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John Avlon Rips 'Far Right' Social Conservatives Over CPAC on CNN.com

CNN contributor John Avlon took yet another shot at mainstream conservatives in a Wednesday column on CNN.com. Avlon blasted the "far right" Family Research Council and other conservative groups ...

Contessa Brewer's Liberal Spin: Obama Was at Odds With 'Conservative' Chamber of Commerce

Reporting on President Obama's speech to the Chamber of Commerce Monday, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer sloppily labeled the Chamber as "conservative" in narrating the conflict between the business ...

Donald Rumsfeld Condemns False Newsweek Story on Koran Flushing: You Can't Apologize to the Dead

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Tuesday's Hannity and recounted the harm Newsweek did in 2005 with a false report about U.S. soldiers flushing a Koran down the toilet at ...

CBS Evening News Finally Covers Planned Parenthood Sting, NBC and ABC Still Ignore

On Tuesday's CBS Evening News, chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reported on the video sting operation conducted by the pro-life group Live Action: "The videos are troubling....showing ...

Lauer to Michelle Obama: 'Do You Think People Hate Your Husband, Even Those On the Far Right?'

NBC's Matt Lauer seemed shocked that Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, during his Super Bowl interview, actually asked Barack Obama about his opponents hating him, as the Today co-anchor, on Wednesday, in ...

NBC's Engel Finds Muslim Brotherhood Is 'Akin to Hamas,' But Omits that Hamas Is Terrorist Group

On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Richard Engel responded to concerns about the radical nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, asserting that the movement is "not al-Qaeda, it's not the ...

CNN: Tiny Pro-Illegal Immigrant Rally Gets More Coverage Than March for Life

CNN devoted three and a half minutes of coverage on Monday's Newsroom to a protest by "two dozen, maybe three dozen" people who were against two proposed laws targeting illegal immigration in ...

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Declares Obama a 'Fairly Conservative Democrat'

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts on Tuesday argued that, based on Barack Obama's record, it would be fair to label the President a "fairly conservative Democrat." Talking to Ashley Bell, a Georgia ...

MSNBC Correspondent Rides Around Parking Lot Gabbing About Teen Car Surfing, Sex Trafficking Story Ignored

MSNBC devoted much of its Tuesday afternoon air time to a Kerry Sanders report on teen car surfing, but a recent sting operation that uncovered employees at a New York City Planned Parenthood ...

CBS's Early Show Touts Obama's 'Olive Branch' to Business, Ignores Administration's Expansion of Regulation

At the top of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Erica Hill cheered President Obama's supposedly pro-business move of speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday: "Obama's olive branch. The ...
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