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Night Two of RNC Disrupted 4 Times by CNN, Only Once for Dems

August 26th, 2020 12:20 AM

Republican National Convention has become a proving ground for how inconsistent the CNN was in terms of treating both political parties fairly. As NewsBusters’ associate editor Scott Whitlock documented last week, the anti-Trump news outlet only interrupted night two of the Democratic National Convention once. But for night two of the RNC, CNN disrupted the proceedings four times to whine…

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CNN: Dem Convention ‘Very Emotional,’ Jill’s Voice ‘Music to My Ears’

August 19th, 2020 12:21 AM

Night two of the Democratic National Convention was yet another snooze fest that CNN let dominate their prime time line up. Following the conclusion with a musical performance by John Legend, the Zuckerville collective immediately took to praising it as “very emotional,” with one swooning for Jill Biden’s accent, and another appearing to defend how boring it was as a metaphor for how the…

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Tin Foil Hat CNN Claims Trump Wants to Keep Americans From Voting

August 15th, 2020 5:33 PM

On Friday’s New Day, CNN co-host John Berman and guest host Erica Hill joined forces with political correspondent Abby Phillip to forward Democratic talking points about President Trump objecting to sinking more taxpayer dollars into the postal service. The partisan hacks entered into tin-foil-hat territory when Hill claimed that Trump desires “to make sure that an American's right to…

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Stumping for Kamala: CNN Lavishes Praise on Biden VP Pick

August 13th, 2020 9:52 AM

On Wednesday’s New Day, co-host John Berman and guest host Erica Hill colluded with senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson, political correspondent Abby Phillip, and political producer Jasmine Wright to gush over Joe Biden choosing Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate. Phillip praised Harris’s “broad appeal” and Henderson stumped for the Democratic ticket by…

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HACK ALERT: CNN Panel Conspires to Protect Biden From Racist Remarks

August 7th, 2020 1:30 PM

On Friday’s New Day, CNN co-host John Berman and guest host Erica Hill conspired with political correspondent Abby Phillip to protect Joe Biden from his racist comments that he made at a virtual convention with the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Latino Journalists. Phillip excused Biden as being “a gaffe machine." 

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Multiple Outlets, Journalists Push False Stat that Q2 GDP Fell 32.9%

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July 30th, 2020 2:40 PM

It turns out the news media can’t even report bad news without making it worse. Multiple outlets pushed a false statistic that U.S. GDP fell 32.9 percent in the second quarter. Fact: It fell 9.5 percent. Not 32.9 percent. The 32.9 percent figure is more than three times higher than what actually happened.

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CNN: The Only Way to Honor John Lewis Is to Embrace Liberalism

July 29th, 2020 8:05 AM

While most of the coverage of John Lewis' memorial focused on his role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and later career as a congressman, CNN's Abby Phillip and Dana Bash argued on Monday's special edition of CNN Newsroom that if Americans wanted to honor Lewis' legacy, they should embrace not just Lewis' dedication to civil rights and racial equality, but also his…

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Biden Headquarters: CNN Praises Ads, Hides His Segregationist Past

July 17th, 2020 3:00 PM

On Friday morning’s New Day, CNN co-hosts Jim Sciutto and Alisyn Camerota brought on political correspondent Abby Phillip to campaign for their presidential candidate, Joe Biden. The hacks bashed President Trump and fawned over Biden’s campaign strategy. Most outrageously, Phillip accused Trump of forwarding segregationist policies, when Biden literally was a segregationist in the…

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CNN Biden Boosters Fantasize Trump Tax Returns Will Put Trump in Jail

July 9th, 2020 4:02 PM

On Thursday morning’s CNN Newsroom, host Poppy Harlow brought on political correspondent Abby Phillip and presidential historian Douglas Brinkley to discuss the Supreme Court’s rulings on President Trump’s tax returns. The Democratic hacks were not interested in objective analysis of the cases, but instead on how the rulings could harm Trump's chances in the 2020 election. Brinkley…

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Democratic Campaigning: CNN Covers for Biden, Paints Him as Moderate

July 2nd, 2020 7:44 PM

On Wednesday morning’s New Day, CNN host John Berman brought on political correspondent Abby Phillip to hype their presidential candidate, Joe Biden. Both hacks campaigned for Biden by making him seem reasonable in comparison to President Trump and Phillip flat out lied about the presumptive Democratic nominee, claiming he was in “the middle.”

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Sciutto Ignores CNN's Own Reporters, Cries Racism on GA Voting Lines

June 11th, 2020 12:09 PM

CNN Newsroom host Jim Sciutto is not one to miss an opportunity to engage in conspiracy mongering about voter suppression. On Wednesday's show, Sciutto was so invested in the voter suppression narrative in the aftermath of the Georgia Primary that he ignored not one, but two of CNN's own reporters telling him that the pandemic, not voter suppression, was a more innocent explanation of…

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CNN RAVES Over Obama’s ‘Confident,’ ‘Hopeful,’ ‘Strong’ Remarks

June 3rd, 2020 8:05 PM

The pro-Antifa and pro-riot CNN continued to its embarrassing display of affection for liberals and viewing opponents as enemies of the people. Reacting on Wednesday’s Situation Room to Barack Obama’s remarks voicing support for protesters, host Wolf Blitzer tag-teamed with CNN Tonight host Don Lemon and correspondent Abby Phillip to fawn over of Obama’s “confident,” “hopeful…

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Column: Brainy Reporters Play Dumb on 'Obamagate'

May 22nd, 2020 7:01 AM
President Trump has tweeted feverishly about “Obamagate,” loosely defined as everything the Obama-Biden team did to ruin Trump’s candidacy (and then presidency) using their executive-branch powers. The Trump-loathing press has responded with an unusual tactic. The self-appointed guardians of democracy who have auditioned themselves as America’s great explainers are playing dumb.
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CNN's Fact-Mangling Moderator Still Sticking Up for Elizabeth Warren

March 7th, 2020 7:13 AM
CNN's Abby Phillip appeared Friday night on the PBS journalist-roundup Washington Week, and was offered the floor to condemn all the sexism in the Democratic Party now that Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. In January, Phillip mangled facts in a debate by repeating Warren's claim that Bernie Sanders told her in 2018 a woman couldn't win. He denied saying it twice, and she…