Piers Morgan Says Obama Is 'On Fire,' Newt Gingrich Scoffs at His Libe

November 6th, 2012 5:23 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan hyped that President Obama has been "on fire" and channeled liberal blogger Nate Silver's confidence that he will be re-elected. Newt Gingrich swatted down that liberal spin, on Monday's Piers Morgan Tonight. "[H]ere's an alternative universe. You say this person of the New York Times has come to the startling discovery that in the New York Times universe, Obama's going to…

Laughable: Soledad O'Brien Thinks Nate Silver 'Doesn't Have a Liberal

November 6th, 2012 12:11 PM
Former Daily Kos blogger Nate Silver turned heads with his Obama-friendly election predictions in the New York Times, but CNN's Soledad O'Brien thinks his conclusions show no bias. Of course, the liberal CNN anchor just might have a blind spot for poll numbers favoring Obama. "Nate Silver is very careful about focusing on the numbers. And he doesn't have a liberal bias in his calculations,…

Harvey Weinstein: Obama is 'True Hawk,' Giuliani Could be 'Crazy Villa

November 5th, 2012 11:44 PM
Appearing as a guest on the Monday, November 5, Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, film maker Harvey Weinstein mocked Republicans John McCain and Rudy Giuliani as "brilliant actors" because they had appeared on Morgan's show recently and criticized President Obama, with the liberal film maker cracking that Giuliani could "play the crazy villain in any movie." He went on to assert that the military…

CNN Asks If Any Republicans Are 'Giving Up the Fight

November 5th, 2012 7:10 PM
CNN's own national poll has Obama and Romney tied, but that didn't stop anchor Brooke Baldwin from asking Monday if Republicans are already giving up on the election. "Do you hear any of the Republicans giving up the fight?" she foolishly asked Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) after Republican Haley Barbour said that Hurricane Sandy "broke Romney's momentum." [Video below the break. Audio here.]

Rob Portman Smacks Down CNN's Obama-Friendly Talking Points

November 5th, 2012 5:26 PM
CNN's Soledad O'Brien threw Democratic talking points at Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Monday's Early Start, but the Romney surrogate was ready as he defended the campaign's Jeep ad. "Was it a mistake then to run that Jeep ad which ran in Toledo, Ohio?" O'Brien pressed. "[I]t was deemed by PolitiFact to be false," she added, despite the claim's accuracy that plans were indeed made to build…

Kurtz on Why Late Night Comics Rib Romney More: 'Obama Is Just Not Tha

November 4th, 2012 3:38 PM
As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, late night comedians make fun of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more than twice as much as they do Barack Obama. CNN's Howard Kurtz defended this on Sunday's Reliable Sources saying, "Obama is just not that easy to ridicule... Whereas jokes about a rich guy with a 1950s lingo -- well, gosh, golly, gee whiz, isn't that hard to make people laugh…

Paul Begala: 'California, Illinois and New Jersey - Places Where They

November 2nd, 2012 8:01 PM
Imagine the media outrage if a conservative commentator listed states where Barack Obama would be hunted down with dogs. On CNN's OutFront Friday, liberal contributor Paul Begala said, "When Bush Sr. carried Pennsylvania, he also carried California and Illinois and New Jersey, places where they would hunt Romney down with dogs" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Fareed Zakaria Dismisses GOP Charges Against Obama On Libya as 'Highly

November 2nd, 2012 4:46 PM
New reports (and denials) that the CIA told its members in Benghazi to stand down during the embassy attacks are nothing but "an argument for ideologues" and no election game-changer, sounded CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Friday. "I think this is a highly politicized set of charges and countercharges," added Zakaria. This from the man who reportedly was considered for a post in Obama's next…

Grover Norquist Slams CNN's Jobs Spin; 'Not Even a Dead Cat Bounce

November 2nd, 2012 12:17 PM
After the last jobs report before the election, CNN's Soledad O'Brien tried to be positive even with high underemployment and unemployment rates. On Friday's Starting Point, she ridiculously cast underemployment moving down one tenth of a percent to 14.6 as "improving." "Underemployment which was 14.7 percent, now 14.6; labor force participation, as well, that's better. Are you feeling…

CNN's Morgan Raises Bloomberg's Global Warming Concerns

November 1st, 2012 11:17 PM
On Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, host Morgan treated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's endorsement of President Barack Obama as a significant threat to Mitt Romney, and ended up bolstering Bloomberg's concerns about Hurricane Sandy being the result of manmade global warming. Without noting Bloomberg's liberal record, Morgan highlighted the mayor's complaints about Romney's "…

CNN, PBS Fans More Likely to Vote Obama

November 1st, 2012 5:27 PM
CNN and PBS claim to be impartial and non-partisan networks, but guess who their audiences are voting for? According to BuzzFeed, a significant majority of Facebook fans of those networks are likely Obama voters. On a graph titled "What does your favorite TV channel say about your politics?", CNN falls well to the left of center, with almost 30 percent more fans likely voting for Obama over…

Piers Morgan Lauds Obama's 'Excellent Job' With Hurricane Sandy

November 1st, 2012 2:21 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan lauded President Obama's "excellent" work during Hurricane Sandy, and teed up liberal guest Michael Moore to bash Republicans on global warming. As NewsBusters reported earlier, on his Wednesday night show he didn't once press Moore about his despicable anti-Romney ad. Morgan gushed that "whichever side you're on, you cannot say that President Obama has not so far done an…

Piers Morgan Interviews Michael Moore for 48 Minutes Without Mentionin

November 1st, 2012 12:03 AM
NewsBusters reported Monday that schlockumentarian Michael Moore created a tremendously vile anti-Romney campaign video for MoveOn.org that included seniors uttering vulgar threats at the Republican presidential nominee. On Wednesday, CNN's Piers Morgan did a 48 minute interview with Moore without asking him one single question about this disgraceful video.

Piers Morgan Wants CNN Anchors to Get More 'Provocative,' 'Opinionated

October 31st, 2012 5:32 PM
Liberal CNN host Piers Morgan wants the network's anchors to be more opinionated on-air, as he told The Hollywood Reporter. "We should collectively as a network be more aggressive, more provocative, more debate-y," he opined. Morgan's gun control Twitter rant just hours after the Aurora shooting, as well as his own laughably slanted show that night points to what he'd like to see more of if…