Dana Bash
CNNer: There’s ‘Friendliness’ in Iranians Who Chant ‘Death to America’
Near the start of Tuesday’s Inside Politics, CNN’s OutFront host Erin Burnett tried to downplay the long-standing practice Iranians chanting “death to America” (and “death to Israel”) because, from her experience reporting from Tehran, those same people often display a “friendliness” and genuine interest in America. Yes, dear readers, Burnett declared those calling for mass killings…
Publicity Hound Padilla Preens On CNN: Do You Know Who I Am?
We've all seen public officials making the bad mistake of exclaiming to law enforcement officers who have stopped them: do you know who I am? Democrat Senator Alex Padilla of California gave a variation on the "do you know who I am" line when interviewed by Dana Bash on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. Earlier this week, Padilla had staged a pathetic publicity stunt when he interrupted a…
STATE OF THE SOFTBALL: CNN Gently Questions ICE-Surrectionist NJ Dems
The legacy media have largely avoided reporting on Friday’s ICE-Surrection at a New Jersey detention facility. On this Sunday’s CNN State of the Union, however, we see what clearly looks to be favorable coverage that sidesteps the violent nature of what happened there.
Stelter: Trump Wants To Defund NPR, PBS For 'Simply Covering The News'
For the Tax Day edition of CNN’s Inside Politics on Tuesday, media correspondent Brian Stelter joined host Dana Bash to allege that President Trump wants to defund PBS and NPR for “simply covering the news.” If Stelter really believes that then he has a funny definition of what is newsworthy.
NewsBusters Podcast: Zucker-Coached Jake Tapper Isn't On the Left?
CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left. But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side at CNN. They had to uncork grand speeches. "We call them homilies," said Tapper in 2020. CNN is not a church.
On CNN, Glasser Chides Democrats Who Don't Scream ‘Existential Threat’
On CNN’s Monday episode of Inside Politics with Dana Bash, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker opined that, under the second Trump administration, Democratic leaders who focused on things like attempting to provide government services that their constituents actually wanted were on the wrong path. Rather, in her opinion, they should have been too busy whipping themselves up into…
FAKE NEWS: CNN Pretends Trump's Smithsonian Order Will Ditch History
CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.
PBS Journo: Axing Education Dept Hurts 'Poor and People Of Color' Most
PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect that will lead states to…
CNN Boosts Dem’s Conspiracy of Musk Spying for His Private Company
CNN was in pretty typical form Monday – absorbed with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and still quite comfortable making up and promoting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about him on the spot. On Inside Politics, Dana Bash interviewed former CFPB director Rohit Chopra, ostensibly on Musk’s plan to cut the agency, and Chopra conjectured wildly about…
Scott Jennings Disrupts CNN’s Storyline, Points to Trump’s ‘Success’
Scott Jennings, former special assistant to George W. Bush, provided his usual, much-needed touch of sanity to CNN Sunday morning, on State of the Union. As a panel hosted by Dana Bash railed against the Trump administration in a by now pretty true-to-form way, Jennings forced them to listen as he confronted them with actual facts about the current state of affairs, and the proper…
CNN Ignores Its Plane Expert, Accuses Trump Of Firing Plane Experts
On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, aviation correspondent Pete Muntean told host Dana Bash that it appeared the Delta Airlines flight that crashed in Toronto on Monday did so due to a landing gear malfunction. He also noted how there is no common thread linking it with other recent plane crashes, but that didn’t stop Bash and her assembled panel from noticing “this…
CNN ‘Fact Check’ Goes Sideways as Anti-Musk Guests Reject a Compliment
CNN’s outrageously biased ongoing treatment of Elon Musk took a turn Thursday that was so over-the-top it was actually a little funny. On that day’s episode of Inside Politics, Dana Bash hosted two of Musk’s especially vitriolic detractors, and her attempts to cover for them were so ridiculous, it was actually a little more than the pair could just sit there and take.
CNN’s Dana Bash Accuses Elon Musk of Making Money ‘Breaking the Rules’
Considering they just spectacularly lost a major defamation suit, CNN has seemed remarkably unconcerned about throwing around wild accusations. On Monday’s episode of Inside Politics With Dana Bash, Bash seemingly suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had made his money through illegal means, though she never provided evidence. She also lashed out at President Trump’s voters, calling…
‘Hellish,’ ‘Unhinged’; CNN SEETHES Over Trump at Plane Crash Briefing
CNN was unglued late Thursday morning and early afternoon over President Donald Trump’s remarks at the White House press briefing on the deadly mi-air collision over the Potomac River with aviation correspondent Pete Muntean — who had otherwise been invaluable in his analysis and reporting — joining other unsurprising characters in channeling now-former colleague Jim Acosta.
