CNN Washington Bureau Chief: MSNBC's Convention Coverage 'A Cheering S
September 6th, 2012 9:07 AM
"If you watch MSNBC during convention coverage, you have a cheering section for the Democrats."
Such was quite accurately said by CNN's Washington bureau chief Sam Feist Tuesday.
CNN's Piers Morgan Panders to Fluke, Doesn't Press Rep. Israel on His
September 6th, 2012 6:31 AM
During early Thursday morning's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, CNN’s Piers Morgan interviewed Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), liberal activist Sandra Fluke, and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. It turned out to be a massive pandering to Fluke and nice vehicle for Rep. Israel, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), to disseminate falsehoods…
CNN Lavishes Praise on 'Oratorical Genius' Bill Clinton
September 6th, 2012 1:21 AM
Piers Morgan couldn't contain himself on Wednesday night as he adulated President Clinton as an "oratorical genius" who is "right up there with Churchill, Kennedy, MLK, and Mandela." CNN wasn't called the "Clinton News Network" for nothing.
"[T]hat was pound for pound, dollar for dollar, one of the great modern political speeches I have ever heard," sounded Morgan later on his show. He even…
CNN Mocks DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz's 'Alternate Reality' on God and
September 5th, 2012 9:46 PM
A major controversy erupted on the floor of the Democratic National Convention Wednesday surrounding God and Jerusalem inside the Party's platform.
Hours later, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave CNN an absolutely ridiculous explanation for what transpired resulting in her being mocked for her "alternate reality" by numerous commentators including Anderson Cooper and John King (video…
Paul Ryan Schools Piers Morgan: Obama Has 'Made Things Worse
September 5th, 2012 9:26 PM
When CNN's Piers Morgan argued that President Obama needed time to fix the economy, Paul Ryan answered him on Wednesday that Obama slowed what should have been a quick recovery.
"You have to give President Obama a bit of time just to get things back on track," the liberal CNN host pushed. Ryan countered that "usually when we have a deep recession in America, we come bounding out of it with…
Politico Executive Editor: 'The Mainstream Media Tends To Be Quite Smi
September 5th, 2012 8:25 AM
As NewsBusters has been reporting, the press's gushing and fawning over Michelle Obama's speech Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte has been almost sick-making.
So over the top was the praise that Politico's co-founder and executive editor Jim VandeHei said on C-SPAN early Wednesday morning, "The mainstream media tends to be quite smitten with the Obamas" (video follows…
Piers Morgan Backs Obama Spin, He 'Inherited the Mother of All Hospita
September 5th, 2012 6:02 AM
Instead of Americans asking if their country is better off now than four years ago, CNN's Piers Morgan thinks they should compare the present situation to "three and a half years ago" since President Obama's first half-year was "hell on earth." He aired his liberal points early Wednesday morning at the Democratic National Convention.
"This whole mixed picture we've been getting about is…
CNN Hypes 'Candidate of Hope' Obama Who's a 'Leader Driven to Make His
September 5th, 2012 1:21 AM
CNN's Monday night special "Obama Revealed" included some glowing coverage of the "candidate of hope" Barack Obama and a thumbs-up to his controversial auto bailout that cost taxpayers $14 billion.
Correspondent Jessica Yellin began the special by touting the "candidate of hope" that "inherits a nation in crisis." She added that Obama is a "leader driven to make history" and "cool under…
CNN Goes Ga-Ga for Obama: Michelle's Speech 'Probably a Grand Slam
September 5th, 2012 12:33 AM
CNN fawned over Michelle Obama's DNC speech on Tuesday, lauding it as "not hitting a home run but probably a grand slam," as Wolf Blitzer first put it.
"She did an amazing job for this President of the United States," gushed Blitzer. Anderson Cooper tweeted that "I've never heard such a well delivered speech by a First Lady ever." Piers Morgan argued that "Michelle Obama, I thought, knocked…
CNN to Fluke: Does Limbaugh Calling You a ‘Slut’ Reflect ‘Romney
September 4th, 2012 9:28 PM
CNN’s Brianna Keilar cued up Sandra Fluke, Obama’s poster girl for “free” contraception and forcing religious institutions to violate their beliefs, to tar Mitt Romney and all Republicans with a derogatory comment made by Rush Limbaugh: “I’m wondering, do you think that Rush Limbaugh – now he called you, and these are his words, ‘a slut.’ Do you think that his views represent Mitt Romney and…
Bitter Former CNN Correspondent Asks: ‘How Many Vacation Homes Do Yo
September 4th, 2012 5:45 PM
After being dropped by CNN in 2007, former top political correspondent Bob Franken has gone on to market himself as a political pundit, revealing the inner liberal that more close observers of his supposedly “impartial” reporting long suspected was there.
Appearing over the weekend on the MSNBC program hosted by liberal college professor Melissa Harris-Perry, former top CNN correspondent Bob…
New Yorker's Lizza: Nothing Racial About Clinton's 'Obama Would Have B
September 3rd, 2012 9:40 AM
It's irresistible to play the game of imagining the MSM response had a prominent Republican been caught saying of Barack Obama that "a few years ago this guy would have been carrying our bags." In the case of a Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan, calls for them to quit the campaign would be echoing from the halls of MSNBC to the shores of the New York Times.
But let a Democrat say it, in the person…
Obama’s Failed Stimulus Funded ‘Green Jobs’ Initiative Ads on MS
August 31st, 2012 4:50 PM
File this under unsurprising but notable, because it’s the type of story that mainstream media outlets will largely ignore in an attempt to protect an undeserving administration from anything that could hurt its re-election chances.
According to a Washington Times report by Jim McElhatton, the U.S. Department of Labor allegedly paid a public relations company at least half a million dollars…
Desperate Media Scramble to Call Paul Ryan a Liar Ignores the Facts
August 31st, 2012 4:00 PM
Immediately after Paul Ryan concluded his acceptance speech for the Republican Party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, the media sought ways to tear down the Wisconsin Congressman's indictment of the failures of the Obama administration. In particular, networks and newspapers attempted to knock down Ryan's accurate claim that President Obama promised to keep open a GM plant that closed…