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Leno Tougher on How President 'Lied' About ObamaCare Than NBC Reporters

On Tuesday's NBC Tonight Show, host Jay Leno provided harsher criticism of President Obama falsely claiming that Americans could keep their current health insurance plans under ObamaCare than ...
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ABC Wakes Up to ObamaCare 'Lie,' But Knocks Americans' 'Cheap, Underperforming' Plans

The journalists at Good Morning America on Wednesday conceded that Barack Obama may have "misled the public" on the health care law, that "some call it a lie." But at the same time, reporter Jim ...
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ABC Excuses Obama’s False Promise: Canceled ‘Cheap’ Policies Are ‘Dangerous’

Jumping in to excuse President Obama for making the false promise (“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan”), ABC News on Tuesday night rationalized how ObamaCare is simply saving ...
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Look on the Bright Side! CNN Relays ObamaCare Spin After WH Admits Some Will Lose Insurance

Even after the White House admitted that some Americans would lose their health insurance – breaking multiple promises by President Obama that people could keep their health plan under ...
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Joe Scarborough and Company Refuse to Admit Obama ‘Lied’ About ObamaCare

You can give MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew credit for this much: they spent almost half an hour on Tuesday’s show discussing the NBC News report that President Obama knew that millions of Americans ...
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CNN Spins for Obama: 'You Can Keep Your Health Care Plan' Promise Was Just an 'Oversell'

CNN's Joe Johns wouldn't call President Obama's "you can keep your health care plan" promise a lie or a broken promise, on Tuesday. According to him, it "might have been an oversell." This ...
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MSNBC's Sharpton Repeats Anti-Cheney Distortion on 9/11 Hijackers and Iraq

On Monday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC host Al Sharpton bizarrely devoted his regular "Nice Try" segment to Dick Cheney denying that he and Wyoming Republican Senator Mike Enzi are "fishing buddies," ...
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Networks Ignore Obama Administration's Latest Attack on Journalist, Skip Pre-Dawn Raid

All three networks, so far, have ignored the latest example of the Obama administration's aggressive attacks on journalists, this time against a former Washington Times reporter who in 2005 ...
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NBC's Lauer Revels in Christie Bashing GOP and Praising Obama Over Sandy Relief

During an interview with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seized the opportunity to tout Christie ...
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CBS: Two Million Forced Out of Health Plans By ObamaCare 'Just The Tip of the Iceberg'

Tuesday's CBS This Morning repeatedly played up how "more than two million Americans are losing their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare". Jan Crawford outlined that "this is just ...
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