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• 'Today' Buries McCain, Celebrates Obama's Union Stunt

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Double Standards, Barack Obama, David Gregory, John Mccain, Lee Cowan, Matt Lauer, Nbc, Today

  largest unions. NBC's Lee Cowan has that story." [On screen headline: "Obama's Union Dues, Health Care Worker For A Day."] Lee Cowan: "At age 86 you're certainly owed a helping hand but not many people get a presidential candidate to clean their house." Sen. Barack Obama: "It takes me back to my bachelor

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• NBC Frets Over Income Gap, Touts Advocate for Higher Taxes on Rich

  Published: October 30, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Taxes, Lee Cowan, Tom Brokaw, Warren Buffett, Nbc Nightly News

  story tonight from NBC's Lee Cowan. LEE COWAN: At Chicago's Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church, they're raising the rafters, but not raising much money. PASTOR DONALD SHARP, FAITH TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH: A dollar only goes so far. COWAN: Pastor Donald Sharp can tell a lot about the nation's financial health from his collection plate. It's

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• NBC Drives Recession Fears with R.V. Story

  Published: December 4, 2007, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Business Coverage, Economy, Housing, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Stock Market, Wages Amp Amp Prices, Brian Williams, Lee Cowan, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, New York Times

  follows." Correspondent Lee Cowan explained "that Wall Street has been tailgating [the R.V. industry] for signs of a possible recession." Cowan profiled the Newtons, who were hoping to upgrade their R.V. but were turned off by "oil flirting with 100 bucks a barrel." While oil did flirt with $100-a-barrel, Cowan didn't say

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• Huckabee Jokes About Shooting Romney: Did MSM Duck?

  Published: December 27, 2007, 7:52 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Guns, David Shuster, Jack Jacobs, Lee Cowan, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Video

  6:30 AM ET, NBC reporter Lee Cowan narrated another clip from the pheasant-hunt. MIKE COWAN: It was Mike Huckabee who seemed armed for anything. In this case, it was pheasants -- and negative campaigning. Cut to footage of Huckabee speaking with reporters in the field at the conclusion of his hunt, still dressed in field gear. MIKE HUCKABEE:

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• 'Mystique' Means 'Audacity of Hope' Has 'Rendezvous with Destiny'

  Published: January 28, 2008, 9:49 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, David Wright, Lee Cowan, Ted Kennedy, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News, World News

  the Kennedy legacy. NBC's Lee Cowan, who earlier this month conceded it's almost hard to remain objective when covering Obama, showed he also has a soft spot for the Kennedys as he radiated over how the endorsement brought the Kennedy mystique to this campaign, not in a whisper, but a roar. Viewers then got a soundbite of Kennedy

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• Matching CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC Distort McCain on Hamas in 2006

  Published: May 16, 2008, 9:15 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Hamas, Barack Obama, David Wright, Dean Reynolds, John Mccain, Lee Cowan, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News, World News

  his earlier view. On NBC, Lee Cowan highlighted how Obama pointed to this interview two years ago when the Arizona Senator seemed to hint that eventually talking with Hamas might well be a political necessity. Following the clip, Cowan allowed: McCain says, though, that quote was taken out of context. ABC's David Wright played the

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• Evening Newscasts Forward Obama's ABC-Enabled Defense of Wife

  Published: May 19, 2008, 9:54 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, David Wright, Dean Reynolds, Lee Cowan, Michelle Obama, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News, World News

  her love of country. Lee Cowan, on NBC, related Obama's Rule Number One: lay off his family. When asked on ABC's Good Morning America about this Republican ad criticizing his wife for saying that 'this was the first time' that she'd been 'proud of her country,' he fired back. Key portion of the exchange on Good Morning America:

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• WaPo's Capehart: Hard for Media 'Not to Get Swept Up' in Obamamania

