BiasAlerts

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CNN Hasn't Covered IRS Scandal for Eleven Days

CNN hasn't covered developments in the IRS targeting scandal for eleven days, since correspondent Dana Bash claimed on July 25 there was "no evidence" the White House was involved. State of the ...
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CNN Anchor Laughs at House GOP for Threatening Shutdown Over ObamaCare

CNN's Carol Costello blamed Congress for Friday's jobs report and laughed at House Republicans who will shut down the government if necessary to defund ObamaCare. In a Facebook post, Costello ...
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Salon: Detroit is Bankrupt Because Racists Like Sean Hannity Hate Motown Music

Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has fingered the main culprits behind Detroit’s bankruptcy. According to him, it’s none other than Fox News host Sean Hannity and all his fellow racist conservatives who ...
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ABC's Cynthia McFadden Lectures Pro-Life Protester: You Don't Sound Very 'Loving'

Nightline co-anchor Cynthia McFadden on Wednesday spent the entire show investigating the possible closing of the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi. For a series that's devolved into a ...
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MSNBC's Krystal Ball Slams Limbaugh 'Racism,' 'Offensive in Every Way You Can Be Offensive'

Appearing on Thursday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC's Krystal Ball accused conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh of "racism" and "sexism" and charged that "He is offensive in every way you can be ...
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As Terrorist Threats Force Shutdown of U.S. Embassies, Networks Barely Mention Benghazi

Late Thursday, news broke of the State Department ordering numerous U.S. embassies across the Middle East closed on Sunday, August 4 due to terror threats from Al Qaeda. While the Big Three ...
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MSNBC Distorts 'Lester Maddox' O'Reilly While Accusing O'Reilly of Distortion

On Wednesday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC host Al Sharpton not only accused FNC's Bill O'Reilly and other right-leaning hosts of "distorting" the actions of Democrats on the issue of racial ...
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CNN Drops Its Own Scoop on Benghazi; Networks Fail to Even Pick It Up

CNN's Arwa Damon scored an exclusive interview with a suspect in the Benghazi attacks, yet CNN chose to air it only once. Aside from a brief mention of it on Thursday morning, the network ...
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'Today' Panel Proclaims 'Watershed Moment' for Gay Catholics, Demands Women Priests

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about comments from Pope Francis on homosexuality, co-host Matt Lauer asked the group of usual liberal pundits if the Pontiff's remarks were a ...
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ABC Features James Carville for Weiner Lecture, NBC Frets Over 'Damage' to Hillary

ABC and NBC on Thursday continued to fret over the implications the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal will have on Hillary Clinton. Today's Matt Lauer worried, "By association, does this do damage to ...
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