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Aaron Sorkin's Fictional Republican: Why Must We Hate Gays, Science and the Poor?

The HBO series Newsroom on Sunday continued its clumsy examination of liberal media bias. In the Aaron Sorkin-created series, "Will McAvoy" (played by Jeff Daniels) is a "Republican" anchor at the ...
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NBC's Lauer Tells Russian Lawmaker Politicizing DC Shooting to 'Shut Up'

On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie noted an offensive tweet by one Russian lawmaker reacting to Monday's Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C.: "After those terrible shootings in ...
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MSNBC's O'Donnell Gets Schooled by Garry Kasparov on Obama's 'Red Line' Waffle

On Monday's The Last Word show, after former chess champion and Russian political activist Garry Kasparov charged that President Obama had "blown up [the] reputation of his office," by allowing ...
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Superficial GMA Devotes More Time to Britney Spears, 'Dancing With the Stars' Than Massacre

A mass shooting couldn't halt Good Morning America's continuing disintegration from a news program to a tabloid-focused entertainment show. On Tuesday, the show devoted more time to Britney ...
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NBC Frames Doctor's Call to End Violence as Plea for Gun Control

In an interview on Tuesday's NBC Today with Dr. Janis Orlowski, chief medical officer for Medstar Washington Hospital Center, co-host Matt Lauer seized on her call for an end to gun violence ...
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CNN Tees Up John McCain to Bash Republicans for Partisanship

CNN's Chris Cuomo teed up Sen. John McCain to bash fellow Republicans on Monday's New Day, for putting partisanship before the country on Syria and the budget. "Do you believe if there were ...
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Fort Hood 2009? CNN Anchor Can't Remember the Last Shooting at 'U.S. Military Facility'

During CNN's live coverage of Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, anchor Carol Costello asked when the last time was that a gunman wreaked "havoc at a U.S. military facility." In ...
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Piers Morgan Rips NRA 'Cowards,' Begs Obama to Take 'Action' Against Mass Shootings

CNN's Piers Morgan lashed out at NRA "cowards" hours after Monday morning's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, and asked President Obama to take "action" against gun violence. Just as he ...
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Obsessed Sharpton Distorts O'Reilly 'Parasites' Comment Seven Times in a Month

Between August 13 and September 13, MSNBC's PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton has been so obsessed with FNC host Bill O'Reilly's criticism of food stamp abuse, the MSNBC host has on seven ...
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NBC's Todd: House Republicans 'Have Not Dropped' Benghazi

Talking to NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd on Sunday's Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory noted "Benghazi back as a political focus this week" following the one-year ...
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