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Obama Speaks At Lower Grade Level Than Bush, CNN Says He's 'Too Profes
June 17th, 2010 10:42 AM
You know why President Obama's Gulf Coast oil spill address from the Oval Office failed so miserably on Tuesday?It went over too many heads.At least that's what the folks at CNN.com believe.Maybe that's why the so-called geniuses at MSNBC didn't like it - it went over Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Howard Fineman's heads!Even more absurd in this piece by the CNN Wire Staff is that it…
James Carville Bashes Fareed Zakaria: 'I Wanted to Hit Him With a Foot
June 11th, 2010 12:43 AM
Democrat strategist James Carville Thursday had strong words for Fareed Zakaria who in an interview recently published at CNN.com defended President Obama's handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill."When I read that I wanted to hit him with a football bat," Carville told CNN's John King on the program bearing his name.For those not getting the joke, Carville was mocking Zakaria's reference to "…
CNN Blames White People For Obama's Slow Action On Oil Spill
June 9th, 2010 5:24 PM
UPDATE - 6/9, 5:45 PM | Lachlan Markay: One of CNN's primary sources for this piece has endorsed the notion that "Rev. Wright's anger about the domestic and foreign policies of the USA are well rooted – and documented – in the current reality of the USA." Details below the jump.The excuses keep rolling in to explain why President Obama is seemingly detached from the oil spill crisis in the Gulf…
CNN Waits 2 Weeks to Release and Then Bury Anti-ObamaCare Poll Results
June 3rd, 2010 6:49 PM
CNN tried to downplay poll results it released on Wednesday which indicated continuing opposition to ObamaCare, while emphasizing how the poll also found "growing support" for the President's call for increased federal regulation of the financial institutions. The network and its partners at Opinion Research also took two weeks to publish the results of only two questions from the poll.The…
The Importance of Reporting Israel's Side of the Flotilla Incident
May 31st, 2010 12:36 PM
CRITICAL UPDATES at end of article.It's now all over the headlines: "Israeli Soldiers Kill at Least 10 Protesters on Boat Carrying Supplies to Gaza."But with all stories, there are indeed two sides.As international outrage mounts, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancels Tuesday's scheduled meeting with President Obama, it is crucial that news outlets here offer an accurate, fair and…
CNN.com Endorses Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Shuts Out Supporters
May 27th, 2010 7:14 PM
CNN.com's opinion page has clearly sided with those supporting President Obama's proposed repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring open homosexuals from the ranks. During the first five months of 2010, the website has published four columns pushing for the repeal and none from supporters of the policy. Two came from the executive director of a homosexual activist group…
IBD Rips 'Mob Rule from SEIU'; Media Virtually AWOL
May 25th, 2010 3:32 PM
Investors Business Daily called attention to an alarming story that goes back to Sunday, May 16 in a Monday evening editorial. A protest noticed by the target's next-door neighbor who happened to be home at the time, namely journalist Nina Easton (who also took the photo at right), occurred in a Metro DC suburb in Maryland marked the next round of a national labor union's attempt at persuasion…
Seventies Sex Symbol Raquel Welch Mourns Current 'Hookup' Culture
May 15th, 2010 11:03 PM
The recent parade of praise for The Pill wasn't unanimous. Surprisingly, Raquel Welch, one of the hottest sex symbols of the 1970s, confessed in a commentary on CNN.com that she's been married four times, but she believes that too many women are too willing to "hook up" casually, since contraceptives make it "safe" to play the field: One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female…
CNN Money's Plan to Save Social Security: Raise Taxes, Soak the Rich
May 12th, 2010 8:46 PM
Jeanne Sahadi at CNNMoney.com has finally realized Social Security needs urgent reform - and by reform, she means going after the wealthy, of course. On Monday, Sahadi reported on news from the Congressional Budget Office that Social Security is dipping into savings already this year and will not be able to meet its obligations by 2037. That's at least 15 years earlier than what the CBO had…
George Mason Reviewing Author of South Park Death Threats
April 29th, 2010 10:36 PM
While the story of the South Park death threats may not specifically constitute bias in the media per say, it does highlight an embarrassing pattern that has sent Big Media the way of the dinosaur, and a disturbing pattern that has people kowtowing to aggressive threats from radical Islamists. We'll start with the MSM. Zachary Chesser, or Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee as he is known on the…
CNN Co-Founder: CNN Is at Risk of Becoming a Bad Joke
April 28th, 2010 8:39 PM
Just how bad have things gotten at the low rated CNN? So bad that the CNN co-founder, Reese Schonfeld has written in his Huffington Post blog that it is at risk of becoming a bad joke:I think CNN is at risk of becoming a bad joke. Late night comics and cartoonists are already using them as a gag line. Newspapers are asking "experts" how to save them. It's time for a major change, before…
CNN Rolls Out Sob Stories From Latino Soldier, Businesses on Impact of
April 28th, 2010 6:39 PM
CNN and CNN.com highlighted opposition to Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law on Monday and Wednesday by focusing on sob stories from a soldier of Latino decent whose family entered the U.S. illegally when he was two, and from Latino businesses apparently "already feeling the effects" of the law. Correspondent Thelma Gutierrez's interview of Private First Class Jose Medina first aired…
Media Pounces on Bizarre Study Claiming Only 67,000 in Tea Party
April 23rd, 2010 5:58 PM
Is the Tea Party movement nothing but a mirage? That’s the impression left by an odd confluence of recent reports.First, the Christian Science Monitor’s Patchwork Nation blog reported that the entire Tea Party movement consists of just 67,000 members. PBS NewsHour cross-posted the story on its The Rundown blog the same day. The next day, CNN reported the findings on its Political Ticker blog and…
Some in Media Say ‘No’ to Promoting Hook Ups
April 21st, 2010 11:50 AM
For years, pop culture hyped "hooking up" as fun, easy and largely without consequences. Teens and young adults bought into the hype, much to the chagrin of educators and parents, but some young women who experienced the consequences of these casual sexual encounters are now rejecting the "hook up" culture. CNN took notice of the changing behavior among college women - and some pop stars…