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ABC Highlights Victims of Obama's Budget Plan, CBS Touts New Spending as 'Investments'

The three nightly news broadcasts on Monday touted Barack Obama's new spending as "investments," highlighted victims of the White House's cuts and ignored key facts about the President's 2012 budget.

FNC's O'Reilly Calls Out ABC and NBC for 'Big Omission' of Planned Parenthood Video Sting

On Friday's O'Reilly Factor, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly held ABC and NBC News to account for failing to cover the recent Planned Parenthood video stings conducted by the pro-life organization ...

Chris Matthews Questions Sanity of 'Zany' CPAC Attendees

On Monday's Hardball Chris Matthews, who devoted much of last week's shows to Egypt, got caught up on some conservative bashing as he mocked those who attended CPAC as "zany" and likened the ...

ABC News Frets Over PBS Cuts: 'Big Bird on the Chopping Block?'

The ABCNews.com website on Tuesday used the Sesame Street character Big Bird to worry about potential Republican cuts to PBS. Next to a picture of the forlorn puppet and some concerned children, a ...

CNN's Chetry to Paul: 'Freedom and Right to Life Don't Always Go Together'

On Monday's American Morning, CNN's Kiran Chetry indicated that individual liberty and the pro-life movement weren't compatible. During an interview of Congressman Ron Paul, Chetry stated, ...

Only ABC Hits Obama on Lack of Substantial Cuts in New Budget, NBC, CBS Downplay

Of the three morning shows on Monday, only ABC's Good Morning America aggressively pushed the Obama administration on a lack of substantial cuts in the 2012 budget. NBC's Today and CBS's Early ...

CBS Follows NBC's Lead, Claims a 'Tough Week for House Republicans'

Discussing the state of the Republican Party with political analyst John Dickerson on Saturday's CBS Evening News, anchor Russ Mitchell concluded: "...it has been a tough week for House ...

History Channel Bizarrely Credits 1980s Economic Recovery to the 'Reagan Tax Increases'

According to a new History Channel special on Ronald Reagan, the profound economic recovery of the early '80s can be credited to "the Reagan tax increases." The February 9 program contained this ...

NBC's O'Donnell Insists Obama's 'the Same Centrist He's Always Been,' Not Even Maher Buys It

President Barack Obama is "a pragmatic centrist" and "he's still the same centrist he's always been," Norah O'Donnell, NBC News reporter/MSNBC chief Washington correspondent, insisted Friday night ...

CNN's Zakaria Recommends Bush's 'Surprisingly Well Written' Memoir

As CNN's Fareed Zakaria concluded his Fareed Zakaria GPS show on Sunday, he recommended to his audience that they read former President George W. Bush's memoir, Decision Points, but, even while ...
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