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CBS: Obama 'On A Hot Streak' As He 'Scores Political Victories' in Congress

On Tuesday's CBS Early Show, substitute co-host Russ Mitchell announced that "the lame duck session of Congress could hand President Obama yet another victory" with possible passage of the START ...

After Two Years of Disrespect, CNN Teams Up with Tea Party for GOP Debate

CNN recently announced plans to team up with the Tea Party Express to co-sponsor a GOP presidential debate in September. Yet over the past two years, CNN's supposedly objective correspondents and ...

MSNBC's Fineman: Obama to Run Vs. a 'Tear Down Congress,' Lieberman 'Takes a Lot of Guff' from MSNBC

Appearing as a guest on Monday's Countdown show on MSNBC, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman spoke favorably of the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law, asserting that "this historic vote ...

CBS 'Early Show' Touts Obama's 'Big Win;' Claims He's 'The Comeback Kid'

On Saturday's Early Show fill-in co-host Russ Mitchell saw passage of the tax deal as a possible "turning point for Mr. Obama's presidency" and speculated that it was "perhaps setting the stage ...

Stephanopoulos to Schumer: Do You Buy That There's Billions in Gov. Waste?

On Monday's Good Morning America, ABC's George Stephanopoulos took a skeptical tone during an interview of liberal Senator Chuck Schumer concerning a new report from Senator Tom Coburn, which ...

CBS: Gay Community 'Celebrated The End of An Era' With DADT Repeal

At the top of a report on CBS's Sunday Morning, correspondent Whit Johnson proclaimed: "In San Francisco yesterday, they celebrated the end of an era. After nearly two decades, the policy of ...

Nina Totenberg: 'I Was At - Forgive the Expression - a Christmas Party...'

"I was at ' forgive the expression ' a Christmas party," NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend's oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a ...

ABC's Amanpour Refers to Tax Cuts as 'Giveaways'

Appearing on Sunday's Good Morning America on ABC to discuss recent legislation passed by Congress, This Week host Christiane Amanpour referred to tax cuts as "giveaways" as she predicted that ...

ABC Finds 'Dream Dies' for Illegal Immigrants Because of Conservatives

As ABC's World News Sunday recounted President Obama's failed effort to provide citizenship for immigrants who entered the country illegally as children if they go to college or enter the ...

Network Reporters and Sunday Hosts Rue Increased Deficit from Tax Compromise, As If Not Hiking Taxes is a 'Cost'

Nearly 80 percent of the $858 billion "cost" of the tax bill signed by President Obama is from the $675 billion over the next ten years the government would have received if income tax rates were ...
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