BiasAlerts

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NBC Eager to See Republicans 'Peeling Off' from Tax Pledge, Pressures Rest of GOP to Do the Same

Talking to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie enthusiastically touted: "...we've seen a few Republicans peeling off from a pledge they ...
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CBS's Dickerson Boasts Obama 'Has More Leverage' If Country Goes Off Fiscal Cliff

CBS News political director John Dickerson all but crossed his fingers on Wednesday's CBS This Morning as he forwarded the idea of letting the country go over the looming fiscal cliff so President ...

CNN Declares the End of the Tea Party

Even though Republicans kept the House, CNN was trying to bury the Tea Party on Wednesday. Anchor Carol Costello asked if the movement was dead while CNN's headline proclaimed the "end of the Tea ...
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ABC Relays More Terrorist Spin: 'Gazans Simply Defending Themselves'

On Tuesday's World News, ABC correspondent Alex Marquardt again forwarded terrorist propaganda rationalizing the firing of rockets into Israel as he repeated claims -- which he attributed vaguely ...
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On CBS, British Author Boosts 'Positive Discrimination' To Get More Women in High Office

On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell helped British author Frances Osborne advance discriminatory policy prescriptions from the left to get more women in high positions of political and ...
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NBC's Williams Frets Over a 'Lop-Sided Fight' Between Israel and Gaza

Leading off Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams wrung his hands over Israel suffering fewer casualties than Gaza in the ongoing Mideast conflict: "It is a lop-sided fight right now, ...
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CNBC's Harwood: Benghazi Scandal Being 'Prolonged' Because of Campaign 'Bitterness'

Appearing on Saturday's NBC Today, CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood completely dismissed the scandal surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack as merely leftover campaign politics: ...
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CNN's Lemon Bullies Conservative Guest On-Air, Who Lashes Out Afterward

CNN's Don Lemon didn't show a hint of journalistic integrity on Sunday's Newsroom as he ripped into conservative guest Will Cain and lectured him on the offensiveness of Mitt Romney's ...
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CNN's Crowley Pitches Tax Hike Without Even Mentioning Spending Cuts

Continuing the media's preoccupation with tax hikes while ignoring the debate over spending cuts, CNN's Candy Crowley focused the conversation on tax hikes on Sunday's State of the Union. She even ...
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Non-Partisan? Not a Chance! The Worst of CNN's Election Bias

CNN's Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist bragged that his is the only network that hasn't picked sides in this election," and that viewers responded to CNN's credibility by making it the ...
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