Ted Turner: U.S. and Israel Should Disarm to Prevent Nuclear Iran

May 4th, 2012 12:31 AM
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, the news network's founder, Ted Turner, complained that a double standard exists between the U.S. and Israel being allowed to possess nuclear weapons while Iran is expected to be nuclear-free, as he suggested that all countries dispose of their nuclear arsenals to persuade Iran not to build such weapons. After host Piers Morgan…

CNN Flatters Obama's Sister, Praises Her 'Wonderful' New Book

May 3rd, 2012 5:07 PM
While presidential siblings might normally receive soft interviews on television, President Obama's half-sister Auma had the red carpet rolled out for her on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight. Morgan wasn't just cordial but was enraptured by her "wonderful" new book and her brother Barack's "amazing" story. "You have the Obama smile. I would have recognized that a mile off," Morgan told Auma…

CNN Puffs Up Tiny Liberal Protest 'Hounding' Romney's Visit to RNC Hea

May 2nd, 2012 5:31 PM
A liberal protest that CNN.com said contained "about 10 people" still merited inclusion in CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's report on Wednesday's The Situation Room. Of course, Acosta made no mention of the smallness or brevity of the protest -- the chant of "No Swiss Mitt" lasted under five minutes. Acosta did tout that Democrats were "hounding" Romney to keep him "back on his heels." As an…

PolitiFact Whiffs Again, Rates Accurate Romney Claim 'Half True

May 2nd, 2012 9:09 AM
It must be campaign season. Fact-checking gurus are rating accurate statements by the Romney campaign as "Mostly False" or "Half True" or – the best – "True but False," since they're correct but they apparently don't tell the whole story. However, when President Obama made a factually-incorrect statement last week, he did not receive a "False" rating from the website PolitiFact, but…

Piers Morgan: Killing Bin Laden 'Biggest Decision' of Obama's Presiden

May 1st, 2012 11:44 PM
Are you starting to feel the media are spiking more footballs as the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's execution nears than the President himself? On CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, the host actually called this "the biggest decision" of Barack Obama's presidency (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Jonah Goldberg Slams 'Niggling Pedant' Piers Morgan After Monday's Int

May 1st, 2012 5:20 PM
After CNN's Piers Morgan belittled conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg for upwards of 11 minutes on Monday night, Goldberg fired back Tuesday on his National Review blog and called it a "shameful spectacle." He accused Morgan of being a partisan hack while claiming journalistic impartiality. "Liberal journalists don't think they have any biases, which makes it very hard for them to…

CNN Grudgingly Concludes on Maddow-Castellanos Debate: Men Make 'About

May 1st, 2012 10:45 AM
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Republican strategist Alex Castellanos got into quite a heated debate about the gender wage gap on NBC's Meet the Press. CNN's Situation Room decided to find out who was right about this controversial issue Monday, and despite going to great lengths to side with Maddow, correspondent Lisa Sylvester grudgingly admitted at the very end…

Sheer Hypocrisy? Openly-Gay CNN Anchor Thinks Gay Bachmann Joke Is Hil

April 30th, 2012 12:42 PM
CNN host Don Lemon cracked up over a raunchy joke about Michele Bachmann's husband, on Sunday night's 6 p.m. edition of Newsroom. Conservative guest Will Cain then confronted the openly-gay anchor over why it was okay to make fun of Bachmann appearing to be gay. "If, as the joke suggests Marcus Bachmann is gay, but he hasn't come to grips with himself. Now, I'm asking two guys who've been…

CIA Told Obama Case for Bin Laden Being in Abbottabad Was Weaker Than

April 29th, 2012 6:41 PM
Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, said Sunday that President Obama was informed by CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell in December 2010 "that the circumstantial case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was better than the circumstantial case that bin Laden was in Abbottabad." This astonishing revelation was made on CBS's Face the Nation (video follows with transcript and…

Fareed Zakaria Shocker: Buffett Rule Is 'Bad Politics' for Obama

April 29th, 2012 10:28 AM
A truly shocking thing happened on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday. The perilously liberal host - with journalistically corrupt ties to the current White House - came out against the millionaires' tax known as the Buffett Rule calling it "bad politics in the long run for Obama" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Piers Morgan and Frank Rich Are Scared Romney Could Buy the Election

April 27th, 2012 12:58 PM
Liberal journalists Frank Rich and Piers Morgan have teamed up to bash conservatives before, and they raised new fears on Thursday that conservative "rich white men" could buy the election through super PACs. Rich admitted on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight he was "seriously worried Mitt Romney could buy this election," even though to date President Obama has raised more campaign money than Romney…

CNN Anchor Gasps When Student That Got Viral Picture With Obama Won't

April 27th, 2012 10:25 AM
Unless you happened to sleep all week, you probably saw the story of a Colorada University student getting her picture taken with President Obama at a bar in Boulder. Even funnier than the photo that went viral on the internet was CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield gasping on Thursday's Early Start when the co-ed in question wouldn't say she was voting for the current White House resident (video…

More One-Sided Reporting From CNN on Issues Involving the Catholic Chu

April 26th, 2012 6:01 PM
When it comes to social issues, you can expect to get mostly one side of the story from CNN's reporting – the liberal side. On Thursday morning, that trend continued as anchor Kyra Phillips sympathized with a Catholic school teacher fired because she was using sick days to receive in vitro fertilization, a practice condemned by the Catholic Church. Phillips started off with this jab at the…

CNN Hypes Paul Ryan Getting His 'Knuckles Rapped' by Georgetown Priest

April 26th, 2012 3:07 PM
When liberal Catholics protested Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) speaking at Georgetown University on Thursday, CNN jumped all over the story and gave it 11 full minutes of coverage during the 9-11 a.m. hours of Newsroom. In contrast, when the Obama administration issued its birth control mandate and Catholic bishops voiced their staunch opposition, CNN mentioned the story once in ten days.…