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CNN Emphasizes LA Riots Were Initially... 'Peaceful'?

June 9th, 2025 8:19 PM

On Monday morning’s broadcast of CNN News Central, predictably lazy excuses were made for the violent anti-deportation riots that ravaged Los Angeles this weekend. While these protests have been labeled "demonstrations" by California Governor, Gavin Newsom and the media, peaceful would be fake news.

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SERIOUSLY? CNN and MSNBC Are Doing the ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Meme Again

June 9th, 2025 4:00 PM

Back in 2020, the corporate media’s dishonest mantra that the George Floyd riots were “mostly peaceful” became something of a joke among conservatives, due to just how absurd and untrue it was. And yet, they’re deploying that same inaccurate terminology again, this time in their attempts to excuse the fiery anti-deportation riot in LA this past weekend.

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Post-Clooney Play, Anderson Cooper Coos Over Scott Pelley's 'Courage'

June 9th, 2025 8:00 AM

It was biased enough for CNN to air a live Broadway performance of George Clooney's Broadway play which glorifies 1950s CBS left-wing hack Edward R. Murrow attacking anti-communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy as an anti-Trump #Resistance ploy. That extended to the pre-play and post-play coverage. After it was over, Anderson Cooper brought on 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley for a promotional…

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Stelter Spews Vastly Peaceful Talk, Accuses Trump of Authoritarianism

June 8th, 2025 10:38 PM

CNN tried hard to spin the violent protests over immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. In the midnight hour (Eastern time) on Sunday, CNN media analyst Brian Stelter insisted "the vast majority of these actions have been peaceful" and Trump is "stoking a fight" out of these "very isolated episodes of unrest." Stelter dragged out Ruth Ben-Ghiat and the usual Trump-The-Authoritarian narrative…

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria KVETCHES CEOs Not Fighting ‘Trump’s Destruction’

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June 7th, 2025 11:02 AM

For a media talking head that had no issue selling Americans on the snake oil of Bidenomics, CNN host Fareed Zakaria clearly exhibited why he has no idea what the term “destruction” means. 

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CNN This Morning Guests Compete for Worst Take on Trump and Musk Feud

June 6th, 2025 6:13 PM

Regardless of where you stood on President Trump and Elon Musk’s heated social media battle, anyone could take a moment to appreciate the people who were most definitely getting it wrong. Many in the media were quick to blow the debate out of proportion Friday morning, and CNN This Morning was no exception.

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GOP Rep. Calls Out CNN for Hyping Trump/Musk Feud Over Real Problems

June 6th, 2025 4:41 PM

On Thursday night’s broadcast of The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett turned the tables on CNN and accused the network of overhyping the escalating feud between Elon Musk and President Trump while ignoring the very economic anxieties of working Americans.

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Study: Media Ignored Booker’s Goofy ‘Nazi’ Salute, but Hammered Elon’s

June 6th, 2025 3:46 PM

Back in January, when Elon Musk made an strange hand gesture which resembled a Nazi or Roman salute while celebrating President Trump’s inauguration, the corporate media were eager to conclude that Musk’s on-stage awkwardness must categorically make him a Nazi. Yet last week, when Democratic Senator Cory Booker made an identical motion at the end of a speech in California, none of those same…

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Media Wonders Where’s Egypt in Travel Ban, Can’t See It’s Right There

June 6th, 2025 9:00 AM

After President Trump’s late-night proclamation of a new travel ban on 12 countries considered by the administration to be national security concerns, it was no surprise to see liberals both in office and on CNN and MSNBC up in arms over it on Thursday morning. Their complaints were all too familiar: this was nothing more than a furthering of Trump’s racist agenda, and his connection of the…

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'They Would Suffer': Stelter Warns Of PBS And NPR Defunding

June 5th, 2025 2:20 PM

CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter joined The Situation Room on Wednesday morning to freak out over President Trump’s rescission package that asks Congress to revoke funding for PBS and NPR. According to Stelter, not only would such a move cause local affiliates to “suffer as well,” but he also hyped PEN America saying the real reason for the move was about “discouraging real news…

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THUNDERDOME: Abby Melts Down After Getting Checked on Holocaust Gotcha

June 5th, 2025 11:11 AM

There is nothing Elite Acela media hate more than getting checked by a conservative after trying to sneak in a bad-faith question premised on a bad-faith frame. Such is the case of CNN’s Abby Phillip, who had an absolute meltdown after getting called out by Scott Jennings and Brad Todd for suggesting that Education Secretary Linda McMahon tried to both-sides the Holocaust in a Congressional…

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Former CNN Insider Confirms Marquardt FIRED Because of Defamation Loss

June 3rd, 2025 11:08 AM

As NewsBusters was quick to report on Monday, Alex Marquardt announced that he was becoming CNN’s former chief national security correspondent. The timing and details were suspicious since he didn’t announce where he would be going and it happened just four months after CNN was found liable for malicious defamation because of his shoddy reporting. But former CNN media flunky Oliver…

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Attorney Wins Gold Against CNN in Heated Transgender Athlete Debate

June 2nd, 2025 9:42 PM

On Friday afternoon, CNN’s Brianna Keilar clashed with California attorney Julie Hamel on CNN News Central over the topic of boys in girls’ sports, a recent hot topic. At one point, Keilar began shouting over Hamel to get her to stop referring to thetrans athlete by his biological gender. Still Hamel schooled Keilar with the facts.

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CNN Reporter Who Defamed Navy Veteran Announces He’s Leaving Network

June 2nd, 2025 11:52 AM

In a Monday morning X post, chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt announced that he would be leaving CNN “after 8 terrific years.” But Marquardt’s departure comes four months after he cost the network several million dollars and tarnished their reputation with a maliciously defamatory report against Navy veteran Zachary Young.