‘An Especially Amateurish Example of Media Bias’ from CNN

September 17th, 2011 6:16 PM
“The Republican Party is split right down the middle between Tea Party movement supporters and those who do not support the two-and-a-half-year-old movement, according to a new national survey,” a Thursday CNN.com “Political Ticker” post asserted in recounting the findings of a CNN/ORC poll which were cited on air by both Wolf Blitzer and John King.

CNN's AM Hosts '08 Obama Supporter to Discuss Boehner's Jobs Plan -- B

September 16th, 2011 7:34 PM
CNN's American Morning brought on liberal academic Jeffrey Sachs to analyze Speaker Boehner's jobs plan Friday. Instead of hosting a conservative critic of President Obama the morning after he unveiled his jobs plan, the network actually interviewed the President's economic policy assistant. While Sachs went on-air and criticized the Republican plan as inherently flawed, Obama's director of…

Scarborough Accuses GOP Debate Audience of 'Applauding the Death of a

September 16th, 2011 2:00 PM
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Friday said the people in the audience at Monday's Republican presidential debate were "applauding the death of a young man without health insurance" and therefore were like the John Birchers "that Bill Buckley kicked out of the conservative movement in the mid-1960s." Unfortunately, the host of "Morning Joe" has, like so many others in the media, badly…

NYT's Krugman Hears Non-Existent Eruption of Crowd Cheering Death

September 16th, 2011 1:55 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman just can't stop offending of late. Krugman confounded even liberals with his ill-timed blog post on the morning of September 11 decrying President George W. Bush and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as “fake heroes” in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. In his Friday column “Free To Die,” he suggested Republicans would prefer people die for…

CNN to Rick Perry: Are You 'Overconfident' for Campaigning In Virginia

September 15th, 2011 12:59 PM
CNN's Jim Acosta asked Rick Perry Wednesday if he was "a tad overconfident" for stumping in a battleground state like Virginia so early in the campaign season. Perry, a leading Republican presidential candidate, delivered a speech at Liberty University earlier in the day. "It seems as if you're already looking past the primaries and into the general election," CNN's political correspondent…

CNN Brings On Former Democratic Strategist to Analyze GOP Victory in N

September 14th, 2011 6:08 PM
For analysis of the special election in New York's 9th Congressional District, CNN hosted Hilary Rosen – a former Democratic strategist and former interim head of the Human Rights Campaign, a leading LGBT civil rights organization. The network simply listed Rosen as a "CNN political contributor," failing to disclose her past as a Democratic strategist. Not surprisingly, Rosen downplayed the…

CNN's Gergen: Many Americans 'Horrified' by GOP Debate

September 13th, 2011 8:02 PM
CNN's political analyst David Gergen remarked Monday that many Americans were "horrified" at what they heard from the Republican presidential debate, co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express and CNN. "I was getting notes about they ought to keep this people locked up and not let them out. Don't let them do anything to the country," Gergen remarked. Gergen's comments came in the  post-debate…

Chris Matthews Falsely Accuses Ron Paul of Saying He’d Let Someone W

September 13th, 2011 7:27 PM
Exactly how do anchors on MSNBC get away with routinely stating complete falsehoods without any repercussions? On Tuesday, Chris Matthews wrongly accused Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul of saying during the previous evening's debate he would let a critically ill person die if the patient didn't have health insurance (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):

CNN Legal Contributor: Catholic Clergy Sex Abuses Could Qualify as War

September 13th, 2011 6:43 PM
CNN's legal contributor, and former legal analyst, Sunny Hostin stated Tuesday that the sex abuse cases involving the Catholic clergy could be considered war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). "I mean this is a war crimes tribunal and that is not to say that perhaps these crimes don't qualify as war crimes because we know that sex crimes and sexual violence do qualify," she…

CNN's Velshi: Stimulus Didn't Fail

September 12th, 2011 7:12 PM
CNN's business guru Ali Velshi argued that the stimulus did not fail, in a testy exchange Monday with CNN contributor Dana Loesch that followed President Obama's jobs plan speech. "It failed!" exclaimed Loesch when Velshi mentioned the stimulus, to which he excitedly replied that it did not fail. That set off a back-and-forth between the two pundits, where Velshi argued that unemployment…

CNN Picks Wolf Blitzer to Host Tea Party Debate, But He Implied Tea Pa

September 12th, 2011 3:58 PM
Wolf Blitzer will serve as the host of tonight’s “Tea Party debate” on CNN, co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express. But while Blitzer’s show plans to present questioners from the Tea Party, it’s likely Blitzer will "balance" that by  pressing Republicans from the left, just as NBC’s Brian Williams did last week on MSNBC. For example, four years ago, at the June 5, 2007 presidential debate,…

CNN: Is Perry a 'Bomb Thrower' for Calling Social Security a Ponzi Sch

September 12th, 2011 12:40 PM
The day after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, CNN asked if Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry was being a "bomb thrower" for vilifying Social Security as a Ponzi scheme. After playing a clip of Perry calling the program a "monstrous lie" and a "Ponzi scheme," CNN's Kyra Phillips teed up Democratic strategist Maria Cardona with this question: "Bomb thrower or…

CNN's Carol Costello Laughs At Longshoreman Vulgarly Threatening Camer

September 12th, 2011 11:41 AM
There's a very serious dispute going on between longshoremen and officials at the Port of Longview, Washington. CNN's Carol Costello clearly doesn't grasp the gravity of the situation, for in an "American Morning: Wake Up Call" report Monday, she couldn't control her laughter (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Rumsfeld Ribs Zakaria: 'There Are People Who Think We're Living in the

September 12th, 2011 1:14 AM
CNN's Fareed Zakaria got more than he bargained for in his Sunday interview with guest Donald Rumsfeld. As he pushed the former Secretary of Defense on America's need to cut military spending, the "GPS" host blushed when Rumsfeld smartly said, "There are people who think we're living in the post-American world, to coin a phrase. There are people who believe that we should step back and lead…