BiasAlerts

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Matthews Wonders if Bachmann is a Willing Tool of a Conservative Conspiracy or Just a 'Zombie?'

On Monday's Hardball, after Chris Matthews played clips of Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on NBC's Meet the Press, he wondered if she was trained by "a group in Virginia that ...

Christiane Amanpour Gets Cozy with Tina Brown, Touts Newsweek Editor's List of Important Women, Including Amanpour

Newsweek and Daily Beast editor Tina Brown flattered This Week host Christiane Amanpour by placing her on a list of 150 women who "shake the world." The ABC anchor responded to this praise by ...

CNN's 'Expert on Extremism': 'Radical Right' Bigger Threat Than Jihadis

Mark Potok of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center claimed on Monday's Newsroom on CNN that radical Islam wasn't "our biggest domestic terror threat," that instead, "that pretty clearly comes ...

CBS's Erica Hill Wonders if Americans Are Being 'Scammed' by Oil Companies

In an interview with former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Erica Hill wondered if higher gas prices in the wake of Mideast unrest were the result of some ...

On Today: Scarborough Proclaims Republicans Are 'Afraid of Barack Obama'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough appeared on Monday's Today show to deliver a forecast of doom for Republicans on the budget fight and their 2012 presidential prospects.

20 Months Before Election, ABC's John Berman Mocks GOP Contenders for Not Joining 2012 Race

Even though there's still a year and eight months to go until the 2012 presidential election, Good Morning America's John Berman on Monday derided the GOP field for not joining the race yet. As a ...

NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman Calls for Tax to Keep Gas at $4 per Gallon

On Sunday's Face the Nation, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman denounced the proposed White House plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to curb rising gas prices: "That would rank in my ...

Amanpour Frets: 'Will the Deep Budget Cuts on the Table Stick a Fork in the Recovery?'

Picking up on an argument made by economist Mark Zandi - whom the Washington Post described as "an architect of the 2009 stimulus package" - ABC's Christiane Amanpour on Sunday morning, presuming ...

On ABC, Daily Beast's Avlon Complains 'Obama Derangement Syndrome on the Right' Has 'Gotten Worse'

On the Sunday, March 6, Good Morning America on ABC, as the Daily Beast's John Avlon appeared as a guest to make predictions about which Republicans will ultimately choose to run for President, he ...

Time's Stengel: GOP Nominee Will Treat Tea Party Like Sister Souljah, 'Tragedy' That GOP Wants to Cut AmeriCorps

Appearing as a panel member on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show on Sunday, during a discussion of potential Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's recent gaffe about President Obama ...
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