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CNN's Lemon Seems Unaware of Claims Hillary Intimidated Women

May 25th, 2016 7:50 PM
On Tuesday's CNN Tonight, during a discussion of Donald Trump making an issue of Hillary Clinton being an "enabler" of her husband, Bill Clinton, abusing women, host Don Lemon seemed unaware of the kinds of accusations made by women like Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey that Hillary Clinton had taken part in efforts to intimidate them into silence about sexual assaults. At one point,…
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Beinart on CNN: 'Dangerous' To Use 'Ill-Defined' Term 'Radical Islam'

May 20th, 2016 12:36 PM
The Atlantic's Peter Beinart ripped Donald Trump on Thursday's AC360 on CNN over his repeated use of the phrase "radical Islam." When Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany defended the billionaire for this criticism, Beinart retored, "If you're talking about ISIS, we know what that is. If you're talking about radical Islam, I don't think, with all due respect, you have any idea what that is....the…
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CNN Panel Hits Trump 'Very Conservative' 'Dog Whistle' Court Picks

May 19th, 2016 8:34 PM
On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360, an eight-member panel consisting of only one solid conservative, combined with several solid liberals, was mostly down on GOP presidential candidate's short list of possible Supreme Court picks. With socially liberal Republican Margaret Hoover, who referred to the picks as a "dog whistle to social conservatives," joining with other liberals to gripe about the…
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CNN's Cooper Invokes 'Jewish Extremists' As Argument Vs. Muslim Ban

May 3rd, 2016 12:54 AM
On Monday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, after New York magazine's Andrew Sullivan slammed Donald Trump's proposal for a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants, host Anderson Cooper grasped at straws to suggest an equivalence with banning Jews because "Jewish extremists" have "committed acts of terrorism against Israeli leaders" as he pushed back against conservative CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany's…
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CNN Anchors Fret Tame Joke by Trump Was 'Stoking the Flames'

April 30th, 2016 3:07 PM
On Friday evening, during a discussion of violent protests at the Republican convention in California, CNN anchors Erin Burnett and John Berman on two different programs both seemed oddly worried that an innocent joke Donald Trump made about sneaking across the border would exacerbate tensions. On Erin Burnett Outfront, host Burnett wondered if the levity was "stoking the flames," and, an hour…

The Prime Time Primary: Trump vs. His Rivals on Cable News

April 18th, 2016 2:03 PM
A team of MRC analysts logged each prime time interview of a presidential candidate or a plainly-identified supporter or surrogate on CNN, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel from March 21 to April 15, weekdays only, poring over approximately 240 hours of programming. Our study found that the Fox News Channel spent much more time interviewing Donald Trump and his surrogates than either of his GOP…
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CNN's Hoover Slams 'Draconian' Religious Freedom Laws

April 12th, 2016 3:48 PM
Appearing as a panel member on Monday's CNN Tonight, during a discussion of proposed religious freedom laws in states like Mississippi and the bathroom law in North Carolina, CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover slammed the measures as "draconian laws that dismiss LGBT people." For his part, host Don Lemon labeled the laws as "crazy" after liberal Republican Hoover recalled polling that…
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Brinkley Hails Trump’s Reaction to Lewandowski's Criminal Charges

March 30th, 2016 2:10 AM
In an election that’s presented numerous moments where people from the across the political spectrum found themselves on the same side, Tuesday’s CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall featured another strange dichotomy as liberal historian Douglas Brinkley oozed praise for Donald Trump over his handling of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski facing criminal charges. 
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CNN's Beinart Gushes Over ‘Brilliant’ Hillary for Taking Cabinet Post

March 8th, 2016 7:16 PM
In the early moments of CNN’s Super Tuesday 2 coverage, Atlantic contributing editor and CNN political commentator Peter Beinart encouraged viewers to consider “how brilliant was Hillary Clinton” to accept President Obama’s offer to become his secretary of state and “politically de facto his vice president” even though “[a] lot of people at the time didn't see” this so-called “wisdom.”

CNN Absurdly Suggests Ben Carson Wants to Violate Constitution

September 22nd, 2015 7:35 PM
As CNN hosts spent much of Monday obsessing over GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson's assertion that he would not support electing a Muslim President, various hosts and guests repeatedly and absurdly claimed that he was advocating a violation of the U.S. Constitution.