BiasAlerts

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CBS Hounds Rand Paul on NSA Spying Scandal: 'Why Only Now Raise These Concerns?'

Norah O'Donnell unsurprisingly conducted a confrontational interview of Senator Rand Paul on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, pummeling the Kentucky Republican for his strong opposition to the National ...
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Puzzled Matt Lauer to O'Reilly: 'You Think There's Been Less Transparency' Under Obama?

In an interview with Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seemed perplexed by the Fox News host asserting that "the Obama administration doesn't tell us anything" about ...
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ABC Gushes Over Hillary on Twitter, a Sad Sam Champion Laments: Clinton Didn't Respond to My Tweet

Good Morning America hasn't made time to cover a possible prostitution scandal involving Hillary Clinton's State Department, but the show's hosts gushed over the politician's debut on Twitter. ...
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George Stephanopoulos Spouts Obama's IRS Talking Points to John Boehner

Acting as though he were Barack Obama's lawyer, George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday's Good Morning America repeatedly pressed John Boehner as to why he doesn't believe the President's explanation ...
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Ex-Newsweek's Wolffe Warns Republicans Against Pursuing Obama Scandals

Appearing on Thursday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe -- formerly of Newsweek -- harkened back to President Bill Clinton's impeachment and the Reagan-era Iran-Contra ...
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Chris Matthews: 'Women Are Going to Die This Week' Because of Sequester Shelter Cuts

Liberal anchor Chris Matthews on Monday suggested that sequester cuts impacting shelter and housing funds could result in "some women" "dying this week." Matthews brought on the former National ...
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CBS Promotes Berkeley Fourth Graders Demanding the Return of Deported Classmate

On Sunday's CBS Evening News, John Blackstone spotlighted the sob story of fourth graders who are lobbying President Obama to allow the return of their former classmate, Rodrigo Guzman, who was ...
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ABC, NBC Morning Shows Ignore Obama in Spying Story; CBS Finds a 'Political Crisis' for President

The ABC and NBC morning shows on Monday ignored or downplayed the role the President of the United States played in the unfolding spying scandal that broke last week. The journalists at Good ...
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Ex-Newsweek's Alter: If Romney Had Won, 'Things Would Be So Much Worse'

Appearing as a guest on Friday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter -- formerly of Newsweek -- asserted that, if Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan had won the 2012 presidential ...
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Guardian's Glenn Greenwald Schools NBC's Guthrie on NSA Snooping

Appearing on Monday's NBC Today, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald corrected co-host Savannah Guthrie on her framing of the NSA phone and email surveillance controversy after she inaccurately ...
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