CNN Nabs Brian Stelter for 'Reliable Sources

November 12th, 2013 3:05 PM
MSNBC isn’t the only network with an under-30 host. CNN has hired 28-year-old New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter to host its Sunday media show Reliable Sources. Stelter has guest-hosted a few times already since longtime host Howard Kurtz left for Fox News. Earlier this year, Stelter's book Top of the Morning came out, about the network morning shows, including a takedown of the "…

ObamaCare Not Subject to Federal Anti-Kickback Laws; CNN Still Hasn't

November 11th, 2013 3:59 PM
The Obama administration exempted the federal exchanges and subsidies in ObamaCare from federal health laws against kickbacks, fraud, and bribery, the New York Times reported last week. CNN has ignored this story, however. The Times stated: "The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other…

CNN Investing Heavily in Shift From Less News to More Unscripted Progr

November 8th, 2013 5:33 PM
After many years of being the channel people turned to for breaking news, the Cable News Network announced on Wednesday that while reporting news is still CNN’s “bread and butter,” the liberal channel will add a heavy emphasis on acquiring unscripted shows by outside producers in the vein of documentaries like Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown and films like Blackfish. Years of left-wing bias…

CNN Accuses GOP of Creating a 'Negative Mythology' of Benghazi

November 7th, 2013 3:22 PM
Thursday's New Day smacked Republicans for politicizing their Benghazi investigation, and conservative guest Will Cain retorted that CNN was "attacking the messenger." "You have a negative mythology to what happened in Benghazi that is not supported by fact, it's supported by speculation," co-host Chris Cuomo spat on GOP accusations against the administration. [Video below the break. Audio…

CNN Anchor Scolds GOP to Stop Grilling Sebelius; 'Sit Down and Fix Thi

November 6th, 2013 5:23 PM
On Tuesday, CNN's Carol Costello lectured Republicans to stop grilling HHS Secretary Sebelius over ObamaCare and "sit down with Democrats to come up with some solutions." "What in your mind is the point of this? Haven't we heard enough from Kathleen Sebelius?" Costello huffed to GOP Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn as Sebelius testified before the Senate Finance Committee. Costello told her…

Will They Be Voting? CNN's Amanpour Warns of International Disgust Wit

November 6th, 2013 4:10 PM
The international community won't be voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but on Tuesday's AC360 Later CNN's Christiane Amanpour let viewers know that they disapprove of the "extreme wing of the Republican Party." "Well, from an international perspective, I can tell you that there is a massive and mass scratching of heads as people out there look at what's going on in the United…

CNN's Candy Crowley: Virginia Results 'Not Some Huge Rejection of the

November 6th, 2013 3:43 PM
CNN’s Candy Crowley, the worst debate moderator of 2012, disappointed liberals on Tuesday night by failing to see the Virginia election returns as proof that the Tea Party is fading away. “This is clearly not some huge rejection of the Tea Party,” Crowley told Anderson Cooper shortly after 10 pm. (Transcript and video below.)

CNN Rebukes Guest for Calling Obama's False Insurance Guarantee a 'Lie

November 5th, 2013 4:04 PM
CNN is still giving President Obama the extreme benefit of the doubt over his false promise that Americans could keep their insurance under ObamaCare. The President added words to his promise on Tuesday, that Americans could keep their insurance "if it hasn't changed since the law passed." Anchor Ashleigh Banfield then suggested he call his initial promise an "oversight" and rebuked…

CNN Ignores Sen. Feinstein Wanting to Take Healthcare.gov Offline

November 4th, 2013 6:21 PM
Prominent Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) said she warned the White House to take Healthcare.gov offline until the site was fixed, but the administration wouldn't do it. CNN made no mention of her claim, made on Sunday's Face the Nation, and didn't ask her about it when she appeared on Monday's The Situation Room. "I felt, and I said this directly to the President's chief of…

Cancer Patient to Lose 'Lifesaving' Insurance Policy Under ObamaCare

November 4th, 2013 4:51 PM
A cancer patient worried for her life expectancy says she lost her current health insurance because of ObamaCare and will have to choose between keeping her doctor and cheaper health insurance. CNN has yet to report her Wall Street Journal op-ed, however. One month ago, the network repeatedly covered the tragic plight of cancer patients unable to receive experimental treatment because of the…

Bill Keller: 'Be Wary of Guy Who Says He's Got the Absolute Truth' But

November 3rd, 2013 4:49 PM
Former New York Times editor Bill Keller on Sunday perfectly demonstrated liberal media hypocrisy. Moments after claiming on CNN's Reliable Sources that people who "deny climate change" shouldn't be given "equal time," he said "be wary of the guy who says he's got the absolute truth" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bill Maher to Piers Morgan: MSNBC 'Very Rarely Wrong,' CNN Lagging For

November 3rd, 2013 1:03 PM
Bill Maher was a guest on Piers Morgan's CNN show on Tuesday night; the interview segment was replayed on Friday (thanks to NB's Noel Sheppard for that catch). Among other things, Maher confirmed that he is a member of the left's unreality-based community when he described MSNBC as "very rarely wrong" and Fox News's Bill O'Reilly as someone who "says something that is insanely off-base and not…

CNN's Toobin Says Benghazi Is Not a Scandal; 'There Is Nothing There

November 1st, 2013 10:43 AM
CNN's senior legal analyst thinks that any further investigation into Benghazi is looking at a "non-story" since "there is nothing there, in terms of a scandal." On Thursday's AC360 Later, Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at Republican efforts to gain access to more Benghazi witnesses and CIA operatives. "This is a non-story. Benghazi was a tragedy. It's not a scandal. Republicans are going to…

Shock: Piers Morgan Slams Obama Promise on Health Care Coverage as

November 1st, 2013 10:16 AM
During Wednesday night's edition of CNN's Piers Morgan Live program, the liberal host and a conservative Republican congresswoman teamed up to put pressure on Democratic representative Frank Pallone to defend president Barack Obama's repeated promise that people could keep their own physician and insurance plan if they chose to be part of ObamaCare. “When the president repeatedly stood up…