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CNN Legal Analyst Whacks Conservative Case Against ObamaCare Mandate as 'Really Weak'

One week before the Supreme Court hears arguments on Obamacare, CNN's legal analyst has already come down against the conservative side as "really weak." Jeffrey Toobin gave the legal ...
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CBS's Rose to Santorum: Why Are You Focused on Porn, Obama as 'Appeaser'?

On Monday's CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose accused GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum of focusing too much on foreign policy and social issues, instead of the economy: "You talk about ...
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Gayle King Attends Obama Fundraiser; ABC Omits She's a CBS Anchor

On Saturday, ABC's Devin Dwyer reported how President Obama gave "a rousing speech to 600 donors in Chicago and closed it with an intimate appeal before 40 'friends' that included...Oprah ...
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WaPo's Woodward Demands Media Combat Super-PAC 'Poison' With 'Clear-Eyed View' of Candidates

Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward mounted his high horse in condemning the role of Super-PACs in the 2012 race: "...under the Supreme ...
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Liberal Mika Brzezinski Lectures Santorum on His 'Off Base' Contraceptive Strategy

On the March 19 edition of Morning Joe, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly hectored Rick Santorum on the issue of contraception. Brzezinski lectured the Republican ...
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NBC's Gregory Parrots Dem Talking Points to McCain: Is There a GOP 'War on Women'?

While interviewing Arizona Senator John McCain on Sunday's Meet the Press, host David Gregory took a line from the Democratic script as he wondered: "Are you concerned at all to see a focus ...
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George Clooney: If Obama Were a Republican He’d Be Considered ‘Very Successful’

If only President Barack Obama were a Republican, then the public would realize he has been “a very successful” President, but Democrats, actor/activist George Clooney fretted, “are just ...
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Clueless Bob Schieffer Befuddled by Idea Team Obama Wants Higher Gas Prices: ‘What’s That About?’

Another example of how out of touch the Washington press corps are with what is common knowledge amongst conservatives. On Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer was flummoxed by Mitt Romney’s ...
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CBS Plays Up Voter Suppression Charge in Pennsylvania; Ignores Voter Fraud

On Thursday's CBS Evening News, Elaine Quijano touted a charge from Pennsylvania Democrats that the new voter I.D. law there "targets poor and elderly voters." Quijano also spotlighted that, ...
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Marc Lamont Hill on CNN: GOP Uses English as a 'Language of Imperialism and Global Dominance'

Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have a "disposition of anti-immigrant" and speak English "as the language of imperialism and global dominance," sounded CNN guest and liberal Columbia University ...
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