CNN Whacks Debate Crowd, Hypes Chelsea Clinton's Future Political Care

September 23rd, 2011 11:59 AM
Liberals watching CNN Friday morning would have been pleased by the "Political Buzz" segment that targeted Republicans for criticism and hyped the possible political career of Chelsea Clinton. CNN reported that the "crowd" at Thursday's GOP debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq. From the video they provided of the incident, it was clear that a couple of rogue crowd members booed the man…

CNN Accuses Perry of Using Patriotism as 'Political Tool

September 22nd, 2011 8:12 PM
On Thursday's American Morning, CNN regarded Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's newest web-ad as using "patriotism as a political tool." Co-host Carol Costello lumped his ad in with the 2004 Swift Boat campaign, as an unfair accusation to make of his opponent's patriotism. Perry's newest web-ad attacks Obama's jobs record and his "apology tour" for America, and trumpets Perry's…

Naive Piers Morgan: Obama 'Wanted to Work With the Opposition

September 22nd, 2011 12:15 PM
On Tuesday, CNN's Piers Morgan claimed that President Obama wanted to work with Republicans when he entered office, but was forced to play hardball because of their intransigence. According to Morgan, Obama wanted to be inclusive because "that's exactly what he said when he came in." The naive host added that the President "wanted to work with the opposition. But when he's tried, the…

CNN's King Asks If Cheney Wrote Book Because His Days Are 'Numbered

September 21st, 2011 3:08 PM
CNN's John King on Tuesday asked former Vice President Dick Cheney if one of the motivating factors behind writing his recent book was out of a fear that his "days could be numbered." As only Cheney can, he dryly replied, "I was very much aware that my days are numbered. So are yours" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Wolf Blitzer Bemoans Perry's 'Undermining' Obama UN Address

September 21st, 2011 2:00 PM
CNN's Wolf Blitzer fretted over Rick Perry blasting Obama's foreign policy soon before the President was to deliver his address to the United Nations. CNN analyst David Gergen agreed with him, painting Perry as a grenade-thrower. In a meeting with New York City Jewish leaders GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry slammed what he termed President Obama's policy of "appeasement" in the Middle…

CNN Gives Platform to Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Who Blames Palins f

September 20th, 2011 3:37 PM
On Monday's Piers Morgan Tonight, author Joe McGinniss blamed Sarah Palin and her family for inciting the death threats made against him. After he moved in next door to the Palins, something he called a "non-issue from the start," he claimed that Sarah Palin "incited that hatred" of death threats made against him for writing a critical book of her. "The Palins march right up to the border of…

CNN: Every 'Serious' Budget Expert Says 'Taxes Must Go Up

September 19th, 2011 4:45 PM
CNN business correspondent Christine Romans claimed Monday that "any serious budget expert's analysis" concludes that taxes must increase. During CNN's coverage of President Obama's address concerning his deficit reduction plan, Romans asked not if, but when Republicans should get on board with his proposals. "So at what point do Republicans say, okay, we agree that taxes have to go up, and…

CNN's Zakaria: Head of International Monetary Fund Should Exclusively

September 18th, 2011 10:47 AM
Fareed Zakaria's desire to give power to all countries except the one he currently resides - the United States! - is nothing less than appalling. On the CNN program bearing his name Sunday, Zakaria actually said, "It might be necessary to make clear that Christine Lagarde would be the last non-Chinese head of the [International Monetary Fund]" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

‘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…