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ABC Again Hits Christie With Weight Jokes: He 'Devours His Critics' With a 'Healthy Appetite'

Covering New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's secret weight loss surgery, Good Morning America's Paula Faris couldn't help but make fat jokes. The reporter on Wednesday began her segment by wryly ...
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CBS Helps Democrat Boost Gun Control Bill; Asks Republican About Obama's Golf Game

On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell pressed Senator Joe Manchin about a possible new push for gun control in Congress. Rose wondered how Manchin and his allies could ...
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NBC's Guthrie: Obama 'Deeply Disappointed' By Gun Bill Failure, But At Least He Passed ObamaCare

Appearing on Monday's Tonight Show, NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie told Jay Leno that President Obama was "deeply disappointed" by gun control legislation being voted down, prompting the ...
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MSNBC's O'Donnell Slams 'Psychotic Vision' of NRA Members in 'Uprising Against Police Officers'

On Monday's The Last Word, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell portrayed NRA members as imagining themselves killing police officers in a "psychotic vision of an armed uprising" as he ranted against the ...
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Lapdog ABC Still Not Interested in Details of Obama Donor Beyonce's Trip to Cuba

This past April, celebrity Obama donors Beyonce Knowles and husband Jay-Z took a controversial trip to the communist country of Cuba. Knowles appeared on Monday's Good Morning America and ...
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NBC: 'Obvious Political Undercurrent' to New Benghazi Testimony, GOP Targeting 'Most Popular Democrat' Clinton

Wrapping up a report on Monday's NBC Nightly News about a fresh round of congressional hearings on the Benghazi terrorist attack, correspondent Andrea Mitchell dismissed the development as ...
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Chris Matthews Compares NRA to Nazis, Decries Use of Nazi Comparisons

Apparently not even Chris Matthews listens to Chris Matthews. On Monday's Hardball, the liberal anchor compared the speeches at the National Rifle Association's 2013 convention to the Nazis. Three ...
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Hume: For Benghazi to Become a Scandal Will Require ‘Relentless News Coverage’

Fox News Channel analyst and former anchor Brit Hume asserted Monday night that for Benghazi “to become the scandal it surely deserves to be will require another ingredient: Relentless news ...
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NBC's Gregory Lobs Softballs to Obama-Backing Google Executive

During an interview with Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt for the Meet the Press web-based feature Press Pass on Sunday, NBC's David Gregory eagerly asked Schmidt about working for ...
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MSNBC's Sharpton Slams NRA Video as 'Tasteless' and 'Offensive'

On Friday's Politics Nation, MSNBC host Al Sharpton fretted over the video that was played at Friday's NRA convention in Houston to introduce Rick Perry which shows the Texas governor firing at ...
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