Nothing to See Here: Soledad O'Brien Sidesteps Obama's Hypocrisy on Ro

May 22nd, 2012 3:46 PM
CNN's Soledad O'Brien has carried water for President Obama before, and her "nothing to see here" attitude on Tuesday's Starting Point in regards to the Obama's blatant hypocrisy made that all the more clear. The night before, O'Brien's colleague Anderson Cooper grilled the Obama campaign over the President's personal attacks on Mitt Romney. Cooper maintained that Obama is hitting Romney's…

PolitiFact Rates Another Accurate GOP Claim 'Mostly False' on CNN

May 21st, 2012 4:30 PM
PolitiFact decided to get cute with words and nail an accurate statement by a conservative advocacy group as "Mostly False" for supposed contextual issues. This is not the first time that the fact-checking outfit has labeled an accurate statement "Half True" or "Mostly False," as it did twice to the Romney campaign. According to PolitiFact's Bill Adair, who appeared on CNN Monday afternoon,…

Krugman Falsely Claims Romney Wants to Enact Greece's Failed Economic

May 20th, 2012 7:30 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Sunday continued his campaign to get Barack Obama reelected by misinforming the public about the economy. Appearing on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, the Nobel laureate falsely claimed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to enact Greece's failed economic policies here in America (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Former Anchor Campbell Brown Slams Barack Obama: 'Stop Condescending t

May 20th, 2012 10:15 AM
It appears the White House's dishonest, media-assisted plan to concoct a Republican "War on Women" has failed and failed miserably. Take for example former CNN anchor Campbell Brown who in Sunday's New York Times published an op-ed surprisingly titled "Obama: Stop Condescending to Women":

NYT’s Tom Friedman Bombs on ‘Jeopardy

May 19th, 2012 5:21 PM
Despite winning three Pulitzer Prizes, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman bombed on Jeopardy! Friday. By the end of the show, he had amassed a pitiful $1,000 placing him third behind CNN’s Anderson Cooper and NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Ratings-Starved Piers Morgan Pushes Wacky Romney-Jeremiah Wright Consp

May 18th, 2012 6:47 PM
Even after Mitt Romney condemned a proposed controversial super PAC ad attacking President Obama, CNN's Piers Morgan couldn't help but speculate on whether the candidate was still playing dirty. On Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight he wondered aloud if the Romney campaign leaked the failed proposal to the press to keep the Reverend Wright controversy in the news. "And I guess I think the…

Greece Heads for Default, Despite Media Predictions It Wouldn’t

May 18th, 2012 2:32 PM
Greece is the perfect example of the eventual outcome of unchecked spending – especially as it creeps closer and closer to defaulting on its massive debts, despite multiple government bailouts in May 2011. One recent BBC News headline warned: “Greece: ‘Default within the euro is possible’.” But, looking back, some journalists predicted the opposite: that the Greek economy would survive…

'Comforting' News Network: CNN Fawns Over Gay Rights Activist

May 17th, 2012 6:02 PM
Zach Wahls is an activist lobbying Congress on behalf of gay rights issues, and yet CNN's Suzanne Malveaux rolled out the red carpet for him with nary a critical question on Thursday's 12 p.m. hour of Newsroom. When Wahls, the author of a book titled "My Two Moms," made light of the "big gay scourge" that some say America faces, Malveaux laughed and flattered him "That was really funny, Zach…

CNN Compares Nominating Gay Activist to Judiciary With Desegregation

May 17th, 2012 12:55 PM
CNN continued its ridiculous narrative of tying gay rights to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, on Tuesday's Starting Point. Anchor Brooke Baldwin and her panel battered Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall for blocking the nomination of a gay prosecutor to the state's bench, even though Marshall argued that he was unfit for the position because of his activism and not his orientation.…

Ratings Collapse for Liberally Biased CNN Host Piers Morgan

May 16th, 2012 10:39 PM
On Tuesday, May 16, CNN did something that hadn't happened to the network since 1997: The 9 p.m. edition of Piers Morgan Tonight drew an audience of only 39,000 viewers in the important 25-54 age demographic. These numbers come as a huge blow to the host, liberal, former tabloid editor Piers Morgan.

Piers Morgan Tells Israeli Defense Minister Obama 'Would Prefer' No Ac

May 16th, 2012 10:16 PM
Just how in the tank for Barack Obama is CNN's Piers Morgan? During an interview with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Wednesday, Morgan actually said to his guest concerning Iran, "President Obama clearly would prefer not to see Israel take any action before the election" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

A Tale of Two Networks: CNN Questions Obama Attack Ad While MSNBC Chee

May 16th, 2012 4:55 PM
After the Obama campaign released an ad on Monday attacking Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital, CNN went so far as to question President Obama's hypocrisy in attacking Romney. In contrast, MSNBC hosts joined Team Obama on the offensive. CNN first reported the ad during the 9 and 10 a.m. hours of Monday, and by that evening anchor John King hosted a former venture capitalist who defended…

CNN Boosts 'One Gay Man's Fight for Same-Sex Marriage

May 15th, 2012 5:39 PM
News networks should remain objective, especially when approaching a hot-button issue of the present day, but CNN is clearly supporting the cause of same-sex marriage as evidenced by Sunday night's slander and its heavily slanted coverage of President Obama's "historic" gay marriage announcement last week -- and now its newest story that aired Tuesday afternoon. When a man pushing for same-…

CNN Asks If Catholic Bishops Are 'Imposing' Catholic Beliefs by Invest

May 15th, 2012 3:09 PM
CNN's Carol Costello wondered why the U.S. Catholic Bishops are investigating the Girl Scouts over possible ties to Planned Parenthood and the distribution of anti-Catholic material. "Not all of those Girl Scouts are Catholic," Costello mused on Tuesday. "So why impose Catholic beliefs on the Girl Scouts and threaten to pull out of the organization?" Costello hosted the Catholic League's…