On CNN, WashPost's Wemple Slams 'Cowardly' NRA, Cupp Indicts Media
January 10th, 2016 1:07 PM
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN to discuss CNN's town hall on guns with President Barack Obama, Washington Post media columnist Erik Wemple derided the National Rifle Association as "utterly cowardly" for refusing to take part.
Fellow guest and right-leaning CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp then argued that the NRA had "no incentive" to attend because the President…
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CNN Analyst: Obama Push To Admit Refugees 'Principled' Not 'Political'
January 10th, 2016 8:13 AM
As Rush Limbaugh would say, they're not refugees or illegal immigrants: they're undocumented Democrats . . . On this morning's New Day, CNN political analyst Josh Rogin [formerly of the Daily Beast], repeatedly claimed that President Obama's push to admit refugees from Syria and elsewhere is a "principled" position, not a "political" one.
Does Rogin or anyone else seriously believe that the…
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CNN’s Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama
January 9th, 2016 8:52 PM
Ooops. CNN’s Anderson Cooper seemingly let slip on Thursday night what anyone who has a watched a presidential press conference already knows, but journalists are usually loath to admit: The White House press corps favor President Obama’s policies and so don’t challenge him on them. Following CNN’s “town hall” on guns with Obama, Cooper explained his approach: “I wanted him to actually address…
CNN Paints Pro-Gun Conservatives as Conspiracy Theorists
January 9th, 2016 4:13 PM
On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN correspondent Drew Griffin filed a report painting conservative opponents of President Barack Obama's gun control initiatives as conspiracy theorists, following up on the previous report finding that a number of gun owners in Florida are suspicious that Obama wants to go further with gun control that he is letting on.
GOP Debates on CNN Crush Obama’s Town Hall Ratings
January 8th, 2016 4:09 PM
Compared to the two Republican presidential debates on CNN, Barack Obama’s gun control town hall got crushed in the ratings. The President’s two hour-long appearance with Anderson Cooper on Thursday managed 2.4 million viewers. In comparison, a staggering 23.1 million people tuned in for CNN’s GOP debate in September.
On CNN, Parker Tags NRA 'Terrorist,' Host Tougher on Pro-Gun Guest
January 8th, 2016 1:08 PM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, host Costello again showed a blatant double standard in giving a softball interview to gun control activist Andy Parker, but then more aggressively debating a pro-gun guest in the next segment. After Parker called the NRA a "terrorist organization," Costello did not challenge the label, and then ended up inviting Parker to suggest questions for her…
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Cooper Hits Back at Obama for Bashing Critics as Conspiracy Theorists
January 7th, 2016 9:42 PM
In the latter portion of Thursday night’s CNN “town hall” with President Barack Obama on gun control, host Anderson Cooper surprisingly pushed back at the President’s slam on opponents of his executive actions and policies on guns as conspiracy theorists.
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Liberal Historian: Obama Gun Control Push a 'Yes We Can' Moment
January 7th, 2016 8:56 PM
Moments before the start of Thursday evenings CNN town hall forum on guns, liberal presidential historian Douglas Brinkley forecast that President Obama would take the proverbial stage seeking to be a "minister" to grieving families who lost loved ones to "gun violence." For the term-limited president, it is a "yes, we can moment" as he winds down his president, Brinkley offered.
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CNN Sets Table for Obama by Hailing 'Historic' Gun Control 'Townhall'
January 7th, 2016 8:48 PM
In the days leading up to President Obama’s Guns In America townhall on CNN Thursday night, the network bent over backwards to hail the President’s side on gun control and belittle those in favor of the Second Amendment. The hour leading into the event at George Mason University was no different as Erin Burnett OutFront and fill-in host Kate Bolduan hailed the upcoming event as “historic event”…
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CNN's Lemon, Left-Wing Radical Gang Up on Conservative Guest Over Guns
January 7th, 2016 3:59 PM
Don Lemon acted less as an anchor and more like a liberal activist during two segments on Wednesday's CNN Tonight — tag-teaming with Igor Volsky of Think Progress to repeatedly interrupt and shout down conservative radio host Ben Ferguson over his support for gun rights. Lemon dismissed Ferguson's concern over President Obama's executive orders: "Does anybody in their right mind out there in…
CNN Frets Over NRA Pressing Police Not to Destroy Confiscated Guns
January 7th, 2016 1:46 PM
Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN ran a report by correspondent Drew Griffin fretting over NRA-inspired laws in some "conservative" states that forbid police departments from destroying confiscated guns, with such laws aiming to encourage the police to sell the weapons and use the funds raised to help pay for law enforcement activities.
CNN's Foreman Frets Guns to Be Obama's 'Great Unfinished Business'
January 6th, 2016 8:13 PM
On Tuesday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman ran a piece sympathetic to President Barack Obama's failure to achieve his "passion" to enact new gun control against the opposition of the "gun lobby" in the aftermath of each public mass shooting during his presidency. Foreman concluded his report by lamenting that "the matter of gun violence could well remain the great…
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CNN's Lemon Lets Far-Left Guest Wildly Berate Pro-Gun Conservative
January 6th, 2016 5:33 PM
Don Lemon granted the heckler's veto to Igor Volsky of Think Progress on Tuesday's CNN Tonight. Volsky repeatedly interrupted conservative talk show host Ben Ferguson during a segment about President Obama's orders on gun control, and unleashed on the pro-gun lobby: "They want to silence any reasonable discussion about what can you do when a guy walks into a school and kills twenty first graders…
On CNN, Ben Carson's Wife Slams Media That 'Attack People w/ Untruths'
January 6th, 2016 10:03 AM
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's New Day on CNN, Candy Carson -- wife of GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson -- complained about the tendency for the media to "attack people with untruths," asserting that "some of the media is unethical," when she was asked about the scrutiny her husband has received during the campaign.