The Short Memory of Rick Sanchez and His Tea Party Coverage
March 10th, 2010 3:14 PM
In an event most likely coordinated with help from the White House, more than 1,000 protesters supporting Obama's radical health care agenda demonstrated in D.C. on March 9, going so far as to attempt a citizen-arrests of health insurance executives holding a conference at a hotel in Dupont Circle. Covering the story on "Rick's List," CNN's Rick "Down the Middle" Sanchez assured viewers he would…
CNN's Harris Makes Liberal Race Argument on Unemployment
March 10th, 2010 1:55 PM
On Tuesday's Newsroom, CNN's Tony Harris applied liberal thinking on race to the unemployment rate, speculating if the debate over jobs would change if whites were out of work like minorities were: "I wonder what the discussion about jobs in this country would be like if the rate of white unemployment in this country was, say 15, 16 percent, as it is for African-Americans."Harris brought up the…
Arianna Huffington Expresses Sympathy For Glenn Beck
March 10th, 2010 12:34 PM
Liberal publisher Arianna Huffington on Tuesday expressed sympathy for Fox News host Glenn Beck.Appearing on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" to talk about Beck's bizarre interview with Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) earlier in the day, Huffington said, "And, to his credit, Glenn Beck...apologized to his audience for wasting an hour of their time."She surprisingly continued, "I never thought anything would…
Bozell Column: The Shameless Abortion Carnival
March 10th, 2010 7:03 AM
If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail abortion live, as it happened, on Twitter. The liberal media found this made-for-TV slaughter fascinating, and not at all a controversy worthy of discussing with two sides. Newsweek’s…
Four Pro-Homosexual 'Marriage' Clips, No Opponents on CNN
March 9th, 2010 4:11 PM
CNN's Kate Bolduan aired a slanted report on Catholic Charities of Washington's decision to no longer offer benefits to spouses of new employees on Saturday's Newsroom, playing four sound bites from proponents of same-sex "marriage" and none from opponents. Bolduan also omitted the liberal affiliation of one of the homosexual "marriage" advocates.During the report, which first aired 11 minutes…
Kyra Phillips Conducts Softball Interview of Woman Who Tweeted Abortio
March 8th, 2010 5:09 PM
[Update, 10:48 pm Eastern: Audio & video clips added.] On Monday's Newsroom, CNN's Kyra Phillips sympathetically interviewed a woman who unapologetically Tweeted her chemically-induced abortion as it happened. Instead of offering the pro-life viewpoint, Phillips lamented how her guest received "e-mails and the responses [which] were so brutal." The anchor later admitted that she "didn't want…
Margaret Carlson Suggests Media Bias Propped Charlie Rangel
March 8th, 2010 2:58 AM
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, as host Howard Kurtz led a discussion on media coverage of Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel’s ethical problems, guest Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News – formerly of Time magazine and CNN's Capital Gang – seemed to suggest that Rangel would have lost his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee sooner if the mainstream media were not so biased…
SNL on Wolf Blitzer: 'Such an Exciting Name for Such a Boring Man
March 7th, 2010 2:45 PM
The "Saturday Night Live" team last evening mocked CNN and many of its most prominent personalities, in particular, Wolf Blitzer."Such an exciting name for such a boring man," said actor Jason Sudeikis in a marvelous Blitzer costume.CNN personalities weren't the only target, for the sketch also lampooned the network's use of citizen journalists via the Internet and cell phone videos."Once again,…
CNN Blog Attacks Black Pro-Lifers, Continues Liberal Trend
March 5th, 2010 6:26 PM
The Anderson Cooper 360 blog on CNN.com capped a leftward trend during the week of March 1 with a post on Friday from Obama supporter Tanya Acker, who accused pro-life activists of "racial paternalism" for highlighting the high abortion rate among blacks. Earlier in the week, the blog promoted the latest anti-conservative study from the Southern Poverty Law Center and sought anti-Jim Bunning sob…
CNN's Ali Velshi Supports Starbucks For Sticking to Its Guns
March 4th, 2010 6:56 PM
On Thursday's Newsroom, CNN anchor Ali Velshi unexpectedly supported Starbucks' decision to stand by its policy of letting gun-owning customers openly-carry their weapons in states where it is legal to do so. Despite hinting he didn't see the need for guns in coffee shops, Velshi stated it was "better for businesses not to weigh into this unwinnable debate."The anchor weighed in on the Starbucks…
CNN Omits 'Coffee Party' Founder's Past as Obama Volunteer
March 3rd, 2010 11:44 AM
John Roberts and Kiran Chetry omitted mentioning that Annabel Park, the founder of the so-called Coffee Party, worked as a volunteer for President Barack Obama's presidential campaign, during an interview on Wednesday's American Morning. The anchors also didn't mention Park's past work for the liberal New York Times.Roberts and Chetry interviewed the Coffee Party USA founder at the bottom of the…
CNN's 'Non-Partisan' Brown Airs Hit Piece On Bunning
March 2nd, 2010 8:57 PM
"Campbell Brown . . . the only non-partisan cable news anchor at 8 pm." -- CNN description of Campbell Brown "Non-partisan": right. The hit that Brown, with help from reporter Dana Bash, put on Jim Bunning this evening was worthy of that hyper-partisan guy over at MSNBC in the 8 PM ET slot.Bash first narrated a classic of the liberal media genre: an anecdotal story of someone allegedly hurt by…
CNN's Rick Sanchez Again Hints Rick Perry is a Racist
March 2nd, 2010 7:15 PM
On Tuesday's Rick's List on CNN, Rick Sanchez again hinted that Texas Governor Rick Perry is a racist. Sanchez, reacting to the distinct possibility that Perry would win the Republican gubernatorial primary, referenced a comment he made at a tea party rally in 2009: "He was talking about states' rights. States' rights is, to most people of color, a racist term" [audio clip available here].The CNN…
Jon Stewart Rips Rick Sanchez For 'Nine Meters In English Is
March 2nd, 2010 10:19 AM
Comedian Jon Stewart tore apart CNN's Rick Sanchez Monday leading one to believe the "Daily Show" host might be a NewsBusters reader.On Saturday, we noticed a pathetic performance by Sanchez during that afternoon's coverage of the tsunamis predicted to hit Hawaii after the massive earthquake in Chile."By the way, nine meters in English is?" the manic CNNer actually asked a scientist brought on to…