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CNN Touts Anti-Tax Cut Public Sentiment It Helped Foment
December 19th, 2017 9:36 PM
In the lead-up to Congress passing the Republican tax cut plan, various CNN shows on Tuesday played up a CNN poll finding that 55 percent of Americans oppose the proposal. Such public opposition is hardly shocking given that dominant left-leaning media outlets like CNN have pushed negative spin against the tax cut proposal -- a fact noted by Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy just this…
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CNN's Harlow Frets Over Trump Calling Out Chicago's High Murder Rate
December 15th, 2017 2:31 PM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, during a discussion after President Donald Trump's speech to the FBI National Academy, host Poppy Harlow fretted over the President calling out the high murder rate in Chicago as she suggested there was "hypocrisy" in trying to punish the sanctuary city while complaining about the high crime rate.
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CNN, ABC Take Glee in Omarosa Departure: ‘Bye Felicia!’
December 14th, 2017 12:46 PM
Hours after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that former Apprentice contestant-turned-White House staffer, Omarosa Manigault Newman, had resigned, and would be leaving the White House this January, CNN's April Ryan reported that she was actually fired.
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‘It Makes Me Angry’; CNN’s Cillizza Bewails Media Attacks by WH
December 11th, 2017 11:12 PM
If the meltdowns by CNN personalities inside Monday’s tense White House press briefing weren’t crazy enough, the reactions on CNN Newsroom were close as host Brooke Baldwin and CNN Politics editor-at-large Chris Cillizza admitted that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made them “angry” as she called out the media’s liberal bias.
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Smerconish Is ‘Not Convinced’ Franken Groped Tweeden, Cites 'Shadows'
December 7th, 2017 3:53 PM
So-called independent talk radio host and CNN host Michael Smerconish made a fool of himself on Thursday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, arguing that he’s “not convinced” Democratic Senator Al Franken (Minn.) actually groped KABC Radio host Leeann Tweeden because “[t]here are shadows behind his fingers.”
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CNN Panel Downplays Franken Claims to Knock Moore; ‘Just a Comedian'
November 16th, 2017 3:53 PM
A Thursday afternoon CNN Newsroom panel showcased political tribalism as three liberal journalists downplayed the disturbing sexual misconduct allegations against Democratic Senator Al Franken (Minn.) by harping on the fact that Franken was “just a comedian” while those against Roy Moore and President Trump were far more serious.
FLASHBACK: CNN Didn’t See GOP Winning in 2009 As Referendum on Obama
November 8th, 2017 3:47 PM
As journalists rejoice over Republican defeats in New Jersey and Virginia, hyping them as a referendum on President Trump, we at the MRC dove into our archives to remind them that just 8 years ago they said the exact opposite when the exact same situation happened to President Obama. The comparison couldn’t get more apples-to-apples: in both 2009 and 2017, the governorships of Virginia and New…
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Acosta: Trump ‘Has the World Record' for Pushing Politics After Attack
November 1st, 2017 3:55 PM
Whether he was joking or not, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta made a fool of himself on Wednesday afternoon, spreading fake news that President Trump “now has the world record for injecting politics into the aftermath of a terror attack” for suggesting changes to immigration policy after Tuesday’s Manhattan terror attack. Turns out, as we’ll see, the news media, and particularly…
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Acosta, Friends Decry WH's ‘Reprehensible,’ 'Behavior’ on Uranium Deal
October 27th, 2017 4:51 PM
Friday’s White House press briefing featured CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta making a scene, chiding White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for “trying to gin up your own investigation up on Capitol Hill” about the Clinton/Russian uranium deal and afterwards for “inappropriate political behavior” simply by talking about it.
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Clinton Spox Falsely Claims Russia Only Helped ‘One Side’ In 2016
October 25th, 2017 3:14 PM
Former Clinton campaign spokesman and current CNN contributor Brian Fallon has been making his rounds on the networks, cable news, as well as social media, defending the Clinton campaign’s actions funding “opposition research” against Donald Trump by the Russians in 2016. The Washington Post broke the story Tuesday night that the Clinton campaign paid for the infamous and unsubstantiated Trump-…
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CNN: Flake Speech Was ‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Historic,’ ‘Extraordinary' Move
October 24th, 2017 4:55 PM
On Tuesday afternoon, CNN Newsroom couldn’t contain their overwhelming praise for Republican Senator Jeff Flake (Ariz.) following his anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor, swooning like Barack Obama had just given the speech by declaring it a “breathtaking,” “historic,” and “extraordinary moment in American politics.”
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Tasteless CNN Debases Itself by Blasting Kelly for Emotional WH Speech
October 19th, 2017 4:46 PM
Just when you thought CNN couldn’t cheapen itself any further, it did, folks. On Thursday, CNN Newsroom reacted to a powerful White House statement Chief of Staff and Gen. John Kelly (Ret.) amidst the Gold Star families controversy by noting Kelly’s personal sacrifices before lambasting him for calling out a Democratic member of Congress and attacking the media.
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CNN Weinstein Panel Explodes When Carpenter Invokes Clinton Scandals
October 10th, 2017 6:06 PM
Showing off the liberal media’s willful blindness concerning the Clintons, Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin featured CNN political commentator and former Ted Cruz staffer Amanda Carpenter being shouted down in a Harvey Weinstein segment for invoking the sexual misdeeds by Bill Clinton and enabling by Hillary Clinton.
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Acosta, WH Press Tussle with Sanders Over Trump Calls to Probe Media
October 5th, 2017 4:10 PM
Along with the Las Vegas shooting and Puerto Rico, Thursday’s White House press briefing featured a litany of questions about morning tweets by President Trump requesting the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate journalists for their “Fake News.” Needless to say, CNN’s Jim Acosta led the way in showing his profession’s displeasure.