CNN Downplays Biden's Deceptions

September 14th, 2008 9:52 PM
On Saturday, CNN presented the special "Joe Biden Revealed."  Anchored by Abbie Boudreau, the show touched on why Biden dropped his 1988 presidential bid.  Discussing it with Boudreau was Senior Biden adviser Ted Kaufman (Kinnock spelled incorrectly throughout transcript):

CNN's 'Obamacan' Worked For Bobby Kennedy

July 8th, 2008 5:26 PM
On this afternoon's CNN Newsroom, anchor Don Lemon interviewed Carolyn Lochhead, the San Francisco Chronicle's Washington correspondent. The topic was "Obamacans," conservative Republicans who support Barack Obama for president. Lochhead wrote a recent article on the phenomenon and was brought on to discuss the mythical beast:

R.F.K. Jr.: Oil, Coal Subsidies Over $2 Trillion Per Year

July 1st, 2008 6:25 PM
During June 30th's "Larry King Live," Robert F. Kennedy Jr., senior attorney at the National Resource Defense Counsel, made a head-turning statement regarding subsidies to the oil and coal industry, and not a single panelist challenged him on it. Not that one would expect King himself to do it; however, the other panelists included Chevron's David O'Reilly and ABC's John Stossel. Relevant portion…

RFK Jr. 'Manifesto' Parallels 'Abolishing' Slavery, Quitting Carbon Us

April 24th, 2008 9:14 AM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to ‘abolish’ carbon usage and sees a direct comparison to the end of slavery.According to Kennedy, “industry and government warnings” about avoiding “economic ruin” should not be heeded because abolishing slavery did not cripple the British economy as was predicted “Instead of collapsing, as slavery’s proponents had predicted, Britain’s economy accelerated,” he argued…

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: October 13 to 19 (Al Gore Edition

October 20th, 2007 10:21 AM
Al Gore: He Speaks for Us AllIt would be quite the understatement to say that members of the media approved of Al Gore's Nobel Prize win. Sam Donaldson lauded Gore for doing something "very important." Cokie Roberts justified the former vice president's inaccuracies by claiming that even if it was propaganda, Gore made an important issue popular. Over on CNN, reporter Miles O'Brien, once again,…

ABC Touts Gore Some More; Lets RFK Rant About Exxon Conspiracy

October 13th, 2007 2:32 PM
Saturday’s Good Morning America kept up the applause for Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize award, featuring a completely one-sided report from correspondent Bill Blakemore -- who said that scientists were “joyous” over the award to Gore because “scientists have been far more worried than anyone about global warming, finding it's far more dangerous, coming much quicker, than they expected” -- followed…