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Kimmel's Attempt to Dunk on Trump Supporters Unwittingly Condemns CNN

April 10th, 2025 10:16 AM

Every once in a while, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel will do a man-on-the-street interview type of segment where he sends someone out to demonstrate how dumb Donald Trump supporters supposedly are in an attempt to discredit one of Trump’s positions. However, Wednesday’s attempt at this unwittingly backfired on Kimmel, who was blissfully unaware that one conspiracy theory floated by one of the…

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THUNDERDOME: Jennings and Singleton WRECK the Panel

April 10th, 2025 1:54 AM

CNN’s Thunderdome, more commonly referred to as NewsNight with Abby Phillip, was particularly lively tonight. Given the issue array, there was bound to be fireworks. And sure enough, there were.

NewsBusters Podcast: Zucker-Coached Jake Tapper Isn't On the Left?

April 7th, 2025 10:20 PM

CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left. But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side at CNN. They had to uncork grand speeches. "We call them homilies," said Tapper in 2020. CNN is not a church.

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STUDY: CNN, MSNBC Refer to Illegal Alien as ‘Maryland Man’ 120 Times

April 7th, 2025 12:30 PM

If you got all of your news from CNN and MSNBC, you’d have a higher than 50/50 chance of believing the Trump administration had accidentally arrested and deported a naturalized American citizen living in Maryland, and for no particular reason.

CNN Crowd WHOOPS for Leftist Comedian Dumped by White House Reporters

April 6th, 2025 10:54 PM

One obvious way you can tell that CNN is "comfort food" for Trump haters -- to borrow a phrase from Brian Stelter -- is all the clapping and yelling when Amber Ruffin starts trash-talking Trump on CNN's Saturday "comedy" panel show Have I Got News For You.

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With Books to Sell, Tapper Asks Walz Whether Biden Reup Was a Mistake

April 6th, 2025 5:49 PM

As predictable as the sun rising in the East: the media’s silence in the face of President Joe Biden’s evident cognitive decline is met with a deluge of books, by some of those same media types, chronicling that decline in detail. 

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Trump Ag Secretary Laughs! Jake Tapper Insists: 'I'm Not On The Left'

April 6th, 2025 4:06 PM

On State of the Union, when Secretary of Agriculture tells host Jake Tapper that "everyone on your side, the left" is freaking out over the Trump tariffs, Tapper insists, "I'm not on the left." Oh really?

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TARIFFDOME: Scott Jennings Stands Tall for American Snacks

April 4th, 2025 11:53 AM

A very interesting exchange on last night’s CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip (AKA The Thunderdome) proved that a worthy argument can be undermined by an ineffective spokesperson. In this case, a point on the everyday effects of tariffs on imported goods that ended with Scott Jennings standing tall in defense of American snack foods.

CNN Thinks Democrats Not Frantic Enough Over ‘Existential Threat’
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On CNN, Glasser Chides Democrats Who Don't Scream ‘Existential Threat’

April 2nd, 2025 9:11 AM

On CNN’s Monday episode of Inside Politics with Dana Bash, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker opined that, under the second Trump administration, Democratic leaders who focused on things like attempting to provide government services that their constituents actually wanted were on the wrong path. Rather, in her opinion, they should have been too busy whipping themselves up into…

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CNN SPECIAL ELECTION ROUNDUP: An Elon Musk Derangement Extravaganza

April 2nd, 2025 12:49 AM

CNN went into overdrive for its coverage of the two special congressional elections in Florida, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, pre-empting their normal prime time schedule in favor of full Election Night Coverage. Coverage proved to be little more than an exercise in Elon Musk Derangement therapy, with some elections happening in-between. 

AGAIN?! Veterans Affairs Sec. Collins Nukes CNN After Another Hit Job

April 1st, 2025 6:00 PM

On Monday night, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins shellacked longtime CNN correspondent Brian Todd over a report late last week claiming VA call centers were being automated, noting he ran the story despite Collins and his team offering facts countering this predictable spin from the Trump-hating network.

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FAKE NEWS: CNN Pretends Trump's Smithsonian Order Will Ditch History

April 1st, 2025 2:24 PM

CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.

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Networks Spend 10x More Time on Student Arrest Than Gang Capture

April 1st, 2025 7:00 AM

From March 26 through March 27 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC devoted a total of 119 minutes, 18 seconds to the arrest of Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk, but just 11 minutes, 42 seconds to the capture of a top MS-13 leader. 

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CNN Mangles Trump's Smithsonian Order To Accuse Him Of Banning History

March 29th, 2025 2:30 PM

CNN’s Anderson Cooper welcomed Professor and former NAACP President Cornell William Brooks to his Friday show to help him set some straw men ablaze on President Donald Trump’s order for the Smithsonian to remove all “improper ideology” at its museums. The published order gave a clear definition of “improper ideology,” but the duo insisted on talking about something else so it could accuse him…