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CNN: 'Can't Deny' DC Shooter Yelled Free Palestine—'MAY Be' Hate Crime

May 22nd, 2025 11:20 AM

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."

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'Why Not?' CNN Panelist Defends Chicago Mayor Boasts on Hiring Blacks

May 20th, 2025 1:46 PM

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.

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CNN's Cornish Laments: DEI Opponents 'In Control Right Now'

May 15th, 2025 2:53 PM

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…

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Brad Todd 'Fact Checks' the Liberal Ranters Over Trump's NBC Interview

May 5th, 2025 10:27 AM

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.

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Cornish Hints at Comparing Trump To French Queen Who Was Beheaded

May 1st, 2025 5:50 PM

Cornish kicked off today's CNN This Morning by slyly slipping in an analogy between President Trump and Marie Antoinette--the French queen who was beheaded by the guillotine. Commenting on Trump's statement that, given the new tariffs, "maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, Cornish said: "Hey: Let them buy fewer dolls!" That was an echo of the phrase attributed to Marie…

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Audie Cornish: Not Saying Hegseth Has Become A 'Joke,' But . . .

April 22nd, 2025 9:50 PM

On CNN This Morning, commenting on new allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a second Signal chat in which military plans were discussed that included his wife, host Audie Cornish says: "At some point does it move from it's a joke to he's a joke? And I'm not saying that's what's happening. But like it starts out Operation Overshare, you know? And then the next thing you…

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WATCH: CNN Host Scoffs and Chuckles at Angel Mom Patty Morin

April 18th, 2025 2:22 PM

The White House press room was left speechless on Thursday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt invited Maryland angel mom Patty Morin to speak about her daughter Rachel, who was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant (a story largely ignored by the liberal media until the briefing). But during Friday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish scoffed and chuckled at Morin as she…

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CNN Casts Trump-Harvard Showdown As About Free Expression—It's Not

April 15th, 2025 9:58 PM

On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casts the showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard and other universities over federal funding as being about free expression. It's not. Universities can teach whatever they want. But they can't have it both ways. If Harvard wants to have complete freedom of operation, it should make like Hillsdale College and reject any federal or state…

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Cornish Surprisingly Praises Rubio's 'Common Sense' On Student Visas

April 11th, 2025 11:52 AM

On Friday's episode of CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish surprisingly praises Marco Rubio's take on revoking student visas as "common sense." But Cornish once again assembles an unbalanced panel, bereft of any Trump-supporting Republican.

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Audie's 'Republican Group Chat'—Two Critics of Trump's Tariffs

April 9th, 2025 8:51 PM

On Wednesday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish calls two of her guests her "Republican chat group." The Republicans in question are Charlie Dent, a Never Trumper who says he is "very cynical" about Trump's tariffs, calling them a "bad rule," and Kristen Soltis Anderson, who has written a New York Times op-ed warning Republicans about the path they're going down. Anderson suggests there's…

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NPR Alum Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR & PBS Forego Fed Funding

March 27th, 2025 4:13 PM

CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish, in an interview with Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT], suggests that NPR/PBS accept an end to its federal funding. Surprising, considering that Cornish is an NPR alum, having co-hosted All Things Considered.

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CNN Liberals Roll Eyes at Pushing 'Abundance' As Democrat Victory Path

March 24th, 2025 11:37 AM

The panel on Monday's edition of CNN This Morning discusses "Abundance," the new book by liberal commentators Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The pair propose that liberals adopt a more relaxed approach to government regulation, which will in turn promote abundance for all. The panel is generally dubious. Host Audie Cornish points out that the energy in the Dem party is in the thousands turning…

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Springtime At CNN? Cornish Has An Actual Conservative On Her Show!

March 21st, 2025 4:56 PM

Audie Cornish, the new host of CNN This Morning, has stocked her panels with left-leaning voices.  But today, she had an actual conservative on the show in the person of Rob Bluey, the President and Executive Editor of The Daily Signal. Bluey is a former reporter at Cybercast News Service, where he broke the story of Dan Rather's fake typewriter font in the phony Bush draft-evasion story. 

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On CNN, Audie's All Anti-Trump Panel Assails Dept. of Education End

March 20th, 2025 10:46 PM

Keeping her habit alive of assembling conservative-free panels, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish's guests this morning were CNN's oh-so-serious Stephen Collinson, Washington Post reporter Sabrina Rodriguez, and Cari Champion, a CNN contributor who's also the host of the "Naked Sports" podcast. The target was Trump's moves to shut down the Department of Education, and after clips of a union…