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Networks Skip Ed Schultz's Smearing of Laura Ingraham as a 'Right-Wing Slut,' Hyped Imus' 'Ho' Scandal

The network evening news programs on Wednesday and morning shows on Thursday skipped covering the suspension of MSNBC host Ed Shultz for trashing Laura Ingraham as a "right-wing slut." Yet, these ...

'The Blingriches': NBC Continues to Hit Gingrich and Wife Over Tiffany's Jewelry Debt

On Thursday's NBC Today, senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers kept up the attack on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for having a line of credit with the jeweler Tiffany's ...

MSNBC Gushes Over Jessica Alba: 'Our Children Are the Experiments' of 'Unregulated' Chemical Companies

Jessica Alba received an overwhelmingly positive reception on Morning Joe on Thursday while lobbying for legislation that would give the EPA broad-sweeping powers to regulate chemicals in consumer ...

CNN's Cafferty Features Ex-Palin Aide's Rants About Former Governor, Doesn't Scrutinize His Motives

CNN's Jack Cafferty reverted back to his Palin derangement syndrome Wednesday afternoon. He touted two new books that heavily criticize Palin ' labeling one as "required reading" for any potential ...

After Ed Schultz Calls Laura Ingraham a 'Right-Wing Slut,' MSNBC Suspends Him and He Apologizes: 'I Am Sorry, Very Sorry'

In full retreat, a humiliated and somber Ed Schultz opened his MSNBC show on Wednesday night by apologizing to Laura Ingraham for using, on his radio show, "vile and inappropriate language" to ...

GOP Already Doomed in 2012, Says the NY Times After Special Election

New York Times reporter Raymond Hernandez is quick to see "a blow to the national Republican Party" in the results of a special congressional election, confidently asserting the G.O.P.'s Medicare ...

Networks Skip Democrat Label While Covering John Edwards Indictment, Touted Disgraced 'Conservative'

The network morning shows on Wednesday all avoided party labels for Democrat John Edwards in the wake of the announcement that the former presidential candidate will be indicted by the Justice ...

Networks Claim Nonexistent 'Deep Cuts' to Medicare in GOP Budget Plan Led to 'Seismic' Dem Win in NY Special Election

All three network morning shows on Wednesday cheered Democrat Kathy Hochul winning the special election in New York's 26th congressional district and framed the outcome as a rejection of ...

CBS Concerned 'Palestinians Were Not Impressed' by Netanyahu's Address

Plugging an upcoming story on Tuesday's CBS Evening News, anchor Russ Mitchell highlighted that "Congress gives Israel's Prime Minister dozens of standing ovations but," Mitchell warned as if it ...

Chris Matthews Called Conservative Political Talk 'Ugly,' But Laughs at Murdering Grandma

A clearly amused Chris Matthews narrated and laughed at a liberal ad showing Republican Paul Ryan murdering an elderly woman by throwing her off a cliff. This is the same MSNBC anchor who railed ...
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