CNN This Morning
New CNN Voice, Ex-Biden Aide: 'Can't Deny' Professionalism Of Iran Hit
On CNN This Morning, former Biden/Kamala aide Sabrina Singh, now a CNN commentator, said of the strikes on Iran: "I mean, you cannot deny the professionalism of our military when it came to this operation." Looks like CNN has adopted "can't deny" as a catchphrase to cover those unfortunate situations where—much as commentators would like to diminish the accomplishments of the Trump…
CNN Touts Theocracy? 'The People Of Iran Are Striking A Defiant Tone'
CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish claims that in addition to Iranian leaders, "the people of Iran are striking a defiant tone." Her evidence: a video clip of a parade of people on motorcycles in Tehran waving flags. Can Cornish really be this gullible, believing this demonstrates the views of most Iranians, and wasn't an event staged by the regime?
CNN Highlights Walz 'Shake Hands' Remarks, Ignores His 'Kick Ass' Talk
CNN This Morning opened its coverage of the arrest of the man suspected of assassinating a Minnesota state legislator and her husband, and wounding two others, with a clip of Tim Walz telling people that "rather than arguing, shake hands, find common ground." This is the same guy who recently boasted of Trump supporters that he can "kick most of their ass." And just last month, here was Walz…
CNN: Right Wingers Might Have Destroyed Stores Post-George Floyd
On CNN This Morning, CNN media analyst Sara Fischer tried out a new conspiracy theory about 2020: "during the George Floyd protests, it was a question of whether or not this was left-wing Antifa destroying stores, destroying glass fronts, or if it was folks on the right."
CNN Leads Anti-ICE Discussion With Organizer Of 'Resistance School'
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish opens the panel discussion of the anti-ICE protests with comments by Karen Attiah, the organizer of the "Resistance Summer School."
CNN: Arrest Of Union Leader Blocking ICE Was 'Weaponization, Targeting
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish says that David Huerta, the president of the SEIU union's California branch, was arrested for "rallying" anti-ICE protesters. The allegation is that Huerta blocked ICE from entering an establishment accused of hiring illegal aliens, and pushed an ICE officer who tried to remove him. A former federal prosecutor suggests that the arrest of Huerta…
CNN Uses Pompous Clooney Play to Say Trump Era WORSE THAN 'Red Scare'
In the context of promoting CNN's broadcast of George Clooney's Broadway play, Good Night and Good Luck, host Audie Cornish brings on an Axios media reporter to suggest that under Trump, repression of dissent is worse than during the Joe McCarthy era.
CNN This Morning Guests Compete for Worst Take on Trump and Musk Feud
Regardless of where you stood on President Trump and Elon Musk’s heated social media battle, anyone could take a moment to appreciate the people who were most definitely getting it wrong. Many in the media were quick to blow the debate out of proportion Friday morning, and CNN This Morning was no exception.
CNN Host Touts Radical Socialist to Criticize Trump Travel Ban
On CNN This Morning, in support of her criticism of President Trump's travel ban as making the US less "welcoming" to foreigners, host Audie Cornish cites a statement by an official of Venezuela's Maduro regime, a communist dictatorship hostile to the United States.
CNN Attempts to Link Antisemitic Colorado Attack To Trump Cutbacks
On CNN This Morning, former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem suggests that Trump administration reductions in funding to the DOJ and to NGOs who supposedly work on preventing and reporting hate crimes contribute to attacks like the antisemitic flamethrower attack in Boulder, Colorado.
CNN: 'Can't Deny' DC Shooter Yelled Free Palestine—'MAY Be' Hate Crime
On CNN This Morning, CNN security analyst Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama DHS appointee, speaking of the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers outside an event at the DC Jewish museum, says: "We can't deny the suspect said 'Free Palestine.' He killed two Israelis. There may be either a hate crime or a federal crime."
'Why Not?' CNN Panelist Defends Chicago Mayor Boasts on Hiring Blacks
On CNN This Morning, panelist Lulu Garcia-Navarro complains, saying "why not?", when fellow panelist Michael Warren of The Dispatch suggests it was a mistake for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to have publicly boasted of his hiring of blacks, which he called "our people," to senior positions in his administration.
CNN's Cornish Laments: DEI Opponents 'In Control Right Now'
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish interviews Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League, regarding its publication of a book on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd. When Morial criticizes any corporate pullback from DEI efforts, calling it an "assault," Cornish sympathetically says that opponents of DEI 'are in control right now." That tees up Morial to say: "They are…
Brad Todd 'Fact Checks' the Liberal Ranters Over Trump's NBC Interview
Ever since Audie Cornish took over as host of CNN This Morning, we've been on a kvetch campaign about her failure to include Trump supporters on her reliably left-leaning panels. So it was surprising to see a welcome halt to this with the return of Republican strategist Brad Todd.
