CNN's Don Lemon: Some Pro-Trump Guests Don't Mean What They Say

April 18th, 2018 11:35 AM
In a podcast posted on Monday, CNN's Don Lemon told National Review's Jamie Weinstein that some pro-Trump panelists on his show have admitted that, in Weinstein's words, "they don't believe what they are saying" — as if knee-jerk leftists never engage in such disingenuous behavior (sure, Don). Lemon apparently has no problem allowing people who have allegedly admitted to this behavior to continue…
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Lemon, Holt Fret Over Rapper Meek Mill's Jailing for Parole Violations

April 17th, 2018 9:18 PM
On Monday's CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon devoted two segments totaling more than 13 minutes to the case of rapper Meek Mill going back to prison because of parole violations. The show glossed over Mill repeatedly violating probation over the past decade, which included the rapper failing drug tests over and over again. And last week, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt similarly downplayed Mill's…
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Former Comey Aide Claims He's ‘Not a Partisan' in Debate on Book Tour

April 17th, 2018 6:20 PM
Tuesday’s New Day featured a respectful but vigorous debate between two CNN law enforcement analysts at the opposite ends of the spectrum on the James Comey book tour extravaganza. In one corner, former Comey aide Josh Campbell declared that he’s “not a partisan” and defended his boss while James Gagliano argued in the other that Comey’s a “good man” but carrying out a “vainglorious and self-…

Yellow Journalism: CNN Spouts Off on 'Pee Tapes' 77 Times in Five Days

April 16th, 2018 7:02 PM
As James Comey’s book exploded onto the scene, CNN pumped the breaks on its “Facts First” campaign to revisit perhaps the most salacious claim contained in the Steele dossier. Specifically, the dossier alleged that Donald Trump had paid ladies of the night to micturate upon one another in Moscow, and that the Russian government had taped the horrific escapade. To date, no aspect of these…
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Buckle Up: Cuomo, Conway Come to Blows in Latest Duel on Comey

April 16th, 2018 4:05 PM
For the umpteenth time, Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway battled CNN host Chris Cuomo during Monday’s New Day in a marathon shoutfest (almost 30 minutes in length) with the topics de jure being James Comey’s book tour and the Russia investigation.

CNN Publishes Piece Saying that Robert De Niro ‘Terrifies Trump’

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April 16th, 2018 1:15 PM
Hollywood doesn’t really wield as much political influence as it thinks it does. But the media have apparently bought the tinsel-covered lie.
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Stelter Mocks RNC Chair as 'Pretty Funny' for Not Reading Comey Book

April 16th, 2018 1:13 PM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter mocked Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna  McDaniel for condemning the Jim Comey book on Friday without reading it. "You have go to read the book first," Stelter cracked. But who in America already has the Comey book, when it comes out on Tuesday? It's being discussed ad infinitum by non-readers. He set up a snippet and called it "…
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CNN Panel Swoons for Comey’s ‘Extraordinary’ Smears of the President

April 16th, 2018 2:13 AM
Mere seconds after ABC wrapped up their Sunday night broadcast of its exclusive interview with former FBI Director James Comey, CNN began its so-called “Special Report” in which they mostly gushed about what it meant for him to trash Trump like that. While they did have some criticisms (which largely centered on his handling of the Clinton investigation), the stacked liberal panel sang Comey’s…
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Gagliano Torches Stelter’s Lionization of ‘Feckless Leader' Comey

April 15th, 2018 10:08 PM
With less than two hours until the highly anticipated ABC interview between George Stephanopoulos and former FBI Director James Comey, the liberal media was abuzz with speculation and admiration. One of Comey’s loudest supporters was CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter. And amid his lionization of Comey during Sunday night's CNN Newsroom, CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI Special…
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Networks Desperately Move the Goalposts on Syria

April 15th, 2018 3:05 PM
On Sunday morning, television news personalities begrudgingly showed a small degree of satisfaction with President Trump’s recent military action in Syria. Evidently disturbed by their support for anything Trump, cable and network media hosts collectively lifted the goalposts in unison and hurriedly ran them downfield.

HuffPost Angry That CNN Reporter Mocked as 'F--king Idiot' in E-mail

April 14th, 2018 7:14 PM
The Huffington Post dug into internal Interior Department emails to report that Heather Swift, the press secretary for the Interior Department, “labeled a CNN reporter with a vulgar insult after being pressed to answer questions about Secretary Ryan Zinke’s travel.” Swift was emailing to one of her colleagues. “Rene is a f--king idiot,” Heather Swift wrote to one of her colleagues, referring to…
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Acosta, Reid Throw Down with Sanders Over ‘Unbecoming’ Comey Criticism

April 13th, 2018 4:14 PM
Friday’s White House briefing was raucous with James Comey’s liberal media-acclaimed book tour set to officially begin and, yes, CNN’s Jim Acosta played a prominent role tangling with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about whether criticizing Comey is “unbecoming of the presidency” and White House writ large. He also found help from CBS correspondent Paula Reid after he ran over the two…
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CNN Panel Hails Booker for ‘Masterfully’ Attacking Pompeo on Gay Sex

April 12th, 2018 4:49 PM
On Thursday afternoon, it was no accident that CNN almost universally focused on New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s questions for CIA Director Mike Pompeo at his confirmation hearing to oversee the State Department. It was even less of a surprise that the CNN panel gushed over Booker “masterfully” attacking Pompeo in a “tough exchange” about his views on gay sex.
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CNN Panelists Refer to Ryan as a 'Coward,' President Trump as 'Insane'

April 12th, 2018 2:46 PM
During Wednesday's edition of Anderson Cooper 360, the Democrats on the panel took a few shots at departing House Speaker Paul Ryan as well as President Trump. CNN political commentator Symone Sanders referred to Ryan as a "coward" while her fellow panelist Maria Cardona described President Trump as "insane."