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MSNBC's Wolffe Derides 'Cheap' Insurance, 'What Is It Really Worth?'

On Wednesday's The Last Word on MSNBC, MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe joined host Lawrence O'Donnell in exonerating President Obama from blame for the recent wave of health insurance ...
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NBC: 'As Bad as Things Are for the President, They're Still Worse for the Republicans'

While NBC political director Chuck Todd appeared on Thursday's Today to report on President Obama's approval rating hitting a "record low" in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll ...
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ABC and NBC Sympathize With Sebelius for 'Falling on Her Sword' Against 'Rude' Republicans

ABC and NBC journalists on Wednesday and Thursday hailed Kathleen Sebelius as "falling on her sword" and "taking responsibility" for the ObamaCare website debacle. On World News, reporter Jim ...
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CNN's Gupta on ObamaCare Dropping Millions from Health Plans: 'It Hasn't Been Explained Very Well'

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta – who was once considered for President Obama's surgeon general – gave cover to President Obama Wednesday in explaining his broken promise that Americans could keep ...
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Washington Post's Milbank: GOPers 'Slashing the Tires' and 'Then Complaining'

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined host Al Sharpton in lambasting Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Tom Coburn for attending a fund-raiser in ...
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Sharyl Attkisson: Insurance 'Death Spiral' Could Cause ObamaCare's 'Collapse'

Besides facing a "credibility death spiral" on the issue of ObamaCare, as political director John Dickerson recently put it, Sharyl Attkisson pointed out on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the ...
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Amid ObamaCare Disaster, NBC's Todd Insists GOP 'Has No Interest in Governing'

While discussing the numerous ObamaCare failures on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd felt it necessary to gratuitously bash Republicans: "And suddenly you have ...
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Chris Matthews Compares Ted Cruz to Cinematic Child Murderer 'Freddy Krueger'

Apparently, a lot of conservatives remind Chris Matthews of the scarred and burned child murderer from the Nightmare on Elm Street films. On Tuesday, the Hardball anchor linked Republican Ted Cruz ...
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John Dickerson: 'HealthCare.gov Launched With The...Success of a North Korean Missile'

John Dickerson didn't mince words about the "bad launch" of ObamaCare in his Tuesday item for Slate.com. The CBS News political director invoked one of deceased tyrant Kim Jong il's most infamous ...
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Charlie Rose to Cheney: Would You Have Seen Iraq Differently If You Had More Oxygen to Your Brain?

On Tuesday’s Charlie Rose show, former Vice President Dick Cheney came on to promote his new book about surviving heart disease and was treated to a nasty swipe from the host about his Iraq ...
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