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CBS Proclaims 'War in Wisconsin;' Did Gov. Walker 'Trick' Democrats With 'Surprise Vote'?

At the top of Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge declared: "War in Wisconsin. Democrats cry foul as Republicans break a three-week deadlock over the budget battle with a surprise ...

Andrea Mitchell's Revelation to GOP Congressman: 'You and I Are Both White'

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Thursday brought the specter of bigotry into Representative Peter King's hearings on the threat of radical Islam in America. While interviewing Congressman Dan ...

Donny Deutsch Rips Wisconsin GOP as 'Fascist Regime'; Decries 'Totalitarianism' of Vote

Former CNBC anchor Donny Deutsch went ballistic Thursday on Morning Joe over the situation in Wisconsin. Deutsch called the Republican majority in the state capital "a fascist regime" after they ...

CNN to Rep. Peter King: Are You Obsessed With Muslim Radicalization?

CNN correspondent Dana Bash asked chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security Peter King if he was "obsessed" with radical Islam, and what he thought about being compared to Joseph ...

Carl Bernstein: If the Country Was Serious About Cutting the Deficit, We'd Have a Gas Tax

Twice within the span of a few minutes on Wednesday's Morning Joe, journalist Carl Bernstein pressed for a gas tax to be implemented to help deal with the nation's budget crisis.

CBS Gives Zero Coverage to NPR Scandal

Since an undercover sting video was released on Tuesday showing National Public Radio executive Ron Schiller calling conservatives "seriously racist people" ' for which he resigned ' CBS News has ...

Today Show Calls GOP 'Surprise' Vote in Wisconsin an 'Outrage'

NBC's Meredith Vieira opened Thursday's Today show alerting viewers that Republicans in Wisconsin had caused a "capitol chaos" with a "surprise maneuver" to pass a "controversial budget proposal ...

ABC and NBC Resort to Using 'Bert and Ernie' and 'Big Bird' to Undermine Effort to De-Fund NPR

Demonstrating how the media are an obstacle to any spending cuts, NBC and ABC on Wednesday night resorted to citing Sesame Street characters as potential "casualties in a war over culture and ...

NY Times Buries Obama's Guantanamo Bay Reversal on Back Pages, Quotes Sympathetic Leftists

Obama's reversal on closing Guantanamo Bay made the front of Tuesday's Washington Post but was buried on A19 of the New York Times, and was larded with strangely sympathetic left-wing quotes: ...

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Sticks Up for NPR: 'Nobody Is Suggesting That Their Journalism Has Been At All Biased'

Andrea Mitchell joined Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer in sticking up for NPR as the NBC correspondent, on her MSNBC show, declared: "Nobody is suggesting that their journalism has been at ...
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