CNN's Baldwin Enables Stephanie Cutter to Blame Team Romney for Making

October 11th, 2012 5:07 PM
Stephanie Cutter ignited a firestorm when she blamed Team Romney on Thursday for making the Libya fiasco into the "political issue" it has become, but CNN's Brooke Baldwin enabled her gross political accusations by calling the Libya controversy a "political circus." "No doubt this has absolutely turned in to a political circus, whatever political aisle you're looking at," Baldwin began the…

MSNBC's 'Now' Doesn't Bother to Mention Congressional Hearing on Bengh

October 10th, 2012 6:49 PM
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform convened for a hearing on Wednesday at 12 p.m. EDT to delve into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Detailed accounts were heard, revelatory statements were made, but MSNBC's noon time program Now with Alex Wagner was too busy criticizing everything Mitt Romney has said over the last few years to even…

CNN's O'Brien Furiously Spins to Blame Republicans in Congress for Dea

October 10th, 2012 3:22 PM
With a House Oversight committee slated to hold a hearing on the deadly Benghazi consulate terrorist attack at noon today, there was really no excuse for CNN's Starting Point to not cover the story. But alas, anchor Soledad O'Brien checked her journalistic credibility at the dressing room door, going on air with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sounding more like an Obama apologist than a hard-…

Stacey Dash on Romney: ‘I Chose Him Not By the Color of His Skin But

October 9th, 2012 9:46 PM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, African-American actress Stacey Dash was thoroughly lambasted on Twitter for expressing her support for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. During an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan Tuesday, a defiant Dash marvelously said, "I chose him not by the color of his skin but the content of his character" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

WaPo Reporter Says Bush 'Didn't Pay a High Enough Price' After DUI Rev

October 9th, 2012 5:02 PM
Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake told CNN on Tuesday that candidate George W. Bush "just didn't pay a high enough price" in the 2000 election for his DUI arrest that occurred more than 20 years prior. Blake was talking about famous "October surprises," or unforseen events occurring in the month before the election that could be game-changing. The Bush DUI revelation was a hit job planted…

Piers Morgan Bullies GOP Guest With Obama Foreign Policy Spin

October 9th, 2012 3:31 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan just couldn't let his Republican guest denounce President Obama's foreign policy. He spouted the White House spin on all the President's accomplishments while not holding him accountable for the Libya fiasco, on his Monday night show. "I would say one of the things that Barack Obama has done incredibly successfully is restore a lot of America's very damaged reputation…

CNN Story So Biased, Obama Ad Trumpets Its Headline

October 9th, 2012 11:14 AM
A July campaign story by CNN's Jim Acosta was so biased that the Obama campaign trumpeted the headline in its new attack ad. That came after MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell cried foul over the campaign using footage of her in its ads, perhaps telling evidence of the role the liberal media is playing in this campaign by providing fodder for Obama. Back in July, Acosta hyped that Mitt Romney's…

Soledad O'Brien Omits Key Romney Quote While Accusing Him of Hypocrisy

October 8th, 2012 4:20 PM
Soledad O'Brien is bungling facts, again! The CNN anchor omitted a key portion of Mitt Romney's remarks back in May as she tried to convict him of hypocrisy with his own words on Monday. Conservative blog The Right Scoop reported earlier on this. Just hours before Romney's key address on foreign policy, O'Brien reported, "So here's what we know he is going to say in his speech this – later…

Anderson Cooper on Wolf Blitzer's New Look: 'Next Thing You Know He's

October 7th, 2012 10:35 AM
Anderson Cooper clearly isn't pleased with colleague Wolf Blitzer stealing his Clark Kent eyeglasses look. On NBC's Late Night Tuesday, Cooper quipped, "Next thing you know he's going to say he's gay."

CNN Keeps Hyping Romney's Proposed PBS Cuts, PBS Host Calls It 'Attack

October 5th, 2012 3:55 PM
CNN continued to hype Big Bird as a key debate issue on Friday morning as Soledad O'Brien brought on PBS "Reading Rainbow" host LeVar Burton who laid into Mitt Romney's promise to cut PBS funding. "Save Big Bird!" and "Romney Takes Aim At Big Bird" read CNN's headlines on screen. "I was outraged. I couldn't believe the man actually fixed his mouth to say that. I interpreted it as an attack…

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Twice Implies Romney Is 'Lying

October 5th, 2012 11:48 AM
CNN's Soledad O'Brien twice implied Mitt Romney is lying, on Friday's Starting Point. She pointed to the candidate's admission to being wrong about his 47 percent comments after previously standing by them as a "flip-flop," and something "which some could define as lying." Meanwhile, on Wednesday she barely touched a 2007 video of then-Senator Obama pandering to a largely black audience and…

Media Mash: CNN Helps Cover Up Obama's Race Speech, MSNBC Plays the Ra

October 5th, 2012 10:58 AM
MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 4 edition of Hannity and exposed the hollowness of the media's argument against covering inflammatory quotes Barack Obama made in a 2007 speech on race, clips aired for the first time earlier this week on Hannity. [Watch the full video after the jump.] Host Sean Hannity set up the newest "Media Mash" segment: "I…

GOP Congressman Lays Into CNN for 'Doing a Disservice' to Struggling A

October 4th, 2012 5:07 PM
When CNN laughably focused on Mitt Romney cutting funding for "Big Bird" as a key debate moment, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) took CNN to task on Thursday for hyping such a frivolous detail. "I think focusing on a light moment, which was clearly what it was, is doing a disservice to the people of America who are struggling," Diaz-Balart ripped into CNN. He also mocked anchor Carol…

Carville: Obama 'Gave a Sense That He Wasn't Happy to Be There

October 4th, 2012 8:43 AM
Appearing as a panel member on CNN's post-debate coverage on Wednesday, Democratic strategist James Carville gave President Obama a poor grade for his debate performance, asserting that 'I did everything I could not to reach it, but I had to reach it, and it looked like Romney wanted to be there, and President Obama didn't want to be there."