's Reid: GOPers Find Clarence Thomas 'Better Than Other African-Americans'

On Thursday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, during a discussion of Republican Senator Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, making a birther joke about President Obama, MSNBC political analyst ...
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Surprise: GMA Commits Journalism, Exposes 'Frustrating' 'New Troubles' for ObamaCare

After offering sympathetic coverage to the disastrous roll-out of the ObamaCare website, ABC on Monday actually uncovered "new troubles" and alerted viewers to misleading comments by the White ...
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As Food Stamp Spending Soars, NBC Despairs Recipients Can’t Afford Halloween Candy

Exhibit A on Friday night for how the news media are an impediment to any rational discussion of reining in federal spending. “The ax falls for more than 47 million Americans struggling to put ...
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MSNBC's Wolffe Mocks Republican Concerns Over Deficit

On the Thursday, October 31, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, after host O'Donnell raised new numbers showing that the federal budget deficit has shrunk, MSNBC.com executive editor ...
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MSNBC's Finney Blames 'Dictator' Bush for Troops in Afghanistan

On Wednesday's PoliticsNation, as MSNBC weekend host Karen Finney joined host Al Sharpton in slamming Republicans who liken President Obama to a "dictator," Finney charged that President Bush ...
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Andrea Mitchell Frets Unpopular Obama Can't 'Frighten' GOP Anymore

On her 1 p.m. ET MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell whined about Senate Republicans blocking some of the President's recent nominees and worried about the impact of Obama's sagging ...
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Bizarro World: Ed Schultz Slams Journalists for Being Too Negative on ObamaCare

In the world that Ed Schultz lives in, journalists have just been too negative about ObamaCare, showering the President's law with insults. The MSNBC anchor on Tuesday theorized as to why the ...
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