Mark McKinnon CNN This Morning 8-22-24
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'Do You Have Any Tissues?' CNN Tears Up Over Walz's Son

August 22nd, 2024 12:14 PM

CNN This Morning repeatedly runs the clip from the DNC of Tim Walz's son Gus getting emotional and pointing to his father: "That's my dad." The panel collectively tears up, with Mark McKinnon saying "do you have any tissues?" 

Kate Beningfield Bakari Sellers Kasie Hunt Shermichael Singleton Alyssa Farah Griffin CNN This Morning 8-20-24
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CNN Praises 'Selfless' Biden For Stepping Aside (Not Forced Out)

August 20th, 2024 1:40 PM

On CNN This Morning, the panel from Kate Bedingfield to Bakari Sellers, to Shermichael Singleton, to host Kasie Hunt herself, all praised Joe Biden for being "selfless" in stepping aside. In doing so, they ignored the fact that he was dragged kicking and screaming to the door, with Nancy Pelosi threatening to shame him in public if he refused to go.

Time magazine cover of Kamala Harris CNN This Morning 8-19-24
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CNN Touts Noonan on Kamala: 'Beautiful,' 'Radiance,' & 'Social Warmth'

August 19th, 2024 11:41 AM

CNN This Morning host Kasie Hunt gushes over how "beautiful" Kamala Harris is. Even when former Biden comms director Kate Beningfield suggests that the relative beauty of Harris and Trump is the last thing on the mind of swing voters trying to decide who to vote for, Hunt insists that looks actually are a very important political factor. Beningfield bends to her host, agreeing that Harris is "…

David Frum CNN This Morning 8-14-24
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On CNN, David Frum Compares Trump To Mass Murderer Charles Manson

August 14th, 2024 11:07 AM

On CNN This Morning, David Frum compares Donald Trump to mass murderer Charles Manson: "Asking Donald Trump to talk about policy, it's like teaching Charles Manson to foxtrot. He can manage a step or two, but then he's going to put a pencil in your eye, because he's Charles Manson. And Donald Trump is Donald Trump."

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CNN EXPLODES When Frum Says Vance Thinks Walz ‘Is a Sexual Deviant’

August 12th, 2024 12:47 PM

Monday’s CNN This Morning briefly came off the rails when pompous pundit David Frum of The Atlantic (perhaps the most pompous outlet in the liberal media) said that 2024 GOP vice president candidate JD Vance’s criticisms of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz over his policies and military record are coded language accusing him of being “a sexual deviant of some…

Karen Finney CNN This Morning 8-8-24
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CNN: Walz Meant 'Training' When Claiming He Carried Weapon 'In War'

August 8th, 2024 11:20 AM

On CNN This Morning, CNN commentator Karen Finney, who served as a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton in her 2016 campaign, claims that Tim Walz was speaking about "training" when he claimed that he carried weapons "in war." Walz never served in a combat zone.

Kasie Hunt CNN This Morning 8-5-24
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CNN's Kasie Hunt—Trump Calling Kamala Low-IQ 'Definitely Race-Related'

August 5th, 2024 11:35 AM

CNN's Kasie Hunt claims that Donald Trump calling Kamala Harris a "low-IQ individual" is "definitely race-related. Hunt ignores a long list of people of pallor whose intelligence Trump has questioned, notably including Mika Brzezinski, who he described with the same term: "low-IQ."

Kasie Hunt Karen Finney Jonah Goldberg CNN This Morning 7-25-24
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CNN Fit: Trump's Pronunciation Of 'Kamala' An Attempt To 'Other' Her

July 25th, 2024 11:46 AM

CNN This Morning devoted a segment to the their outrage over Donald Trump's pronunciation of Kamala Harris's first name. Host Kasie Hunt and CNN analyst and former Dem aide Karen Finney insisted that Trump's mispronunciation was "intentional." Jonah Goldberg wasn't so sure, but all agreed that it was an attempt to "other" her.

Kasie Hunt CNN This Morning 7-24-24
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CNN Host Dismisses Scott Jennings: Just 'Giving You Spin' on Kamala

July 24th, 2024 10:12 AM

When CNN This Morning host Kasie Hunt brings in a Republican and a Democrat to discuss the campaign, that would be two spins. But at the end of today's chat with Republican Scott Jennings and Democrat Brad Woodhouse, Hunt warned viewers "Scott is giving you spin, that is what they are going to say." The Democrat apparently offered the gospel truth.

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Afraid of Unseemly Outbursts? MSNBC Pre-Empts Morning Joe

July 15th, 2024 9:10 AM

Tuning in to MSNBC this morning, interested to get the take of Joe Scarborough and his cohort of fellow Trump haters on the attempted assassination, it was surprising to find that the show had been pre-empted in favor of generic coverage hosted by Ana Cabrera.

Karen Finney Elliott Williams Kasie Hunt Doug Heye Alyssah Farah Griffin Jonathan Wackrow Andrew McCabe CNN 7-14-24
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CNN's Kasie Hunt Silences Talk of Possible 'Inside Job' On Trump

July 14th, 2024 1:05 PM

On CNN, host Kasie Hunt acknowledges, in a discussion of the assassination attempt on President Trump, a "massive failure by the Secret Service." Later, in a discussion of disinformation in social media, when a panelist mentions people floating the notion of an "inside job," Hunt shuts him down, saying, "we don't want to get into that."

Montage of Biden debates 2012 2020 2024 CNN This Morning 7-4-24
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CNN's Brutal Montage of Biden Debates Over The Years

July 5th, 2024 7:03 AM

CNN This Morning airs a montage of clips of Biden's debate performance over the years.  It began with a clip of the 2012 VP debate, in which a sharp and smiling Biden put down Paul Ryan. Next was the 2020 presidential debate, in which a marginally competent but clearly diminished Biden managed to make a point. And finally, that disastrously iconic clip from last week's debate, ending in Biden'…

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CNN Tries to Blunt Biden’s Blunder, Hypes Response of Foreign Leaders

July 2nd, 2024 8:39 PM

As if Thursday night’s disastrous first presidential debate wasn’t enough evidence of President Joe Biden’s unsuitability for a second term, CNN continued to downplay the effect his reelection would have on the world stage. During the first hour of Tuesday’s This Morning, host Kasie Hunt and CNN International anchor Max Foster dismissed Biden’s debate performance by holding up the…

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Tapper Insists SCOTUS Ruled President Can Assassinate Political Rivals

July 1st, 2024 1:21 PM

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court released their ruling on the hotly contested issue of presidential immunity. The ruling was limited in that presidents had immunity for acts done in an official capacity under the office but certain acts – particularly those done outside the office of president – were not. But CNN’s Jake Tapper, who’s at the center of a $1 billion defamation suit against CNN,…