CNN’s Blitzer Mouths Liberal Talking Points on Taxes, Oil Profits
June 10th, 2008 10:55 PM
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pressed McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina about oil companies "awash in record profits" on Tuesday’s "The Situation Room." The CNN host used ExxonMobil as an example five different times in his questioning. "...ExxonMobil has got these billions and billions of dollars in record profits. They can afford to not necessarily get additional tax cuts."After Fiorina outlined…
What Do You Get When You Search CNN.com for 'Obama Gaffe' Video
June 10th, 2008 3:38 PM
Answer: Just two videos (see screencap at right).Inspired by featured CNN.com video of a McCain gaffe -- wherein the Arizona senator says he'd veto every beer -- I decided to search the CNN.com Web site for video of Obama gaffes.I got a grand total of two.Now, to be fair, searching "McCain gaffe" yielded no videos of McCain gaffes, but one from November 2006 entitled "Kerry's gift of gaffe,"…
CNN Turns to Steinem to Blame Hillary’s Loss on Sexism, Media
June 9th, 2008 1:17 PM
CNN’s "American Morning," following-up on their segment last Friday with Gail Sheehy on whether sexism factored into Hillary Clinton’s loss, asked "pioneering feminist" Gloria Steinem about the issue on Monday morning. Steinem placed the blame squarely on "misogyny and the culture at large, and especially in the media." "[N]o candidate in history has been asked to step down by the media. She was…
CNN Shows Us How We Are Reliving 1968 in
June 9th, 2008 11:27 AM
Did you know that we are reliving 1968 again? George W. Bush is like Lyndon B. Johnson, unpopular. Iraq is like Vietnam, unpopular. The civil rights movement is represented in Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy parallels the women's movement. The energized youth voting in this primary is comparable to the college students protesting Vietnam in 1968. Well, that's what a program…
Media's Fist Bump Focus Shows They're Obama Fixated and Out of Touch
June 8th, 2008 11:57 AM
Since Barack Obama declared himself the Democrat presidential nominee Tuesday, supposedly impartial press members have been sycophantically gushing over the "fist bump" he and his wife shared that evening just prior to his victory speech (video embedded right).Such has been reported by NewsBusters here and here.On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," CNN's Howard Kurtz and guests discussed the media's…
CNN’s Phillips Deplores Sexist Attack on Hillary, Quotes from The Na
June 6th, 2008 3:39 PM
Following Veronica de la Cruz’s use of the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos as sources for a story on Thursday, CNN’s Kyra Phillips read an excerpt from a recent piece by The Nation’s Betsy Reed during a segment on Friday’s "American Morning" about Hillary Clinton’s future. After her guest Gail Sheehy of Vanity Fair argued that Clinton "spoke so strongly, so -- with such assurance about world…
CNN Picks Up McCain ‘Plagiarism’ Story From HuffPost, Daily Kos
June 5th, 2008 4:02 PM
CNN’s Veronica De La Cruz pulled her scoop on Thursday’s "American Morning" straight out of the left-wing blogosphere. The network’s Internet correspondent cited both the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos in her short segment on the brand-new changes on John McCain’s presidential campaign website.De La Cruz first zeroed in on McCain’s new slogan. " His new slogan reads ‘a leader we can believe in…
CNN's Gergen: Obama Speech Echoes Martin Luther King, Abe Lincoln
June 4th, 2008 5:46 PM
"Change We Can Believe In" is the new "I Have a Dream," that is, if you ask the crew at CNN. During Tuesday’s live election coverage, CNN reporters and analysts gushed over Barack Obama’s speech, comparing it to those of Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln as well as praising Obama for his graciousness towards Hillary Clinton. Leading up to Obama’s speech, Anderson Cooper announced…
BET Founder: Election of Obama ‘Greater Than the Emancipation Procla
June 4th, 2008 1:37 PM
BET founder Bob Johnson, despite his consistent support of Hillary Clinton, placed an unequivocal importance on Barack Obama’s election as President during a segment on Wednesday’s "American Morning." "I believe that if Senator Obama leads this country the way he ran the primary, it will become a historic event for African-Americans, probably greater than the Emancipation Proclamation, which was…
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: Liberals on SCOTUS are 'Surprisingly Moderate
June 4th, 2008 4:00 AM
If we needed more proof that CNN's legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, is one of the most disingenuous legal minds of our day, the Saginaw News helped us out with that quest. Toobin made an appearance at a Midland, MI event this week where, among other comments, he ridiculously claimed that the left leaning Justices that sit on the Supreme Court are "surprisingly moderate."We will remember one of…
CNN’s Gergen: Vanity Fair Article on Clinton Ignores His Good Works
June 3rd, 2008 2:43 PM
CNN senior political analyst (and former Clinton adviser) David Gergen, responding to Todd Purdum’s recent Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton during a segment on Monday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," acknowledged that the former President "does have a temper, and he goes off like Mount Vesuvius," but then went on to criticize Purdum’s article, that it "does not give enough weight to what he has done…
Essay: The Media’s Pelosi Troop-Slander Cover-Up
June 2nd, 2008 10:24 PM
If the Speaker vilifies U.S. soldiers and praises their Iranian killers, and the Jurassic Press doesn't report it, does it make a sound? Last Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, third in line to the Presidency and currently the highest ranking Democrat on Planet Earth, sat down for an 80-minute chat with reporters and editorial board members of her home district's San Francisco…
CNN’s Phillips & Malveaux Feel the Obamas’ Pain Over Quitting Chur
June 2nd, 2008 5:24 PM
CNN’s Kyra Phillips and Suzanne Malveaux fretted over Barack Obama’s recent decision to leave his "controversial church" during a segment on Monday’s "American Morning." During her introduction to Malveaux’s report on the decision, Phillips lamented, "You know, he's getting criticized -- okay, he acting like a typical politician.... He's bailing out of the church. Well, he would have been accused…