Media Report Re-Warmed Obama Campaign Talking Points as Fact
September 17th, 2008 10:31 PM
As Culture and Media Institute Director Robert Knight has noted, the media are still presenting Obama campaign spin on the McCain sex ed ad as hard facts. Last week the McCain campaign released an ad charging Senator Obama with supporting sex education for kindergarten children when he was an Illinois state senator. According to the Obama campaign and the media the legislation in question "was…
Roland Martin & Jeffrey Toobin: CNN’s Resident Obama Spokesmen
September 17th, 2008 5:37 PM
Two segments on CNN’s Election Center program on Monday and Tuesday evenings which aimed to fact-check political ads by the McCain and Obama campaigns were followed by panel discussions in which contributor Roland Martin (on Monday) and senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (on Tuesday) took active roles in denouncing the McCain ads as being filled with "lies" and "falsehoods." Martin accused…
CNN's Cafferty: Not Voting Obama? You're a Racist
September 17th, 2008 4:06 AM
To show the empty "logic" that Jack Cafferty of CNN employs in his political commentary all one need do is check out his September 16 Political Ticker blog post on why the race for the White House is so tight in the polls. Reason: the country is filled with racists. Yes, folks, if you are voting against Obama (and no matter who or what you are actually supporting and why) it must be because you…
CNN’s Jack Cafferty Bashes Palin: ‘Shades of President Bush
September 16th, 2008 5:49 PM
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty blasted Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s The Situation Room over her refusal to cooperate with the Alaska state legislature’s investigation into the firing of Walt Monegan, the former Alaska public safety commissioner: "Palin is refusing to cooperate with the investigation -- shades of President Bush, right? Embarrassing investigation?…
CNN’s Chetry Questions McCain Tax Plan, Roberts Quizzes Biden from t
September 16th, 2008 4:02 PM
CNN pressed Senators John McCain and Joe Biden about their campaigns’ respective tax plans on Tuesday’s American Morning during back-to-back interviews. Co-host Kiran Chetry questioned McCain from the left, citing the supposedly "non-partisan" Tax Policy Center run by two liberal organizations, the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, while her colleague John Roberts asked Biden about…
CNN's Crowley: Obama Team Wanted 'Horrific' Wall Street Headlines
September 16th, 2008 11:20 AM
Do you think the recent stock market collapse or troubles in the banking system are good news?Well, according to CNN's Candy Crowley, the Obama campaign does.On Monday's "Anderson Cooper 360," after CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said "what happened over the weekend with the economy and the bottom falling out of the financial markets...is the opportunity for Obama to seize the momentum…
CNN’s Sanchez Features Student Who Mouths Obama Race Point by Stepha
September 15th, 2008 2:22 PM
CNN anchor Rich Sanchez, as part of his continuing interviews of first-time young voters, featured a Georgia Tech student on Monday’s American Morning who made a liberal statement on race that was nearly identical to one made by George Stephanopoulos over a year ago. Ben Porter, who was identified on-screen as an Obama supporter, stated that "[t]he people that can't accept a black man in the…
CNN Downplays Biden's Deceptions
September 14th, 2008 9:52 PM
On Saturday, CNN presented the special "Joe Biden Revealed." Anchored by Abbie Boudreau, the show touched on why Biden dropped his 1988 presidential bid. Discussing it with Boudreau was Senior Biden adviser Ted Kaufman (Kinnock spelled incorrectly throughout transcript):
CNN Brings Back Banned Clinton Shill to Echo Obama Talking Points
September 12th, 2008 12:13 PM
He's baaaaack!After a brief hiatus from CNN due to his ties to Hillary Clinton, former Clinton administration advisor Paul Begala is back on the cable network echoing Democrat talking points.This comes months after CNN announced back in January that Begala, along with Hillary shill James Carville, had been removed as contributors "to make sure that all the analysts that are on are non-aligned."If…
CNN's Roberts Refers to Democrats as 'We
September 12th, 2008 10:09 AM
It now makes more sense why CNN's John Roberts didn't want to talk about liberal media bias with NewsBusters at the Republican National Convention last week, for while discussing the state of the presidential campaign with former Clinton administration advisor Paul Begala Friday morning, Roberts referred to Democrats as "we." [audio here]I kid you not.At 6:57 AM, after showing a video of Barack…
CNN’s Gary Tuchman: Palin ‘Considered Fervently Anti-Abortion
September 11th, 2008 3:01 PM
CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman’s report detailing the abortion stances of the four major presidential and vice-presidential candidates on Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 program gave a fairly neutral portrayal of how "Biden and Obama both favor abortion rights" and how "Palin and McCain are both anti-abortion," despite Tuchman describing how Palin is "considered fervently anti-abortion." However…
