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November 11, 2010
Call it the law of unintended consequences, but supposing the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire by President Barack Obama, people might react in ways that are detrimental to the overall economy.
On CNBC’s Nov. 11 “Squawk on the Street,” Rial…
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July 27, 2009
It's the kind of astute analysis you'd expect from MSNBC – the place for the politics. CNBC regular and MSNBC fill-in anchor Donny Deutsch solved the mystery behind the media's fascination with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
According to the…
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July 13, 2010
“Where would Jesus drill?”
That sounds almost like it could be the opening of a tree hugger's bad joke, but instead it's the lede in a recent Associated Press story written by John Flesher about a so-called “Green religion movement.”
Efforts to…
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March 31, 2010
“The View” co-host Joy Behar isn't known for being the most graceful person, but for whatever reason she has managed to land her own cable news show and is a sought after personality for shows like NBC's “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
On her March…
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March 18, 2010
Is there a conscious effort to give female conservatives a rough time in the mainstream media, especially in this highly politicized environment? Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says there is.
Bachmann, in an interview with the White House Brief…
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February 23, 2006
Its turn-back-the-clock day in the mainstream media and on Capitol
Hill. While polyester and Depeche Mode are far from the rage in
Congressional chambers and newsrooms, an overzealous fear of foreign…
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August 15, 2007
It has been a topsy-turvy few weeks for the stock markets, as fear of tightening credit markets fueled by prime and subprime mortgage woes have frightened the news media. The business media have been alternately hysterical and calm about the…
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September 25, 2008
Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party on his Sept. 17, 2008,…
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December 15, 2005
Lou Dobbs wants answers. In his December 14 broadcast of CNNs Lou
Dobbs Tonight, the business anchor gathered torches and pitchforks
in response to the news of an overall trade deficit [that] hit…
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December 8, 2005
If aliens landed on Earth and picked up the cover of the December
8 Washington Post, theyd think the House of Representatives were a
bunch of reckless advocates of tax cuts that do nothing to help the…
