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Committee to Protect Journalists Denounces 'Chilling Effect' of Rosen Investigation

kyle.drennen — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:09 +0000

Kyle Drennen

Ellen Page Slams FNC While Praising Canadian Health Care

brad.wilmouth — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:09:02 +0000

Brad Wilmouth

Appearing as a guest on Monday's The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Canadian actress Ellen Page criticized Fox News for its negative portrayal of Canadian health care as she defended her home country's national health care system. Page:

After Terrible Storm, ABC Devotes 10 Minutes to Crime, Botox and Entertainment, Skimps on IRS

scott.whitlock — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:41:46 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Despite the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma on Monday, ABC's Good Morning America still found time to devote several segments to stunningly superficial topics, including getting Botox injections at age 20 and Matt Damon's gay love scenes with Michael Douglas in a new movie.

Additionally, the network morning show offered yet another segment to the tabloid details of the Jodi Arias criminal trial.

ABC and CBS Ignore Obama Administration Investigating FNC's James Rosen

kyle.drennen — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:34 +0000

Kyle Drennen

On Leno: Kids Ask Obama the Darndest Questions

geoff.dickens — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:28 +0000

Geoffrey Dickens

Ever since he announced he was stepping down as Tonight Show host Jay Leno has seemingly been harder on Barack Obama. Well on Monday's Tonight Show with Jay Leno that trend continued as Leno featured a clip of schoolchildren peppering the President with the tough questions that the press should be hammering him with on a daily basis.

The following bit was aired on the May 20 edition of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno:

NBC's Gregory Scolds GOP for Comparing Obama to Nixon

kyle.drennen — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:15:54 +0000

Kyle Drennen

On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to condemn fellow Republicans for drawing parallels between the scandals rocking the Obama administration and those that occurred under President Nixon: "Would you call on Republicans who talk about impeaching the President or who talk about this as a Nixonian-style cover-up with regard to Benghazi, would you like them to stop it?" [Listen to the audio

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CBS Highlights Ex-IRS Staffer Who Declares There Were No Politics at Cincinnati Office

brent.baker — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:50:47 +0000

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Brent Baker

Monday’s CBS Evening News took one break from Oklahoma tornado coverage – to run a piece on how an IRS manager who recently retired from the Cincinnati office, where 501 (c)(4) applications were processed, declared “politics and religion were things that people generally didn’t talk about at work.”

Reporter Dean Reynolds focused on the assurances by Bonnie Esrig, who was also featured in a Saturday Washington Post article on how politics had nothing to do with the targeting of conservative groups: “She never heard anyone say the words ‘the President wants this done.’”

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Networks Hype Obama's 'Powerful' Commencement Speech; Set Aside Over Five Minutes of Air Time

matthew.balan — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:10:29 +0000

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Matthew Balan

ABC, CBS, and NBC touted President Obama's Sunday commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on their Sunday evening and Monday morning newscasts, devoting a total of five minutes and 14 seconds to the "powerful speech," as NBC's Tamron Hall labeled it on Monday's Today.
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MSNBC Slams 'Scandal' of GOP Vote to Repeal ObamaCare

brad.wilmouth — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:18 +0000

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Brad Wilmouth

On Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton lambasted House Republicans for repeatedly voting to repeal ObamaCare, calling it a "scandal" and an "outrage," as he seemed to cite a questionable study from a left-wing source from 2009 claiming that 45,000 people a year die because they lack health insurance. Sharpton began the segment:
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The Obama Scandal the Big Three Networks Aren't Telling You About

geoff.dickens — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:22:48 +0000

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Geoffrey Dickens

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is under fire for soliciting donations from health care companies to underwrite ObamaCare PR efforts to increase enrollment but you wouldn't know that if you only got your news from ABC and NBC or skipped Sunday's edition of CBS's Face the Nation. The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have effectively buried the scandal that was first broken by the Washington Post on May 10.
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NBC Touts White House 'Aggressively Responding' to Scandals, Dismissing Criticism as 'Offensive and Absurd'

kyle.drennen — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:25 +0000

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Kyle Drennen

On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent Peter Alexander led off with Obama team spin on the scandals rocking the administration: "...the White House is aggressively responding, calling accusations of mismanagement 'offensive and absurd.'" [Listen to the audio]

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CNN's Banfield: 'Take Me Off the Ledge' and Tell Me IRS Audits Weren't Political

matt.hadro — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:40:59 +0000

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Matt Hadro

After Friday's IRS testimony before Congress, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield begged CNN host Candy Crowley to "take me off the ledge" and explain that the agency was simply doing its job looking for "sleazeballs that are trying to get special status."

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WashPost's Milbank: GOP Should 'Waste' Time So 'They'll Be of Less Harm to the Country'

brad.wilmouth — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:32:00 +0000

By
Brad Wilmouth

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's PoliticsNation show on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank mocked House Republicans for repeatedly holding unsuccessful votes to repeal ObamaCare as he suggested they should continue to "waste" time so "they'll be less of a harm to the country" because that way "they're not cutting food stamps." Mi
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NBC's Williams Ready to Move On: 'It's Tough to Know the Staying Power of Any Given Scandal'

kyle.drennen — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:17:19 +0000

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Kyle Drennen

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, after proclaiming President Obama to be "on the offensive" amid growing scandals, anchor Brian Williams hinted at those controversies being only temporary setbacks for Obama: "And some folks are already calling the President's problems the curse of the second term.
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Charlie Rose Wonders If Republicans Will 'Overplay Their Hand' on Obama Scandals

matthew.balan — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:52:09 +0000

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Matthew Balan

In the latest instance of liberal journalists thinking alike, Charlie Rose asked practically the same question on Friday's CBS This Morning that ABC's George Stephanopoulos did on Good Morning America. Rose wondered if congressional Republicans "may overplay their hand and somehow squander what they think is opportunity" on the three scandals currently surrounding the Obama White House.
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