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Todd Pushes Ryan to Denounce Ingraham, Levin; Hounds Him on How He’ll Cooperate with Obama

By Curtis Houck | December 21, 2015, 9:00 AM EST

Appearing exclusively on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd repeatedly pressed Speaker Paul Ryan to denounce conservative radio talk show hosts Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin over their criticism of the recently-passed omnibus bill and Todd demanded to kn ...

NYT's New Respect for GOP's Ryan for 'Deftness in Pacifying Rebellious Conservatives'...and for Big Spending Hike

By Clay Waters | December 21, 2015, 9:31 AM EST

The lead story in Saturday's New York Times heaped praiseupon the passage of a package of spending increases and tax breaks: “Avoiding Rancor, Congress Passes A Fiscal Package-- $1.8 Trillion Measure – Spending Rise and New Tax Breaks Suggest End of ...

CBS Hosts Pester Paul Ryan on Gun Control, Demand Legislation

By Kyle Drennen | December 3, 2015, 5:21 PM EST

In a contentious exchange with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday’s CBS This Morning, co-hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King repeatedly pressed the Republican leader to take up gun control legislation in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. Rose began: ...

CNN Boosts NY Daily News's 'Provocative' Anti-Prayer Front Page

By Matthew Balan | December 4, 2015, 8:41 AM EST

Three CNN programs on Wednesday night and Thursday morning promoted the anti-prayer front page of the New York Daily News on Thursday: 'God Isn't Fixing This.' Unsurprisingly, pro-gun control anchor Carol Costello quoted from the liberal ne ...

CBS Hints at GOP Double Standard on Gun Control vs. Syrian Refugees

By Matthew Balan | November 20, 2015, 2:15 PM EST

Friday's CBS This Morning hyped that " thousands on the government's terrorist watch list... bought firearms in the last decade... and all of the sales were legal." Nancy Cordes played up that a bill to " close that loophole " ...

CBS’s Pelley Accuses Paul Ryan of ‘Blowing Chalk Dust in the President's Face’

By Kyle Drennen | November 13, 2015, 10:05 AM EST

In an interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan for 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley scolded the congressman for criticizing President Obama’s unconstitutional executive action on illegal immigration: “On your first day as speaker you said yo ...

Carl 'Hard-Right' Hulse Mars the Times With His Contemptuous Tone Toward Tea Party GOP

By Clay Waters | November 3, 2015, 1:19 PM EST

In Tuesday's " Ryan Lands at Center of a Rivalry for the Soul of the G.O.P., " New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse delivered a fairly balanced column recounting why reformist, Tea Party-minded conservatives have aligned against ...

CNN Presses Ryan on Paid Leave, US 'Way Far Behind' 'Most Civilized Nations'

By Brad Wilmouth | November 3, 2015, 6:33 PM EST

After pressing Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on the issue of whether the federal government should require employers to provide paid family leave in a pre-recorded interview aired on Sunday's State of the Union, CNN correspondent Dana Bash made ...

CNN’s Bash to Paul Ryan: How Can You ‘Control’ the Freedom Caucus?

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 1, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

On Sunday’s State of the Union, fill-in host Dana Bash sat down with newly-elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his goals for the new job but did her best to play up the supposed dysfunction among House GOPers.  The CNN host played up the liberal ...

As GOP Selects Ryan, NY Times Throws 'Far-Right...Hard-Right...Hard-Line' Labels

By Clay Waters | October 31, 2015, 10:21 PM EDT

The election of a new Speaker of the House had the New York Times firing up its reliably crooked labeling machine. On Thursday, reporter and repeat offender David Herszenhorn lamented that " Many Republicans, including members of the hard-right House ...

Journalists vs. the 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' House GOP

By Rich Noyes | October 28, 2015, 10:05 AM EDT

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American politica ...

Networks Yawn at House Starting Impeachment Process for IRS Commissioner Koskinen

By Curtis Houck | October 28, 2015, 10:23 AM EDT

On Tuesday, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC censored from their evening newscasts any mention of the House of Representative beginning the procedures to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on the heels of Republican Congressman and House ...

Melissa Harris-Perry to Guest: ‘Hard Worker’ Is Offensive Term Due to Slavery, Working Women

By Curtis Houck | October 27, 2015, 10:27 AM EDT

Monday afternoon, David Rutz of the Washington Free Beacon found this great gem from the Saturday edition of ultra-liberal Melissa Harris-Perry’s eponymous MSNBC show in which she scolded guest Alfonso Aguilar for using the term “hard worker” because it’s ...

NYT's Hulse Snidely 'Translates' Speaker of the House Questionnaire from 'Hard-Right' Freedom Caucus

By Clay Waters | October 26, 2015, 9:30 AM EDT

The New York Times' continuing hostility toward the GOP's conservative Freedom Caucus got snide in Sunday's news pages: " The Fights That Ryan Will Face as Speaker, In Plain English " by Kevin Quealy and Carl Hulse. Hulse, a veter ...

Amanda Marcotte: Paul Ryan Thinks Family Life Should Be ‘Reserved For the Elite and the Rest of Us Can Go Hang’

By Tom Johnson | October 24, 2015, 10:16 PM EDT

After Paul Ryan vowed that he wouldn’t reduce time spent with his family even if he became Speaker of the House, quite a few liberals accused the Wisconsin congressman of hypocrisy given that he has, in the words of one feminist site, “spent much of his p ...