Phil Mattingly
CNN Casts Trump-Harvard Showdown As About Free Expression—It's Not
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casts the showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard and other universities over federal funding as being about free expression. It's not. Universities can teach whatever they want. But they can't have it both ways. If Harvard wants to have complete freedom of operation, it should make like Hillsdale College and reject any federal or state…
CNN Reporter Says Biden Looks Like Just a Guy Between Two Trump Terms
As most of the mainstream media attempts to cover the end of the Biden Presidency with praises of its many accomplishments, CNN has come to its own conclusions. Thursday’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash offered a more sober view of the Presidency as CNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere pointed out the discontent of the public, noting Biden’s insignificance compared to the Trump…
CNN Weakly Pushes Back on WH’s Failure to Properly Remember Abbey Gate
Monday marked the three-year anniversary of the suicide attack near the Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of 13 U.S. service members. As part of their coverage of the anniversary, CNN’s Phil Mattingly, filling in as host of The Lead, brought on White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby to press him on administration’s lack…
CNN Hypes CAIR Line on Palestinian Hate Crime Story, Pushes Ceasefire
This past week, there was a stark contrast between CNN and Fox morning shows in their coverage of hate crimes allegedly inspired by the Israel-Hamas war as CNN used the stabbing of a Palestinian American man in Austin to push for a ceasefire while Fox highlighted a Palestinian illegal alien who beat a Jewish homeowner in New York.
CNN Hosts Defend Biden Gaffe THREE TIMES By Referencing Trump
CNN This Morning hosts Phil Mattingly not once, not twice, but three times defended President Joe Biden on Friday as they sought to deflect from his Thursday gaffe where he claimed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was actually the president of Mexico by referencing what they considered to be similar examples from Donald Trump.
CNN's Avlon: GOP Failure To Get Votes 'A Neville Chamberlain Moment'
There were still more than 10 months to go, but John Avlon had the early lead in the race for The Year's Most Inapt Analogy. Predictably, on Wednesday, CNN This Morning raked the House Republicans over the coals for their failure to get the necessary votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, or pass a stand-alone Israel aid bill
Mattingly Suggests To Jeffries That Impeaching Mayorkas Is Racist
As House Republicans prepared to hold a vote on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday, CNN This Morning anchor Phil Mattingly implied to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries that the move would be racist or anti-immigrant simply because of Mayorkas’s biography.
Idiocy: CNN Promotes Acosta to Weekdays, Cancels ‘CNN This Morning’
On Monday morning, the seemingly constant shakeup of CNN’s fledgling, ratings-starved lineup continued as the network revealed the disastrous CNN This Morning will be axed as part of a new morning schedule that’ll include CNN’s pompous shill and former White House correspondent Jim Acosta being promoted to mid-morning weekdays after just over three years hosting late-afternoon weekend…
Anti-Musk Lawfare? CNN Anchor Questions Ruling to Strip $55B from Musk
A recent decision to strip X and Tesla owner Elon Musk of $55 billion in Tesla stock seemingly appalled CNN This Morning co-hosts Phil Mattingly and Poppy Harlow.
CNN's John Miller Stuns Hosts into Silence on Why Illegals Steal in NY
CNN This Morning hosts, Erica Hill and Phil Mattingly, were left speechless during a conversation with analyst John Miller about the case of migrant attackers, who had been released without bail and reportedly left the city. Miller expressed doubt about the likelihood of them returning for their court date. The case sparked controversy around criminal justice reform and immigration laws.
CNN Hypes Fani Willis Refusing to Step Away from Trump Case Amid Probe
During CNN This Morning’s first hour on Thursday, CNN national security reporter Zachary Cohen hyped Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis for refusing to step away from her election subversion case against former President Trump. He also downplayed the seriousness of the case regarding her alleged use of taxpayer dollars to fund her adultery with Special Counsel Nathan Wade,…
CNN Insists Moms for Liberty Is 'Waning,' Touts Liberal Opponents
On Thursday's CNN This Morning, correspondent Carlos Suarez devoted a full report to promoting wishful thinking by liberals that Moms for Liberty is losing influence in the right-leaning group's push for parents' rights in schools.
KJP Whiffs on CNN Softballs, Says 'Equity' at Center of Bidenomics
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fawned to a friendly face at CNN about President Biden’s “equity”-based approach to his inflation-rattled economy. Cue the canned laughter.
S.E. Cupp Blast: Nikki Haley 'Has More Balls' Than Anyone In The GOP
On CNN This Morning, CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp says, "Maybe one of the only people who can sidestep the great emasculation of the GOP by Donald Trump is a woman. Maybe, just maybe, Nikki Haley has more balls than the rest of them."
