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CNN Decries 'Putinesque' 'Book Burning,' Like Florida's Canceling Math

April 19th, 2022 10:56 AM

On his Monday show on CNN, Don Lemon suggested that Florida is trying to cancel math with its new anti-Critical Race Theory Law while Bakari Sellers suggested that these types of laws are “Putin-esque” and tantamount to book burning.

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Stelter: Allowing Free Speech on Twitter Is Playing in the 'Gutter'

April 18th, 2022 2:32 PM

During Monday’s Reliable Sources Daily on CNN+, host and media janitor Brian Stelter praised the Twitter board for putting a “poison pill” in place to temporarily slow down billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to buy the company in a hostile takeover. Despite other market actions, he and New York Times business reporter Lauren Hirsch suggested investors loved the move, adding that if…

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Journos Wonder Where Biden’s War ‘Bounce’ Is, Curse ‘Hideous’ GOP Govs

April 16th, 2022 9:48 AM

Exasperated lefty journalists are actually whining about why Joe Biden isn’t doing better in the polls asking absurd questions like why isn’t he getting the same kind of wartime “bounce” that Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky is getting? Other journos are cursing GOP governors and their “hideous” agenda. The following are some of the worst outbursts from lefty journos and celebs over the…

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Stelter Backs ‘Relaxing’ Psaki Calling Doocy a ‘Stupid Son of a B***h’

April 15th, 2022 5:40 PM

Like the quisling that he is, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter defended White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday afternoon after she said Fox News’s Peter Doocy “sound[s] like a stupid son of a bitch” by working at Fox News, arguing “she didn’t really criticize him” and was “relaxing” in her final moments before leaving for MSNBC.

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Stelter Calls for 'Diversity in Media,' But Not Conservative Thinkers

April 15th, 2022 3:34 PM

On Friday’s edition of Reliable Sources Daily on CNN+, Brian Stelter wanted to talk about the “subject that affects every other subject: diversity in media.” But what he meant by “diversity” didn’t immediately include a diversity of ideology or thought, to include more conservative-minded people in the newsroom, but rather it was about race and alleged racial disparity in newsroom pay…

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Avlon Laments 'Blow to Our Democracy' After RNC Debate Withdrawal'

April 15th, 2022 10:24 AM

On CNN’s Friday installment of New Day, John Avlon reacted to the news that the RNC has withdrawn from the Commission on Presidential Debates with one of his “reality checks” that characteristically featured plenty of pretentiousness, but not a lot of reality.

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Apple HELP! Stelter Desperately Wants to Keep Musk from Buying Twitter

April 14th, 2022 2:41 PM

With Elon Musk making his formal offer to out-right buy Twitter, liberal media defender and CNN+ host Brian Stelter appeared desperate on Thursday’s Reliable Sources Daily as he looked for other “tech players” to step in and make their own offers. He even suggested that Musk would turn Twitter into a less-successful social media site such as “Parlor or Rumble.”

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Ooof: WH Reporters Body Psaki Over Biden’s ‘Genocide’ Line, Inflation

April 14th, 2022 2:17 PM

Hump Day marked a tough day for Jen Psaki as she reportedly careens toward the series finale of The Psaki Show as the White House press secretary faced tough questions on inflation and another off-the-cuff remark from President Biden about Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, including one that questioned whether there needs to be “an asterisk next to anything that the President says.”

Eight Things More Popular Than Epic Failure CNN+

April 14th, 2022 10:38 AM

It was revealed on Tuesday that, according to CNBC, CNN+ has fewer than 10,000 active users on the streaming service a scant two weeks since its launch. Add in a report of looming budget cuts and layoffs and CNN and its executives found a way to make the brand even more pathetic and launch something even more of a failure than the parent cable network. To put it in perspective, NewsBusters…

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Media Have Learned Nothing From Hunter’s Laptop, and They’re Not Sorry

April 13th, 2022 12:16 PM

Despite all the media “debunking,” fact-checking, censoring, and Russia-ing back in 2020, Hunter Biden’s laptop has proven to be legitimate. Given how aggressive the press were in their coordinated effort to tar the story as a wacky conspiracy theory, you’d think they might have learned something from their mistakes. But they haven't.

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CNN Analyst Calls Out Biden Admin's 'Putin Price Hike' Lie

April 12th, 2022 5:30 PM

On Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom, viewers were exposed to some truthful commentary on the state of the nation’s economy, which was something CNN viewers are unaccustomed to. Taking her cue from some of her colleagues on other networks, Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Catherine Rampell admitted that inflation has been rising long before Russia invaded Ukraine, and rising…

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Wemple Brings the Numbers to Needle Brian Stelter About CNN's Dem Tilt

April 12th, 2022 5:04 PM

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple reported some specifics of a new study on cable-news tilt – and needled CNN host Brian Stelter on how he couldn’t handle the idea that a professor would come on his CNN show and posit that CNN was a partisan filter like Fox News. 

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Sciutto Blames Southern Gun Laws For Brooklyn Shooting

April 12th, 2022 1:39 PM

While covering the breaking news of the Brooklyn subway shooting on Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom, host Jim Sciutto tied the shooting and violent crime generally to gun laws in southern states.

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NewsBusters Interviews the College Kids Who Schooled Liberal Elites

April 12th, 2022 1:27 PM

Between last Thursday and Friday, the left-leaning Atlantic magazine and the Democratic-connected Institute of Politics (IOP) of the University of Chicago held a conference to warn and find solutions to so-called “disinformation.” Following two viral moments with liberal speakers, NewsBusters reached out to Daniel Schmidt and Chris Phillips, who sparked said headlines with questions…