  Published: June 3, 2008, 7:32 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Jonathan Capehart, Lee Cowan, Pat Buchanan, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues, Video

  echoes that by NBC's Lee Cowan [video], who, speaking of MSM support for Obama, famously admitted "from the reporter's point of view it's almost hard to remain objective." BONUS COVERAGE: NY Times Airbrushes Clinton Obscenity As reported in the Fox News article linked above in the first para of Buchanan's question, Clinton used

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• Olbermann Hits 'Worst Person' Katie Couric for Charging Anti-Hillary Bias

  Published: June 12, 2008, 6:06 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann, Lee Cowan, Countdown, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Msnbc, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, Today

  saw literally 90 percent of Lee Cowan`s reporting in this campaign, and it was utterly objective and accurate. It is sad that Ms. Couric could not have emulated him and separated the hype from the news in her own promulgation of the nonsense that Senator Clinton was a victim of pronounced sexism. And as to her advice that a reporter like Lee

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• NBC Trumpets Gore's 'Return to Electoral Politics' to Endorse Obama

  Published: June 16, 2008, 8:44 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Lee Cowan, Nbc Nightly News

  a former enemy camp. Our own Lee Cowan is with us tonight from the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Lee, good evening. LEE COWAN: Good evening, Brian. This isn't all entirely unexpected, but this will be Al Gore's return to electoral politics, announcing tonight that he says he'll do whatever he can to make sure that Barack Obama gets elected

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• Bozell Column: Gore Endorses Obama, So What?

  Published: June 17, 2008, 9:57 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Campbell Brown, Lee Cowan, Abc, Cbs, Cnn, Msnbc, Nbc

  from Illinois." NBC's Lee Cowan proclaimed "The endorsement brought the Kennedy mystique to this campaign, not in a whisper, but a roar." A few days later, Obama was trounced by Hillary in Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts by 16 points! but the reporters who screamed like overly zealous bobby-soxers at an old Sinatra

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• NBC's Lee Cowan: Michelle Obama Dresses 'As Brightly As Her Husband's Smile'

  Published: June 19, 2008, 12:27 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, Cindy Mccain, John Mccain, Lee Cowan, Meredith Vieira, Michelle Obama, Audio, Video

  controversy. Here's NBC's Lee Cowan.[On screen headline: "Image Control, Re-Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Obama."]LEE COWAN: In victory and in defeat Michelle Obama had always been there, dressed as brightly as her husband's smile, determined though, not to steal the spotlight but to put her signature touch on what's become their

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• NBC's Today Touts 'Barack Star: Obama on Cover of Rolling Stone'

  Published: June 26, 2008, 2:17 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, Jann Wenner, Lee Cowan, Matt Lauer, Rolling Stone, Today

  Senator? Here's NBC's Lee Cowan. [On screen headline, Barack Star: Obama On the Cover of Rolling Stone."] LEE COWAN: The newsstand standard bearer of rock and roll, the cover that's launched a 1000 music careers is no stranger to Democratic politics either, it's almost a rite of passage. George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore --

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• Andrea Mitchell Pushes Lee Cowan Out of the Way to Trail Obama to Iraq

  Published: July 15, 2008, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Alexandra Wallce, Andrea Mitchell, Lee Cowan, Nbc, Nbc News

  despite the fact that Lee Cowan — yes, that Lee Cowan — has been covering Obama’s campaign since he began running for president. It’s a classic Mitchell “big foot,” we’re told by one NBC source who’s provided accurate information in the past, and has angered folks at NBC’s political

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• Good Economic News Doesn't Deter 'Today's' 'Doom and Gloom' Spin

  Published: July 17, 2008, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Economy, Lee Cowan, Matt Lauer, Tony Robbins, Nbc, Today

  are upset and worried. NBC's Lee Cowan set out to capture the mood of America and to see what get[s] people out of bed every morning. [On screen headline: "Turbulent Times, America's Crisis of Confidence"] LEE COWAN: It used to be bad news was delivered almost in theatrical fashion. [Begin clip from old newsreel] ANNOUNCER: It is with

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