MSNBC's Joy Reid: Right-Wing Media Are 'Stoking Racial Resentment'

August 20th, 2015 4:22 PM
MSNBC attempted to discredit conservative media on Thursday when Richard Lui brought on Joy Reid, a national correspondent for the network, to eviscerate right-wing news outlets for allegedly exposing Black Lives Matter organizer Shaun King as white. The Daily Caller, Breitbart News,The Blaze, blogger Vickie Pate, and CNN’s Don Lemon have all contributed evidence which strongly suggests the…
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Activist to Blitzer: 'All Lives Matter' Is a 'Violent Statement'

August 20th, 2015 3:11 PM
CNN host Wolf Blitzer interviewed #BlackLivesMatter founder Daunasia Yancey and activist Julius Jones on Tuesday about the recent backlash the movement has been receiving with the tactics used to protest, that it's not polite. Blitzer went easy on them – especially when it came to some of the ridiculous comments made taking offense to the concept that "all lives matter." Jones called that a "…
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CNN's Costello Laugh Off Hillary's 'Cloth' Comment as 'Fun' Dodge

August 19th, 2015 5:27 PM
During a segment on her CNN show Wednesday morning, Carol Costello and Mashable’s Christina Warren had a good laugh over Hillary Clinton’s response to a question concerning whether or not she wiped the content on her digital e-mail servers. When asked “Did you wipe the servers?” the Democratic hopeful responded with “What? Like with a cloth or something?” The CNN host and Mashable senior tech…
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Cuomo: 'We' in the Media Encourage Sanders to Fight 'Centrist' Clinton

August 19th, 2015 4:30 PM
Reacting to a new CNN poll finding Hillary Clinton's poll numbers slipping, New Day's Chris Cuomo admitted to journalistic boosting of Bernie Sanders. The anchor insisted, "We, and a lot in the media, were encouraging of Bernie Sanders getting in the race because the senator from Vermont does provoke a lot of passion from the left part of that party." Cuomo proclaimed: "We thought that that would…
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'Totally Biased' Comedian, Don Lemon Mock 'Whitest' State Fair on CNN

August 19th, 2015 1:27 PM
W. Kamau Bell, a new CNN host, joined Don Lemon on his program on Tuesday to poke fun of the Iowa State Fair. Lemon touted Bell's "visit to one of the whitest places in America." The former Current TV correspondent, who hosted a show on the FX network named Totally Biased, cracked that people at the fair were "taking pictures of me. I don't think it's because I'm famous. It's because I'm a black…
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CNN's Costello Minimizes 'Little Spike' In Crime In NYC, Other Cities

August 18th, 2015 4:44 PM
On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello did her best to downplay the significant rise in violent crime in major cities around the country during a segment with Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. Costello wondered if "the crime statistics were so unbelievably low over the last decade or so, and there's been this little spike – right? And so, because the crime statistics were so low, does it…

CNN Presses Rick Perry: 'Don't Women Deserve Equal Pay?'

August 18th, 2015 12:28 PM
As GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry appeared as a guest on Tuesday's New Day, co-anchor Alisyn Camerota challenged the former Texas governor for vetoing a Texas bill on equal pay, as she demanded, "Don't women deserve equal pay?"

Former CIA Agent: Hillary Should Be Disqualified from the Presidency

August 18th, 2015 6:38 AM
Robert Baer, a former CIA agent turned intelligence and security analyst critical of the War on Terror, was interviewed on CNN International this past Saturday and when asked his thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, he told CNN he thought she should be disqualified from becoming president. Baer argued that if Clinton had top secret information on her private server or personal phone that…
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CNN's Avlon: Obama's 'Nuanced Negotiating Style' Is 'Inspirational'

August 17th, 2015 5:19 PM
On Monday's New Day, during a discussion of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's recent criticism of President Barack Obama's deal with Iran on the Islamic state's nuclear program, Daily Beast editor and liberal CNN political commentator Jon Avlon oddly claimed that Obama has a "nuanced negotiating style" that is "inspirational" as he responded to the GOP presidential candidate's comments.

CNN's Murray: 'Hardline' Immigration Plan 'Red Meat' for 'Far Right'

August 17th, 2015 3:51 PM
On Monday's New Day, CNN political reporter Sara Murray tagged Donald Trump's recently revealed plan for dealing with illegal immigration as a "hardline immigration plan," asserting that the plan "only offers red meat that will appeal to the far right conservative wing of the party." And, even though there is debate about whether the U.S. Constitution's provision for birthright citizenship…
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Notable Quotables: CNN Lobbies on Behalf of Planned Parenthood

August 17th, 2015 9:06 AM
This week, with the nation’s largest abortion provider under fire for allegedly selling baby body parts for profit, CNN’s on-air hosts lecture Republicans on the need to maintain the flow of taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood. “You shouldn’t rush to defund,” CNN’s Chris Cuomo told one GOP congesswoman. And, Bloomberg’s John Heilemann and Mark Halperin declare Hillary Clinton’s “fiery” and “…

CNN Talks Up Biden, Inaccurately Dismisses Plagiarism History

August 15th, 2015 4:00 PM
On Friday's New Day, CNN regulars talked up the possibility of Vice President Joe Biden jumping into the presidential race, with co-host Chris Cuomo declaring that "We have no secret here that we have been pushing Joe Biden to get into the race because we want as many voices as possible to help voters make their decision." Additionally, as the group discussed Donald Trump's recent jab at the…

CNN Suggests Clinton Emails 'Innocuous,' But Her Answer 'Not Enough'

August 15th, 2015 11:33 AM
On Friday's Wolf show on CNN, as they updated viewers on the Hillary Clinton email scandal, substitute host Dana Bash and correspondent Evan Perez began by downplaying the classified emails in question as mostly "innocuous" but ended up conceding that the Clinton campaign's "legal argument" in her defense is "not enough of an answer."
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Cuomo Worries: ISIS Rapes Reinforce Negative 'Impression' of Islam

August 14th, 2015 12:48 PM
CNN's Chris Cuomo on Friday fretted that a new report on ISIS and its rape culture would reinforce negative perceptions of Muslims. The New Day anchor talked to Dr. Qanta Ahmed, an author and human rights advocate. Reacting to a front page story on the New York Times, Cuomo played a clip of a woman recounting brutal violence at the hands of ISIS. He then lectured, "This feeds the impression that…