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CBS, NBC Acknowledge ObamaCare Approval At All-Time Low; ABC Skips

On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell zeroed in on her network's latest poll that found that "more Americans than ever want the health care law repealed." However, she tried to explain ...
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CNN Implies Bigotry Is Behind Some Opposition to Immigration Bill

CNN's New Day used Rep. Steve King's controversial remarks on illegal immigrants to paddle the GOP and hint that bigotry is partly behind opposition to the immigration bill. Co-host Chris ...
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CBS Mentions IRS Scandal for First Time in a Month; Drops It the Next Morning

Scott Pelley devoted a minute and a half segment to the IRS scandal on Wednesday's CBS Evening News, the first time that the Big Three newscast had mentioned the issue in a month. Pelley asked ...
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News You Can Use: ABC Investigates Whether Sexting 'Really' 'Counts' as Cheating?'

Now that former Democratic Congressman and current mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has been caught, again, sending sexually explicit texts to women, the hosts of ABC's Good Morning America ...
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NBC's Mitchell Swoons: Caroline Kennedy 'Born to Be an Ambassador'

On Thursday's NBC Today, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell couldn't contain her glee over Carolina Kennedy being appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan: "Caroline Kennedy was ...
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NBC: Huma Abedin Learned from 'Master' Hillary Clinton, Her 'Political Role Model'

Throughout the coverage of the latest Anthony Weiner sex scandal on Wednesday's NBC Today, hosts and correspondents repeatedly made comparisons between Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, and her ...
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MSNBC's Hayes: 'Super Racist' O'Reilly 'Rant' 'Gives a Cheap Crack-Like High to' FNC's 'Old Fearful White Audience'

On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC's Chris Hayes attacked FNC's Bill O'Reilly for what he called a "super racist rant" because of a commentary the FNC host gave on Monday's The O'Reilly Factor about ...
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Zero Air Time on CBS Evening News for Latest Weiner Sex Scandal

CBS Evening News stood out among the Big Three evening newscasts on Tuesday in their failure to cover former Rep. Anthony Weiner's admission that he sent lewd text messages even after his ...
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Joe Scarborough: Anthony Weiner is 'Chuck Yeager of Sex Scandals'

Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough made a strange analogy while discussing the latest Anthony Weiner sex scandal: "You know, let's just say he is the ...
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Whitewash: CNN Moves On from IRS Scandal, Deflects Scrutiny from White House

Since new developments broke last week in the IRS scandal, CNN barely reported on it before dropping the story entirely, while deflecting scrutiny away from the White House's possible handin the ...
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