CNN Editor Bemoans 'Un-British' Brexit Vote Spawning 'Racist Abuse'
CNN Money associate editor Charles Riley deeply lamented British voters' decision to "exile themselves from the European Union" in a Wednesday piece on CNN.com. Riley played up "reports of racist abuse," and underlined that "it's not easy to dismiss some of the darker forces that were conjured during the [Brexit] campaign." He later cited a U.K.-based American writer who asserted that "the…
Disney CEO Slams ‘High’ Corporate Taxes, ‘Complex’ U.S. Tax Code
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Disney’s CEO apparently doesn’t sing “Hakuna Matata” when reviewing his company’s taxes. The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger slammed the U.S. tax system as “ridiculously complex,” and said the country’s high corporate rate was “anti-competitive.”
CNN's Bourdain In Vietnam: Obama's 'Chopstick Skills Are On Point'
CNN recently admitted that it's "no longer a TV news network," but that apparently isn't going to stop the network from setting aside some of its non-news air time to President Obama. Chef Anthony Bourdain sat down with the Democrat in a restaurant in Hanoi on Monday, and shot footage for an upcoming episode of his Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown program on the cable channel. Bourdain posted a…
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Press Loves Stewart's 'Man-Baby' Trump Tag, Downplay His Hillary Hits
In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, Jon Stewart, as NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock noted the next day, mocked those who think highly of this country's ideals and history, and particularly GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and his supporters, when he asked, "When was American great?"
In that interview with former Obama presidential campaign chief David Axelrod, the former fake Comedy…
CNN and NY Times Fail to Label This Convicted NY Democrat
Forner New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday after being convicted last year "in a $5 million corruption case alleging he traded favors to enrich himself and then lied about it."
Perhaps cognizant of the fact that media watchers are looking over their shoulders, the primary dispatch and several other news stories at the Associated…
CNN Executive Admits: 'We're No Longer a TV News Network'
CNN's senior social media director, Samantha Berry, made an unsurprising admission about her network on Tuesday: "We're no longer a TV news network." Instead, Berry touted CNN as a "24-hour global multiplatform network" during a presentation at the annual Collision conference in New Orleans.
On CNN.com, BET Editor Hypes 'Political Goddess' Beyonce
BET's Clay Cane touted Beyonce's "transformation" and "musical revolution" in a Tuesday op-ed piece on CNN.com. Cane gushed over the pop singer's new album as her "most important piece to work to date," and asserted that she has become a "political goddess" who has "shattered the limits" of expression for black women.
George Clooney Endorses Clinton, Bashes Trump in Email Endorsement
Hillary Clinton’s latest fundraising email sent out Monday revealed an endorsement from another Hollywood backer: George Clooney. In the email, picked up by several media outlets, like the Los Angeles Times, Variety and the Huffington Post, Clooney bashed Trump while praising Clinton as “the only grown-up in the room” and the “voice of tolerance” in the 2016 race.
CNN Hails Journey From 'Obamacare Kid' to 'Transgender Teen'
In the latest breaking Obamacare news, Amanda Terkel of The Huffington Post tweeted that Marcelas Owens, “The cute little kid who stood next to Obama for signing of ACA now is 17, identifies as transgender.” CNN.com’s John Blake brought the usual political correctness to the task. The headline was "I'm not the Obamacare kid anymore."
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Univision Anchor on 'War Footing' with Donald Trump
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Univision's María Elena Salinas gives us some more bellicose rhetoric and CNN rehashes an old narrative.
CNN: 'Hillary Can't Kill Coal; It's Already Dying' (Because of Obama)
In a Monday afternoon post which gets close to taking pleasure in the serious economic decline in the heart of the coal mining industry in West Virginia, CNN Money's Patrick Gillespie observed, based on Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about coal miners' jobs, that she "has no love for coal companies."
But in Gillespie's world, what Mrs. Clinton said doesn't matter, because "Clinton won't have…
CNN Money: Voter Anger Has 'Some Rationale,' But Decades in the Making
From reading most establishment press news, especially their economy-related reports, you'd think that those who are complaining about the current U.S. economy are outliers — especially the millions of Americans who are angry about it. Though they sometimes acknowledge that forward progress since the recession hasn't been robust, the media's meme-makers have mostly told us that "overall job…
CNN Tags Killer of American in Israel as Palestinian in 20th Paragraph
Those not well-versed on events in the Middle East and how the international press routinely distorts its coverage there might think from the following headline at CNN.com yesterday — "American fatally stabbed in Israel terror attack that wounds 10 others" — that the state of Israel carried out the brutal attack which killed Vanderbilt Universtity student and U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force. Of…
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Rubio Comms Director Unloads on CNN After Post on Rubio Quitting Race
Less than an hour after CNN published an article by special correspondent Jamie Gangel alleging that top Marco Rubio advisers are pushing for him to drop out before the March 15 Florida primary, Rubio communications director Alex Conant took to CNN’s The Situation Room to excoriate the outlet for its “utter nonsense” and “fiction” that didn’t even seek public comment from the campaign.
