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ABC Lets Obama Off Easy for Ending White House Tours, Ignores Contradiction by Press Secretary

Good Morning America's Reena Ninan on Saturday let Barack Obama off easy. The ABC reporter allowed the President to escape blame for the sad story of a group of Iowa sixth graders who had their ...
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NBC Hypes 'Republican Infighting' at CPAC for GOP 'Trying to Rehabilitate Its Image'

On Monday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales hyped how "Republican infighting broke out this weekend at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference." In the report that followed, ...
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ABC, CBS and NBC Avoid Obama Administration’s Dereliction on Missile Defense

The Obama administration in 2009 dropped the Bush administration’s plan to add missile interceptor capability against North Korea, yet on Friday, when Obama’s Pentagon realized their error and ...
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ABC Touts 'Staunch Traditionalist' Pope Francis; CBS Highlights Persecution of Chinese Catholics

On Thursday's World News, ABC News correspondent Terry Moran acted like it was a big surprise that newly-elected Pope Francis stands by the Catholic Church's teachings on sexuality: "Now, as the ...
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CNN's Costello Pesters CPAC Chair About Inclusion of Gay Republicans

CNN's Carol Costello spent her entire interview Friday with the CPAC chairman badgering him about the inclusion of gay Republicans in the conference. "Will CPAC ever change its position and ...
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Sloppy: CNN's Lemon Ignores Ted Cruz's Own Words and Hits Him as 'Inaccurate' and 'Misleading'

CNN's Don Lemon smacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) on Friday for being "inaccurate" and "misleading" in grilling Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the Second Amendment. Lemon didn't provide any ...
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NBC: Portman Joins 'Growing List' of Republicans for Gay Marriage as GOP Faces 'Identity Crisis'

On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted "breaking news" that Ohio Senator Rob Portman, "a leading figure in the Republican Party," was now in favor of gay marriage after learning that ...
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NBC Frets New Pope 'Didn't Exactly Scream a Modern Church,' Puts Liberalism on Papal 'To-Do List'

In an interview with New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer worried about the age of the newly elected Pope Francis: "...there was some stunned silence ...
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Krugman on PBS: 'This Is a Much More Fanatical Republican Party Than Most People...Realize'

Tavis Smiley invited ultra-liberal Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on his show Tuesday night for a friendly chat about the American economy. Predictably, Krugman used ...
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CBS Hypes 'Staunch Conservative' Pope Francis; Rose Hounds Dolan on Women's Ordination

In the midst of generally positive coverage, CBS played up newly-elected Pope Francis' "conservative" views on issues like abortion, same-sex "marriage", and birth control. On Thursday's CBS This ...
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