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CBS Only Plays Up Split in GOP on Cuba; Frets Blockage of Ambassador

December 19th, 2014 11:16 AM
During the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley on Thursday, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reported on the continued response from members of Congress to the move by President Obama to normalize relations with Cuba, but chose to exclusively play up the split among those in the Republican Party on the issue.  Cordes first focused on the many Republicans against the President’s…

Actress Stacey Dash Told to 'Go Die' After Slamming Cuba Trip by Jay-Z

April 13th, 2013 6:01 AM
When music superstars Jay-Z -- whose real name is Shawn Carter -- and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter celebrated their fifth anniversary with a vacation to Cuba, the couple was criticized on Twitter by Stacey Dash, who asked: “Do you care that The Jay Z"s have taken the capital you have given them and funded a communist oppressive regime?” The African-American actress's question drew many angry…

MSNBC's Wagner Mischaracterizes 'Child Interstate Abortion Notificatio

April 2nd, 2012 1:05 PM
As Politico's Dylan Byers reported on March 22, MSNBC insists that its programming from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern is straight news, rather than "point-of-view" programming. Clearly Alex Wagner of the 12 p.m. Eastern Now with Alex Wagner program hasn't gotten the memo. Take today's program, for example, where Wagner mischaracterized a bill working through the U.S. House aimed at curtailing the…

Accuracy-Indifferent Maddow Invents Alleged GOP Push for US to Leave U

January 28th, 2011 9:00 PM
Rachel Maddow's self-proclaimed "obsessive" devotion to the truth again proves fickle. As an example of what she sees as the resurgence of wedge issues, Maddow said this on her MSNBC show last night -- The culture war era conspiracy theories about black helicopters and a one-world government secretly pursued by America's elites, that stuff is back from the culture war eras too. The new…