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CBS Spotlights Arne Duncan's 'Exaggeration' on Sequester Effects; ABC and NBC Punt

Thursday's CBS This Morning stood out as the only Big Three network morning newscast to zero in on Education Secretary Arne Duncan's false assertion about the sequester – that "there are, ...
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Wash Post Mocks Politico's Fawning Interview With Bob Woodward as 'Fan Fiction'

The implied threat from the White House to Bob Woodward has thrown the liberal media for a loop. On Wednesday night, Politico published a fawning interview with Woodward. Writers Mike Allen and ...
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PBS’s Smiley Attacks ‘Milquetoast,’ ‘Spineless’ Democrats for Not Raising Minimum Wage

Tavis Smiley, PBS’s resident liberal activist, unleashed his anger against the Democratic Party on his talk show Tuesday night. In a conversation with California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Smiley ...
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NBC Allows 16 Seconds to White House Battle With Bob Woodward, Avoids Using the Word 'Threat'

The Today show on Thursday allowed a scant 16 seconds, out of a possible four hours, to the claim by veteran journalist Bob Woodward that the Obama White House is trying to intimidate him and ...
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NBC: 'Knives Came Out' When Pope Announced Abdication, Church in 'Holy Mess'

Keeping up NBC's barrage of attacks against the Catholic Church in the days leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's abdication, on Wednesday's Today, correspondent Anne Thompson made this nasty ...
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So Long, Pope Benedict: CNN Hosts Radical Nun Calling Papal Election 'Invalid'

After CNN's initial report on Pope Benedict's final papal audience, the first guest to appear on CNN Newsroom on Wednesday was a radical leftist nun who believes the upcoming papal election is ...
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Chris Matthews: Support Gun Control or an American President Could Be Murdered

In a closing commentary on Wednesday, Hardball's Chris Matthews ranted that opposing gun control could lead to the assassination of a future American president or politician. Matthews fumed that ...
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ABC Newscasts Mum on Editing Out Michelle Obama's Reference to 'Automatic Weapons'

Good Morning America on Tuesday edited out an inaccurate assertion by First Lady Michelle Obama that the gunman in a Chicago killing used an "automatic weapon." Regarding the death of teenager ...
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Pelley Lectures Boehner: 'Those Don't Sound Like The Words of A Man Seeking...Compromise'

Scott Pelley chided House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday's CBS Evening News, indicating the Republican leader was largely to blame for the imminent sequester: "You said that the President didn't ...
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NBC Touts Michelle Obama's Oscar Appearance as 'Part of a Carefully Crafted PR Plan'

In a report on Tuesday's NBC Today that only briefly mentioned criticism of First Lady Michelle Obama's appearance during Sunday's Academy Awards, White House correspondent Kristen Welker ...
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