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NBC's Curry: Santorum About to Go Through 'Meat Grinder;' Does He Have to 'Change His Conservative Message'?

On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry predicted that following his strong finish in Iowa, Rick Santorum was "about to face the meat grinder of tough scrutiny for the first time." Turning to ...

ABC Hails Obama's Dubious Recess Appointment: A 'Consumer Champion'

World News' Diane Sawyer on Wednesday hailed a questionably legal recess appointment by Barack Obama, praising the incoming arrival of a "consumer champion" who will "help" Americans with their ...

Ex-New Yorker's Heilemann Makes Gay Joke About Santorum

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, New York magazine's John Heilemann - formerly of The New Yorker - made a gay joke about GOP presidential candidate Rick ...

ABC Exploits Kim Kardashian Gimmick to Champion Left-Wing Quest to Raise Tax Rates

Showing how no left-wing effort to raise taxes is too silly or embarrassing for ABC News to embrace, World News on Wednesday night jumped to promote a Web video, created by a group founded by a ...

CNN's O'Brien to Romney: Won't Your Immigration Stance Drive Latinos to Obama?

CNN's Soledad O'Brien tried to make race an issue on Tuesday where there was no conflict to begin with, and she continued thumping Republicans over immigration on Wednesday. O'Brien asked ...

NYT Editorial Page Editor Calls Boehner Racist for Asking Obama to Delay Speech to Congress

A new low for Times editor Andrew Rosenthal: "There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning ...

CBS Promoted 'Humanized' Hillary in '08; Hounds Romney in 2012

CBS revealed its double standard in its treatment of Republican presidential candidates versus Democratic ones on Wednesday's Early Show, as Jim Axelrod and Nancy Cordes pressed Mitt Romney about ...

NBC's Brokaw Touts 'Moderate' Iowan Standing Up to 'Hardline' GOP

On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Tom Brokaw asked Perry, Iowa resident Eddie Diaz: "Were you accepted right away by the community?" Brokaw explained: "Diaz is a Perry high school ...

Stephanopoulos' Spin: Romney's 'Reassuring' of Conservatives Will 'Turn Off' Moderates?

Former top Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday wondered if Mitt Romney's attempt to "reassure" conservative voters would end up "turning off" moderates and ...

Matthews: 'Neocons,' 'Moral Majority' and Segregationists Are 'Droppings' of Democratic Party

Tuesday night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews lumped "neocons" and the Moral Majority movement in with segregationist Dixiecrats, and called them the "droppings" and the "effluent" of the Democratic Party.
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