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ABC Puffs Bill and Hillary Clinton Enjoying 'Long Walks,' Skips New Scandal

The journalists at Good Morning America on Monday hyped a puff piece on whether Hillary Clinton will run for President in 2016, but ignored a critical look at the Clinton Global Initiative and its ...
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CNN: House GOP 'Inmates Are Running the Asylum,' Holding the Economy 'to Ransom'

Throughout Friday morning's coverage of the House vote on the continuing resolution (CR), CNN repeatedly slapped Republicans for supposedly risking a government shutdown to defund Obamacare. A ...
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Smiley Takes to NBC to Deride ‘American Exceptionalism,’ Government Shutdown the End of Democracy

PBS put its late-night leftism on display on Meet the Press when PBS host Tavis Smiley used his slot, on the Sunday morning NBC News show’s panel, to regret President Barack Obama’s supposed ...
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Big 3 Ignore Benghazi Victims' Parents, Marvel at Caroline Kennedy's 'Shining' Moment

The Big Three broadcast networks made their slanted priorities clear on their Thursday evening newscasts, as they fawned over Caroline Kennedy's Senate confirmation hearing earlier that day, but ...
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Bob Schieffer: Anti-ObamaCare GOPers Are Like Japanese WWII Vets Who Don't Know Fight Is 'Over'

The network morning shows on Friday derided the move by House Republicans to defund ObamaCare as simply "bowing to demands" from the Tea Party. But it was CBS's Bob Schieffer who made no attempt ...
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Networks That Touted Tom DeLay’s 2010 Conviction Now Silent About His Acquittal

Back in 2010, when ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was convicted on money laundering charges related to campaign fundraising, all three network morning and evening news shows made sure to tell ...
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NBC Nudges D.C. Police Chief to Push for Gun Control

After framing a doctor's plea to end gun violence as a push for gun control earlier this week, NBC's Today teed up D.C.'s police chief to defend the city's strict gun regulations and slap gun ...
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CNN Buries at 5 AM Big New Report on IRS Scandal

CNN has all but ignored a new report that according to IRS documents, the agency gave extra scrutiny to 162 political groups – 80 percent of them conservative – that were seeking tax-exempt ...
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CNN Anchor Says Founding Fathers Would Oppose Defunding ObamaCare Because It's a 'Law'

CNN's Brooke Baldwin thought Republican efforts to defund ObamaCare flew in the face of how the Founding Fathers intended Congress to work. "Congress passes a law, in this case ObamaCare, and then ...
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CBS Hypes Senate GOP Attacking 'Crazy' Tea Party's ObamaCare 'Suicide Note'

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes repeatedly played up how an unidentified Republican in the U.S. Senate attacked a House proposal to de-fund ObamaCare ...
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