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document.write('<li  style="border-top: 1px #333 dotted; " class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090520.asp#1" title="A Tuesday story on ABC\'s World News, which ignored soaring state spending, reflected frustration with California voters for the anticipated rejection of ballot initiatives to raise taxes as reporter Laura Marquez blamed the Golden State\'s budget deficit..." target="popup" onClick="popupfeed(this.href);return false">ABC Regrets California\'s \'Unwillingness to Raise Taxes\'                 </a><br />');
document.write('A Tuesday story on ABC\'s World News, which ignored soaring state spending, reflected frustration with California voters for the anticipated rejection of ballot initiatives to raise taxes as reporter Laura Marquez blamed the Golden State\'s budget deficit on an \"unwillingness to raise taxes\" stretching all the way back to 1978\'s Proposition 13. In fact, though personal income tax collections \"dropped 14% last year,\" a Tuesday Wall Street Journal article noted they \"soared 70% from 2002 to 2007.\"  </p>');
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document.write('<li  style="border-top: 1px #333 dotted; " class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090520.asp#2" title="CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and Dallas Morning News political writer Wayne Slater agreed on Tuesday\'s Newsroom program that former President George W. Bush appeared to be \"controlled by a bunch of bullies,\" or that he was \"presiding over a reign of bullie..." target="popup" onClick="popupfeed(this.href);return false">Sanchez and Slater Agree Bush \'Presided Over a Reign of Bullies\'                 </a><br />');
document.write('CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and Dallas Morning News political writer Wayne Slater agreed on Tuesday\'s Newsroom program that former President George W. Bush appeared to be \"controlled by a bunch of bullies,\" or that he was \"presiding over a reign of bullies, with [Dick] Cheney and [Donald] Rumsfeld and Karl Rove pushing a partisan agenda.\" Later, as President Obama was getting ready to speak at a meeting with small business owners, Slater sought to correct the conservative critics of the administration\'s economic policy: \"You have the right wing pounding on him day after day for the...bail-outs...a liberal, a socialist -- and yet, here you have a guy who really is tracking a fairly moderate line.\" </p>');
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document.write('<li  style="border-top: 1px #333 dotted; " class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090520.asp#3" title="Who did MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell feature to respond to RNC Chairman Michael Steele\'s Tuesday speech about the future of the Republican Party? Chris Shays, the liberal, former Republican Congressman with a lifetime American Conservative Union score of 4..." target="popup" onClick="popupfeed(this.href);return false">NBC\'s Mitchell Touts Liberal \'Good Republican\' Chris Shays on GOP                 </a><br />');
document.write('Who did MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell feature to respond to RNC Chairman Michael Steele\'s Tuesday speech about the future of the Republican Party? Chris Shays, the liberal, former Republican Congressman with a lifetime American Conservative Union score of 44, appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports to critique the chairman of the Republican National Committee. After Shays insisted that Dick Cheney shouldn\'t be deciding who is and isn\'t a solid member of the GOP, Mitchell complimented: \"Chris Shays, a good Republican.\" Responding to the Steele speech, Mitchell pontificated, \"No mention of Dick Cheney. No mention of Rush Limbaugh. Is he [Steele] trying to move the party to a broader party, one that would include you? You were the last standing moderate from the northeast.\"  </p>');
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document.write('<li  style="border-top: 1px #333 dotted; " class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090520.asp#4" title="Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday aggressively lobbied for the Obama administration to install a European-style gas tax on the United States. Talking to Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, about Obam..." target="popup" onClick="popupfeed(this.href);return false">ABC\'s Diane Sawyer Pleads for European-Style Gas Tax              </a><br />');
document.write('Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday aggressively lobbied for the Obama administration to install a European-style gas tax on the United States. Talking to Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, about Obama\'s plans for increased fuel standards, she began: \"Why not just go to a gas tax, for instance, which would accomplish a reduction in the use of gasoline, dependence on foreign oil right away?\" Sawyer would proceed to ask variations on this question six times. Citing calls for a gas tax by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, she pressed: \"If you really want to change the fuel patterns of this country, and if you want to reduce dependence on foreign oil, not by 2015 or 2016, but right now, there is one way to do it. It\'s the way Europe has been doing it. And that is a gasoline tax.\"  </p>');
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document.write('<li  style="border-top: 1px #333 dotted; " class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090520.asp#5" title="Time magazine is not wild about capitalism. In a \"business roundtable\" on the \"future of capitalism,\" Time assembled several liberals to decry the idea: PBS host Tavis Smiley, blog founder Arianna Huffington, and soul singer John Legend all found the ..." target="popup" onClick="popupfeed(this.href);return false">PBS\'s Tavis Smiley in Time: \'Capitalism is Like a Child\'                 </a><br />');
document.write('Time magazine is not wild about capitalism. In a \"business roundtable\" on the \"future of capitalism,\" Time assembled several liberals to decry the idea: PBS host Tavis Smiley, blog founder Arianna Huffington, and soul singer John Legend all found the need for capitalism to have a large dose of government intervention. Smiley was frankest: \"I don\'t think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody\'s got to look over the shoulder of that child.\"  </p>');
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document.write('<li  style="border-top: 1px #333 dotted; " class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090520.asp#6" title="NBC\'s Matt Lauer and Al Roker, on Tuesday\'s Today show, revealed they enjoyed a \"nice\" evening at the theater the night before, in the presence of Michelle Obama, as she \"dazzled New York City for a second time,\" when she visited the Metropolitan Op..." target="popup" onClick="popupfeed(this.href);return false">Today Show Crew \'Dazzled\' by Michelle Obama\'s Night Out at the Met                </a><br />');
document.write('NBC\'s Matt Lauer and Al Roker, on Tuesday\'s Today show, revealed they enjoyed a \"nice\" evening at the theater the night before, in the presence of Michelle Obama, as she \"dazzled New York City for a second time,\" when she visited the Metropolitan Opera House. After an Amy Robach piece that celebrated Mrs. Obama\'s return to the Big Apple, Roker and Lauer bragged that they too were in attendance at the American Ballet Theater Spring Gala, along with the First Lady, as Roker gushed: \"It was fantastic!\"  </p>');
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