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ABC’s GMA Decries ‘Restrictive’ Voter ID Laws
October 10th, 2014 11:27 AM
On Friday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America aired a news brief that described state voter identification laws struck down in Texas and Wisconsin as “restrictive” and passed on the opinion of the judge who put Texas’s law on hold as being “a poll tax designed to keep minorities from voting.”
During the 7:00 a.m. hour, newsreader Amy Robach offered the following news brief: "Back in this country…
Is the GOP Trying to Not Trounce Democrats This Election?!
October 9th, 2014 7:02 PM
On Monday, The Washington Times reported on the Homeland Security Inspector General's finding that detention facilities for illegal border-crossers are teeming with diseases because the guests don't know how to take medicine or use toilets. By Tuesday, there were more than 1,000 comments.
That's a lot of comments. Articles on ISIS usually get between five and 100 comments.
Former CNN Pundit Roland Martin Rips 'Cowardly Bullies' at the NRA
October 9th, 2014 6:36 PM
In a Thursday column for The Daily Beast, former CNN contributor Roland Martin attacked the supposed "cowardly bullies" at the National Rifle Association for opposing President Obama's surgeon general nominee. Martin's op-ed follows in the footsteps of MSNBC's Krystal Ball and NBC's Anne Thompson, who politicized the Ebola crisis nearly a week earlier when they bemoaned that due to "Senate…
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CBS: Mitt Romney A 'Political MVP' in 2014; Obama Not So Much
October 9th, 2014 12:28 PM
In the only coverage of the upcoming midterm election on Thursday's network morning shows, CBS This Morning offered a surprisingly positive profile of Mitt Romney's popularity on the campaign trail contrasted with President Obama's absence amid sinking poll numbers. Correspondent Nancy Cordes opened the report by proclaiming: "You could almost call it the Romney redemption tour. Two years after…
Jonathan Chait: Limbaugh ‘Obsessed’ With Slavery
October 8th, 2014 9:46 PM
The New York magazine blogger says that Rush not only “cannot stop talking about” slavery but “believes that, rather than a blight on white America, it should be seen, in a world-historical context, as a point in its favor.”
CBS Buries Own Poll Results Showing Poor Marks for Democrats and Obama
October 8th, 2014 9:40 PM
On Wednesday night, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley made no mention of the results from the latest CBS News poll that gave President Obama and Democrats poor marks ahead of the November 4 midterm elections on issues ranging from the economy to ISIS to terrorism to who voters are most likely to vote for.
Regarding the midterm elections, Republicans find themselves ahead of Democrats on…
Lefty Blogger: Joni Ernst a ‘Dangerous…Militia Type’
October 8th, 2014 11:08 AM
Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall says Ernst’s ideas about localism and the ACA are “insane” and remind him of something you’d hear from “militia types.”
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CBS Blasts GOP Campaign Ads on ISIS Since Obama 'Does Have a Strategy'
October 7th, 2014 11:55 PM
On Tuesday evening, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was the only broadcast network newscast to have any coverage of the upcoming midterm elections, which are four weeks away from Tuesday.
While that was the case, the just over two-minute-long segment wasn’t free of liberal bias, as it criticized Republican candidates for running ads on the issue of fighting the Islamic terrorist group…
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Ed Schultz: ‘People Are Better Off Today Than They Were 4 Years Ago'
October 7th, 2014 9:09 PM
Ed Schultz used his opening monologue during his MSNBC show on Tuesday to paint Republicans as the “desperate” and “delusional” party in trouble ahead of the midterm elections and informed his audience that “people are better off today than they were four years ago” (before dismissing the struggling wages in the country as “a different thing”). He began by dismissing the idea that Republicans…
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On CNN, Marc Lamont Hill Slams 'Racist' Bill Maher For Views on Islam
October 7th, 2014 4:46 PM
Left-wing academic Marc Lamont Hill blasted atheists Bill Maher and Sam Harris on Monday's CNN Tonight for their blunt views about the Islamic faith: "When he [actor Sam Harris] says that Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas, that is horrific; it is offensive; and, as Ben [Affleck] said...quite frankly, it's racist." Hill contended that "Islam is not uniquely violent or primarily violent or any…
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Chuck Todd: GOP Doesn't Like Regulation Unless It's Against Abortion
October 6th, 2014 4:14 PM
While interrogating Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, host Chuck Todd spat out a nasty attack line against the GOP regarding a new Texas law requiring abortion clinics to have hospital-level medical standards: "One of the things about the Republican Party is you don't like a lot of regulation on businesses, except if the business is a…
Salon: Keep ‘Reactionary’ Righties Away From History Classes
October 5th, 2014 8:26 PM
Conservative-approved lessons on topics including the War on Poverty, the legacy of slavery, and U.S. foreign policy would mislead the students of America.
AP-GfK Poll Rates GOP Leaders in 'Congress,' But Not Dems in Senate
October 5th, 2014 7:10 PM
The polling partnership of the Associated Press and GfK Public Affairs & Corporate Communications conducted its final pre-early voting survey of the American electorate during the five days ended September 29.
It would be pretty hard to argue against the idea that the polling effort searched for answers it could use, while avoiding getting — or at least publishing — answers it wouldn't like…
Daily Kos: GOP Anti-Medicaid ‘Virus’ Deadlier Than Ebola
October 4th, 2014 3:09 PM
A blogger declared that as many as 17,000 Americans per year needlessly die because of what “might be the greatest act of political spite in modern American history.” The good news, he added, is that the “GOPer virus” can be killed at the polls.
