CNN Looks to Obama to Solve Crisis of Partisanship

September 1st, 2011 4:00 PM
After quoting an op-ed which criticized President Obama for his partisanship, CNN's Carol Costello then asked her audience to chime in on how the President could "end the partisan bickering." She appeared exasperated later in the hour when she read the responses to the question – all of them negative – and whined that there just had to be something Obama could do about America's partisan…

Piers Morgan to Santorum: Your Views 'Are Bordering on Bigotry, Aren't

September 1st, 2011 3:24 PM
Wednesday on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, Morgan interviewed GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum.  The host spent considerable time on Santorum's views on homosexuality.  Confirming the candidate is a Catholic, Morgan asked if he believes homosexuality is a sin.  Santorum stated he subscribes to his Church's teaching that it is.  Morgan asked how Santorum would react to learning one of his…

CNN Scurries to Distance Obama From Illegal Immigrant Uncle Onyango

August 31st, 2011 11:42 AM
Yesterday on CNN's The Situation Room, the story of President Barack Obama's uncle's arrest on charges of driving under the influence was reported.  Make that Barack Obama's half-uncle, as anchor Wolf Blitzer and correspondent Brian Todd identified him that way at least nine times.  Todd even presented a wall chart detailing "a complicated and very fascinating family tree."  CNN and Blitzer…

CNN's Don Lemon Compares Libya 'Atrocities' With LGBT Discrimination

August 30th, 2011 11:00 AM
In a Thursday NPR interview, CNN's openly-gay anchor Don Lemon lumped discrimination against gays and lesbians in with atrocities committed in Libya. When asked why audiences should be interested in gay and lesbian issues, Lemon answered that "people are glued to what's happening in Libya, because it affects us. Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all and we are…

CNN Questions Whether Paul and Bachmann Are Even Ready for Presidency

August 29th, 2011 6:32 PM
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips asked her "Political Buzz" panel Monday if GOP candidates Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann are "ready for the big office" given their unusual views. "Ron Paul saying that we should get rid of FEMA. Michele Bachmann says the storm and earthquake are signs from God," stated Phillips. "Okay guys, are these candidates ready for the big office?" [Video below the break.]

Martin Luther King's Daughter: 'Lincoln Remembered for Signing the Dec

August 28th, 2011 3:11 PM
At a ceremony to honor the opening of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in our nation's capital Friday, the late civil rights leader's daughter Bernice made an historical error that would evoke tremendous ridicule and derision if she were a conservative. "Lincoln remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Surprise: Comcast Employees Are Obama's Biggest Donors

August 27th, 2011 8:00 AM
The employees of the company that is a part-owner of NBC and MSNBC are the biggest donors to President Obama's reelection campaign. Chris Moody of Yahoo News reported Friday:

Catholic Priest on World Youth Day: Media Coverage Was 'Just Bizarre

August 26th, 2011 1:07 AM
I didn't go to the Catholic News Agency's web site tonight looking for a media bias column; I usually go there to find "positivity" posts for my home blog. When I clicked on an item with an intriguing title ("The Pope's Young Army"), I expected that the author, Father Robert Barron, would regale me with inspiring vignettes from the Pope's recently completed World Youth Day in Madrid. Well, at…

CNN: Was Cheney 'More of a Hawk' Than We Thought

August 25th, 2011 12:32 PM
Referencing Dick Cheney's revelation in his new memoir that he urged President Bush to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, CNN's Kyra Phillips posed this obnoxious question to her panel: "Was Cheney even more of a hawk than we gave him credit for?" The upcoming release of Cheney's memoir, "In My Time," should re-ignite the media's decade-long war on the former Vice President, as he…

CNN's Cafferty: Perry, Bachmann, Palin Supporters Seem 'Allergic to Br

August 24th, 2011 7:28 PM
CNN's Jack Cafferty slammed the "intellectual lightweights" leading the Republican presidential field on Wednesday, wondering why their supporters "seem to be allergic to brains." The CNN contributor labeled the candidates "Curly, Moe, and Larry" and sarcastically dubbed Palin a "MENSA candidate," a term reserved for smart people. Recently he also bemoaned a possible Palin run and gave…

Piers Morgan Butters Up Moderate Republican Jon Huntsman

August 24th, 2011 5:33 PM
Jon Huntsman may be the liberal media's favorite Republican candidate, and CNN's Piers Morgan did nothing to dispel that notion in a two-part puff-piece interview Monday and Tuesday. The CNN host provided plenty of softball questions and positive commentary in what seemed at times to be a campaign promotion. Morgan described the moderate candidate as "pragmatic" and "sensible," took pleasure…

On HLN: Perry and Bachmann Pandering to Christian 'Fear

August 24th, 2011 4:57 PM
Substitute hosting on HLN's The Joy Behar Show, on Tuesday, CNN's Don Lemon prodded Jay Bakker, the son of televangelist Jim Bakker, to accuse Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann of exploiting fears of Christians as he claimed that the GOP presidential hopefuls were: "playing to a group of people who deal a lot with fear and using fear to control folks." The dismissive Bakker then asserted: "I…

CNN Host Promotes Liberal Morgan Freeman's Demand That Obama Get 'Figh

August 24th, 2011 12:25 PM
Costello related how Freeman "ran into him [Obama] on the golf course and he said, he said he wanted to tell the President to quote, 'Get pissed off, get fighting mad.'" After reporting that New York Times columnist Charles Blow has written about how Obama needs to be tougher, she asked Blow what he thought about Freeman's comment. Then Costello followed that up with another gem, as she…

CNN's Phillips Questions GOP Candidates' Silence on Libya

August 23rd, 2011 7:16 PM
On Tuesday morning, CNN's Kyra Phillips asked why the Republican presidential candidates have not been speaking out on foreign policy in Libya during the climactic battle in the country's capital between rebel and imperial forces. CNN had interviewed Republican candidate Jon Huntsman the night before, but had not yet asked him about the conflict in Libya, in the first of a two-part interview…