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NBC's Mitchell Denounces Pro-Life Legislation, Hopes for 'Blow-Back' Against GOP

Leading a panel discussion on her Tuesday 1 p.m. ET hour show on MSNBC, host Andrea Mitchell ranted against Republican efforts to enact pro-life legislation at the state level: "Texas isn't ...
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PBS’s Gwen Ifill Bemoans Obama’s Scandals as Second-Term ‘Distractions’

We’re halfway through 2013, and PBS’s Washington Week used last Friday’s episode to reflect on the past six months of D.C. politics. During the course of the reflections, moderator Gwen Ifill ...
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Nothing to See Here: CNN Largely Omits Tainted Eliot Spitzer Was Once Its Prime-Time Host

CNN mentioned Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal in every single report on his comeback bid in politics on Monday and Tuesday, but the network hid that he was recently a CNN prime-time host ...
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NBC Keeps Texas 'Battle Over Abortion' Alive, Frets Over 'Controversial Bill'

Two weeks after Texas state senator Wendy Davis and a mob of abortion activists prevented popularly supported pro-life legislation from being passed in the Lone Star State, on Tuesday's NBC Today, ...
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ABC Again Touts Eliot Spitzer: 'Infamy Might Work to His Advantage'

For the second day in a row, the journalists at Good Morning America failed to identify prostitution patron Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat. Yet, in a story on the politician's comeback, reporter ...
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MSNBC's Smerconish to Spitzer: Was Your Resignation 'Unwarranted?' 'End' of Sex Scandal?

Hardball guest host Michael Smerconish on Monday was so gentle with reformed prostitution patron Eliot Spitzer that even the former governor seemed uncomfortable. Talking about Spitzer's new run ...
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MSNBC's Joy Reid: GOP Abortion Restrictions Are Like Muslim 'Shariah Law'

On the Wednesday, July 3, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC contributor Joy Reid compared abortion restrictions to "Shariah law" as she blasted North Carolina state senate Republicans ...
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CNN Anchor Bends Over Backwards to Spin for Trayvon Martin

CNN's Suzanne Malveaux went to ridiculous ends on Monday to suggest that a testimony in defense of George Zimmerman could be used by the prosecution. A witness testified that she recognized ...
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Advocacy: CNN Begs Congress to 'Fix' Student Loan Rate Hike

In a show of advocacy and not journalism, CNN hosts skirted the policy details of the student loans debate and instead just paddled Congress for letting the loan rates double, on Monday's New ...
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CBS Omits Spitzer's Political Opponent Allegedly Provided Him With Prostitutes

Monday's CBS This Morning twice mentioned Kristin Davis, one of Eliot Spitzer's electoral opponents, during an interview of the disgraced former New York governor, but failed to mention that she ...
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