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Nets Cheer Sanders Handing Hillary ‘Big Gift’ on E-Mail Scandal

October 14th, 2015 3:56 PM
Following Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, all three of Wednesday’s network morning shows seized on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders demanding the media stop asking about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal. During fawning coverage on NBC’s Today, correspondent Peter Alexander proclaimed: “When it came to Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal, it was her chief rival Bernie Sanders who sent a message loud…
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NBC: Clinton Team ‘Ecstatic’; Hillary ‘Poised and Passionate’

October 14th, 2015 11:56 AM
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today celebrated Tuesday night’s Democratic debate by heaping effusive praise on front-runner Hillary Clinton. Correspondent Peter Alexander began his report by cheering: “Hillary Clinton's debate experience, her debate preparation paid off last night. Her advisers this morning are ecstatic. They insist she was on, that she looked poised and passionate...”
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ABC, NBC Cheer ‘Relatable’ Hillary; ‘Burden’ for Her to Stay in Front

October 13th, 2015 8:18 PM
On Tuesday night ahead of the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News put forth their best efforts to paint a favorable scene for Hillary Clinton by touting her as “relatable” while “need[ing] to show voters a different side” as she shoulders the “burden” of trying “to protect her front-runner status.”
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Union Boss Trumka Says He's Not a Capitalist, Either

October 13th, 2015 6:16 PM
First Sanders, now Trumka—are there any capitalists left on the left? On the most recent Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders made news when Chuck Todd asked him if he was a capitalist.  "No," shot back Sanders, "I'm a democratic socialist." Mark Halperin was obviously taken enough by the question as to pose it on today's With All Due Respect to Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO. "No, I'm a…

Nets Ignore DNC Vice Chair Banned From Party's Debate

October 13th, 2015 2:59 PM
On Tuesday night, CNN will host the first of six Democratic presidential debates, and one top official from the Democratic National Committee will not be allowed to attend yet the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) networks have so far ignored the story on both their morning and evening broadcasts. 
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NBC, ABC Tout Hillary ‘Has Been Debating Since High School’

October 13th, 2015 11:57 AM
Ahead of Tuesday’s first Democratic presidential debate, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America happily parroted campaign talking points declaring Hillary Clinton to be a great debater.

Environmentalists Try to Save World from Overpopulation on 'Blindspot'

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October 13th, 2015 12:44 AM
On the latest episode of Blindspot, the protagonists find out that every major disease outbreak of the past half-decade has been the result of an intentional security breakdown at the CDC. Ebola, SARS, MRSA, Typhoid fever: they were all delivered directly from a secret CDC lab to infect innocent populations around the world. For once, however, the culprit isn’t some heinous government plot.…
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ABC, CBS Skip Zimbabwe Deciding Not to Charge Cecil the Lion’s Shooter

October 12th, 2015 10:37 PM
Following the media frenzy in July over the death of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the Lion, the coverage was decidedly different on Monday evening when ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News failed to inform their viewers of the fact that officials in the authoritarian country would not be pressing charges against American dentist Dr. Walter Palmer for shooting Cecil.
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CBS, NBC Cheer Fired Benghazi Cmte Staffer Giving Hillary a 'Lifeline'

October 12th, 2015 9:09 PM
On Monday, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News prominently touted the claims by a fired staffer on the House Select Committee on Benghazi that the panel’s sole aim is to takedown former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a move that gives her “a potential lifeline” in “another blow” to the committee.
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ABC, NBC Hype SNL Mocking ‘America’s Love Affair With Guns’

October 12th, 2015 12:22 PM
ABC, NBC and CNN on Sunday and Monday couldn’t get enough of Saturday Night Live mocking “America’s love affair with guns.” NBC’s Today replayed the entire sketch on Sunday and then hyped it again on Monday. On Monday’s Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts enthused that comedian/gun control activist Amy Schumer was “all over social media this weekend!” 
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Redford Dismisses Dan Rather Scandal as ‘Technicality,’ ‘Small Glitch'

October 12th, 2015 11:51 AM
In a softball interview on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teed up liberal actor Robert Redford to push propaganda about his latest role as disgraced CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather: Redford dismissed the scandal: “The whole thing unraveled over what was a small technicality at that time that was blown into major thing. And the bigger story was of course the story that Dan and Mary…
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NBC Touts Fired Benghazi Staffer Giving ‘Lifeline' to Hillary

October 12th, 2015 10:00 AM
On Monday, NBC’s Today seized on fired Benghazi Committee staffer Bradley Podliska slamming the investigation as a “partisan” attack on Hillary Clinton as correspondent Andrea Mitchell proclaimed: “...those sensational new charges come against the Republican-led Benghazi committee...from a Republican staff member...”
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Notable Quotables: NBC Helps Hillary with Softball Townhall

October 12th, 2015 9:05 AM
This week, Hillary Clinton is treated to fawning tributes and softball quesions during her "town hall" forum on NBC's Today, while network reporters finger the "far right" as at fault in the surprise resignation of House Speaker John Boehner. Plus, CNN's Christiane Amanpour claims some in the GOP are part of a "war on Muslims," and ex-CBS newsman Dan Rather is sticking to his bogus story: "There…
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Kathleen Parker Eagerly Defends Hillary’s Policy Flip-Flops

October 11th, 2015 11:45 AM
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker did her best to give Hillary Clinton the “benefit of the doubt” after she has flipped her position on a number of policy issues, most recently her sudden opposition to TPP. Parker acknowledged that Clinton would never admit to changing her positions for “political expedience” in order to satisfy Bernie Sanders' supporters, but…