Jack Cafferty: 'Is Sarah Palin's 15 Minutes of Fame Over
September 21st, 2008 10:29 PM
On Friday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty asked, "Is Sarah Palin's 15 minutes of fame over?" As you can see, Jack seems very anxious for Palin to become a has been of little consequence in this election:Funny how a stock market crash, the failure of a few big investment banks will distract Americans from the flavor of the day. There doesn't seem to be the burning interest in who makes Sarah…
CNN's Blitzer Ignores William Cohen's Prior Service on AIG's Board of
September 18th, 2008 8:02 PM
Updated with correction below.CNN's Situation Room today featured a Wolf Blitzer interview with former Defense Secretary William Cohen. As a lead in to the interview, White House correspondent Elaine Quijano reported on President Bush's actions to quiet the country's financial jitters. She wrapped up:
CNN's Cafferty: Not Voting Obama? You're a Racist
September 17th, 2008 4:06 AM
To show the empty "logic" that Jack Cafferty of CNN employs in his political commentary all one need do is check out his September 16 Political Ticker blog post on why the race for the White House is so tight in the polls. Reason: the country is filled with racists. Yes, folks, if you are voting against Obama (and no matter who or what you are actually supporting and why) it must be because you…
CNN’s Jack Cafferty Bashes Palin: ‘Shades of President Bush
September 16th, 2008 5:49 PM
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty blasted Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s The Situation Room over her refusal to cooperate with the Alaska state legislature’s investigation into the firing of Walt Monegan, the former Alaska public safety commissioner: "Palin is refusing to cooperate with the investigation -- shades of President Bush, right? Embarrassing investigation?…
CNN Brings Back Banned Clinton Shill to Echo Obama Talking Points
September 12th, 2008 12:13 PM
He's baaaaack!After a brief hiatus from CNN due to his ties to Hillary Clinton, former Clinton administration advisor Paul Begala is back on the cable network echoing Democrat talking points.This comes months after CNN announced back in January that Begala, along with Hillary shill James Carville, had been removed as contributors "to make sure that all the analysts that are on are non-aligned."If…
CNN’s Gloria Borger to Giuliani: Has the GOP Gotten ‘Narrower
September 5th, 2008 1:40 AM
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani faced liberal lines of questioning from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Gloria Borger during the 6 PM EDT hour of The Situation Room before the network’s Thursday night coverage of the Republican convention. In particular, Borger pressed Giuliani on his differences with Sarah Palin on social issues: "Last night, you spoke before Sarah Palin, a woman who -- with…
Nervous MSM Suggests McCain Scrap Sarah
September 3rd, 2008 5:46 PM
Post-Palin Speech Update: How's that poll going now, Bill?Imagine it's a few days before the Dem convention. In a big—BIG—surprise, Barack Obama names Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy his vice-presidential running mate. You're a partisan Republican. Do you?:a. demand that Obama drop Kennedy from the ticket; orb. sit back and enjoy the, uh, ride. I'm guessing the great majority of red-…
Giuliani Scoffs at Blitzer's Claim Obama 'Scrutinized for Months
September 2nd, 2008 6:41 PM
In the midst of being pounded by Wolf Blitzer and other CNN panelists about Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin's supposedly inadequate experience, Rudy Giuliani wondered late Tuesday afternoon: “Why did Barack Obama get a pass on his experience? And why is Sarah Palin's experience, which from the executive point of view is considerably more than Barack Obama's, under such scrutiny?” Blitzer…
Bennett, Live on CNN, Rebukes CNN for Exploiting Palin's Daughter to S
September 1st, 2008 8:55 PM
Late Monday afternoon live on CNN, Bill Bennett rebuked -- as an “outrageous” piece of “advocacy” and “attack journalism” that “has no place on CNN” -- a story the channel had just run which used the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter to score political points by relaying as fact the talking points on sex education from a left-wing group. A defensive Wolf Blitzer kept saying “hold on” as he…
CNN’s Liberal Talking Heads Caught Dancing to Dems’ Music
August 26th, 2008 11:30 PM
No, it’s not what you might think. We know that CNN’s Roland Martin "dances" to a liberal tune, but the cameras caught him grooving to the music at the Democratic convention, along with CNN frequent contributors (and Democratic strategists) Paul Begala and Donna Brazille, as featured in a report by correspondent Jeanne Moos on Tuesday’s The Situation Room (video at right).The CNN camera crews…
CNN Labels Dem Convention Speakers as Some of the 'Most Liberal
August 25th, 2008 6:32 PM
Previewing the first night of the Democratic convention on Monday's "Situation Room," host Wolf Blitzer and a network graphic repeatedly identified the announced speakers as liberal. The CNN anchor asserted, "The speaker lineup for tonight, by the way, here at the convention, includes some of the party's most prominent and most liberal members, including the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator…
CNN's Cafferty Takes Cue from Dems for Question to 'Situation Room' Vi
August 25th, 2008 6:12 PM
Shortly after the Democrats gaveled to order their 2008 nominating convention at 5 p.m. EDT, CNN's Jack Cafferty did the party of Jimmy Carter a favor by pushing its economic message on his blog and the network's "The Situation Room" program with his question of the hour. Cafferty listed negative-sounding statistic after negative statistic, failing to offset them with even one praiseworthy…
