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1/4/2013 10:58 AM ET
In a pair of back-to-back stories leading off Wednesday's NBC Nightly News,
House Republicans were painted as villains for briefly delaying a vote
on Hurricane Sandy relief. First, Capitol ...
1/3/2013 6:24 PM ET
Over 13 months ago, the NBC, CBS and ABC newscasts touted Barack Obama as a tough talker who wouldn't back down on threatened spending cuts. Now, that he's backed down, the same networks have ...
1/3/2013 1:12 PM ET
At the top of Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teased
an upcoming interview with New York Congressman Peter King by seizing on
House GOP disagreement over when to schedule a vote on a ...
1/3/2013 12:17 PM ET
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman can't understand why the House GOP didn't embrace the fiscal cliff agreement, and wonders why they cling to their bizarre opposition to tax hikes on the ...
1/2/2013 5:56 PM ET
After worrying on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News
about possible House GOP "shenanigans" preventing a fiscal cliff deal,
on Monday's Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd breathed a
...
12/19/2012 3:06 PM ET
A New York Times op-ed offensively marked the appointment of South Carolina Republican Rep. Tim Scott, an African-American, to the U.S. Senate: "...modern black Republicans have been more tokens ...
12/19/2012 10:23 AM ET
[UPDATE, Dec 19: On Tuesday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America spiked the news of Scott’s appointment, yet had time for far more frivolous matters, while CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today ...
12/13/2012 4:23 PM ET
Charlie Rose and Gayle King pressed outgoing Senator Jim DeMint on Thursday's CBS This Morning over congressional Republicans resistance to tax hikes. When DeMint stated that President Obama will ...
12/13/2012 3:02 PM ET
Does reporter Jonathan Weisman think "far right" conservatives should just shut up? "Even before conservatives began speaking out of turn,
pragmatists were pressing the leadership to take up and ...
12/10/2012 6:31 PM ET
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell seemed unsure about the extent of Tea Party's political influence. During an interview of former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, O'Donnell first ...