BiasAlerts

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Matthews Rages: Newt Gingrich Looks Like A 'Car Bomber' Who 'Loves Torturing!'

Chris Matthews, once again, abandoned any notion he was serious about establishing a new tone of political civility in the wake of the Tucson shooting, as on Wednesday's Hardball he compared ...

CBS: Fugitive Wisconsin Dems Have 'Become Heroes' to Union Protestors

During a report on the latest developments in Wisconsin for Wednesday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Cynthia Bowers proclaimed that the 14 Democratic state senators who fled to Illinois to block ...

CNN Forwards Idea of 'Overreach' By Gov. Walker Through Quoted 'Experts'

CNN's Ed Hornick apparently couldn't find anyone who disagreed with the notion that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker "overreached" in his push to eliminate collective bargaining for public sector ...

Matthews Ignores Democrat's 'You're F***ing Dead!' Threat of Republican Woman, But Slams Boehner for Talking Like Glenn Beck

Chris Matthews has yet to condemn Democratic Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz for yelling "You're f'ing dead!" at Republican State Representative Michelle Litjens during a legislative ...

NY Times 'Ethicist' Columnist Randy Cohen Departs, Leaving Leftist Legacy Behind

According to the New York Times' veteran Sunday magazine "Ethicist" columnist, Bush was an incompetent and insane president who lied us into war, socialism is a good thing, Harvard Professor Henry ...

'Family Ties' Mom Tells Matt Lauer 'I Could Have Been a Republican...Thank Goodness I'm Just Gay'

Actress Meredith Baxter, best known for her role as Elyse Keaton on the '80s NBC hit Family Ties, returned to the Today show set where, back in 2009, she announced she was gay and told Matt Lauer, ...

NBC's Todd Can't Call Obama a Liberal But Labels GOP Governors 'Conservative Warriors'

NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd, on Tuesday's Today show, had no problem labeling Republican governors like Scott Walker, "conservative," but for some reason just couldn't get his ...

CBS Touts Skewed Poll Showing Majority Oppose Cutting Government Employee Benefits

On Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge touted a new poll claiming people support unions over Republican plans to cut state deficits: "A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that a ...

CBS Suppressed Public Support for Arizona Law But Eager to Hype Public Disagreement with Wisconsin's Walker

Last May when a CBS News poll first asked about Arizona's immigration enforcement law and found majority support for it (52 percent), the CBS Evening News didn't report the finding. Now, with a ...

New MSNBC Host Martin Bashir Lashes Out at 'Disingenuous' Move by Tea Party Congressman

On his first day at MSNBC, new host Martin Bashir immediately adopted the network's liberal line, attacking a conservative Congressman for advocating severe spending cuts, deriding it as "the most ...
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