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Thursday April 29, 2010 @ 09:44 AM EDT

1. Couric Touts San Francisco as Proof of 'Backlash Against Arizona's New Immigration Law'
A night after ABC and NBC championed the supposed "growing national backlash" against Arizona's new anti-illegal alien law, the CBS Evening News caught up as anchor Katie Couric teased her Wednesday newscast by trumpeting a move by a far-left enclave: "The backlash against Arizona's new immigration law. San Francisco bans official travel to that state as pressure grows for a national immigration reform law." After Couric noted "a new travel warning today. This time it's Mexico warning its citizens to be careful if they visit Arizona," reporter Nancy Cordes saw controversy "spreading to all corners of the country" as evidenced by how "San Francisco's Mayor just banned official travel to Arizona. City councils in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles are considering similar measures."

2. MSNBC's Tamron Hall Frets Over Arizona Becoming 'the Most Conservative State' in the U.S.
MSNBC's Tamron Hall on Wednesday worried that Arizona may be turning into the "most conservative state in the nation." A graphic on the liberal cable network chided, "Arizona Too Conservative?"

3. NYT Editor Sam Tanenhaus: 'Extremist,' Know Nothing Tea Partiers Like Birchers
In a friendly chat with left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, New York Times Book Review/Week in Review editor Sam Tanenhaus compares the Tea Party movement to the John Birch Society, proclaims "there are no serious ideas left on the right," and says today's conservatives are led by extremists: "We see who the great idea people are, the ones who pretend to be - Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and all the rest. This is about as good as it's getting now..."

4. CBS Touts Democratic Strategy Labeling GOP 'Party of Wall Street'
On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith lamented Republican opposition to the Democrats' financial reform legislation: "The Senate is expected to vote for a third time on financial reform. Republicans blocked the previous two attempts. President Obama says he can't understand why, and plans to make his case once again later today." n the report that followed, White House correspondent Chip Reid described the Democratic strategy against Republicans: "Democrats are doing everything in their power to portray Republicans as the party of Wall Street."

5. Lauer and Dem Levin Gang Up on GOP Senator on Today
On Wednesday's Today show, NBC's Matt Lauer invited on Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republican Senator Susan Collins to have what was, ostensibly, a bipartisan discussion about the Goldman Sachs hearings, but the Today co-anchor tilted the balance of that discussion when he accused the Republicans of trying to have it both ways by claiming they wanted to fix the problems on Wall Street, but kept blocking debate. Lauer even asked Levin, with Collins standing right beside him, "I don't mean this as a personal comment but Senator Levin, it sounds a bit schizophrenic to me. Does it sound that way to you?"

6. Today Warns About Ads Geared To Kids...Then Breaks for Ad Geared To Kids
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's Today show, previewed a segment about an FTC campaign to urge teachers to warn their tween-aged students about the evils of marketing, (something apparently parents are ill-equipped to do themselves) as he alerted viewers: "Plus the barrage of ads our kids see every day and what's being done to protect them from the urge to buy, buy, buy!" Amusingly that teaser, over a video clip of an Apple Jacks ad featuring animated characters, came right before the Today show broke for an actual cereal commercial featuring -- you guessed it -- animated characters.