Center for American Progress
PBS's Amanpour Agrees with Democrat: GOP Competing for 'Most Extreme'
May 20th, 2023 10:11 PM
Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour, fresh from arrogantly criticizing her network CNN for hosting a Donald Trump town hall and urging student journalists to “speak truth to power,” didn’t exactly renew confidence in the news media to challenge the powerful with her choice of guest to discuss the looming debt-ceiling deadline: Patrick Gaspard, president of the left-wing Center…
Soros Flunky Attacks NY Post for Exposing Billionaire’s Ties to DAs
Business
May 2nd, 2023 4:32 PM
A former George Soros lackey sought to defend the leftist billionaire and his efforts to undermine the criminal justice system in a series of tweets, relying on a surprising source.
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Analysis: Is Congress Doing Big Tech’s Bidding on Extremist AI Push?
Business
February 3rd, 2023 5:02 PM
The House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data and Commerce hosted a hearing, headlined “Economic Danger Zone: How America Competes to Win the Future Versus China.” The problem? The witnesses consisted of a string of leftist-funded, Big Tech-backed organizations trying to push a dystopian artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicle (AV) scheme under the pretense of protecting American…
Again! Soros Gave $32M to 28 Groups Calling for Censorship Pre-Midterm
Business
October 28th, 2022 1:02 PM
Another assortment of groups funded with millions of dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros are adding to the number of groups demanding that Big Tech unleash a censorship Armageddon against so-called election “disinformation.”
CNN: Want to Go Back to Church? Bigot.
Culture
May 15th, 2020 12:19 PM
CNN knows you religious types who insist on going to church during the pandemic need a good talking down to. Your intransigence leaves Team Zucker no choice: you’re just going to have to endure an oped from Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a fellow with the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress.
Steyer Cuts Ties with Lefty Center for American Progress Board
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August 12th, 2019 3:42 PM
Liberal billionaire and 2020 Democratic candidate Tom Steyer stepped down from a prominent left-wing think tank last month due to his presidential bid, according to CNBC. Steyer was deeply involved with Center for American Progress for at least 9 years. CNBC reported Steyer was director of CAP’s board since 2010 before resigning July 9. Steyer had been distancing himself from “outside entities…
Center for American Progress Fires Two After Intercept Scrutiny
Business
January 18th, 2019 3:26 PM
The liberal media outlet The Intercept reported that its scrutiny of the liberal Center for American Progress recently led to the firing of two CAP employees “suspected” of leaking emails. Leaked emails showed concern among some staff about United Arab Emirates’ influence at the liberal group.
CAP is one of the most well-known liberal groups in Washington, D.C. and is supported by a host of…
Apocalypse When?
November 29th, 2018 6:42 PM
Each time an end-of-the-world prophecy is delivered -- whether by a self-deluded preacher, a group of politicians or scientists -- we are told that we must believe. Never mind how many of their prophecies have been wrong in the past, this time they mean it. The latest prophecy of doom and planetary extinction comes from a government report authored by people appointed during the Obama…
Slate: Unlike Liberals, Conservatives Ignore Morality to Defend Allies
Culture
July 12th, 2018 2:03 PM
If you forget that Harvey Weinstein sexual harassed women, he’s actually a pretty decent guy, and if you ignore enough facts, you’ll believe liberals always put morals above politics … unlike those decadent conservatives.
No AP Attention to False Claim of Left 'Think Tank' About Amy Barrett
July 7th, 2018 5:30 PM
In mid-May, the Associated Press's Ken Thomas devoted over 800 words to the Center for American Progress's "Ideas Conference." Given that level of recognition, one might think that the AP and Thomas might have covered a blatantly false tweet the think tank published Monday about potential Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett by now. Nope.
Lipton Tea Donates Thousands to Liberal Agenda
Culture
June 30th, 2017 3:26 PM
Lipton Tea has made hefty contributions to Planned Parenthood, the National Urban League, and the Center for American Progress – all of which lobby heavily for leftist agendas. According to a weekly report from 2ndVote, Lipton has a history for donating to numerous exclusively liberal lobbies and organizations.
'Press is Psychotic,' But Politico 'Inaccurate' for Reporting Quote
Business
October 31st, 2016 2:40 PM
The left’s view of the media is riddled with hypocrisy, and Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden is a perfect example. “The press is psychotic!!!” She wrote in an email to Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta in July 2015, “But I will tweet now w/o actually saying they are psychotic.”
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Big Three Networks Censor Clinton Flacks' Catholic Bashing From 2011
October 12th, 2016 1:13 PM
As of Wednesday morning, the Big Three networks' morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Tuesday revelation that the Clinton campaign's communications director — along with a close associate of the campaign's chairman, John Podesta — bashed Catholicism and evangelical Christianity in an e-mail conversation in 2011. The latter, John Halpin of the left-wing Center for American Progress…
Soros Gave $10 Million to Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia’
February 17th, 2015 12:20 PM
A liberal group funded by billionaire George Soros is accusing conservatives and the “religious right” of fear-mongering and slandering Islam. According to the Center for American Progress, the right has been coordinating to push “Sharia hysteria” which “mischaracterizes Sharia as a totalitarian ideology of hate and triumphalism committed to replacing the U.S. Constitution with a radical Islamic…
