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Cuomo Decries GOP as Not Impartial Jurors, I ‘Want to Traumatize’ Them
February 11th, 2021 12:28 AM
As anyone who has passed a high school civics class knows, the impeachment process is not a legal proceeding but a political one. Luckily, CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo knew at least that much. But he spent a lot of Wednesday’s Prime Time decrying Senate Republicans for not being impartial jurors in President Trump’s second impeachment trial. Yet, he never admitted that Democrats weren…
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Smerconish Pushed Back On CNN Bash of Trump Veto Threat for COVID Bill
December 28th, 2020 12:38 AM
In sharp contrast to the wall of criticism by the networks of President Donald Trump's threat to veto the pork laden COVID relief bill, a refreshing bit of political diversity broke through the groupthink on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time on Tuesday. Although host Chris Cuomo and guest Anthony Scaramucci concurred with the usual CNN hardline on Trump, CNN anchor Michael Smerconish provided a…
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Bravo! CNN’s Smerconish Destroys Kaepernick’s Cop-Killer Support
November 24th, 2020 12:27 PM
Opportunities to congratulate CNN for getting things right don’t often present themselves, so they shouldn’t pass unremarked. On Saturday, Michael Smerconish did yeoman’s work dismantling the myth of one social justice martyr while exposing the ignorance of another.
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Democracy Dies? CNN Floats the Idea of Biden Skipping All Debates
August 3rd, 2020 10:10 AM
Rush Limbaugh has been saying for weeks that Joe Biden would skip the presidential debates in the fall. Now former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart has taken to CNN.com to argue Biden should skip it, and on Saturday, Michael Smerconish put him on TV to make the case. It never occurred to Smerconish to ask Lockhart that if it sounds undemocratic to talk of moving the election, doesn't it…
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CNN Analyst: GOP 'Caricature' Hunter Biden as a 'Troubled' Witness
January 15th, 2020 3:58 PM
On Wednesday's New Day, CNN analyst Michael Smerconish suggested Republicans may be unhappily surprised if they called Hunter Biden as a witness in the Senate impeachment trial, because there's "this caricature that has been created of Hunter Biden being a very troubled and ill-equipped individual," but he graduated from Yale Law and "comported himself well" in a softball interview with ABC News…
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CNN Host: It’s ‘Very Hard’ for Voters to Understand Impeachment
December 18th, 2019 11:35 PM
On Wednesday’s Cuomo Prime Time after the House vote to impeach President Trump, CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish took a shot at the American voters by kvetching that, according to polls, support for impeachment has gone down. And as for why, he surmised that it’s perhaps because Americans have incorrectly deemed it too partisan, decided to tune it out, and that they’re too busy to truly…
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CNN Analyst Protests Comparing U.K. Labour Defeat to Democrats in 2020
December 15th, 2019 8:34 AM
On his Saturday show, CNN host Michael Smerconish nudged CNN analyst/losing Florida gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum that the Conservative landslide in Britain is a warning sign for the American Democrats in 2020. Gillum threw gallons of cold water on the notion, even suggesting Trump has done nothing for red-state voters on the economy. He sold them a "bill of bads."
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Smerconish Wants Hearsay Evidence Diplomats as Time Person of the Year
November 24th, 2019 7:26 PM
On CNN Saturday, host Michael Smerconish recommended that a bunch of gossipers be named as Time's "Person of the Year." The gossipers he had in mind were the diplomats who appeared at the House Impeachment Inquiry and testified based on second and third hand hearsay. Hearsay, of course, is what gossip is, namely relaying information that they heard from somebody else and, often, the person they…
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CNN's Smerconish Laments No New Gun Control After Shootings
June 3rd, 2019 7:44 PM
On Saturday's Smerconish show, CNN host Michael Smerconish responded to the Virginia Beach shootings by beginning his show with a commentary complaining about the absence of new gun control in the aftermath of other such shootings, and recalled dropping his NRA membership years ago. Smerconish's liberal commentary even inspired agreement from DNC chair Evan Perez who appeared as a guest in the…
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CNN Puts On Khizr Khan to Blame Immigration on Meddling from the West
March 17th, 2019 11:35 AM
On Saturday's Smerconish show on CNN, host Michael Smerconish brought aboard Democratic activist and media darling from the 2016 presidential campaign, Khizr Khan, and gave him an unchallenged forum to hint that the U.S. has helped create immigrants who are fleeing wars and climate change. He also tied defeating President Donald Trump in 2020 to thwarting the kind of white nationalism that led to…
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Divisive CNN Blames Trump Giving NZ Terrorist ‘Credence,’ ‘Validity’
March 15th, 2019 3:48 PM
From 6:00 a.m. Eastern to 12:00 p.m. Eastern, CNN analysts, commentators, and hosts repeatedly takes such as “[t]here is a one man who pulled the trigger here” inside two Christchurch mosques on Friday afternoon (New Zealand time), but they very quickly pivoted using transition words like “but” to then place blame on President Trump due to the animal’s citation of the President in a screed CNN…
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CNN Loves Idea of Trump as a Russian Agent
January 15th, 2019 4:40 PM
On Friday, the New York Times published an article revealing that the FBI opened a probe in 2017 to investigate whether President Donald Trump was acting as a Russian agent. CNN hosts spent more than three hours over the weekend brandishing the report as “devastating” news for Trump, but gave only a minuscule portion of the coverage included any reference to the disclosure by the Times that “no…
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CNN Host, Reporter Agree Impeaching Trump Over Sex Is Dem Hypocrisy
December 9th, 2018 12:58 PM
Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correpondent of Yahoo News, is unable to find any real proof of Trump-Russia collusion based on the latest court filings by Special Counsel Robert Mueller when he appeared on CNN's December 8 Smerconish show. But first, Isikoff agreed with Smerconish on the appearance of Democratic hypocrisy on impeaching over sex. Rep. Jerrold Nadler "eloquently" argued…
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CNN's Smerconish Changes Mind on Video Trump Gave to Kim Jong-un
June 19th, 2018 4:03 PM
Remember how many members of the mainstream media derided the video that President Donald Trump gave to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un? They wrote it off as something like a mere elevator pitch video for selling timeshares. Well, that was the first impression of CNN host Michael Smerconish...until he watched it a second time and came to realize that it could be a very effective video.
