Bozell & Graham Column: The Year of the Fact Checker??
November 9th, 2016 8:41 AM
CNN’s Brian Stelter sent around an Election Day e-mail declaring “This is the year of the fact-checker.” He joked “Trump made fact-checking great again.”
It's time to fact-check the fact checkers. In fact, it's already been done. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, just 29 percent of likely voters trust media fact-checking of the candidates, while 62 percent believed the media “skew the facts…
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CNN: ‘Trump Was Right,’ ‘Pollsters and Predictors’ Missed Wave
November 8th, 2016 11:48 PM
As Election Tuesday marched, the stability of Hillary Clinton’s Rust Belt “fire wall” defense was clearly in doubt. As Ohio fell to Trump, and Michigan and Wisconsin poised to do the same, CNN’s Jake Tapper admitted that the experts obviously missed something. “We still don't know what's going to happen in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or New Hampshire,” he explained to his colleagues, “But…
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CNN's Bernstein Sees GOP 'Voter Suppression,' 'Intimidation'
November 8th, 2016 9:10 PM
Appearing as a panel member on a special noon edition of Tuesday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein accused Republicans of engaging in "voter suppression" and "voter intimidation" in this year's elections, and claimed that "they don't want a bigger tent and won't say it out loud."
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CNN Presses Kaine on Hillary's Divisive Rhetoric; ABC, CBS Go Soft
November 8th, 2016 5:19 PM
CNN's Alisyn Camerota one-upped her Big Three network peers on Tuesday's New Day by pressing Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine over running mate Hillary Clinton's not having a "message of unity" during their campaign. Camerota played a clip of Mrs. Clinton claiming she will "be a president for all Americans" and wondered, "Why hasn't Hillary Clinton been hitting that message harder…
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Cuomo: Cruz Talk of Blocking Clinton Judges Is 'Really Frightening'
November 8th, 2016 11:02 AM
On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of how the election of a President Hillary Clinton could dramatically change the U.S. Supreme Court, co-host Chris Cuomo fretted that it was "really frightening" to hear Republican Senator Ted Cruz talk about obstructing Clinton's judicial nominees and allowing the number of Supreme Court justices to remain at eight. Cuomo: "I think you got Ted…
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CNN Panel Frets Comey Hurting Clinton, Trump Talks Like a 'Tyrant'
November 8th, 2016 12:46 AM
On Monday's New Day on CNN, as a panel of regular CNN political analysts fretted that FBI Director James Comey has hurt Hillary Clinton's "momentum" and boosted Donald Trump with the recent resumption of activity in the Clinton email investigation, CNN political analyst David Gregory repeated his recent claim that Trump is speaking like a "tyrant" in calling for his opponent to be jailed and in…
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CNN's Cuomo Again Wrongly Claims Comey 'Says No Crime' by Clinton
November 7th, 2016 2:04 PM
On Monday's New Day, during a segment with Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo made his latest claim that FBI Director James Comey found that Hillary Clinton did not commit a crime in her handling of her State Department work email, even though the FBI director merely declined to recommend trying to prosecute her without directly stating his view on whether she committed…
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Seriously? Tapper Nudges Franken to See Anti-Semitism in Late Trump Ad
November 6th, 2016 5:21 PM
While interviewing Democratic U.S. Senator Al Franken on Sunday, Jake Tapper used the classic "some other people say" tactic — in this case, referring to "some columnists" — to peddle the idea that there is a deliberate anti-Semitic undertone in Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's final 2-minute campaign ad.
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CNN’s Brian Stelter Is ‘Disturbed’ by Fox News Reporting Voter Fraud
November 6th, 2016 3:28 PM
CNN’s Brian Stelter, who once called the idea of liberal media bias “false” and “Ludicrous,” set his sights on Fox News during his Sunday show Reliable Sources and chastised the news outlet for daring to report on occurrences of voter fraud. “Let's look at Fox News from yesterday morning. This disturbed me,” Stelter told his guest Ari Berman from the leftist publication The Nation, “The banner…
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CNN’s Blackwell and Rosen Deny Dems Paid for Trump Rally Violence
November 6th, 2016 9:48 AM
Late Saturday evening, a Donald Trump rally was disrupted as a cry of “gun” caused the Secret Service to leap into action and whisked the candidate away, while the crowd and officers subdued the suspected individual. Austyn Crites was the individual in question but no firearm was located, but he did have a “Republicans Against Trump” sign. With the recent video evidence of Democrats paying to…
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CNN's Cuomo: NC 'Seems to Be Rigged Against African-American Vote'
November 4th, 2016 6:42 PM
On Friday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of early voting statistics from North Carolina finding black turnout is down from 2012, co-host Chris Cuomo asserted that "it seems to be rigged against the African-American vote" as he recalled Donald Trump's accusations of election "rigging," and suggested that there was "sinister" activity by the Republican legislature in making changes in the…
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MRC’s Bozell Suggests GOP Boycott CNN Until It Details Brazile Scandal
November 4th, 2016 2:03 PM
On Friday’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell lashed out on the Fox Business Network (FBN) at CNN’s atrocious handling of the Donna Brazile scandal and the media’s collective refusal to report heavily on the WikiLeaks e-mails illustrating a pattern of collusion between reporters and the Clinton campaign.
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CNN Rushes to Pile on ‘False’ Fox News FBI Story Spreading 'Lies'
November 4th, 2016 12:16 PM
On Friday morning, the rush to gang up on Fox News and Special Report host Bret Baier over his FBI story was full speed ahead with CNN repeatedly harping on Baier’s “completely false” bombshell being “a prime example of the echo chamber at work” spreading “lies” to hurt Hillary Clinton.
Tipped Off? Clinton Team Knew In Advance Stories Would Be ‘Positive'
November 4th, 2016 9:51 AM
Editor’s Note: Some readers may be offended by language in this story. The game of politics is a lot easier when you know the results ahead of time. The Clinton campaign has experience at that — predicting in advance whether at least eight separate stories from top news organizations were “positive.” Clinton staff were correct each time.