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White House senior adviser David Axelrod joined George Stephanopoulos to follow-up on remarks that Fox News isn’t really a news station. After a clip Rupert Murdoch about how the White House is actually helping Fox News’s ratings, Stephanopoulos really cut to the bone, asking Axelrod “Are You Worried That Your Strategy is Fortifying Your Enemy?” The enemy, of course, is Fox News.

When we hear talk about the mainstream media spending more time fact-checking, we don’t usually think of baseball. But that’s exactly what it meant for Keith Olbermann, who chimed in about a front-page New York Times article from Friday’s paper about a newly surfaced piece of home video showing Babe Ruth at bat and striking out while Lou Gehrig waits on deck at Yankees Stadium.

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Anita Dunn went on CNN with Howard Kurtz this morning to talk about her specific gripes with mainstream media practices, spending most of her time criticizing Fox News. The deputy White House communications director really cut to the chase when it came time to talk about Fox News. “What I think is fair to say about Fox,” she told Kurtz, “is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican party.” Video inside …