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THUNDERDOME: Jennings CLOCKS The Panel Over Deported ‘Maryland Man’
The deportation of illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García continues to trigger the Acela Media to the point of derangement. Case in point: the panel at CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip (A.K.A. the “Thunderdome”), who appear terminally opposed to the idea that the United States should enforce her own borders.

No Butler, No Scalise: Here’s the Lowlights From CNN’s Special on Hate
Having been roundly condemned in the days leading up to its premiere and an excerpt flirting with far-left, pro-murder psychopath Taylor Lorenz, CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan’s Whole Story episode aired Sunday on “a new kind of American extremism” declaring “violence in the country today is mostly from right-wing extremism” with “simply no equivalent on the left.”

No ‘Equivalent’; CNN Says There’s Only Real ‘Extremism’ on the Right
CNN’s supposed extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan — whom one could think of as Irish Brian Stelter (and with hair) to get a sense of their worldview — joined Friday’s CNN News Central to preview his latest report for Sunday’s The Whole Story about political extremism and falsely claimed “the issue very much so is on the right” but no “equivalent on the left.”

Cooper Asks Sanders If Trump 'Is Trying to Whitewash American History'
CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, and, even by CNN’s standards, it was quite the softball session. Not only did both men take advantage of fact-checker Daniel Dale apparently having better things to do with his time by accusing President Trump of “whitewashing American history,” but Cooper even invited the president of American University’s…

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

THUNDERDOME: Jennings and Singleton WRECK the Panel
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?
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.

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

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

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

TARIFFDOME: Scott Jennings Stands Tall for American Snacks
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.

On CNN, Glasser Chides Democrats Who Don't Scream ‘Existential Threat’
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…

CNN SPECIAL ELECTION ROUNDUP: An Elon Musk Derangement Extravaganza
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.