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‘Sinful!’ CNN Hypes Senate Dems Bashing House GOP Over Budget Battle

February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM

Amidst the scare of a government shutdown, CNN News Central provided its viewers Tuesday morning with only the dramatic “expressions of heartburn” of Senate Democrats rather than the concerns and explanations from Senate Republicans or from the accused House Republicans. One would think that the opinions of the House Republicans would be considered far more crucial information to…

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CNN Bashes GOP for Cutting Trans Surgeries from Military Spending Bill

July 14th, 2023 9:23 PM

CNN This Morning bashed Republicans for a military spending bill that excluded payments for abortion, diversity promotion, and transgender care to military personnel on Friday. Its reporters exaggerated the past bipartisanism of the bill, claimed Republicans were throwing a fit and using the military as a political pawn, and seemingly compared the cut benefits to rolling back racial…

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CNN: FBI Oversight Hearing Lacks ‘Substance,’ Just a ‘Food Fight’

July 12th, 2023 2:33 PM

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, anchors Phil Mattingly and Pamela Brown complained about FBI director Christopher Wray’s impending oversight hearing with the House Judiciary Committee panel. Along with several guests, including CNN political correspondent Sara Murray, CNN congressional correspondent Lauren Fox, and CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, they whined about the Republicans…

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CNN Panel Blames Everyone But Biden For Poor Polling

November 24th, 2021 10:44 AM

Joe Biden is the president of the United States, but CNN seems to think that it’s “not quite fair” to hold him accountable for the economic failures of his administration. Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of inflation, and on Tuesday’s Inside Politics, host John King and a panel discussed other people and organizations that they could blame for these abysmal numbers.…

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CNN's Berman To Dems: Beware Wrestling the GOP 'Pig' on 1/6 Hearings!

July 8th, 2021 1:45 PM

CNN's New Day devoted its opening segment today to worrying that Republicans will attempt to politicize 1/6 hearings and turn them into a spectacle. Co-host John Berman  said "the thing is when you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. The Republicans, as you say, they want this to be dirty." 

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CNN Wonders How Dems Will 'Settle Their Differences' With The Squad

June 12th, 2021 10:55 AM

The Inside Politics panel discussion led by host John King on Thursday about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar comparing the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban was less interested in Omar's actual comments, than how the "Democratic family" will learn how to live with its differing opinions.

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Jonathan Alter: Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge ‘Helped to Wreck’ the U.S.

August 13th, 2015 10:37 AM
Wednesday night on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter claimed that Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge “has helped to wreck the United States." The discussion centered around New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s decision to sign the pledge, and Jeb Bush’s refusal to do so. The Newsweek veteran declared the pledge was “about the worst kind of public policy…

MSNBC Contributor Fox Misinterprets Cruz In Order To Slam Him

November 11th, 2013 6:00 PM
Sometimes it’s convenient for a journalist to misinterpret someone else’s words in order to push his or her own narrative, and that was clearly what happened on Saturday’s edition of Weekends with Alex Witt on MSNBC. Alex Witt and various guests spent a good deal of time discussing Sen. Ted Cruz’s Friday appearance on The Tonight Show, and Witt seemed to take issue with this Cruz sound bite: […

MSNBC’s Witt Skeptically Questions Border Control Spending, But Not

June 25th, 2013 1:39 PM
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt turned into a skeptic of federal government spending on Saturday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, but before you get too excited, it was predictably in service of a larger liberal agenda. Witt questioned the wisdom of a $30 billion border security amendment that is now being debated in the Senate. This amendment to the larger Senate immigration bill calls for 20,000 additional…

MSNBC Anchor Tries, Fails to Get Guests to Blame Bush For NSA Snoopin

June 11th, 2013 4:31 PM
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt took it upon herself to defend President Obama’s reputation on Saturday’s Weekends with Alex Witt. To do so, she employed a favorite liberal tactic: blame George W. Bush for what goes wrong in the Obama administration. Witt was chatting with David Nakamura of The Washington Post about the NSA’s secret surveillance programs that have recently come to light. It’s a topic…