ABC Hosts GOP-Bashing Univision Anchor Over Airing Susana Martinez's R

August 29th, 2012 11:31 PM
Instead of airing Latina Governor Susana Martinez's speech at the Republican National Convention, ABC chose to host liberal Univision anchor Jorge Ramos who had dire words for the Republican Party. "I think Republicans have a real, real challenge trying to get Latinos. Because just a few words in Spanish from Susana Martinez over principle is not enough," warned Ramos while ABC showed video…

Michele Bachmann Tells Piers Morgan 'You're Reading Directly Off the O

August 29th, 2012 9:10 PM
When CNN's Piers Morgan brought up the Todd Akin controversy in his interview with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Bachmann lashed back that "you're reading directly off the Obama talking points." "What about all the fury last week over Todd Akin?" Morgan asked Bachmann, in a move out of the Democratic playbook. "Because you and he and Paul Ryan all got together with the Taxpayer Funding for…

CNN's Roland Martin: 'Of Course I Stand Out' as 'Black Man' at the RNC

August 29th, 2012 8:05 PM
CNN contributor Roland Martin quipped on Wednesday that "I'm a black man at a Republican convention. Of course I stand out." Martin then went after black RNC speaker Artur Davis as a "political fraud." "[Y]ou can have Artur Davis, former Democrat, we don't know what he is now, with that ridiculous speech he gave last night, I call him a political fraud, he is," sounded Martin. [Video below…

CNN Analyst Ridicules 'Sledgehammer' GOP Platform on Abortion

August 29th, 2012 1:55 AM
CNN keeps playing up the controversy that supposedly is the Republican Party's platform on abortion – even though it resembles the language from the 2004 and 2008 platforms. "The platform has this really sledgehammer view that all abortions are going to be outlawed, even for rape or for incest, and even for health of the mother," said political analyst David Gergen during Tuesday night's…

Artur Davis Schools CNN: 'Easy' 'to Do What You Guys Are Doing

August 29th, 2012 1:28 AM
CNN's Gloria Borger challenged former congressman Artur Davis' "incredible 180-degree shift" from the Democratic Party to GOP convention speaker, but the GOP's new addition had an answer ready and waiting on Tuesday night. "Well, Gloria, I'll be honest with you, the easy thing would have been for me to frankly to do what you guys are doing and to be a pundit. The easy thing for me, and no…

CNN's Acosta Tries to Put Obama's 'You Didn't Build That' In Context

August 28th, 2012 9:49 PM
CNN's Jim Acosta tried to add some context to President Obama's infamous "you didn't build that" comment, during Tuesday's GOP convention coverage. "But wasn't he talking about you need roads, you need bridges, get the supplies to your business," Acosta pressed Newt Gingrich, who scoffed at the Obama campaign's explanation as "total baloney." [Video below the break.]

CNN Asks If GOP Holding Convention Tuesday Is 'Appropriate

August 28th, 2012 8:44 PM
CNN's John Berman, reporting live from the floor of the GOP convention, asked a Louisiana delegate if it wasn't "inappropriate" for the Republican Party to continue the convention on Tuesday night with Hurricane Isaac set to make landfall in Louisiana. "There's been a lot of talk about whether it's appropriate at all for Republicans to be having this convention tonight, these festivities. Do…

Wolf Blitzer Asks If GOP 'Problem' With Women Is Over Competely Pro-Li

August 27th, 2012 7:52 PM
Wolf Blitzer pressed Florida's GOP attorney general on Monday about the party platform's opposition to abortion in all cases, asking her if it was the "problem" Republicans had with women. "Is that the problem that he has – that Romney, and Republicans for that matter, have with women?" Blitzer asked after reading the section of the GOP platform supporting a human life amendment to the…

CNN Warns of Extremism, Exclusion In GOP; Touts 'Humongous' Gender Gap

August 27th, 2012 6:01 PM
Following the liberal media's precedent at GOP conventions, CNN hit the Republican Party for being too extreme and intolerant on Monday morning. As NewsBusters reported Monday, the media have repeatedly lectured Republicans at the conventions for being too conservative and exclusive of women and minorities. "Some Republicans worry that the Republican Party will come off even more…

CNN Contributor Cites Bush's Katrina Fiasco to Ask If GOP Is 'Worried

August 27th, 2012 12:11 PM
In light of Tropical Storm Isaac threatening the Gulf coast during the Republican National Convention, The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza evoked shades of Hurricane Katrina and the Bush malaise on Monday's Starting Point. "Does the Republican Party worry about that right now, that when you think of hurricane and Republicans, that it's not necessarily two things that have gone together in the past…
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The Media vs. the GOP: Intolerant, Anti-Women, and Always Too Conserva

August 27th, 2012 9:02 AM
Bad weather may have forced Vice President Joe Biden to skip his plans to make mischief at this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, but Democrats don’t have to worry: the liberal “news” media have been “counter-programming” GOP conventions for decades. It doesn’t matter whether the nominee is a conservative like Ronald Reagan, or a moderate like John McCain — network reporters…

Look Over There! CNN Barely Mentions Romney's Energy Policy; Hypes Bai

August 24th, 2012 5:08 PM
Instead of informing the public about Mitt Romney's energy plan unveiled on Thursday, CNN harped on a "distraction" in the form of Bain Capital documents released by the website Gawker. Even an article on CNNMoney.com called the Bain files "worthless," and CNN reporters questioned the significance of the document dump, but correspondent Jim Acosta talked about it anyway on Thursday's The…

Anderson Cooper Takes DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz to Task for Misquoti

August 24th, 2012 1:18 PM
There are some lies told by the DNC that even CNN can’t let slide.  Such is the case with a recent DNC fundraising email written by Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz which misquotes the L.A. Times in order to attack Mitt Romney. The email at question centers around the RNC platform on abortion which has remained the same for the past twelve years in its steadfast support for the protection…

CNN Thinks Cardinal Dolan Is Playing Politics at the RNC; Forgets He I

August 24th, 2012 1:10 PM
CNN foolishly asked if the head of the U.S. Catholic Bishops was playing politics by giving the benediction at the Republican National Convention, leaving out that the same Cardinal Timothy Dolan recently invited President Obama, along with Mitt Romney, to a high-profile Catholic event, the Al Smith dinner. "Is this a big play to help shore up Paul Ryan's Catholic base?" anchor Don Lemon…