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NBC's Todd Warns: If GOP Investigates Obama Scandals, 'The Voters Will Punish Them'

On Thursday's NBC Today, in a desperate attempt to deflect from the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: "I read a headline yesterday that said ...
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ABC Wants to Move on from IRS Scandal: 'White House Firing Back' and 'Feels a Lot Better'

The journalists at Good Morning America on Thursday floated the idea that Barack Obama is poised to move on from the Internal Revenue Service scandal. One day after the President announced the ...
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CNN Anchor's Benghazi Spin: 'What Administration' 'Doesn't Try to Control the Message'?

On Sunday's 6 p.m. Newsroom, CNN's Don Lemon made a shockingly generous excuse for the Obama administration's talking points on Benghazi that were edited a dozen times to the point of ...
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CBS's Rose Defends Obama After Rumsfeld Cracks He's Only Taken Responsibility for Killing Osama

Charlie Rose acted as an apologist for President Obama on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, after former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted that the second-term executive was avoiding ...
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Chris Matthews Admits: Press Is 'Pro-Obama'; If President Disagrees, He's 'Crazy'

Even Chris Matthews admits it. Talking to the liberal Alex Wagner on Wednesday's Hardball about the IRS scandal, the cable host came clean on the press and their love for Barack Obama. After ...
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NBC's Gregory Can Only Muster Critique of Obama's 'Passivity' Amid Scandals

With a headline on screen lamenting "Obama's Second-Term Blues" on Wednesday's NBC Today, the worst criticism Meet the Press moderator David Gregory could muster against the President amid ...
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ABC Frets a Lower Deficit May 'Hurt the Economy' Because It Will Delay a Sequester Deal

ABC, the network that has been relentlessly pushing an apocalyptic view of what sequester could do to America, on Wednesday suggested that a lower deficit could be a bad thing. Good Morning ...
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Nightline Focuses on Actress's Breasts, Shoves Obama's Scandals Onto Twitter

Where would a Nightline viewer go for important political news? It wouldn't be the late night ABC show. This week, the program has focused on topics such as Angelina Jolie's mastectomy and the ...
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MSNBC's Hayes Suggests Fox News Should Link Reagan to Genocide in Guatemala

On Tuesday's All In show, Chris Hayes linked former President Ronald Reagan to a former Guatemalan dictator convicted of genocide as the MSNBC host seemed to suggest that the story was as worthy ...
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Donny Deutsch on NBC: People Only Focused on Obama Scandals Because They're 'Bored'

On Wednesday's NBC Today, regular panelist Donny Deutsch downplayed the scandals embroiling the Obama administration as merely the result of the public not having anything else to focus on: "I ...
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