CNN's Don Lemon Calls Young Conservative At CPAC 'Progressive
February 22nd, 2010 12:31 AM
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Young conservative in question responds to Lemon. Just how out of touch must you be as a so-called journalist to think someone attending a conservative conference is liberal all because he or she is young?Such a question should be asked of Don Lemon who on Saturday interviewed a couple of under-aged conservatives at CPAC and actually called one of them progressive.Although…
CNN Seeks Out Stimulus 'Believer' Cited by President Obama
February 1st, 2010 6:19 PM
On Saturday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Don Lemon deferentially took President Obama’s advice and interviewed a stimulus “skeptic” turned “believer,” whom the Democrat cited as an example of the success of the stimulus during his recent State of the Union address. Lemon talked up the stimulus and the Obama administration’s energy efficiency tax credit with his guest Alan Levin, whose company produces…
CNN Runs Report on ClimateGate, But Only Includes Guests Who Dispute C
December 7th, 2009 1:57 AM
On Sunday, during the 6:00 p.m. hour and again during the 7:00 p.m. hour, CNN NewsRoom, hosted by Don Lemon, ran a report by correspondent Mary Snow on ClimateGate -- which was somewhat more balanced than the piece aired on November 25 -- though this report similarly did not quote any of the emails that suggest manipulation of data on global warming by scientists at the UK's University of East…
CNN's Lothian: Nobel Prize an 'A' for Effort, Could Help Pres. With He
October 9th, 2009 1:10 PM
CNN’s White House correspondent Dan Lothian, on Friday's American Morning, saw nothing but pluses for President Obama’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize. Lothian guessed that “the President obviously is getting an ‘A’ for effort here,” and even went so far to speculate about whether the reward could help the Democrat “push through on...health care as well...so this could help him.”Anchors Kiran…
CNN Zeroes-In on 'Dark Undercurrent' of Tea Parties
September 14th, 2009 6:26 PM
CNN’s Jim Spellman did his best to paint the participants of the Tea Party Express’s rallies across the nation in late August and early September as a bunch of extremists on Saturday’s Newsroom. Spellman played clips which zeroed-in on the protesters who called President Obama a Nazi, carried guns, or forwarded “outlandish conspiracy theories,” and labeled all of them “a dark undercurrent.”The…
CNN's Lemon Praises Maher for Raising Anti-Obama Racism: 'Finally Some
September 13th, 2009 2:05 AM
Left-wing “comedian” Bill Maher is setting the news agenda for CNN. Literally. With “Motivated by Race?” on screen, CNN anchor Don Lemon previewed his 7 PM hour Saturday night by citing Joe Wilson, “town hallers yelling at lawmakers” and those “refusing to let kids hear the commander in chief. And on and on and on. What's behind it? Is it racial?” In the subsequent segment, Lemon revealed his…
CNN Minimizes Partisan Nature of Ted Kennedy's 'Poignant Plea
August 20th, 2009 4:35 PM
On Thursday morning, CNN downplayed the partisan nature of “legendary” Senator Ted Kennedy’s request to backtrack on a 2004 change in Massachusetts state law which allowed Democrats to hold on to John Kerry’s Senate seat had he won the election. While anchor John Roberts and correspondent Dana Bash explained the circumstances of the 2004 change, Bash merely labeled it a “political irony.”Roberts…
CNN'S Lemon: 'At Least the President Is Trying to Reform Health Care
August 17th, 2009 1:04 AM
On Saturday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Don Lemon played a clip of his interview with Allen Hardage, identified as the director of America's Town Hall:LEMON: Where was the outrage five years ago, ten years ago, 15 years ago? Why all of a sudden this outrage now? At least the president is trying to reform health care, so where did the outrage suddenly come from?ALLEN HARDAGE, DIRECTOR, AMERICA'S TOWN…
CNN Uses Pro-Communist American to Tout Cuban Health Care
August 8th, 2009 12:57 PM
There’s something deeply wrong with journalism that scrutinizes and criticizes the institutions of free and successful nations, but produces puff pieces on the supposed achievements of totalitarian dictatorships. On Thursday, CNN aired a piece of Communist Party propaganda about how Cuba could serve as “a model for health care reform” in the United States, complete with an authoritative sound…
CNN's Lemon Does Amazing Interview With Cambridge Police
July 27th, 2009 10:23 PM
It's not often I'm positively surprised by anything aired on CNN, but the interview Don Lemon did with members of the Cambridge Police Department Saturday is nothing less than breathtaking. While most media members have shamefully taken the side of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates in the matter of his arrest by Sgt. James Crowley on July 16, Lemon took the time to meet with the officer's co-…
CNN's Harris Calls Police Union Presser 'Incendiary
July 24th, 2009 4:41 PM
CNN daytime anchor Tony Harris has a bit of a different perspective on the Henry Louis Gates arrest.Around 12:31 PM, after the Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition held a press conference defending Sgt. Crowley’s conduct in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Harris spoke to the CNN reporter on the scene, Don Lemon. Having been informed that one of the reasons the union…
CNN Anchor's Smackdown: Bush Got Just as Warm a Welcome in Africa as O
July 11th, 2009 8:42 PM
Future attorneys are taught in law school to never ask a witness a question they don't already know the answer to. On Saturday, CNN's Don Lemon learned this lesson the hard way.Well after President Obama finished his speech in Ghana, Lemon was speaking live to correspondent Nkepile Mabuse who was reporting on location.When Lemon asked whether the warm reception Obama received upon his arrival…
The 12 Days of Michael
July 8th, 2009 5:56 PM
There's no doubt about it. Celebrity is the media's top priority. Michael Jackson's June 25 death overshadowed all other news for almost two weeks. Nightly news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC featured at least one story each night about Jackson since his death. More than half of those broadcasts aired since June 25 lead with a story about Jackson. A Pew poll found cable news devoted 93…
