Liberal CNN's New Ad Spotlights Rivals' Slant, Claims Lack of 'Favorit

November 10th, 2010 7:54 PM
CNN, a network known for its regular liberal bias, touted its supposed objectivity versus its competitors in a new ad which premiered on Tuesday evening. The ad graphically associated Fox News with the Republican elephant and MSNBC with the Democratic donkey, and claimed, "If you want to keep them all honest, without playing favorites, the choice is clear: CNN, the worldwide leader in news…

Clyburn, Boiled Down: We'll Never Stop Blaming Bush

June 13th, 2010 10:09 PM
Real Clear Politics currently has a video highlighting statements by Democratic Congressman James Clyburn Jr. of South Carolina. It teases the video with a question asked by Candy Crowley of CNN. Once one sees the entire sequence, it's clear that Clyburn really answered Crowley's question before she even asked it. Here's the full transcript of the vid, which begins after Indiana Republican…

CNN to Advertisers: We're the Only 'Non-Partisan' Cable Network

April 14th, 2010 3:49 PM
Stuart Elliott of the New York Times's Media Decoder blog reported on Tuesday that CNN, a network known for its consistent liberal bias, is now incredibly touting itself as "the only credible, nonpartisan voice left" on cable television. Elliott noted that this spin was being pitched by the network at a Tuesday morning event for advertisers at the Time Warner Center in New York City.The New York…

CNN Shows Faces Obama Was Making During Healthcare Summit

February 28th, 2010 7:25 PM
To emphasize Barack Obama's frustration with what Republicans were saying at Thursday's healthcare summit, CNN aired a montage of the faces the President was making as prominent members of the GOP spoke.Candy Crowley introduced the segment on Sunday's "State of the Union":As we mentioned earlier, President Obama's face said a lot last week. I was in the studio where you can watch what which call…

Gergen On Healthcare Summit: GOP Had Its Best Day In Years

February 26th, 2010 3:48 PM
Stop the presses: David Gergen actually said something nice about the GOP Thursday."I don't think [the Democrats] got the breakthrough they were looking for in terms of the public, reaching the public and trying to change opinions," Gergen told Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" panel shortly after President Obama's healthcare summit ended. "That is because intellectually, the Republicans had the…

Liberal Marc Lamont Hill Gets Downbeat on Obama

January 5th, 2010 8:13 AM
It's New Year's Eve and you have the choice of ringing in 2010 by partying or watching Larry King. Most normal people would choose the former option but for the very few who watched Larry King that evening, they were treated to quite a surprise as they watched the show which was guest hosted by Candy Crowley (Was Larry ringing in the New Year at Nate 'n' Al's?). The surprise came in the form of…

Dateline Chicago, 1871: Fire Chief Declares 'The System Worked

December 27th, 2009 5:16 PM
Interview with Chicago Fire Chief Alden Brown two days after the Great Chicago Fire:ALDEN BROWN: One thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here: the local citizens took appropriate action.  Within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 towns and villages in the Chicago area had been notified to take some special…

Suzanne Malveaux Latest to Use Vulgar 'Teabagger' Label on CNN

November 23rd, 2009 6:53 PM
On Monday’s Situation Room, Suzanne Malveaux became the latest CNN personality to use the offensive “teabagger” label to describe opponents of ObamaCare. Malveaux asked senior political analyst Gloria Borger, “Do we expect to see the kinds of big rallies and...the circus atmosphere that we saw...over the summer when you were talking about controversial policy, ‘teabaggers’ and all that other…

CNN's Crowley Omits Sound Bites From Conservatives in Palin Report

November 10th, 2009 6:36 PM
CNN’s Candy Crowley neglected to include sound bites from conservatives during a report about Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s American Morning, other than from the former Alaska governor herself. While Crowley did acknowledge the widespread support that Palin has among conservative Republicans, she only used clips from moderate commentator David Frum, Democrat Bill Owens, and colleague Wolf Blitzer.The…

CNN's Crowley: NY 23's Hoffman the Choice of 'Tea Bag Partyers

November 2nd, 2009 6:14 PM
CNN’s Candy Crowley made an oblique reference to her colleague Anderson Cooper’s infamous “teabagger” remark on Monday’s Situation Room. As she reported on the race in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Crowley referred to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman as “the choice of many on the right, including Sarah Palin, former House leader Dick Armey and ‘tea bag partyers’” [audio clips…

FNC Shows Jimmy Carter Backtracking on Suggesting Anti-Obama Protester

October 8th, 2009 7:30 AM
Former President Carter's recent claim that he never portrayed most tea party participants protesting against President Obama as being motivated by racism has been highlighted both on Friday's Special Report with Bret Baier and on Monday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC. As previously noted by NewsBuster Matt Balan, the Thursday, October 1, American Morning on CNN showed a clip of Carter denying what…

Jimmy Carter Tries to Deny He Said Obama Critics 'Driven' By Race

October 1st, 2009 12:42 PM
CNN’s Candy Crowley tried to prompt former President Jimmy Carter to explain his charge of racism against opponents of President Obama on Thursday’s American Morning, but the Democrat tried to worm his way out of what he said. Crowley paraphrased, “You said, overall, you thought the protesters were upset that there was a black president,” to which Carter replied, “That’s not what I said” [audio…

CNN's Polling Before and After Obama Speech Skewed Democratic

September 10th, 2009 12:58 PM
Update (NB Staff): MRC/NB's Brent Bozell reacts to CNN poll (posted below page break).CNN/Opinion Research Corporation’s poll on President Obama’s health care speech to Congress on Wednesday significantly oversampled Democrats. The pollsters interviewed 427 Americans before and after their speech- only 18% were Republicans, while 45% were Democrats. Due to this skewing, CNN didn’t really play up…

CNN's Analysts' Panel Agrees With Democrats on Obama 'Report Card

August 7th, 2009 1:40 PM
Three of CNN’s political analysts- Jeffrey Toobin, David Gergen, and Gloria Borger- all gave President Obama B’s or B-pluses on the economy and overall job performance during the network’s special “The National Report Card: The Second 100 Days” on Thursday. These grades from these “non-partisan” analysts lined-up with the A’s and B’s that Democrats Paul Begala and Donna Brazile gave the president…