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60 Minutes Coddled Obama But Pounds Cantor from the Left as Gridlock-Causing Rigid Tea Party Ideologue

Three weeks after CBS's 60 Minutes delivered a friendly sit-down with President Barack Obama, the show didn't even attempt a matching approach to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Instead, Lesley ...

ABC Staff Laugh at Maher's Anti-Religious Mockery of Tim Tebow

On Wednesday's Good Morning America, ABC staff could be heard laughing in the background when substitute news reader Dan Harris read part of HBO comedian Bill Maher's infamous tweet mocking Denver ...

CBS Hosts Guest Who Implicates Climate Change in Disasters of 2011

On Thursday's The Early Show, CBS hosted a guest who implicated climate change as one of the factors contributing to weather disasters in 2011, and he ended up warning of more droughts in the future.

Third Runners-Up Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

The third runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." Some categories: "Hopeless Dopes Award for Discrediting ...

NBC Reflexively Refers to Gingrich Wife as His 'Third Wife'

On Friday's Today show on NBC, correspondent Peter Alexander oddly referred to Gingrich's wife as his "third wife" in a story that otherwise had nothing to do with his marital history.

CNN Honors Same-Sex Couple, Suggests Obama Could Benefit From Supporting Same-Sex Marriage

In lieu of President Obama's Hawaiian vacation, CNN highlighted the plight of a Hawaiian same-sex couple that will legally celebrate a civil union come January 1st, but desires federal marriage ...

ABC's Tapper Slap: Many GOP Candidates 'Self-Immolating and Careening Off the Highway'

ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper apparently thinks the race is just about over for many campaigns before the Iowa caucus has even begun. On Thursday's Good Morning America, Tapper ...

ABC Joins NBC in Citing Outdated Poll Showing Obama Approval Up

On Thursday's World News on ABC, substitute anchor David Muir brought up the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll numbers from Monday which at that time showed President Obama with a 47 percent approval ...

NBC Presses Santorum on Abortion, Contraception, and Electability

As GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum appeared as a guest on Thursday's Today show on NBC, substitute co-host Savannah Guthrie focused on the former Pennsylvania Senator's views on abortion ...

Second Runners-Up Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

The second runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." Some categories: "Tying Granny to the Train Tracks Award ...
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