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CNN Slams 'He Gets Us' Ads for Jesus As a...Right-Wing Conspiracy?
January 30th, 2023 6:19 AM
On Friday, The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN investigated the currently prominent "He Gets Us" TV ads promoting Jesus in terms meant to please centrists and liberals. Comically, CNN presented this largely as a right-wing conspiracy.
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All the Worst: CNN Year in Review Attacks Dobbs Decision, Musk
December 30th, 2022 11:33 AM
A new year is fast approaching, which means everyone and their grandmother is producing their own year in review, including CNN, whose special All the Best All the Worst 2022 aired Wednesday night with a mixed panel of CNN contributors and comedians. But amidst the levity typical of these sorts of recaps, there were two topics that drew unanimous disapproval from the panel: the…
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CNN Corrects CNN's Award Winning Fact Checker On Texas Abortion Law
August 25th, 2022 12:11 PM
CNN’s Tom Foreman is an award winning fact checker, but on Thursday’s CNN Newsroom he spread some fake news about Texas’s new pro-life law, declaring that it is now a felony to provide an abortion in order save the life of the mother. In the next hour, host Poppy Harlow would contradict him while teeing up another pro-abortion segment.
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CNN, MSNBC Wrongly Claim GOP Redistricting Stomped on Texas Minorities
November 4th, 2021 10:17 AM
In the past two weeks, CNN and MSNBC have shown multiple double standards by peddling misinformation about Texas's congressional redistricting plan to accuse Republicans of cutting minority representation in the state while ignoring aggressive gerrymandering by Illinois Democrats. It was even wrongly suggested that Republicans would prevent any black members of Congress from being elected in…
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Dem Hypocrites at CNN Still In Full Panic Over GOP Redistricting
October 27th, 2021 10:36 PM
The pundits at CNN are still attacking GOP redistricting in Texas while ignoring gerrymandering taking place in Democrat-controlled states across the country. On Tuesday, Newsroom host Ana Cabrera took up the crusade by calling Texas’ new congressional map “a Republican power grab.” Cabrera was joined by correspondent Tom Foreman, and the two panicked over the possibility of continued…
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CNN on Nasty St. Louis Crowd: 'Was This Protest Threatening Anyone?'
July 3rd, 2020 3:58 PM
On Monday's Erin Burnett OutFront, the show presented a pre-recorded report by correspondent Tom Foreman in which he tried to cover for protesters in St. Louis who broke into a gated community and reportedly shouted threats, leading a white couple to brandish weapons out of fear for their safety.
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Sad CNN: ‘Why Are Cases Declining as Nearly All U.S. States Reopen?’
May 15th, 2020 6:56 PM
Everyone send CNN positive vibes they were perplexed Friday afternoon over how coronavirus cases were declining as more states begin to reopen their economies. Put another way, this drove a dagger through the heart of CNN’s campaign of apocalyptic rhetoric, indefinitely lockdowns, and Trump hate. During the second of two segments on the topic in the 1:00 p.m. Eastern hour, one could sense their…
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CNN Frets: Trump Success Keeping Illegals in Mexico
November 7th, 2019 10:00 AM
Over the past couple of months, as there have been signs that President Donald Trump is finally making progress in turning the tide on illegal border crossings, Fox News Channel has given substantial coverage to several critical successes while the other networks have barely touched these developments.
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CNN Mocks Trump’s Rocky Start, Compares to Others’ First 100 Days
February 16th, 2017 12:04 AM
CNN took the time during Wednesday’s edition of The Lead to take jabs at President Donald Trump for not being able to get much done during his first three and a half weeks besides create controversy. When asked by host Jake Tapper to walk him through the events of Trump’s first month in office, reporter Tom Foreman joked that “it's more like staggering than walking cause it's quite an experience…
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CNN Hypes 'Uncommon Scrutiny' for Hillary Clinton as First Lady
April 8th, 2016 9:14 PM
On Friday's The Lead, CNN's Tom Foreman hyped how Hillary Clinton had a "bumpy ride" and a "rough start," as she "opened the door for a lot of first ladies to do a lot of different things." Foreman only vaguely referenced the Whitewater scandal and Vince Foster's suicide as he noted that her role in Bill Clinton's win in 1992 "spurred scrutiny uncommon for a president's spouse — over her ties to…
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CNN Misleadingly Labels Cruz's Muslim Brotherhood Line 'False'
March 30th, 2016 2:22 PM
On Tuesday's CNN Tonight, Tom Foreman failed to tell the whole story about the Muslim Brotherhood as he targeted Senator Ted Cruz for a statement that he made about the Islamist group. Foreman noted that Cruz attacked the Brotherhood as a "terrorist organization," and cited how "the U.S. State Department has an official list of 59 foreign terrorist groups...and the Muslim Brotherhood is not on…
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CNN Hypes: Hillary's ‘Battle Tested’ in Hearings with 'Steady Nerves'
October 22nd, 2015 12:59 AM
Previewing Hillary Clinton’s testimony Thursday morning before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 did their best on Wednesday to paint the most flattering picture possible of Clinton being “battle tested” with “steady nerves” despite “withering attacks” and the ability to turn “even a hot seat, if not comfortable, at least cooler.”
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CNN's Foreman Frets Over Confederate Flag, Inserts Nazi Comparison
June 21st, 2015 6:34 PM
Friday's The Situation Room on CNN ran a report by correspondent Tom Foreman fretting over the Confederate flag's presence in a part of the South Carolina capitol grounds that is reserved as a tribute to the state's history. Even though the report acknowledged that the flag is padlocked into place so that it cannot be flown at half staff in times of tragedy, Foreman still worried over the fact…
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CNN Spotlights How CDC Chief 'Dodged Even Basic Questions' on Ebola
October 17th, 2014 3:28 PM
On Thursday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN's Tom Foreman zeroed in on representatives on "both sides of the aisle...[who] are also clearly frustrated by what they see as a lack of answers and accountability from the CDC." Foreman highlighted that "CDC Director Tom Frieden dodged even basic questions – like how did two hospital workers get the disease" at a congressional hearing on the federal…
