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Blast from Past: Dick Cavett 'Genuinely Ashamed' of Americans for Opposing the Mosque

Dick Cavett in a New York Times post online: "These are not proud moments in my heritage. But now, I'm genuinely ashamed of us. How sad this whole mosque business is. It doesn't take much, it ...

ABC Works to Rehabilitate Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Reputation After Pining for George W. Bush

ABC News set out Monday night to rehabilitate the reputation of the iman behind the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, Feisal Abdul Rauf, trying to discredit criticism of him from the right as ...

Matthews Attacks! McConnell and Limbaugh Trying to 'De-Americanize Obama'

Chris Matthews bizarrely accused Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of using code language to appeal to the Birther crowd for saying, on Sunday's Meet the Press, that "The President ...

CNN's Toobin: Judge's Ruling a 'Major Setback for Stem Cell Research'

On Monday's Situation Room, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin used dire language to describe a federal judge's decision which struck down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research: "The bottom line is ...

ABC Hides Identity of Liberal Activist Advocating for More Government Intervention in Business

Good Morning America's Bianna Golodryga on Sunday featured a liberal activist arguing for more government intervention in the form of paid time off laws and "affordable" child care. The ABC host ...

CBS 'Early Show': Can Obama Fix 'Image Problem' and Bring Back 'Campaign Magic'?

Opening Saturday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge proclaimed: "Image Problem: The President is on vacation and under fire. From the jobless numbers to the Mosque mess ' why is the man with ...

ABC's Bianna Golodryga Knocks Franklin Graham for 'Adding to the Confusion' Over Obama's Religion

Good Morning America co-host Bianna Golodryga on Saturday chided the Reverend Franklin Graham, complaining that "one of the country's leading evangelicals is adding to the confusion" over Barack ...

Today Show Advances WikiLeaks Founder's Charge That Pentagon is Smearing Him

On Monday's Today show, NBC's Matt Lauer opened the show suggesting that Julian Assange was was being smeared by the Pentagon as the Today co-anchor teased: "And payback? The founder of WikiLeaks, ...

NPR's Michel Martin Links Timothy McVeigh to Catholicism: 'Did Anybody Move a Catholic Church?'

On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, during a discussion of the Ground Zero mosque controversy, after Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson recommended that the mosque be moved as a compromise, NPR's ...

Amanpour on One-Sided This Week: 'Profound Questions About Religious Tolerance and Prejudice in the U.S.'

Not even feigning the pretense of balance, on Sunday's This Week host Christiane Amanpour featured an "exclusive" with two GZM proponents as she declared "the controversy has raised profound ...
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