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WHOA: CNN Admits No Further Indictments Is a ‘Huge Victory’ for Trump

Curtis Houck
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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Speculation Center: CNN Wonders Whether Mueller Found Collusion

Curtis Houck
March 22nd, 2019 6:06 PM
The American news media and social media went from tweeting Friday afternoon about March Madness to going apoplectic over the conclusion of the Office of the Special Counsel led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller meant to investigate relations between the Trump campaign and Russia. For CNN’s The Situation Room, analysts and hosts took turns being — well — all over the map over what could be in…
 

STUDY: CNN’s Situation Room Is a Weeklong Promo for Dem Investigations

Bill D'Agostino
March 11th, 2019 10:30 AM
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has spent the past week using his evening show The Situation Room as a platform for Democratic lawmakers to plug their numerous investigations of President Trump. Blitzer, a veteran reporter and host on the network, is not a name that immediately springs to mind when one thinks of biased or outlandish statements from CNN journalists. However, the many interviews he has…
 
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Media Unanimous: Cohen is John Dean, and This Is Watergate

Bill D'Agostino
February 28th, 2019 5:37 PM
Justifying the gargantuan amount of Cohen coverage they provided yesterday, media talking heads continuously claimed that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen was a contemporary version of Nixon lawyer John Dean, and that his testimony constituted the Watergate hearing of our time.
 
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Wolf Wants to Know: Why Won't Bernie Call Maduro a Dictator?

Mark Finkelstein
February 26th, 2019 8:52 AM
We won't go awarding Wolf Blitzer a journalistic Profile in Courage just yet, but let's give him some credit for posing this question to Bernie Sanders in last night's CNN town hall with the socialist senator: "Senator, why have you stopped short of calling Maduro, of Venezuela, a dictator?"
 
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CNN's Toobin: Patriotic to Discuss Removing Trump Via 25th Amendment

P.J. Gladnick
February 19th, 2019 5:55 PM

Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst, but he seems to be clueless about the fact that the 25th Amendment can only be invoked when a president is either physically or mentally incapacitated. It was never intended to be used in case high level officials decided that they just didn't like a president. Yet somehow Toobin allowed his obvious dislike for President Donald Trump to, well, trump…

 
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CNN Lets Menendez Speechify That Drunk Drivers Are Not 'Criminals'

Ryan Foley
February 14th, 2019 8:08 AM
Appearing on CNN’s The Situation Room Monday, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) complained that President Trump has made everyone who decides to “cross the border undocumented” into a criminal. Menendez also complained that “if a person has a driving while under the influence violation, he is now making, saying that’s a criminal.”  These outrageous statements seemed to fly right over host Wolf Blitzer’…
 
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Watch: CNN Hosts Devastated As Another Russia Scoop Collapses

Bill D'Agostino
February 1st, 2019 5:58 PM
Show hosts and analysts alike were in a panic over at CNN Thursday evening, as all present struggled to spin a new development in the ongoing Trump/Russia saga that dealt a death blow to one of their pet narratives.
 
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CNN's Philip Mudd Inadvertently Makes Case for Funding Border Wall

P.J. Gladnick
December 22nd, 2018 9:02 PM
CNN commentator Philip Mudd is known for his extreme hostility towards President Donald Trump. Therefore his invective directed toward the President on CNN's The Situation Room on Friday was no big surprise. However, what was unusual was that Mudd actually made a great case to fund the border wall, not so much for border security but rather just to get a budget deal done and avoid a government…
 
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CNN’s Don Lemon on President Trump: ‘I’m Actually Scared at This Point

Randy Hall
December 21st, 2018 6:53 PM
Only a few hours after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned, Don Lemon --  host of the CNN Tonight program -- appeared to be on the verge of panic while describing that development as “a political earthquake” taking place while “the Trump administration sinks further into chaos.” ... “I’m actually scared at this point,” Lemon stated at the beginning of Thursday evening’s program. He then…
 
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CHAOS: Wolf Blitzer Interview with Stephen Miller Flies Off the Rails

Curtis Houck
December 20th, 2018 8:50 PM
On one of the more chaotic days in Washington anyone will experience, CNN’s The Situation Room saw a 22-minute interview that careen off the rails from the get-go on Thursday night between host Wolf Blitzer and White House senior adviser Stephen Miller that touched on the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the likelihood of a government shutdown over border security.
 
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Toobin: Trump's a Dictator Who Thinks DOJ Are His 'Personal Servants'

Ryan Foley
November 22nd, 2018 8:30 AM

During Tuesday’s edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin warned of creeping fascism, saying “this is what happens in authoritarian countries...The President, the leader orders the investigation and prosecution of his political enemies,” without even bothering to mention that strong evidence exists that crimes have been committed. Comey laid out a very strong…

 
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CNN: Obama Can Bypass Congress on Immigration, Trump Can't

Bill D'Agostino
November 20th, 2018 12:42 PM
On Tuesday, CNN’s New Day hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota brandished a decision by a California judge that temporarily halted President Trump’s recent executive action on asylum. Yet back in 2012 when it was former President Obama’s DACA order on the chopping block, hosts on CNN rushed to defend the President’s ability to enact immigration policy without Congressional approval.
 

Check Out These Key Takeaways from Hollywood Reporter’s Media Poll

Curtis Houck
November 15th, 2018 3:59 PM
On Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter released an extensive poll on the news habits of consumers plus a poll of 51 cable and broadcast network news hosts and late-night comedy hosts. In the full blog, check out the seven areas that The Hollywood Reporter article on their own poll didn’t have quite the time to do a deep dive on.