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MSNBC's Richard Wolffe Smears McCain as a Bigot: 'There's No Other Way to Look at It'

Newsweek journalist and current MSNBC editor Richard Wolffe on Monday smeared Senator John McCain as a racist. According to Wolffe, there's no legitimate reason for the Republican to oppose Susan ...
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NBC's Gregory to Liberal Historian: What Can Obama Learn From Lincoln to Be a 'Great President'?

In an interview with liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin for NBC's Press Pass, Meet the Press moderator David Gregory invited her to draw parallels between President Obama and Abraham ...
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NYT's Tom Friedman Proclaims 'Libya is Not a Scandal'

Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman worked to downplay the terrorist attack in Libya: "There are diplomats that go to dangerous ...
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MSNBC Hypes 'Brave,' 'Provocative Thinkers Like Lena Dunham and Michael Bloomberg

According to the Atlantic Monthly and the receptive audience at MSNBC, the year's "brave" and "provocative" thinkers include Lena Dunham, who made an ad comparing voting to sex, and New York Mayor ...
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NBC RINO Demands GOP Abandon Conservative Principles 'Right Out of Rush Limbaugh's Dream Journal'

Last week it was Republican strategist Steve Schmidt blaming Mitt Romney's loss on conservative "loons and wackos," this week on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, fellow Republican strategist Mike ...
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ABC Relays Terrorist Claim Israel Provoked Hamas Rocket Attacks

On Friday's World News on ABC, correspondent Alex Marquardt relayed without question a claim by "one of the militant groups behind" the rocket attacks on Israel that they "wouldn't fire ...
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ABC Pressed Boehner to Agree to Tax Hike, on Sunday Fail to Push Pelosi to Agree to Spending Cuts

Two ABC News stars have proven, once again, the media’s obsession with raising taxes over any effort to cut a cent of spending. Two days after the election, anchor Diane Sawyer repeatedly ...
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CBS Welcomes Obama to Staten Island, But Criticized Bush Post-Katrina

CBS ran a puff piece Friday morning on President Obama's visit to hurricane-ravaged Staten Island, which stood in stark contrast to its hostile treatment of President Bush's visit to the Gulf ...
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NBC Promotes Jordan's Queen Noor and Valerie Plame 'On a Mission' to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie interviewed Jordan's Queen Noor and former CIA operative Valerie Plame about their effort to rid the world of all nuclear weapons: "...two women ...
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NBC's Lauer Suggests Obama, Climate Change for Time's 'Person of the Year'

At the end of an interview with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered: "I think it was 1999, you were named Time magazine's Person of the Year, alright? So I ...
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