On Monday morning’s New Day, CNN hosts Erica Hill and John Berman interviewed Maggie Haberman, CNN political analyst and New York Times White House correspondent. Throughout the interview, both hosts and Haberman taunted President Trump for appearing “defeated” in a video of him after his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday.
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CNN Misleadingly Suggests Most Killed by Police Are Black
On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, the liberal news network's flagship morning show served as a microcosm of one of the big problems with how the media covers police-involved violence, exaggerating it into more of a racial issue than it actually is. The three-hour show highlighted three cases in which suspects died during arrests under circumstances similar to George Floyd's death.
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CNN's Bakari Sellers: George Wallace Looking 'Up' at Trump With Smile
Speaking of the use of force to clear protesters prior to President Trump's appearance in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, CNN commentator Bakari Sellers says, "the only thing I could think of was George Wallace is probably looking 'up' at him with a smile." He thus suggested that Wallace is in Hell, and by extension, that Trump is a kindred spirit.
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CNN Likens Anti-Riot Actions to 'Tiananmen Square' Massacre
On Tuesday morning's New Day on CNN, Trump derangement syndrome was on full display as CNN regulars spread misinformation and freaked out over the dispersal of rioters in Lafayette square before President Donald Trump's speech on the riots across the country. As the group incorrectly claimed that the protesters were all peaceful and that tear gas was used against them, CNN legal analyst Laura…
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CNN's Gergen Calls It 'Nuts' for Bill Barr to Urge 'Law and Order'
Late Saturday afternoon, during live coverage of the protests and riots in reaction to the police-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, CNN host John Berman and analyst David Gergen fretted over Attorney General Bill Barr calling for "law and order" in a statement addressing the violence. Gergen called the choice of words a "dog whistle" and declared it to be "nuts" that it was…
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CNN Worries: Trump’s ‘Simple Message’ of Reopening Might Resonate
The journalists at CNN on Tuesday conducted a Democratic strategy session as hosts Alisyn Camerota, John Berman and liberal commentator Bakari Sellers worried that Donald Trump’s “simple message” on reopening the country might actually resonate with people. Camerota fretted, “Bakari, as you know, President Trump also doesn't really deal in details and so one of the things that he's good at is…
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CNN's Berman Suggests Tucker Carlson Is a 'Buffoon' on Dr. Fauci
Tucker Carlson committed the mortal sin of questioning the unerring wisdom of Dr. Fauci. And for that, CNN's John Berman suggests that Carlson is a "buffoon."
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CNN's Berman Cues Liberal Senator to Bash McConnell's Judge Moves
On Tuesday's New Day show, CNN host John Berman prodded Maine Senator Angus King (an independent who caucuses with Democrats) to bash conservative judicial nominee Justin Walker as he opened his interview with the Maine Senator. The CNN host gave no pushback when Senator King derided Walker as "that unqualified judge," and complained that it was "ridiculous" that they were returning to D.C. in…
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Peter Navarro Gives CNN's Berman a Hydroxychloroquine Assignment
CNN, along with MSNBC, remains one of the media bastions still remaining hostile toward the use of hydroxychloroquine. One big reason for this hostility is that President Donald Trump has been publicizing its use in the treatment of coronavirus. Therefore if the Orange Man thinks it is good, then CNN (and MSNBC) automatically think it is bad.
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CNN Features Guest 44x for 150 Mins, Barely Notes Past Abortion Job
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, CNN has shown an inability to shy away from framing the pandemic through the lens of attacking President Trump. Another tic has been their continued refusal to describe frequent guest Dr. Leana Wen as a former president of Planned Parenthood. Since our first post about Wen on March 16, the Media Research Center kept tabs on Wen’s appearances and calculated her…
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Wow: New Day Blasts Schumer, While Finding Silver Lining for Democrats
CNN rarely criticizes Democrats so it was an anomaly when Thursday morning’s New Day panel blasted Sen. Chuck Schumer’s threat against two conservative Supreme Court justices yesterday, “wrong and inappropriate.” Co-host John Berman spoke with CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin about both Schumer threatening conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch yesterday at a pro-abortion rally…
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CNN Gives Krugman Free Time to Bash GOP on Coronavirus, Tax Cuts
On Monday's New Day show, CNN gave an unchallenged forum to liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to trash the Trump administration and other Republicans over issues like tax cuts and the Coronavirus issue, the latter of which he likened to President George W. Bush's handling of the WMD issue before the Iraq War. He also asserted that climate change skeptics and supporters…
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Avlon Cites Pence's Climate Skepticism Against Him on Coronavirus
On Friday's New Day show, CNN's John Avlon presented a "Reality Check" segment in which he listed a number of alleged reasons that Vice President Mike Pence's past suggests that he will not be suitable for coordinating the federal government's efforts against the coronavirus. Avlon not only hinted that Vice President Pence's history of praying is "superstition," but, amongst his list, he even…
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CNN Invites Stone Juror to Bash Trump's 'Baseless' Claims of Bias
Friday morning, CNN brought on a juror from the Roger Stone trial to dismiss President Trump’s claims of political bias. Even though the lead juror was a Democrat who ran for Congress and whose social media is filled with anti-Trump posts, New Day co-host John Berman pretended as if President Trump’s claims of bias came out of nowhere. He invited his guest to tear into the President for “…
