CNN Reports DC Shooter Didn't Use an AR-15, Will Piers Morgan Retract
September 17th, 2013 11:01 AM
As NewsBusters previously reported, CNN's Piers Morgan repeatedly claimed Monday that the alleged Washington, D.C., Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis brought an AR-15 into the facility. Morgan made such assertions despite reports that this might not have been the case.
On Tuesday, CNN.com reported that not only didn't Alexis bring an AR-15 with him, that type of rifle might not have been…
CNN's New Crossfire Totally Bombs, People Actually Like Wolf Blitzer B
September 17th, 2013 10:25 AM
CNN has been hyping the return of Crossfire for months, but given the ratings the first week, it seems the public wasn't buying it.
Quite the contrary, numbers reported by The Wrap Monday show this not so new venture by the supposedly most trusted name in news is a bomb of epic proportions.
Piers Morgan Claims DC Shooter Brought in 3 Guns Including AR-15 But T
September 16th, 2013 9:53 PM
CNN’s Piers Morgan began his program Monday claiming that Aaron Alexis, the alleged shooter at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard, entered the facility "armed with an AR-15, another rifle, and a semi-automatic Glock."
But this is currently under dispute with some believing Alexis initially possessed only a shotgun and that the other weapons he took from fallen security officials inside the…
Surprise! Piers Morgan Rips NRA 'Cowards,' Begs Obama to Take 'Action
September 16th, 2013 6:11 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan lashed out at NRA "cowards" hours after Monday morning's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, and asked President Obama to take "action" against gun violence.
Just as he did after the Aurora shooting, Morgan took to Twitter. "Where's the @NRA today? Oh that's right, Wash Naval Yard is a heavily secure place so doesn't fit their agenda. #silenceofthecowards," he tweeted.
CNN Tees Up John McCain to Bash Republicans for Partisanship
September 16th, 2013 4:38 PM
CNN's Chris Cuomo teed up Sen. John McCain to bash fellow Republicans on Monday's New Day, for putting partisanship before the country on Syria and the budget.
"Do you believe if there were President Romney that members of your party would have the same resistance to going in that they are showing right now?" Cuomo pressed McCain on a Syria intervention. Would Cuomo ask if Democrats were…
Fort Hood 2009? CNN Anchor Can't Remember the Last Shooting at 'U.S. M
September 16th, 2013 11:14 AM
<<UPDATED BELOW>> During CNN's live coverage of Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, anchor Carol Costello asked when the last time was that a gunman wreaked "havoc at a U.S. military facility." In 2009, a jihadist killed 13 in a mass-shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.
"I used to work in Washington, live in Washington. This seems so unusual to me that a gunman could…
Candy Crowley: 'Who Cares' That 'Russia Got the Diplomatic Edge' in Sy
September 15th, 2013 11:00 AM
CNN’s Candy Crowley did her best Hillary Clinton Sunday.
During a State of the Union discussion about the American-Russian agreement concerning Syria, Crowley asked a skeptical Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), "Who cares" that "Russia got the diplomatic edge?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Former Clinton Defense Secretary: ‘Highly Unlikely’ Syria Will Dis
September 14th, 2013 2:51 PM
The media are predictably giddy about an agreement being reached in Geneva between the United States and Russia concerning Syria.
Former Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen was not very optimistic Friday telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he felt it was “highly unlikely” Bashar al-Assad would dismantle his chemical weapons.
CNN's Costello Laments: Why Can't Walmart 'Share the Profits' With D.C
September 13th, 2013 5:02 PM
CNN's Carol Costello is quite cozy with striking fast food workers who want the minimum wage at $15 an hour, but she is openly hostile with restaurant and retail executives. On Friday, Costello repeatedly badgered a retail executive over why Walmart wouldn't raise wages for D.C. employees even though some other businesses wouldn't have to.
Sounding like a broken record, Costello didn't offer…
Big Labor Slams Obamacare Implementation and Calls for Big Changes; CN
September 13th, 2013 12:58 PM
The AFL-CIO came out swinging against Obamacare this week, calling its implementation "highly disruptive" and warning that big changes need to be made to the law. CNN has entirely ignored big labor's resolution, adopted on Wednesday.
The resolution comes after the country's largest federation of labor organizations pushed for the law's passage in 2010 and funded President Obama's re-election…
Piers Morgan Suggests Gun Advocates Stand In Front of Blind Firing Squ
September 12th, 2013 3:50 PM
In a Twitter war with conservative radio hosts Ben Ferguson and Dana Loesch, CNN's Piers Morgan pitched the idea that they stand as targets for blind shooters.
The argument was over allowing the legally blind to own guns. Morgan railed against the idea and tweeted, "An idea @Dloesch @benfergusonshow > you guys stand at the end of a range and I'll get 100 blind people to fire away at…
Fareed Zakaria: Obama’s Syria Plan 'Not Likely to Reduce Humanitaria
September 12th, 2013 1:41 PM
Roughly ten days ago, CNN's Fareed Zakaria said, "[T]he administration's handling of Syria over the last year has been a case study in how not to do foreign policy."
On Wednesday, Zakaria wrote a piece for the Washington Post in which he conceded, "Obama’s proposals are also not likely to reduce the humanitarian crisis" in Syria, but yet in his view, the new plan involving Russia "is a…
One Year After Benghazi, No Arrests Made; CNN Largely Mum
September 12th, 2013 12:26 PM
On the one-year anniversary of the Benghazi attacks, only three CNN shows bothered to hold the Obama administration accountable for not having made any arrests of suspects. Hosts Jake Tapper and Erin Burnett, and anchor Michael Holmes were the three CNN figures to point at the administration for not having made any arrests.
For the rest of CNN's 18-hour news day, any mentions of Benghazi…
More People Watched Obama's Syria Address on Fox Than CNN and MSNBC Co
September 11th, 2013 5:19 PM
If you believe what the liberal media claim, Fox News is an Obama-bashing network exclusively watched by Obama haters.
It should come as a great shock to such folk that more Americans watched the President's address about Syria on Fox Tuesday than on CNN and MSNBC combined.