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Olbermann Hints Moral Equivalence Between U.S. & Islamic Empire, Blocking Mosque May Be First Step to New Holocaust

On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered a "Special Comment" in which he invoked Nazi Germany and suggested that blocking construction of a mosque near Ground Zero could be ...

Matt Lauer on Today Show: Does Mosque Have To Move Just Because of 9/11?

NBC's Matt Lauer, invited on former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Freedom Works' Matt Kibbe to discuss the Ground Zero mosque controversy and claimed that since the group behind the mosque ...

Questions to Political Panel from CBS's Schieffer Focus on GOP Problems 6 to 1

In a discussion of the midterm elections on Sunday's Face the Nation, CBS host Bob Schieffer asked members of his political panel a total of seven questions, six of which highlighted Republican ...

ABC's Dan Harris, Who Slimed Tea Party, Tries to Discredit Mosque Opposition as Vile 'Islamophobia'

Dan Harris, who last year trashed the Tea Party as "actually largely orchestrated by people fronting for corporate interests" and smeared participants as "driven...by a refusal to accept a black ...

MSNBC: Obama 'Did the Right Thing' With 'Non-Controversial' Mosque Remark

On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went out of their way to defend President Obama's Friday statement defending the planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York ...

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Dismisses Ground Zero Mosque Debate as a 'Smokescreen'

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Monday dismissed the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque as a "political smokescreen." The liberal anchor derided opponents of the planned construction who live in ...

USA Today Endorses Mosque and Berates 'Reprehensible' Critics Who 'Foment Hatred'

In a Monday USA Today editorial, the "nation's newspaper" declared: "The argument over building a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero is mostly a sorry exercise in political exploitation" ...

CBS 'Early Show': Conservative O'Reilly 'Lashed Out' At 'Single Motherhood'

Late in the 7:00AM ET hour of Monday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Michelle Miller reported on the "war of words" between actress Jennifer Aniston and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly over women ...

ABC's Dan Harris Worries About Rising Tide of 'Islamophobia' in Wake of Ground Zero Mosque Approval

Good Morning America's Dan Harris on Monday highlighted the worry that the proposed Ground Zero mosque could bring a "rising tide of Islamophobia in the country." He repeated the argument of the ...

CBS's Schieffer: Obama Right 'Intellectually' on Mosque, Just Bad Politics

Appearing on Monday's CBS Early Show to discuss President Obama showing support for a controversial mosque being built near Ground Zero, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer agreed with the ...
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