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CNN's Cuomo Unsure About Bin Laden 'Having to Lose [His] Life'
November 10th, 2014 1:05 PM
CNN's Chris Cuomo expressed his nagging doubt on Monday's New Day about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Co-anchor Alisyn Camerota boasted, "I find it satisfying to hear about his last seconds – I got to say." Cuomo initially agreed with his co-anchor, but then reversed course: "Actually, I don't know that I do. I don't like the idea of anybody having to lose their life, but that gets into a…
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25 Years After the Berlin Wall, How the Media Covered Communism
November 8th, 2014 2:11 PM
Twenty-five years ago, the largely peaceful revolutions of 1989 — epitomized by the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 of that year — ended the grip of communism in Eastern Europe. Looking back at journalism’s track record on communism, one finds a press that was too willing to act as a mouthpiece for the world’s worst dictatorships, and too accepting of the perverse claim that communism meant…
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CNN Hypes Laugh Similarity Between Joni Ernst and Disney Villain
November 8th, 2014 11:23 AM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin played up the apparent similarity between Senator-elect Joni Ernst's laugh and that of Cruella De Vil, the antagonist from Disney's 101 Dalmations. Baldwin aired a short segment on Ernst and two newly-elected Republican women in Congress. She ended the part about the Iowa politician with her comparison: "Don't forget about that laugh. Some people call it…
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CNN: 'Why Do People Vote Against Their Own Interests' With ObamaCare?
November 7th, 2014 6:22 PM
CNN's Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and Alisyn Camerota stuck to the left's spin about the results of the 2014 midterm elections on Thursday's CNN Tonight, as they discussed President Obama's Wednesday press conference. Lemon wondered, "Why do people vote against their own interests? Because if you look at West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas...they put mostly Republicans in office...But they are the…
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Priebus Stuns CNN Host by Stating 'I Don't Believe a Thing' Obama Says
November 6th, 2014 7:05 PM
The fallout from Tuesday's midterm elections continued to be felt on Wednesday evening, when the host of CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront pressed Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on whether his party -- which had just won control of both chambers of Congress -- will make “a fresh start” and agree to more compromises when working with the president during his last two years in the…
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Utah's Mia Love: 'I Wasn't Elected' Because of My Race or Gender
November 6th, 2014 1:46 PM
On Wednesday morning's edition of This Hour on the Cable News Network, co-hosts John Berman and Michaela Pereira spoke with Mia Love, the Utah Republican who became the party's first black woman to win a seat in the House of Representatives as part of the midterm elections on Tuesday. During the interview, Love asserted that race and gender “had nothing to do with” her victory over Democrat Doug…
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CNN: 'Democrats Probably Rightly' Blame McConnell For Gridlock in DC
November 6th, 2014 12:54 PM
On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Dana Bash pointed the finger at Senator Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans for the "dysfunction" in the federal government. Bash asserted that "Democrats probably rightly have a complaint that the reason the Senate isn't working is because Mitch McConnell and the opposition made it so."
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CNN Analyst Laments ‘Best Campaigner’ Obama ‘Locked Away In the WH'
November 5th, 2014 2:11 AM
Early Wednesday morning, liberal CNN political commentator Cornell Belcher groaned during CNN’s midterms elections coverage that the Democratic Party’s top campaigner in President Barack Obama was unable to defend attacks against his record and help Democrats on the campaign trailer because he “was basically locked away in the White House."
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CNN's Costello Plays Up GOP's 'Campaign of Fear' in Midterms
November 4th, 2014 5:18 PM
CNN's Carol Costello hyped how "Republicans have managed to use fear so successfully in these midterm elections" during interviews of two former governors on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom. Costello contended that "Republicans may be on the verge of winning Senate control – thanks, in large part, to a campaign of fear. If you examine the political ads that many Republican candidates have put out, they…
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MRC's Notable Quotables: Please Explain Why Republicans Suck
November 3rd, 2014 8:55 AM
This week, CBS's Norah O'Donnell invites ultra-left Senator Elizabeth Warren to explain "what's going to happen if Republicans take control," even as the ultra-partisan Chris Matthews sneers: "What's worse, [North Carolina GOP Senate candidate] Thom Tillis or Ebola?"
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Flashback: How the News Media Celebrated Democratic Win in ’06
November 1st, 2014 2:25 PM
Looking back at 2006, the media weren’t wagging their fingers at Democrats warning that, if they won Congress, it was their job to become responsible partners for then-President George W. Bush. Instead, the media were rejoicing at the idea that an all-Democratic Congress could tie up the Bush administration with subpoenas, and even impeachment.
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CNN Analyst: 'You're an Idiot' to Agree With Rangel on GOP and Slavery
October 31st, 2014 5:03 PM
With the midterm elections only days away, the pressure of Democrats probably suffering major losses apparently caused New York representative Charlie Rangel to make a scary assertion on Thursday that some Republicans “believe that slavery isn't over, and they won the Civil War.”
During a panel discussion on the Cable News Network This Hour program on Halloween morning, CNN analyst and…
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MSNBC Celebrates Morning Joe’s Ratings ‘Winning Streak’ Over…CNN
October 31st, 2014 11:07 AM
MSNBC loves to run ads promoting its liberal “Lean Forward” programs but its latest celebratory commercial championing Morning Joe’s ratings “success” seems a bit odd. Over the last few days a new MSNBC ad hilariously has been running proclaiming that “2014 marks the fifth straight year Morning Joe continues to beat CNN. Since 2010 Morning Joe has out-delivered CNN as the place to get the top…
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Shock: CNN Touts Cancer-Stricken Seminarian's Plea to Brittany Maynard
October 30th, 2014 4:19 PM
Don Lemon surprisingly brought on a Catholic seminarian on Thursday's CNN Tonight for his take on cancer patient turned euthanasia advocate Brittany Maynard's controversial plan to kill herself. Philip Johnson, who, like Maynard, is afflicted by a terminal brain tumor, recently published an open letter to his fellow cancer patient – calling on her to cancel her suicide plans and "fight this…