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CNN Smears: Conservatives Say 'U.S. Military's Best Days Are Gone'
June 1st, 2021 7:00 PM
CNN likes to play the game of smearing conservatives for saying things they didn’t actually say. But because the network doesn’t really do journalism, it’s not surprising. Monday night’s episode of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, aired an interview by Barbara Starr with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Starr immediately attacked conservatives who believe the “U.S. Military’s…
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Here’s the WORST of CNN’s Hatefest After Trump's Fourth of July Speech
July 4th, 2019 10:40 PM
Over the course of about 28 minutes of airtime (including commercials) following the President’s Fourth of July event A Salute to America, CNN’s The Situation Room put on one of the most disgraceful displays of liberal media bias, Trump hatred, and slights at America you’ll ever see. Attacking the President like bitter preschoolers, a cast of CNN personalities bashed the Trump speech as a “…
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Boo Hoo: CNN Still Bashing Trump for Iraq Visit, Not Meeting Iraqi PM
December 27th, 2018 4:01 PM
Thursday’s Inside Politics led off with more kvetching about every aspect of President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to U.S. troops in Germany and Iraq, including how he didn’t meet with the Iraqi Prime Minister. Conveniently, they downplayed the positive symbolism of having a president visit troops and footnoted the similarities between Trump and Barack Obama in not meeting face-to-face with…
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CNN Decries Troops in Iraq Who Had Their MAGA Hats Signed by Trump
December 26th, 2018 10:08 PM
During President Trump’s surprise visit to Al Asad Airbase in Iraq to celebrate Christmas with the U.S. troops there, he rubbed shoulders with America’s finest as he took selfies and signed autographs for them. Some of those autographs were signed on the iconic “Make America Great Again” hats that some soldiers brought to him. For any other president it would be treated a fun and warm moment, but…
CNN Pentagon Reporter Scolds Generals For Failing to Stick Up for CNN
July 28th, 2018 5:41 PM
CNN has blurred any distinction between reporting and editorializing not only on television, but also on their own website. On Thursday, CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr raged against President Trump just like every other correspondent and host on CNN....this time in a commentary on CNN's online opinion page.
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CNN Reporter Asks: Can Pentagon Really 'Stay Out of the Gun Debate'?
February 24th, 2018 11:13 PM
Jack Heretik at the Washington Free Beacon reports that CNN is so desperate to push for gun control in every forum that on Thursday, Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr pestered Defense Department spokemsan Dana White about how it must be fairly close to impossible for the military brass to "stay out of the gun debate" in America. White said no, it wasn't impossible, that those issues "are for…
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CNN Panel: America Will Be 'More North Korean' With Military Parade
February 6th, 2018 10:58 PM
A CNN panel was visibly disgusted Tuesday evening when news broke out of the Pentagon that President Trump had requested to have a military parade in Washington, DC similar to the Bastille Day parade he witnessed while in Paris, France. The panel was outraged as they tossed around denouncements and comparisons to the despots like those in North Korea and Russia.
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Seriously? Nets Fail to Report ISIS Chemical Attack Against US Troops
September 21st, 2016 9:57 PM
Terrifying news broke during CNN’s The Lead on Wednesday, as details of a chemical weapon attack against US troops at Qayyara Air Base in Iraq became known. “We do have some breaking news coming into CNN at this minute,” announced a concerned Jake Tapper, “US officials are telling CNN that the Pentagon suspects ISIS launched a chemical weapons attack against US and Iraqi troops.” The terrible…
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MSNBC Loves Obama’s ‘Extraordinary,’ ‘Passionate Cry From the Heart'
June 14th, 2016 1:48 PM
Make no mistake, the journalists at MSNBC and CNN loved Barack Obama’s defense of not using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” Regarding the Tuesday speech, which also denounced Donald Trump, Andrea Mitchell was beside herself: “This was a passionate cry from the heart about his vision of America by this President. He has never before taken on Donald Trump and he just eviscerated Donald…
Nets Skip News Detainee Traded for Bergdahl Working to Rejoin Taliban
January 30th, 2015 12:57 AM
On Thursday night, the major broadcast networks declined to cover reports that one of the five Taliban detainees swapped for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in May 2014 has been seeking to rejoin the terrorism ranks by contacting Taliban members back in Afghanistan.
The news, which was broken by CNN Thursday afternoon, came following reports on Wednesday from Fox News and NBC News that the Army could be…
Jon Stewart: Media 'Kind of Suck' for Getting Scooped by Rolling Stone
June 24th, 2010 3:26 PM
Comedian Jon Stewart Wednesday pointed out an inconvenient truth about this week's General Stanley McChrystal incident: the media "kind of suck" for getting scooped by Rolling Stone magazine.As "The Daily Show" host addressed the day's events involving the General and President Obama, he showed clips of various press members expressing disgust that Rolling Stone would get such access to…
CNN Boosts Repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' 11 to
February 3rd, 2010 11:08 AM
There are at least two sides to every argument, unless the issue is homosexuality. Then, according to CNN, there's only one side and it's the homosexual activists who get to tell it. CNN advocated a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy in 12 different reports between Jan. 28, the day after President Barack Obama reiterated his pledge to end the current military policy of banning…
CNN Puts Negative Spin on Withdrawal of Brigade from Iraq
November 13th, 2007 1:02 PM
Instead of the progress that has been made in lowering violence in the country, CNN decided to focus on the "significant price" of the troop surge in Iraq. Tuesday’s "American Morning" reported that the Defense Department had decided to pull an entire brigade out of Iraq. Co-host John Roberts asked Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr "what’s this really mean for the war?" Starr only mentioned…
Iraqi Troops Donate $1000 to California Wildfire Aid, Media Mum
October 30th, 2007 11:11 AM
Here's a heart-rending story out of Iraq media will likely boycott or downplay: a group of Iraqi soldiers in a military camp east of Baghdad collected $1000 last week to send to folks in southern California affected by the recent wildfires. Certainly not something an anti-war media will want to quickly share with the public, wouldn't you agree? Yet, there it was Monday evening at CNN.com,…
