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Partisan Hire: CNN Hires 2020 Biden Deputy Campaign Chief as Analyst
MSNBC has been hiring all of the Biden-Harris PR operatives, but finally, CNN has its own partisan mouthpiece! CNN announced on Friday that Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director and Biden-Harris deputy campaign manager, is joining CNN as a "political analyst." She's not starting out with a weekend program of her own, like Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders.
Jennings To CNN: Anti-Semitism Is 'Platformed Every Day' Among Dems
A befuddled Scott Jennings was forced to correct Rolling Stone’s Jay Michaelson on Thursday’s CNN Tonight when the former claimed that he couldn’t recall someone with “such anti-Semitic ideas getting this kind of platform” when referring to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Jennings politely reminded Michaelson that “It's platformed…
CNN Spouts Off About New FL Black History Education Standards
Thursday’s CNN This Morning featured a segment where hosts Abby Phillip and Phil Mattingly expressed how appalled they were at Florida’s new standards for education in black history. Joined by CNN national correspondent Athena Jones, they spoke about how these “inaccurate” and “ahistorical” changes would disable teachers from teaching “the proper history,” and how they were “very…
Priorities: MSNBC, CNN Give Trump 9x More Time Than IRS Whistleblowers
During the January 6 hearings, CNN and MSNBC would condemn Fox News in the harshest and most hyperbolic of ways if it chose to not cover the them live. However, when it came to Wednesday’s House Oversight hearing on two IRS whistleblowers alleging improper interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, the two networks did not cover the hearings live. Worse than that, the networks spent nine…
NewsBusters Podcast: CNN's Soggy Subway Sandwich with Anti-Trump Sauce
CNN loves special counsel Jack Smith so much they filmed and celebrated his lunch trip to Subway, which they invested with great meaning. "Turns out even Jack Smith can't resist a $5 footlong," gushed Dana Bash. She insisted the "imagery" was an important rebuttal to Trump. John King claimed it sent an anti-bullying message, Smith saying "I'm not going anywhere" with his sandwich.
CNN Claims Two-Tier Justice System Benefits Trump in Jan. 6 Case
Amid Wednesday’s extensive coverage of the new target letter for former President Trump’s January 6th case on CNN This Morning, anchor Phil Mattingly asked CNN political commentator Van Jones about the delay in prosecutions for the cases. Jones claimed that there was a “two tier justice system, and Trump is benefitting from it,” providing several comical alternate examples in an…
Navarro Tars DeSantis: 'Vindictive, Thin-Skinned, Awkward Bobblehead'
When not co-hosting The View on ABC, Ana Navarro doubles as a political commentator for CNN and on Tuesday’s CNN Tonight, she responded to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s interview with Jake Tapper by dismissing him as a “vindictive, thin-skinned, awkward, bobblehead of a bad candidate.”
CNN and Dem Slotkin Team Up to Tie RFK Jr.’s Anti-Semitism to GOP
CNN This Morning host Phil Mattingly had Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Tuesday morning’s program to discuss several different issues, notably the recent anti-Semitic statements from Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). Together they lamented Republicans calling out Democrats and tried to tie the anti-Semitic comments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to House Republicans despite…
'A Message to Donald Trump,' CNN Oozes Over Jack Smith Going to Subway
CNN self-parodied itself on Tuesday as it tried to discern higher meanings behind Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lunchtime trip to Subway on the same day it was revealed he issued a target letter to former President Donald Trump as part of his January 6 investigation.
CNN Upset Dem Jayapal Made to Walk Back Hate Message Against Israel
Monday’s CNN This Morning featured several segments where the anchors, Phil Mattingly and Abby Phillip, had in-depth discussions on Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA and the blowback to her recent condemnation of Israel as a “racist state.” Along with several guests, both anchors expressed their annoyance that Jayapal had perpetuated a long-standing “internal battle that Democrats have had”…
CNN Deceptively Edits RNC Chair To Paint Her as a Conspiracy Theorist
There’s an old idea that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has time to put its pants on and CNN proved just that this week as Chris Wallace sat down for an interview with Ronna McDaniel on Friday’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, but not before CNN deceptively edited their own interview in order to promote it and portray McDaniel as a conspiracy theorist.
CNN Bashes GOP for Cutting Trans Surgeries from Military Spending Bill
CNN This Morning bashed Republicans for a military spending bill that excluded payments for abortion, diversity promotion, and transgender care to military personnel on Friday. Its reporters exaggerated the past bipartisanism of the bill, claimed Republicans were throwing a fit and using the military as a political pawn, and seemingly compared the cut benefits to rolling back racial…
CNN Pushes Kirby for Promise Biden Will Protect DoD’s Gender Surgeries
On Friday morning’s CNN News Central, anchor Kate Bolduan hosted National Security Council spokesman John Kirby to discuss the situation in Ukraine, as well as the recently Republican-amended National Defense Authorization Act. The latter of these two subjects was apparently so important to CNN that Bolduan brought it up first and spent a good portion of their time on the subject…
Blitzer Lobs Softballs to Austin on Pentagon's Abortion Policy
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer recently sat down for a pre-recorded interview with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Vilnius, Lithuania for Thursday's The Situation Room. Sandwiched between all of the developments at the NATO summit and the war in Ukraine, Blitzer lobbed some abortion-related softballs Austin’s way as Sen. Tommy Tuberville continues to place a hold on military promotions in…
