Anderson Cooper on ObamaCare Enrollment: ‘I Don’t Buy That They Do
October 11th, 2013 1:38 AM
The White House for ten days has refused to reveal how many Americans have actually signed up for ObamaCare.
Quite surpisingly, some in the media, including CNN’s Anderson Cooper Thursday evening, have called the administration out for this absurdity (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Soledad O'Brien Hints Social Conservative Group Should Commit Suicide
October 10th, 2013 5:11 PM
On Thursday, Al Jazeera America's Soledad O'Brien posted an incendiary and snarky reply on Twitter to a headline from a homosexual news website claiming that a social conservative Christian organization had concluded that it is "better to die than live in pro-gay world."
Anthony M. Brown, one of the subjects of her left-wing propaganda flick for CNN, "Gary and Tony Have a Baby", forwarded…
Michele Bachmann Rips Media's 'False Narrative' Blaming GOP for Shutdo
October 10th, 2013 4:50 PM
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) slammed the "false narrative" of the media that Republicans are to blame for the shutdown. Her broadside came on Thursday's New Day.
She insisted, "remember that the mainstream media really has given a false narrative. Over and over and over again, the mainstream media has blamed the Republicans for this, and yet the only party that has put offer after offer…
On CNN's Crossfire, Bill Burton Celebrates How 'More People Have Jobs
October 9th, 2013 11:33 PM
On Tuesday's Crossfire (HT commenter Gary Hall), liberal Democratic guest Bill Burton tried to impress the show's hostesses and guest David Limbaugh when he said of President Obama: "More people have jobs than they did when he took office."
Wow. That's about the most unimpressive statement I've heard in years, and it would be beyond pathetic but for the performance of one state. Let's look at…
CNN’s Borger: Democrats Once Worried Clinton Was ‘Turning Into a R
October 9th, 2013 8:44 PM
Many mainstream media pundits are undoubtedly displeased that a good portion of the public doesn’t approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance. But today’s nomination of Janet Yellen for Federal Reserve chairman gave some of them a chance to wax nostalgic for another Democratic president and the time Yellen worked in the Clinton White House. On today’s 3:30 pm segment of CNN Newsroom…
Networks Look the Other Way on Fast and Furious Whistleblower
October 9th, 2013 5:54 PM
[UPDATED BELOW] CNN aired an exclusive interview with a Fast and Furious whistleblower on Monday morning, but NBC, CBS, and ABC all ignored the story and failed to interview the whistleblower, ATF agent John Dodson. The government is blocking publication of Dodson's new book, his insider account of the failed gun sting Operation Fast and Furious.
In addition, CNN dropped its own interview…
Wolf Blitzer: Obama Should 'Accept' GOP Proposal and Delay ObamaCare O
October 9th, 2013 4:41 PM
[UPDATED BELOW] Highlighting "major problems" with the website of ObamaCare's federal exchange, CNN's Wolf Blitzer said the administration should have accepted the Republican proposal and delayed implementation of the health care law for a year.
"Yeah. If they had three years to get this ready, if they weren't fully ready, they should accept the advice that a lot of Republicans are giving…
Jake Tapper Acknowledges Media Bias, Says 'White House Press Briefings
October 9th, 2013 4:36 PM
One of the things many conservatives admire about CNN's Jake Tapper is his willingness to speak truths typically too inconvenient for most in his industry.
During an "Ask Me Anything" discussion on Reddit Wednesday, Tapper not only acknowledged the existence of media bias, he also said "White House press briefings are quite often useless":
The Worst Bias of Departing CNN Reporter Jessica Yellin
October 9th, 2013 3:54 PM
Jessica Yellin is leaving CNN after six years at the network. Yellin was CNN's White House correspondent for two years before moving to chief domestic affairs correspondent.
Yellin's history of liberal student activism at Harvard certainly seeped through in her CNN reporting as she gushed over "candidate of hope" Obama while whacking Mitt Romney for sounding out of touch with women.…
CNN's Toobin: Scalia 'A 1950s Social Conservative' While Ginsburg 'Ver
October 8th, 2013 4:03 PM
CNN's legal analyst Jeff Toobin thinks Justice Antonin Scalia is stuck in the 1950s on social issues but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up to date with today's citizens.
The entire Court is a "deeply political institution," Toobin admitted, yet his descriptions for the conservative Scalia and the liberal Ginsburg differed significantly. Scalia is "a 1950s social conservative," he insisted on…
CNN Interviews 'Fast and Furious' Whistleblower; Will Networks Follow
October 8th, 2013 11:51 AM
CNN scored an exclusive interview with a "Fast and Furious" whistleblower on Tuesday morning, and New Day co-host Chris Cuomo was intent on letting his guest tell his story that the Obama administration did not want him to tell.
The guest, ATF agent John Dodson, wrote a book on the operation "Fast and Furious" but the government is blocking its publication. Cuomo's first question to Dodson…
CNN Report on Hong Kong Hornet Deaths Places It in Brazil
October 7th, 2013 7:30 PM
Earlier today, Matt Hadro at NewsBusters noted how CNN's reporting on the government's 17% shutdown has been incredibly one-sided ("CNN Keeps Pounding GOP: 'Holding the American People Hostage,' Wanting to 'Destroy' Government"). It's as if they're on a different continent.
Perhaps that's partially explains why the cable network somehow placed Hong Kong in Brazil earlier today (graphic is at…
CNN Keeps Pounding GOP: 'Holding the American People Hostage,' Wanting
October 7th, 2013 4:20 PM
Over the weekend, CNN anchors and guests blamed Republicans for the shutdown and smacked them for "holding the American people hostage" while opposing ObamaCare. That extended CNN's streak of pounding Tea Party Republicans for igniting the shutdown.
Below are some of the worst quotes from CNN anchors or guests on Republicans, the shutdown, and ObamaCare:
CNN: Journalism Students Get News From CBS, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, NYT and J
October 6th, 2013 7:22 PM
You want to know why most members of the press are liberal?
Well, as CNN's Reliable Sources showed Sunday during an interview with a group of journalism students at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, these folks apart from Facebook and Twitter get their "news" from liberal sources such as the Associated Press, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, the New York Times,…