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When Barack Obama took office in 2009....ABC-TV "Good Morning America" anchors and guests gushed at the (cough) 'sheer brilliance' of Obama's incoming cabinet, and referenced Obama's "team of economic gladiators"...which included "gladiator" Secy of the Treasuey Tim Geithner (who had a problem filing taxes). Predictably, ABC-TV journalist, George Stephanopoulos, (a onetime Clinton factotum) rhapsodized about the Obama picks: "We have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes," Steffie gushed. BACKSTORY Seems phone calls were being made between Obama's COS Rahm Emanuel and ABC-TV's George...

ABC has plenty of reasons to be freaking out over the George Stephanopoulos scandal — $105 million, to be exact.

ABC has plenty of reasons to be freaking out over the George Stephanopoulos scandal — 105?million, to be exact. The “Good Morning America” and “This Week” anchor renewed his contract last year for $105 million, TV industry sources told The Post Monday. The seven-year deal — which dwarfs the five-year, $50 million contract scored by since-suspended NBC rival Brian Williams — was supposed to keep Stephanopoulos in front of ABC’s cameras through 2021. But now his credibility, and future, have been called into question since he admitted Friday that he had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation since 2011, just...

The president hit his marks tonight. So did the White House press corps. Confident as always, with crisper answers than his last prime time news conference, President Barack Obama returned throughout the hour to his core themes: he has an economic strategy; it's starting to work; and with persistence it will pay off. No mistakes. No big news. Though the president did appear to concede that he won't be getting everything he wants in his budget -- even seeming to suggest that his middle class tax cut may not last beyond 2010.