Stephen King: ‘Somebody Please Make CNN Stop with the Plane Coverag
April 21st, 2014 6:35 AM
Twitchy reports "Author Stephen King has had enough of CNN’s round-the-clock coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and he’s not alone."
Even a guy who likes a good mystery is bored. His tweets begging CNN to realize "It's time to move on" have been favorited more than 3,800 times and counting:
'Breaking News' From CNN! The Titanic Sank...102 Years Ago
April 19th, 2014 11:20 AM
CNN has been roundly mocked this week for extreme abuse of the "breaking news alert." On Monday night, Bill Weir combined yet another of the network's stories on the missing Malaysian flight with the anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. A graphic appeared on-screen that blared, "BREAKING NEWS: Titanic sunk 102 years ago tonight."
The segment was so ridiculous that even the liberal Washington…
Networks Ignore IRS Seeking Criminal Investigation of Tax-Exempt Group
April 17th, 2014 4:05 PM
On Thursday morning's New Day, CNN reported the newest development in the IRS scandal that the broadcast networks ignored: the former IRS chief contacting the Justice Department about criminal investigations of tax-exempt groups.
"The activist group Judicial Watch has released e-mails that show the agency in talks with the Justice Department to investigate some tax exempt organizations for…
Chris Cuomo Prompts Former Clinton Official to Defend Obama's Handling
April 16th, 2014 3:53 PM
CNN's Chris Cuomo tried to get former Assistant Secretary of State Jamie Rubin to defend President Obama's response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine during a segment on Wednesday's New Day. Cuomo cited how Russian President Vladimir Putin "did this in Georgia.....under President Bush" in 2008, and wondered, "Is it fair to look at this situation and say, the weakness or perception of weakness…
CNN's King Plays Up CBO's ObamaCare Projection; Wonders Why Dems Won't
April 15th, 2014 5:37 PM
On Tuesday's New Day, CNN's John King hyped the Congressional Budget Office's projection about ObamaCare – that "yes, ObamaCare is expensive, but less expensive than they thought – by about $104 billion over 10 years. That's a decent junk of change." King asserted that the health care issue is "the big domestic challenge for the President and for Democrats this election year: that is...trying…
Democrat Says 'Not All' GOP Colleagues Are Racist; Networks Ignore
April 14th, 2014 9:45 PM
Democratic Congressman Steve Israel, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, charged on Sunday that some of his GOP colleagues, as well as a "significant extent" of the GOP base, are racist, yet none of the broadcast networks picked it up on Monday evening.
On Sunday's State of the Union, CNN host Candy Crowley played a clip of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accusing…
Sarah Silverman's Rabbi Sister: Filthy Sarah's Like the Biblical Proph
April 14th, 2014 1:22 PM
Sarah Silverman's website is promoting an interview Sarah and her sister the rabbi, Susan Silverman, gave to CNN contributor (and former Bush staffer) Margaret Hoover at The Daily Beast's Women of the World summit after they spoke on April 4.
Hoover encouraged Rabbi Susan to explain again how Sarah Silverman preaches and is "in the line of the biblical prophets...but they were also less…
WashPost's Henderson Says Sebelius Is Like 'Coach of the Year' for Oba
April 11th, 2014 3:01 PM
On Friday's New Day, the Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson said outgoing HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be "coach of the year" if she were a basketball coach.
"I do think if she were a basketball coach, right, she would probably be coach of the year, right? Because she was able to turn this thing around, had good news yesterday that 7.5 million people, you know, signed up for…
CNN's King Calls Out Obama On Pay Gap Hypocrisy: 'He's Sticking His Ha
April 8th, 2014 4:16 PM
On Tuesday's New Day, CNN's John King targeted President Obama and his administration for their "textbook case...of do as I say, not as I do" on the issue of equal pay for women. After playing a clip of Press Secretary Jay Carney playing up how the 88 cents on the dollar women in the White House apparently make compared to men is "better than the national average," King quipped, "I guess the…
CNN’s Chris Cuomo Uses Fort Hood Shooting To Push Gun Control Agenda
April 3rd, 2014 11:52 AM
For the second time in five years, Fort Hood was the site of a shooting by a rogue member of the military. While the shooting, which occurred during the afternoon of Wednesday April 2, had fewer victims than the one five years ago, CNN predictably used the tragedy to push for greater gun control in America.
After Piers Morgan's Twitter tirade on Wednesday night, CNN’s Chris Cuomo wondered…
CNN's Costello Bewails 'Big Advantage' Court Gave 'Wealthy' in Campaig
April 2nd, 2014 3:28 PM
On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello decried the Supreme Court's latest decision underlining that political donations are a form of free speech: "You know, these rulings continue to surprise me – only because so many Americans are concerned about the money factor...They think it's a real problem, and these kinds of rulings seem to only exacerbate those problems."
Costello brought on…
CNN's Smerconish Brags He's a 'Card-Carrying Member of ObamaCare
April 1st, 2014 10:48 PM
It helps to be in the White House when a CNN host professes himself to be "card-carrying member" of the administration's health care law, or when the enrollment numbers are cast as a "major victory."
New CNN host Michael Smerconish touted the benefits of ObamaCare on Tuesday night, confessing he was a "card-carrying member of ObamaCare" and calling the enrollment numbers "quite an…
NewsBusted's Jodi Miller Fires a Parting Shot at Piers
April 1st, 2014 10:15 PM
"Piers Morgan ended his final show on CNN with an angry plea to take away America’s guns. Oddly enough, the last Brits that held these same views were canceled in 1776."
For that zinger and to find out what ObamaCare and pop star Beyoncé have in common, watch the April 1 edition of NewsBusted by clicking play on the embed below the page break. Sign up for NewsBusted by email here and/or…
CNN Fawns Over 'Patient' ObamaCare's 'Pretty Miraculous Recovery
April 1st, 2014 4:56 PM
Jim Acosta emulated a P.R. flack for the Obama administration on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, as he hyped how the White House is "on track to hit seven million signing up" for ObamaCare. Acosta gushed that "if ObamaCare were a patient, this would be a pretty miraculous recovery, when you consider...that disastrous rollout in October and November."
The correspondent later touted the development as "…