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CBS's Rose Fishes for 'High Marks' for Obama from Robert Gates

Charlie Rose desperately tried to find confirmation from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday's CBS This Morning on whether President Obama is a good commander-in-chief: "You can ...
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A Tale of Two Networks: CNN Questions Obama Attack Ad While MSNBC Cheers It

After the Obama campaign released an ad on Monday attacking Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital, CNN went so far as to question President Obama's hypocrisy in attacking Romney. In contrast, ...
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NBC's Williams Praises CBS's Pelley For Being In 'Dan Rather School of Journalism'

Appearing on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams heaped his idea of high praise onto CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley: "Scott grew up ...
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Lesley Stahl Mocks 'Out of Mainstream' GOP; Joe Klein Smears Tea Partiers as Racist

60 Minutes journalist Lesley Stahl is apparently concerned about how such "out of the mainstream" Republicans ran in the 2012 presidential primaries, given what a "centrist" country America ...
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Letterman: Bush-Cheney Didn’t Want to Get bin Laden Because They Didn’t Want to Upset ‘Their Saudi Arabian Royalty Buddies'

In a particularly sleazy allegation, David Letterman on Tuesday night alleged former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney “went soft” on finding Osama bin Laden ...
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CBS News Works Hard to Skip Its Own Poll When Romney's Leading

The latest CBS News/New York Times poll not only shows Mitt Romney ahead of Barack Obama by three points, but also that Romney is leading among women voters. That was such an embarrassing result ...
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Maher Claims Romney 'Bullying' Worse Than Michael Jackson Molestation

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Conan show on TBS, HBO comedian Bill Maher absurdly suggested that recent allegations that Mitt Romney engaged in "bullying" in high school are worse than being ...
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CBS Publicizes 'Glee' Star Jane Lynch's Pro-Obama Tweet on Same-Sex 'Marriage'

Anchor Erica Hill gave actress Jane Lynch a platform on Tuesday's CBS This Morning to laud President Obama's flip-flop on same-sex "marriage." Hill set it up by citing a recent Tweet from the open ...
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CNN's Don Lemon Compares Mitt Romney to 60s Segregationist George Wallace

CNN's Don Lemon compared Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to former Alabama governor -- and segregationist -- George Wallace on Sunday evening. What prompted the jarring ...
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CNN's Lemon Bemoans People 'Injecting' Religion Into Marriage Debate

CNN's Don Lemon said last year that he hoped to "change minds" when he declared that he was gay. And on Sunday evening he showed exactly where he lies on same-sex marriage and in no small ...
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