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CNN Reporter Claims Soleimani Killing Has 'Unified' Iran

January 6th, 2020 10:27 AM
Based on crowd size and man-in-the-street interviews, CNN reporter Fred Pleitgen, reporting from Tehran, claims that the killing of Qasem Soleimani has "unified" Iran.
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CNN Grills Pompeo on Airstrike, But Treated Iran With Kid Gloves

January 5th, 2020 1:14 PM
As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham recently reported, CNN’s Erin Burnett conducted a sit-down interview with Iranian ambassador to the U.N., Majid Takht Ravanchi on Friday where she treated him to some slow-pitch softball questions. The network took a complete 180 on Sunday when State of the Union host Jake Tapper unloaded on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by grilling him on the airstrike…
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State-Run TV? Erin Burnett Throws Softballs at Iranian PR Thug

January 5th, 2020 9:32 AM
One of the worst tendencies of American media is boasting about how independent they are, and then granting the most obsequious access to our worst tyrannical enemies. CNN boss Jeff Zucker calls Fox News "state-run TV," then acts like state-run TV for our enemies in Iran. On Friday night, Erin Burnett threw softballs at Iran's representative to the UN that she would never toss at Trump…
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CNN Hints Climate Skeptics to Blame for Australia Wildfires

January 4th, 2020 3:28 PM
On Thursday's New Day show, CNN correspondent Anna Coren highlighted accusations by climate alarmists that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, is partly to blame for the intensity of the current wildfires because he has not done enough to support regulations to try to curb global warming, as if were possible for government action to do so.
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Amanpour Struggles with Soleimani Strike, Knocks Bin Laden Raid

January 3rd, 2020 7:01 PM
Like many of her CNN colleagues, CNN International and PBS host Christane Amanpour didn’t exactly have jubilant reactions Friday morning to the news of Qasem Soleimani's death via a U.S. airstrike. Instead, Amanpour did everything she could to rhetorically dismiss, question, and undercut the operation, taking shots at the U.S., hailing the French of possessing foreign policy chops, and tossing…

Unserious CNN: Trump Had Meatloaf, Ice Cream as Soleimani News Broke

January 3rd, 2020 1:31 PM
What is it with the liberal media losing their noodles about President Trump and food? (Pun intended, by the way). Whether it was chocolate cake, ice cream, McDoanld’s, or even salt and pepper shakers, the press’s Trump Derangement Syndrome knows no bounds. So it was no surprise on Friday morning when the press wasted our time revealing that the President had meatloaf and ice cream when news…
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CNN's Berman Calls Killing of Soleimani 'Murder'

January 3rd, 2020 9:24 AM
CNN's John Berman calls the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani "murder." Berman and co-host Poppy Harlow also not-so-subtly suggest that President Trump's ordering of the strike was a "wag the dog" move in the context of the impeachment proceedings and re-election campaign. 
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No Surprise Here: Some CNNers Are NOT Taking Soleimani’s Death Well

January 3rd, 2020 12:26 AM
Late Thursday night in the U.S., the Defense Department accepted responsibility for the air strike that killed key Iranian military figure and Quds Force head Qassim Soleimani, less than a week after U.S. airstrikes on the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah and just over two months after the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi. But for some CNNers, it was a rough night. Much like their…

2020 Trump Economy ‘Nearly Recession-Proof’ Despite Media Predictions

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January 2nd, 2020 10:04 AM
For all the media brouhaha over an imminent recession in 2019, President Donald Trump’s economy has continued to stupefy prognosticators going into the new year.
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On CNN, Linda Ronstadt Likens Trump to Hitler, Mexicans 'the New Jews'

January 1st, 2020 7:54 PM
On Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN promoted a New Year's Day special on singer Linda Ronstadt with a pre-recorded interview between Ronstadt and host Cooper in which the singer became the latest liberal to hyperbolically liken President Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Cooper did little to push back as the liberal singer claimed that Mexicans "are the new Jews," and matter-of-factly…
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2020 Resolution: Lemon Promises to ‘Fight,’ and Be More Biased?

January 1st, 2020 1:42 PM
Shortly after the United States started to ring in 2020 on Wednesday (and more than a few drinks), CNN Tonight host Don Lemon announced he had a major New Year’s resolution for the upcoming election year that he wanted people to know about: “lean in harder” and “fight.” Essentially, he was vowing to be more biased in his reporting.
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Poppy Harlow Slips Snide Merrick Garland Shot Into Impeachment Talk

December 31st, 2019 10:16 AM
During a CNN New Day discussion of the pending Senate impeachment trial on New Year's Eve, substitute host Poppy Harlow managed to work in a snide Merrick Garland shot at Mitch McConnell.
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#YearInReview: Here’s the Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs of 2019

December 31st, 2019 10:00 AM
2019 was another year of smashing success for the NewsBusters team as we had umpteen media stories to cover throughout the year, whether it was the Jussie Smollett debacle, the Mueller Report, impeachment, 2020 debates, and more online censorship. While it may seem repetitive, NewsBusters would be nowhere near what its become since its inception in 2005 without the support of beloved readers (and…
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CNN Panel Calls Out Double Standard in Attention to Anti-Semitism

December 30th, 2019 11:04 PM

CNN’s Jake Tapper doesn’t often shy away from calling attention to anti-Semitism, even when it comes from those on his side of the political spectrum. He called out the systemic anti-Semitism at the United Nations and broke through the media blackout when the rest refused to cover the Louis Farrakhan controversy. Monday became another one of those instances when he invited New York Times staff…