CNN Debate Moderator Runs Blooper Reel of GOP Debates

November 11th, 2011 12:40 PM
CNN's Wolf Blitzer – who will be moderating CNN's Republican presidential debate on November 22 – played a highlight reel of largely negative moments from the past GOP debates on Thursday afternoon's The Situation Room. The "Top 10" video consisted of bloopers, controversial statements, and heated exchanges, all of which Blitzer innocently deemed "memorable moments." Rick Perry's most recent…

CNN's Jack Cafferty Tells Perry 'Please Just Go Away,' Laments Palin S

November 11th, 2011 8:14 AM
On Thursday's edition of The Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer ran with the media herd that he's "probably never seen anthing as dramatic" as the Rick Perry brain freeze. Then he turned to commentator Jack Cafferty, who insisted, "Not since Sarah Palin sat down with Katie Couric as a candidate for one of the nation's highest offices disgraced himself the way Rick Perry did last night."…

Piers Morgan Kisses Up to White House: Obama Has 'Extraordinary' Demea

November 10th, 2011 4:01 PM
In a Wednesday interview with the White House communications director, CNN's Piers Morgan gushed over President Obama's "extraordinary" demeanor and praised Obama as "confident" and "assured." "Does he know something we don't? Or is he just quite cool under pressure?" Morgan slobbered to Dan Pfeiffer. [Video below the break. Click here for audio.]

CNN to Perry: Convince Us Your Campaign Isn't Finished

November 10th, 2011 1:00 PM
The same network that treated then-candidate Obama with kid gloves about Reverend Wright demanded Rick Perry to explain how his campaign wasn't finished, in his interview on CNN's American Morning on Thursday. Co-host Christine Romans scrutinized Perry over his forgetting one of the federal agencies he had promised to get rid of. However, she seemed to believe that his campaign was over…

NBC's Curry Tries to Bury Perry: 'Have You Thought About Ending Your C

November 10th, 2011 10:38 AM
Updated : More analysis and transcripts added. Interviewing Texas Governor Rick Perry on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry asked the Republican presidential candidate about a flub in Wednesday's CNBC debate and wondered: "One of your fundraisers told The Wall Street Journal, simply, 'He just ended his campaign.' Have you thought about ending your campaign? Are you staying in this race,…

CNN Spins Elections as Republican Setback

November 9th, 2011 11:59 PM
During Wednesday’s post-election coverage, CNN largely ignored conservative ballot victories in Mississippi and Ohio and Republican gains in Virginia, rather focusing on two conservative ballot measures which were defeated at the polls. They followed the three major networks in doing so. The network relentlessly touted the defeat of Mississippi’s “Personhood” initiative – which would define…

CNN Sets Up Dem Strategist to Gush Over Cain Accuser Who Worked for He

November 9th, 2011 1:18 PM
For information on one of Herman Cain's accusers, CNN interviewed her former boss on Wednesday – who just also happened to be a former Clinton advisor and a  Democratic strategist at present. Not surprisingly, interviewee Maria Cardona gave the accuser, Karen Kraushaar, a giant thumbs-up and told CNN that Kraushaar had referred to her old boss Herman Cain as a "monster." Anchor Kyra Phillips…

Newt Gingrich Scolds Piers Morgan for Trying to Teach Him About Politi

November 9th, 2011 1:05 AM
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich demonstrated Tuesday why every liberal media member in the country is scared to death of him winning the nomination and going head-to-head in a debate with Barack Obama. When CNN's Piers Morgan tried to play his normal cocky role of knowing more than his guest, the former Speaker of the House smartly replied, "I've been involved with politics…

ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC Bring On Cain Accuser; CNN Targets Limbaugh

November 8th, 2011 2:31 PM
The same networks that ignored sexual allegations against Democrats for months all leaped on Tuesday to interview Sharon Bialek and her liberal advocate Gloria Allred on the morning after she came forward. Between them, ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC devoted over 21 minutes to Bialek, who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of groping her over a decade ago. CNN had Bialek on for eight and a…

Piers Morgan Interviews Cain Accuser Without Asking About Her Bankrupt

November 8th, 2011 9:40 AM
CNN's Piers Morgan on Monday did the first interview with Herman Cain's accuser, but failed to ask Sharon Bialek - who was in the company of her liberal activist attorney Gloria Allred - any questions about her two bankruptcies, the paternity lawsuit her former husband filed against her shortly after their child was born, or exactly why she was terminated by the National Restaurant Association…

O'Reilly and Goldberg Agree With NewsBusters Report on CNN's Coverage

November 7th, 2011 10:56 PM
On Saturday, NewsBusters reported that CNN in the six days after Politico's hit piece on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was published did more stories on that subject than it did on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's connections to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, convicted real estate developer Tony Rezko, and America-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright combined. On Fox…

CNN's White House Spin: Obama Running 'Anti-Rose Garden' Campaign

November 7th, 2011 5:14 PM
CNN on Monday provided a rosy look at President Obama's efforts to campaign for re-election, touting that the President is distancing himself from Washington in an "anti-Rose Garden" campaign. Ironically, a few minutes later Obama was scheduled to speak in the Rose Garden itself. In reporting on Obama's efforts to wash his hands of Washington, CNN had ignored his harsh partisan rhetoric…

CNN Runs More Stories on Cain 'Scandal' in Six Days Than it Did Obama

November 5th, 2011 12:06 PM
If you needed any more evidence of the political leaning of CNN, consider that much like Politico, it has in the last six days done at least 94 reports on the sexual harassment allegations involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Substantially more shocking, according to LexisNexis, the supposedly most trusted name in news only did 77 total stories on Democratic presidential…

So CNN Anchor Erin Burnett Thinks Americans Generally Not 'Open-Minded

November 3rd, 2011 4:32 PM
Erin Burnett apparently thinks Americans could use the federal government's help in being "open-minded, tolerant citizens." In a November 2 "Answer This" interview, Politico's Patrick Gavin asked the CNN anchor and former object of Chris Matthews's affection, "You’re president of the United States for enough time to make only one executive decision. What is it?" Burnett answered: