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Hot Story: CNN Pushes Hotel Guest Evicted for 'Breathing While Black'
January 1st, 2019 6:07 PM
Since Friday morning, CNN has devoted a substantial amount of time to hyping the story of a black man who has charged racial discrimination after he was evicted from a Double Tree hotel in Portland, Oregon, apparently for refusing to prove to a security guard that he was, in fact, a paying guest before the police arrived.
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CNN Media Panel Feels the Pain of 'Very Credible' Kavanaugh Accusers
January 1st, 2019 9:07 AM
On Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter brought on three reporters who broke big stories in the #MeToo movement about sexual harassment and assault by powerful people, especially the accusations against CBS. Unfortunately, when it came to the unproven allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, they could only feel pain for Kavanaugh's "very credible"…
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CNN's Sally Kohn Claims Caravan Members Not Illegal Immigrants
December 31st, 2018 8:57 PM
On Friday afternoon's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, CNN contributor Sally Kohn displayed the latest example of liberals conflating legal asylum seekers with those who cross the border illegally as she claimed that Central American caravan members were not really illegal immigrants. She made this claim even though many crossed the U.S. border illegally through the desert while some tried to…
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Camerota: 'Not to Cast Any Blame' for Border Deaths—But Trump to Blame
December 31st, 2018 11:37 AM
On CNN, after pointing the finger at President Trump for the deaths of immigrant children at the border, Alisyn Camerota tries to cover her tracks, saying: "not to cast any blame." Right.
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Final Countdown: Behold the Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs of 2018
December 31st, 2018 9:05 AM
For a year that featured Joy Behar’s anti-Christian tirade on The View, faux conservatives making fools of themselves on cable news, Jim Acosta’s nuttiness, and Samantha Bee’s ugly use of the c-word against First Daughter Ivanka Trump, 2018 provided an inordinate amount of content for the NewsBusters staff. Following the precedent set in 2016 and 2017, the following post gives you, the readers, a…
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Totally Serious News Network CNN: Trump Offends Real Witches
December 30th, 2018 5:28 PM
In a demonstration of just how seriously they take their assertion that they’re not “fake news”, CNN network ended Thursday night’s Erin Burnett OutFront with a report about how Donald Trump’s use of the term “witch hunt” to slam the Special Counsel’s investigation offended real witches around the globe. The segment was complete with fill-in host Kate Bolduan declaring at the top of the segment…
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CNN Reporter Admits U.S. Law Entices Illegals to Bring Kids
December 29th, 2018 7:44 PM
On Friday morning, CNN correspondent Dan Simon surprisingly admitted that U.S. law has sent the message to Central Americans that it is a good idea to bring childen with them to the country because it increases their chances of being able to stay, citing the mother of eight-year-old Felipe Alonzo, who recently died of the flu in Border Patrol custody.
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CNN Frets Over 'Far Right' Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas
December 28th, 2018 11:20 PM
On Friday's The Lead on CNN, fill-in host Dana Bash led a discussion of whether Ginni Thomas -- the wife of conservative U.S Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas -- is expressing too many "far-right" political views on venues like Facebook. Between Bash's introduction and the setup piece by correspondent Jessica Schneider, her views were referred to as "far-right" twice on a network that rarely…
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CNN Uncorks Lunacy-Filled, Self-Absorbed Special on WH Press Corps
December 28th, 2018 5:35 PM
On Thursday night, correspondent Randi “Kush” Kaye offered an hour-long special on the White House Briefing Room that served as nothing more than a pompous exercise in lamenting how they believe the Trump administration has been unfair to them and are unraveling American democracy. The endeavor was dominated by attempts to make viewers to feel bad for CNN, fondly look back on past administrations…
Worst of the Year: CNN’s Pathetically Brazen Chyrons
December 28th, 2018 3:10 PM
CNN’s often misleading, snarky, stupid and pompous chyrons served only to highlight just how partisanly biased the network was this year. We’ve rounded up the worst of the year to remind you just how far the network has drifted from its supposed “facts first” messaging.
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MSNBC Ignores Cop Allegedly Murdered by Illegal Immigrant
December 28th, 2018 11:02 AM
Since news broke on Wednesday that a manhunt was under way for a man who murdered a California police officer, MSNBC has completely ignored it while CNN banished it to Thursday morning's Early Start show before picking up seven mentions on Friday while the broadcast networks and Fox News Channel have given it substantial attention. The story became even more significant on Thursday afternoon when…
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CNN Links 2018 Extreme Weather to 'Manmade Climate Change'
December 28th, 2018 10:44 AM
On Thursday and Friday, CNN has been closing out the year 2018 fearmongering about global warming as CNN meterologist Chad Myers linked "manmade climate change" to extreme weather events from the year, and CNN medical reporter Sanjay Gupta warned of "premature death of thousands of Americans" to come in the future from climate change.
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Woodward on Shutdown and Mattis Departure: 'This Is a Dangerous Time'
December 27th, 2018 6:43 PM
Just three days after his old partner in the Watergate reporting, Carl Bernstein appeared on CNN and argued that Defense Secretary James Mattis’s resignation letter proved President Trump was “unfit” to serve as President, Bob Woodward appeared on CNN’s New Day, where guest co-host Erica Hill wanted his analysis on the issues of the day: the government shutdown and the resignation of Mattis.…
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Boo Hoo: CNN Still Bashing Trump for Iraq Visit, Not Meeting Iraqi PM
December 27th, 2018 4:01 PM
Thursday’s Inside Politics led off with more kvetching about every aspect of President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to U.S. troops in Germany and Iraq, including how he didn’t meet with the Iraqi Prime Minister. Conveniently, they downplayed the positive symbolism of having a president visit troops and footnoted the similarities between Trump and Barack Obama in not meeting face-to-face with…
