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Cooper Blows a Gasket: ‘Ludicrous’ for Trump to Forget Things

April 18th, 2019 3:08 PM
In the midst of CNN’s Chernobyl-style meltdown regarding the Special Counsel’s finding, Anderson Cooper seemed irate that President Trump’s written answers to Robert Mueller included 30 instances where he couldn’t remember the events asked about. The response came from the same news outlet that applauded Hillary Clinton’s similar answers during the Benghazi hearings. But Cooper found Trump’s…
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CNN Loons: Trump Is Screwed Since Mueller Report Is ‘Very Damaging’

April 18th, 2019 2:54 PM
After a Thursday morning of losing touch with reality both before and after the release of the Mueller report, the CNN ostriches insisted that the President obstructed justice, the report is “pretty bad,” “very damaging,” Republicans are charting a legacy where lying about Russian contacts is acceptable, and the Mueller team want Congress to determine Trump’s guilt through impeachment.
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CNN Panel Celebrates Mueller Report as ‘Road Map’ for Impeachment

April 18th, 2019 12:47 PM
In the first hour since the liberal media had time Thursday morning to sift through the Mueller report, the CNN analysts and hosts masquerading as Loony Tunes characters were distressed the Mueller team didn’t make a ruling on whether President Trump obstructed justice. But on the other hand, they cheered the report’s ten instances of possible obstruction constituted a “road map” for the House to…

NY Times Sourly Shifts to Trump Obstruction of Justice, Slimes AG Barr

March 25th, 2019 2:32 PM
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 elections is over, after finding no Trump-Russia conspiracy and issuing no indictments against Americans. With “collusion” a dead letter, the liberal press is investing hope in the other charge, “obstruction of justice.” A story by the New York Times focused on that other avenue in “Barr Goes Beyond Mueller in Clearing Trump on…
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WHOA: CNN Admits No Further Indictments Is a ‘Huge Victory’ for Trump

March 22nd, 2019 6:45 PM
On Friday afternoon after the Mueller Report had been handed over to Attorney General Bill Barr, chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz conceded that the lack of further indictments (sealed or unsealed) in relation to the Mueller probe is a “huge victory for the President” and “really good news” for individuals who had been subject to endless media…
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Double Standard on CNN Hiring Political Operatives: Flores vs. Jarrett

February 21st, 2019 7:42 PM
As NewsBusters has previously reported, the national media, including CNN itself, have gone into an uproar over CNN’s decision to hire former Justice Department Spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores as Deputy Political Editor. The topic came up on Wednesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, where the eponymous host discussed the Isgur Flores hysteria with media reporter for The Hill Joe Concha. …
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CNN Preps Likelihood Mueller Won’t Give ‘All of the Answers We Want’

February 20th, 2019 5:51 PM
It must have been a devastating day for CNN on Wednesday as their crime and justice team reported that the Mueller report could be turned over to Attorney General Bill Barr as early as next week, signaling an end to a story that the Jeffrey Zucker-led network has obsessed over for years. Appearing on CNN Right Now, crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz must have drawn the short straw to be…
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CNN: Did Trump Mean to Say He Caused Vegas Massacre Deaths?

January 31st, 2019 10:22 AM
Here's what passes for humor in the age of CNN Trump-hatred: joking about whether President Trump meant to say that his hospital visit to victims of the Vegas massacre caused many deaths. New Day devoted a segment to Trump's Daily Caller interview of yesterday. Berman: "This is what the President said: you had so many people killed and so badly wounded, because I went to the hospital—I don't…
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CNN's Briggs: MAGA Hat 'Caused an Overreaction' by D.C. Protesters

January 21st, 2019 6:25 PM
On Monday's Early Start, as CNN caught up on informing viewers about how the infamous exchange between MAGA hat-wearing Kentucky high school students and Native American protester Nathan Phillips began, host Dave Briggs seemed unconvinced with Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann denying that he had taunted the Native American activist and war veteran as Briggs also blamed the…
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Toobin: Shutdown Due to Coulter 'Challenging the President's Manhood'

December 23rd, 2018 9:57 PM
As NewsBusters has reported, the media have cited their favorite Republicans in blaming the shutdown on conservative  media stars. During Friday’s edition of The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, the panel suggested that Ann Coulter bears responsibility for the government shutdown because she dared to challenge the President’s “manhood.”
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CNN Interviews Valerie Jarrett, Fails to Disclose Daughter as Reporter

May 4th, 2018 2:38 PM
There are few things more damaging to the liberal media’s credibility than conflicts of interest and false/fake stories. For CNN, it was the latter on Friday’s New Day as co-host Alisyn Camerota treated former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett to a softball interview, but failed to disclose that Valerie’s daughter (Laura Jarrett) is a CNN Justice correspondent.

Nets Refuse to Cover FBI Opening New Clinton Foundation Investigation

January 5th, 2018 12:37 PM
To the shock of no one (at least in the NewsBusters newsroom), the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored on Friday morning the stunning revelation that the Clinton Foundation is under FBI investigation for possible crimes while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. FNC’s Fox & Friends was the only cable or network morning show to confirm and cover the story, spending eight…

Fiery Closing Arguments in Menendez Bribery Trial Draw Yawns from Nets

November 3rd, 2017 12:01 AM
“This is what bribery looks like,” declared federal prosecutor J.P. Cooney on Thursday as the closing arguments in the long-running corruption trial of Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez took place. The trial had seen contentious exchanges between the defense and the judge, claims of a lack of impartiality, and requests for the case to be thrown and for a mistrial to be declared. The…

CNN Hires Top Obama Aide's Daughter as Justice Dept. Correspondent

March 4th, 2017 7:32 AM
Now that CNN is in full High Dudgeon mode against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking whether he can  "last" in office, Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire reminds us that in the midst of Inauguration hoopla, CNN hired Laura Jarrett, the daughter of powerful Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, to be a correspondent at the Justice Department. Jarrett is a Harvard-educated lawyer, but has zero experience in…