Piers Morgan Tells Huntsman 'I've Never Seen Any Candidate Who Has Got

October 18th, 2011 11:32 AM
Piers Morgan, likely without knowing it, made quite a statement about America's news media Monday. In an interview with Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman on the CNN program bearing his name, the host said, "I've never seen any candidate who has got better press or had more people say he's a great guy, he'd be perfect, who was polling so low" (video follows with transcript and…

Sean Penn Calls Tea Party the ‘Get the N-Word Out of the White House

October 15th, 2011 1:39 AM
Left-wing actor Sean Penn slimed the Tea Party as motivated by racism, charging on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Friday evening that an impediment to President Obama’s success is “what I call the ‘Get the N-word out of the White House party,’ the Tea Party.” At a time when Herman Cain tops polls of Republican primary voters, Penn proceeded to allege, without citing any evidence, that “there…

CNN's Burnett: Aren't Tax Hikes Part of 'Rational' Deficit Strategy

October 13th, 2011 4:53 PM
CNN's Erin Burnett argued that, according to a Pew study, tax hikes and spending cuts together would be more effective in trimming the deficit than spending cuts alone, and asked Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) if tax hikes weren't "part of a rational independent strategy here?" Burnett also pressed the conservative presidential candidate as to why she stuck to her positions on social and…

CNN Presses Conservative Blogger: 'Admit' that Wall St. Protests 'Reso

October 12th, 2011 3:22 PM
One day after lauding the persistence of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, CNN's American Morning pressured conservative contributor Erick Erickson to "admit" that the protests are indeed "resonating," and that his own counter-movement is much smaller. "You've got to – you've got to admit it. The 'Occupy Wall Street' folks are resonating," Romans insisted to Erickson. "I mean, we just had…

CNN Praises Persistence of Wall St. Protests, 'Unignorable

October 11th, 2011 5:54 PM
Citing a poll showing that 51 percent of Americans have heard of the Wall Street protests, CNN's American Morning co-hosts lobbed some compliments toward the protesters on Tuesday. Co-host Christine Romans made sure to emphasize that "the movement is really resonating." This is the same network that has been following the protests for weeks and speculating if they will become the liberal…

CNN's Erin Burnett Asks Trump About 'Smaller-tent' Social-Issues GOP

October 11th, 2011 1:06 PM
CNN's new prime-time host Erin Burnett pressed Donald Trump about the Republican Party being a "smaller tent party" because of its conservatism on social issues. "Do you have any frustrations that the Republican Party still ends up defining itself by abortion stance or gay marriage?" she asked Trump. Burnett even quoted rising star Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, who…

Tony Bennett: Obama is America's 'Greatest Accomplishment,' Not Sure i

October 11th, 2011 7:26 AM
Appearing as a guest on Monday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, singer Tony Bennett declared that President Obama is the "greatest accomplishment that the United States ever came up with," and expressed admiration for the President whom he labeled as "more than intelligent." A bit later, when asked by host Piers Morgan whether he believed war was ever "justified," with Morgan specifically…

Cain Responds to Belafonte and West: 'The Only Tactic They Have to Try

October 11th, 2011 1:28 AM
As NewsBusters reported, Harry Belafonte and Princeton Professor Cornel West said some disgraceful things about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain Monday. Appearing on Fox News's "Hannity" show, Cain replied, "The only tactic that they have to try and intimidate me and shut me up is to call me names" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Rahm's Rip at Romney Reveals Deception -- And a Detroit News Reporter

October 10th, 2011 10:08 PM
Chicago Mayor and former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel went after GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney yesterday over the 2008-2009 state of the auto industry. Emanuel, as paraphrased by the Associated Press, believes that "had Republican candidate Mitt Romney been president the nation would no longer have an auto industry" -- though last time I checked, Ford Motor Company, which did not…

CNN Hosts Leftists Saying Cain Should Get Off 'Crack Pipe

October 10th, 2011 5:12 PM
To answer Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's claim that racism is not a big factor in African-American unemployment, CNN brought on radical left-wing activists Professor Cornel West of Princeton and Tavis Smiley of PBS, both of who co-host a public radio talk show. Not-surprisingly, West and Smiley, both African-Americans, ripped Cain's comments. West griped that Cain needs to "…

WaPo's Wemple: 'Really Disgraceful' That O'Reilly Called Protesters 'F

October 9th, 2011 1:17 PM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, host Howard Kurtz and guest Erik Wemple of the Washington Post both took exception with FNC's Bill O'Reilly for recently calling some of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters "far-left loons" and "anarchists." Kurtz noted the contrast in how MSNBC and FNC have responded to the protests:

Fareed Zakaria Agrees With Obama: America IS Getting Soft

October 9th, 2011 11:37 AM
Barack Obama took a lot of heat last week for saying America has "gotten a little soft." Not from Fareed Zakaria who when not advising the president on foreign policy acts as one of his propaganda czars every Sunday on CNN (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CNN's Lemon: Bible Once Used to Promote Slavery, Now Used Against Gays

October 8th, 2011 11:30 AM
In an interview with a gay Chicago newspaper, CNN's openly-gay African-American anchor Don Lemon warned that the same Bible that was used to "keep us as slaves" is now a weapon against gay people. "We have, in many ways, been a victim of the Scriptures and theology that have been used to keep us as slaves," Lemon claimed, talking about the African-American culture. "It's been ingrained us (…

CNN's Cooper Attacks Increasingly Popular Herman Cain with 'Keeping Th

October 7th, 2011 2:14 PM
At the top of Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Cooper ran his first critical "Keeping Them Honest" segment on GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain since he is "no longer a voice on the fringe." Cooper pulled up quotes Cain made months ago, using a "Think Progress" clip, in an effort to hold him accountable for months' worth of statements on Sharia law and Planned Parenthood, among other…