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Amidst Fading Support for Gun Control, Piers Morgan Says It's 'the NRA Versus the People'

When CNN's Piers Morgan accused the NRA of fighting the American people on his Thursday show, GOP strategist Kelly Conway retorted that public favor for gun control has waned despite the best ...
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Selective Outrage? CNN Briefly Mentions Obama Gun Gaffe; Jumps All Over 'Best-Looking' Compliment

Host Jake Tapper was the only CNN reporter or anchor to cover President Obama's blunder that the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting was an automatic weapon, and not semi-automatic. Meanwhile, ...
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Big Three Spotlight 'Backlash' Over President Obama's Compliment; Omit First Lady's 'Single Mother' Gaffe

ABC, CBS, and NBC's Friday morning shows all devoted air time to President Obama labeling California Attorney General Kamala Harris "the best-looking attorney general in the country" at a ...
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Only Off By 102,000; ABC Jumps the Gun and Announces 'Expected' Job Gains of 190,000

Oops. Good Morning America on Friday preemptively announced "expected" job creation for the month of March totaling 190,000. In reality, 88,000 jobs were created. The ABC morning show was only off ...
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'Andrea Mitchell Reports': Five Years of Cheering Liberals and Slamming Conservatives

On Thursday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell celebrated five years of her 1 p.m. ET hour show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, with highlight reels and congratulatory messages from her NBC colleagues. The ...
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Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control'

In an exclusive April 3 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, CNN founder Ted Turner expressed his hopes for President Obama and advised him to "get this global climate change under control." ...
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Piers Morgan Hits Michael Reagan for Reinforcing 'Bigotry That Pervades the Party'

CNN's Piers Morgan put Michael Reagan through the wringer on Wednesday over a small portion of his op-ed on churches and same-sex marriage, mostly bypassing the overall point of the article ...
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CNN Hypes Patti Davis' Claim Ronald Reagan Would Support Same-Sex Marriage

CNN joined the New York Times in hyping Ronald Reagan's liberal activist daughter saying her father would have approved of same-sex marriage. Thursday's Starting Point devoted a whole segment to ...
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Networks All Adopt Obama's Talking Points: President Is Expressing 'Solidarity' With Workers

All three networks on Wednesday and Thursday parroted the exact same talking points from the White House, touting Barack Obama for expressing "solidarity" with struggling workers by taking a ...
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NBC Touts 'Sweeping Gun Control' in Connecticut, National 'Call to Action' to Curb Gun Rights

On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie heralded that Connecticut had "approved some of the tightest gun control legislation in the country as President Obama is pushing for tougher ...
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