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By Matthew Balan | March 19, 2012 | 11:51

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On Saturday, ABC's Devin Dwyer reported how President Obama gave "a rousing speech to 600 donors in Chicago and closed it with an intimate appeal before 40 'friends' that included...Oprah Winfrey....Oprah was flanked at her table by...longtime friend and companion Gayle King [and] Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett." However, Dwyer failed to mention that King is co-anchor of CBS This Morning.

Though it isn't currently known whether the CBS on-air personality donated to the Obama reelection campaign at this event, she donated $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund during the third quarter of 2011 - before she started working at CBS - and $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee during the same time period.

Dwyer, ABC News's White House digital reporter and producer, noted how the President "addressed guests seated around five candle-lit tables adorned with bouquets of red roses inside the cavernous Chateau-style home of actor/producer Tyler Perry....The event at Perry's home – Obama's 107th fundraiser of the election cycle — was estimated to bring in at least $1.4 million for Obama and Democrats for the 2012 campaign."

First Lady Michelle Obama; & Gayle King, CBS News Anchor | NewsBusters.orgIt should be pointed out that not even two weeks after her start at the CBS morning show, King made it clear that she is in the tank for the Obama campaign when she conducted an extended softball interview with Michelle Obama on January 12, 2012, specifically vouching that the First Lady is "passionate" and that she is "looking forward to returning for another four years. They're going to work very hard to make that happen."

More recently, Charlie Rose, King's co-anchor on the morning show, attended the state dinner in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House. Though the March 15, 2012 edition of CBS This Morning did report that "many of the guests [at the state dinner] included some of the President's top fundraisers," Rose and senior White House correspondent Bill Plante, spent more time talking about the wines served at the function. He also gushingly told co-anchors King and Erica Hill, "The First Lady said, say hello to both of you." Both enthusiastically replied to that anecdote.

The veteran journalist has also consistently been tougher on Republican guests than Democrats since his January 2012 start on CBS. On February 28, Rose lobbed a series of questions from the left at Rep. Paul Ryan, while tossing softballs at Obama campaign senior advisers Robert Gibbs just five days earlier. On March 13, he sympathized with President Obama on the issue of high gas prices, shamelessly claiming that "the President has a point...There's little that he can do...in the short term to affect gas prices, and gas prices hurts his political chances."

CBS might want to consider renaming the morning newscast to "The Obama Campaign This Morning."

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But, she's able to put her partisanship aside,

Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:44pm.

and be perfectly objective to both sides. Gag, hack, patooie. Anyone who believes that is as clueless as VD and his recent incarnations on NB.

To re-elect Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and hitting the iceberg again.
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Ah, memories of Dan Rather.

Submitted by celator on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:47pm.

Ah, memories of Dan Rather.

"This is not your mother's Democratic Party"--Andrew Breitbart, CPAC, February 2012
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What I wonder about is (other

Submitted by HelenS on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 4:17pm.

What I wonder about is (other than that she's O's BFF) why does Gayle have any kind of regular gig at all? She's no great asset to whatever show she's on.

Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."

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I had share this

Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 4:26pm.

My wife was reading this article and in the opening, saw this: ...Oprah was flanked at her table by...longtime friend and companion Gayle King...

She said, "I was reading this and it suddenly occurred to me that maybe those two are more than just friends, and Stedman has been a front all this time."

After looking at her for about a minute I said, "Honey, I think about 280 million Americans beat you to that conclusion."

The Doc says my jaw should heal in a few weeks.

President Obama is a Muslim (from his own lips), Kenyan (read it from his publicist) a homosexual (read it on a news magazine cover) and a Socialist (I'm alive and can see it for myself)
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