CNN's Cooper: I Didn't Use False Limbaugh Quotes

October 15th, 2009 2:54 PM
CNN’s Anderson Cooper became the first on his network to acknowledge that some of the quotes used against Rush Limbaugh in his NFL bid were false on his program on Wednesday: “I also should point out, on this program, we did not use the wrong quotes.” Cooper also brought back Al Sharpton as a guest, and the activist again brought up Limbaugh’s “Crips and Bloods” remark, which he took out of…

CNN Frets About Cigarette Companies' Color Coding 'Tricks

October 15th, 2009 12:14 PM
You have to wonder about CNN's priorities. The network that has promoted the legalization of "our friend marijuana," and on Oct. 14 praised the British government's decision to offer free shooting galleries to heroin addicts, was the next day demonizing American cigarette companies for "color coding cigarettes to ‘trick' you."  "American Morning's" Kiran Chetry introduced the cigarette segment…

CNN Praises UK Government for Giving Drugs to Junkies

October 14th, 2009 5:03 PM
AEngland can't afford to help Alzheimer's patients pay for their medicine, but it can offer free shooting galleries to heroin addicts. On Oct. 14 CNN's "American Morning" aired a segment about the controversial program that "gives heroin to heroin addicts at the taxpayers' expense." Correspondent Paula Newton declared, "A safe, steady supply of heroin is apparently just what the doctor ordered…

Bozell to CNN, MSNBC: I Hope You Have Good Lawyers

October 14th, 2009 3:44 PM
"CNN and MSNBC were given ample opportunity to come clean, but both are continuing to masquerade malicious lies [against Rush Limbaugh] as credible," Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell said in a statement today. Yesterday, Bozell promised to report back publicly with how CNN and MSNBC responded to his challenge to put up – or shut up – proof that Rush Limbaugh…

CNN's Roberts Omits Far Left Affiliation of 'Inside' Health Care Guest

October 13th, 2009 9:28 PM
Anchor John Roberts became the fourth CNN personality to omit the left-wing affiliation of Wendell Potter, as he interviewed the  on Tuesday’s American Morning. Roberts only described Potter as someone who “worked for two different insurance companies in the past, and now he’s working against them to help get reform passed.”Before introducing his guest, the CNN anchor played up the merits of…

MRC/NB's Shepherd on 'The B-Cast' Discussing Media's Use of Dubious Li

October 13th, 2009 5:13 PM
NewsBusters managing editor Ken Shepherd will appear shortly on Breitbart.tv's "The B-Cast" to discuss how media outlets CNN and MSNBC have unskeptically furthered unverified quotes allegedly from Rush Limbaugh pertaining to slavery and Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray.You can follow online at this link or watch the embed below the page break:  

CNN Reads Limbaugh's Denial of Alleged Slavery Quote, Doesn't Retract

October 13th, 2009 4:21 PM
On Tuesday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Rick Sanchez read Rush Limbaugh’s denial that he ever made a quote attributed to him in which he praised antebellum slavery, but added that the denial “that does not take away...that there are other quotes...which many people in...minority communities do find offensive” [audio available here]. Sanchez broadcast the quote yesterday without any source, and made no…

CNN's Cooper Brings on Sharpton on Limbaugh: NFL Needs 'Standards

October 13th, 2009 1:21 PM
CNN’s Anderson Cooper brought on Rev. Al Sharpton- a person with an actual racially-divisive past - on his program on Monday to expound on his argument that Rush Limbaugh is “divisive” and even “anti-NFL.” Sharpton went so far as to claim that the issue of the talk show host’s involvement in the purchase of the St. Louis Rams is “whether or not the NFL is going to have standards.”The leader of…

MRC's Bozell Demands CNN, MSNBC Source Racist Charges Against Limbaugh

October 13th, 2009 12:44 PM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today demanded that CNN and MSNBC prove that radio talk show king Rush Limbaugh uttered a racist quote they have attributed to him as fact after Limbaugh publicly denied having ever said, “Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark” on his…

Fox’s Wallace Sees ‘Idiocy’ in CNN Fact-Checking Anti-Obama SNL

October 13th, 2009 5:56 AM
On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, as host Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace discussed recent comedy directed at President Obama and the First Lady – including a re-dubbed clip of Sesame Street’s Big Bird grilling Michelle Obama from the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Wallace opined that he hopes that there would be more such comedy and that the Obama’s should be…

CNN's Rick Sanchez Features Dubious Limbaugh Slavery Quote

October 12th, 2009 5:53 PM
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez read a disputed racist quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh about antebellum slavery on Monday’s Newsroom: “Limbaugh’s perceived racist diatribes are too many to name. Here’s a sample- he once declared that ‘slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.’”Before discussing…

NY Times: Fox Biz Flirting with CNN’s Lou Dobbs

October 12th, 2009 12:29 PM
Is Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes about to score another big name personality for his fledgling off-spin business channel? According to The New York Times television and digital media reporter Brian Stelter, News Corp's (NASDAQ:NWS) Fox Business Network is considering adding CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" host Lou Dobbs to its lineup. "The business channel is also keen on another administration…

Irony Alert: White House Praises 'Unbiased' CNN as Network Runs Promo

October 12th, 2009 10:14 AM
(UPDATE: Apparently there was a drowned out Republican voice in the promo. See full update below.)The irony in this story is so delicious, as NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard would probably describe it, that one must take a bit of time to savor it.Yesterday, Sheppard posted a story about White House communications director Anita Dunn whining at length on Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" about how…

What CNN’s John King Didn’t Ask McCain: If the Wall Street Bailout

October 12th, 2009 8:09 AM
Here was a chance for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. to admit he was wrong, and to conclude publicly that government intervention in the private sector doesn't always result in the best of outcomes. McCain appeared on CNN's Oct. 11 "State of the Union" in a pre-recorded interview and was asked by host John King if the lackluster recovery of the economy warranted more government intervention. "The…