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Newsweek Despairs 'Checks and Balances' Impede ObamaCare

Penning the lead story for the “Yes He Can (But He Sure Hasn't Yet)” Newsweek cover, “A Liberal's Survival Guide,” Anna Quindlen defended President Obama from liberal complaints he's not enacting liberal policies fast enough as she explained that he's “saddled” by the “incremental” constitutional structure, but she fretted:

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091029014120.aspx

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CBS Interviews Levi Johnston Again; Palin Says Network Should Be 'Ashamed'

For the third time in six months, the CBS Early Show provided a soap box for Levi Johnston to continue his vicious personal attacks against Sarah Palin, as co-host Maggie Rodriguez proclaimed: “He is back on the offensive in this he-said-she-said battle that began shortly after the presidential election....he says he’s trying to show the world the real Levi.”

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091029054532.aspx

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Double Standard? ESPN Suspends Griese for a Week After Racist Slur

Only a week suspension for a blatantly racist joke?

Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102709/content/0...

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ABC Heavily Promotes New HBO Documentary on Obama: He's so 'Zen' and 'Normal'

Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday helped promote an upcoming HBO documentary on Barack Obama and allowed producer Ed Norton to gush over the "zen" presidential campaign of the Democratic candidate.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027051654.aspx

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Matthews Mocks 'Motivational' Speaker Bush as 'Halloween Prank'

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, mocked former President George W. Bush making his debut as a motivational speaker as he laughed it off as a "Halloween prank, you know like toilet-papering somebody’s house."

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027071227.aspx

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CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks

CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.

Source: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/cnn-drops-t...

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NY Times's Frank Rich Finds Anti-Bush Argument in Balloon Boy Saga

One could almost predict the desperately "current" New York Times editor/columnist Frank Rich would devote his Sunday column to try and make Balloon Boy an anti-Republican symbol of something or other, and he doesn't disappoint.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027014817.aspx

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Obama Administration Escapes Blame for H1NI Flu Vaccine Shortage and Delay

Hard to imagine that if George W. Bush were still in office journalists would hesitate a moment to invoke his name in identifying a culprit for the current shortage and delay in delivery, well beyond the schedule promised by HHS's Centers for Disease Control, of the vaccine for the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. Remember Katrina?

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027015758.aspx

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CBS Takes Up White House Quest to 'De-Legitimize' Fox News, 'Irony' FNC Enabled Attack

“They report and the White House decides it's not fair. The President's feud with the Fox News Channel,” Katie Couric teased at the top of Friday's CBS Evening News in the first broadcast network newscast foray into the subject.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091023084147.aspx