CNN's Chernoff Fails to Find Pro-Gun Voices for 'Gun Show Loophole' Re
October 8th, 2009 6:58 PM
CNN correspondent Allan Chernoff highlighted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s hidden camera operation against gun shows in several states on Thursday’s American Morning, but omitted any sound bites from gun rights supporters. Chernoff featured two clips from Bloomberg and one from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, but only read an excerpt from a statement by the NRA.Anchors Kiran Chetry and…
White House Defends Attacks on Fox News: 'They Will Say Anything
October 8th, 2009 5:07 PM
The White House is stepping up its attacks against the Fox News Channel, labeling it a bastion of stilted and opinionated journalism. A top administration communications official has called the Fox "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and vowed to wage a war of ideas against the network.Speaking with Time Magazine, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said that the administration…
CNN Uses Singing Children to Campaign for ObamaCare
October 7th, 2009 10:39 PM
UPDATES at end of post.Is this REALLY America?How far are today's media willing to go to advance President Obama's cult of personality? What happened on CNN Monday has to make one wonder, for some producer at this cable network thought it would be cute to bring school kids on the set to sing an astonishingly propaganda-laden song about ObamaCare.Maybe most disgraceful, it seems quite unlikely any…
CNN 'Fact Checks' SNL Obama Skit, Airs 'Daily Show' Internationally
October 7th, 2009 7:32 PM
The Situation Room on CNN’s “fact checking” of Saturday Night Live’s skit from October 3, which made fun of President Obama as a “do-nothing,” has generated criticism, according to the TVNewser blog on Wednesday. Meanwhile, CNN’s sister network, CNN International, has been airing a “global edition” of Comedy Central’s Daily Show since 2002, a program which has apparently received less scrutiny.…
Bachmann Makes It Clear Who Is Driving the 'Birther' Train: The Media
October 7th, 2009 3:29 PM
What happens when you have James Carville prodding Larry King to ask a "tough" question of outspoken Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann? You get a glimpse of what is really driving the movement questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama's birthplace. On CNN's Oct. 7 "Larry King Live," a persistent Carville would not let it go - that Bachmann was a part of the so-called "birther"…
Paul Begala Returns to Bashing Rush Limbaugh With Drug Reference
October 6th, 2009 9:02 PM
Democratic strategist Paul Begala can be relied upon to use the “drug card” against Rush Limbaugh whenever the talk radio host is brought up, and he was true to form on Tuesday’s Situation Room. When anchor Wolf Blitzer asked what it would mean if Limbaugh bought the St. Louis Rams, Begala snarked, “Just don’t put him in charge of the team’s drug policy....Don’t give him access to that medicine…
CNN's Blitzer Highlights CSPI Study, Omits Group's Left-Wing Politics
October 6th, 2009 6:40 PM
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer highlighted the latest study from the Center for Science in the Public Interest during a news brief on Tuesday’s Situation, but omitted the left-wing bent of the organization, referring to it as merely an “activist watchdog group.”The CSPI released their “Ten Riskiest Foods Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug and Administration” earlier in the day, and the CNN anchor noted…
GMA Hypes Food Scare with Latest Doom-and-Gloom CSPI Study
October 6th, 2009 4:04 PM
If you thought figuring out what to eat was difficult before, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has released a new study called "The Ten Riskiest Foods," which slams four of the five food groups. On Oct. 6 "Good Morning America's" Sharyn Alfonsi devoted an entire segment to the doom-and-gloom study. But of course she conveniently forgot to mention that CSPI is a radical left-wing…
'Red Eye' Gets More 'Demo' Viewers at 3AM Than CNN Does at 8PM
October 6th, 2009 11:20 AM
CNN and Campbell Brown must be awfully proud of themselves.After all, Brown's prime time television program which airs at 8PM ET is getting fewer viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 than Fox New's "Red Eye." Here's the punch line: "Red Eye" is on at 3AM when most people in the country are asleep. As reported by Mediaite Tuesday (h/t Hot Air headlines):
CNN's Toobin Again Touts 'Very Conservative' vs 'Liberal' Supreme Cour
October 5th, 2009 5:23 PM
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin again turned to his usual labeling of the ideological split on the Supreme Court on Monday’s American Morning. Toobin labeled Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts “very conservative” three times, as opposed to the mere “liberal” justices on the Court. The analyst also bizarrely claimed that the “liberal side” of the body is “basically outnumbered.”Toobin…
Joe Kernen Bashes NYT's David Brooks, Defends Limbaugh
October 3rd, 2009 11:14 AM
CNBC's Joe Kernen on Friday took New York Times columnist David Brooks to task for statements made in his recent column.As my colleague P.J. Gladnick previously reported, Brooks accused conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity of hurting the Republican Party:The Republican Party is unpopular because it’s more interested in pleasing Rush’s ghosts than actual people…
CNN's Tony Harris Expresses Utter Disbelief: 'Chicago is Out
October 2nd, 2009 12:39 PM
On Friday’s Newsroom, CNN anchor Tony Harris apparently couldn’t believe the news as the International Olympic Committee eliminated Chicago, as well as Tokyo, from consideration as the deciding body made its final votes on which city would get the Olympic Games in 2016.Within the course of just over a minute at 25 minutes into the 11 am Eastern hour, Harris uttered the phrase “Chicago is out”…
CNN Again Neglects Left-Wing Affiliation of Former Health Care 'Player
October 1st, 2009 6:03 PM
CNN’s Rick Sanchez joined two of his colleagues in omitting the left-wing affiliation of Wendell Potter, a senior fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy. In fact, Sanchez went so far as to deny Potter’s alignment with liberals: “Is he [Potter] some crazy lefty? Is he Ralph Nader? Is he Dennis Kucinich? No. In fact, he’s a former player in the health insurance world.”Before the CNN anchor…
Jimmy Carter Tries to Deny He Said Obama Critics 'Driven' By Race
October 1st, 2009 12:42 PM
CNN’s Candy Crowley tried to prompt former President Jimmy Carter to explain his charge of racism against opponents of President Obama on Thursday’s American Morning, but the Democrat tried to worm his way out of what he said. Crowley paraphrased, “You said, overall, you thought the protesters were upset that there was a black president,” to which Carter replied, “That’s not what I said” [audio…