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Doris Kearns-Goodwin: Excusing Affairs Only Way to Get 'Best People in Public Life,' Like FDR and Clinton

Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin pleaded for the American people to excuse extramarital affairs of public figures like David Petraeus: "What ...
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CNN Psychoanalyzes Conservatives, 'More Sensitive to Fear'

No wonder why CNN's ratings are low – they're diagnosing a large part of their potential audience with a disorder. A CNN guest expert said conservatives' brains are more susceptible to fear and ...
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Fareed Zakaria Cheers Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage, Marijuana

CNN's Fareed Zakaria cheered the states that legalized same-sex marriage and marijuana last Tuesday, on his Sunday CNN show, lauding it "a picture of America at its best, edgy, ...
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CBS Touts GOP Talk of Benghazi 'Coverup,' Notes Petraeus Promoted 'Spontaneity' of Violence

On Monday's CBS This Morning, Sharyl Attkisson filed a hard-hitting report on the possible ties between former CIA chief David Petraeus's resignation and the continuing controversy over the ...
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'Meet the Press': Todd and Kearns-Goodwin Advise Obama to Put Pressure on GOP

Sounding more like a Democratic strategist on Sunday's Meet the Press than NBC's political director, Chuck Todd urged President Obama to force congressional Republicans into a corner on the ...
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MSNBC's Chris Jansing: 'Parallels' Between Lincoln and Reelected Obama Are 'Fascinating'

MSNBC host Chris Jansing on Monday found the "parallels" between Abraham Lincoln and the newly reelected Barack Obama to be "fascinating." The anchor interviewed Gloria Reuben, liberal actress and ...
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NBC Can't Wait for Hillary in 2016: 'Can You Think of a More Qualified Human Being?'

During a discussion on Monday, NBC's Today show crew could barely contain their enthusiasm at the prospect of Hillary Clinton running for president again in 2016, with new third-hour co-host ...
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CBS-Owned Showtime’s Oliver Stone Mini-Series to Deliver Soviet Version of U.S. History

Tonight (Monday), CBS-owned Showtime will debut a ten-part series: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States. Ronald Radosh, in last week’s Weekly Standard, determined it offers “not an ...
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Meet the Press Panel Blames Romney Loss on Limbaugh and ‘Loons and Wackos’ of Conservative Base

Sunday’s Meet the Press featured a panel of five, none of them conservative (Congressman-elect Joaquín Castro, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Washington ...
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CNN Panel Tells Republicans to Move to the Center

"Tone deaf" Republicans are too conservative, or so said CNN's panel on Friday's Starting Point. CNN's Don Lemon remarked, "I think unless the GOP becomes the GNP, which is the Grand New ...
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