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CNN Sets Up Democrat Congressman to Trash NRA After School Shooting

December 17th, 2024 10:32 PM

On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt gave no pushback as Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) called for more gun control in the aftermath of the Wisconsin school shooting as he also complained about opposition from the NRA.

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CNN’s Bash Takes Issue With Trump Saying People Want to Be His Friend

December 17th, 2024 3:03 PM

CNN host Dana Bash put her pettiness on full display during Tuesday’s Inside Politics as she took issue with President-elect Trump quipping about how “In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” While the rest of her panel of liberal journalists were able to admit things were “going his way,” Bash felt the need to fact-check what she…

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CNN Spent 56 Mins Touting ‘Exclusive’ Report of Fake Syrian Prisoner

December 17th, 2024 9:26 AM

Starting with Wednesday’s The Lead and continuing through Saturday night, CNN gave a massive 56 minutes (56:29) to repeated airings and subsequent fawnings over a supposed exclusive trip inside a Damascus, Syria prison by chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward that resulted in what they billed as the discovery and release of someone who insisted he had been stuck inside a…

MSNBC Whines About Defamation Settlement,Fearmongers 'Chilling Effect'

December 16th, 2024 9:51 PM

MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster for the “free press” as the Republicans realized their malicious plans, straight from the “playbook in authoritarianism.”

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CNN’s McCabe Demands ‘Context of Gun Ownership’ Change After Shooting

December 16th, 2024 4:43 PM

On Monday afternoon’s CNN News Central, former deputy FBI director, far-left CNN senior law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe declared “the context of gun ownership” has to undergo substantial changes, regardless of whether it’s “relevant” to the circumstances of a shooting at Madison, Wisconsin Christian school.

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Anti-Israel CBS Reporter Mourns for Destroyed Syrian Military Gear

December 16th, 2024 4:42 PM

With Bashar al-Assad ousted from Syria and the Syrian military in shambles, Israel took the opportunity to set back any possible hostile threat from any new government that could rise up to fill the void by striking air defense sites and weapon/equipment caches. But according to the tone of foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab on Monday’s CBS Mornings, Israel might as well be blowing up…

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ABC, CBS Ignore Trump Winning $16 Million in Defamation Settlement

December 16th, 2024 12:01 PM

Over the weekend, news broke that President-elect Trump reached a settlement with ABC News and other linked entities in the defamation suit he brought against the network. As NewsBusters previously reported, the settlement went unmentioned during Stephanopoulos’s Sunday show, but further, it was not mentioned on any ABC News program through Monday’s Good Morning America. The…

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ICYMI: CNN Lectures Jennings, Defends Biden Record on Border, Economy

December 16th, 2024 11:56 AM

Thursday’s CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip — perhaps the most toxic show on television after ABC’s The View — beclowned itself with an opening block of host Abby Phillip, CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers, and the cartoonishly faux journalist Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post lectured former GOP Senate candidate Jeff Bartos and the great Scott Jennings with claims about…

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ABC Settles With Trump, to Pay $15 Million Towards Future Library

December 14th, 2024 6:30 PM

ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump reached a $15 million settlement on Saturday after This Week host George Stephanopoulos falsely accused Trump of being found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case. 

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New Media Mocks Hunter Biden While Late Night Sleeps

December 14th, 2024 1:30 PM

Hunter Biden is a gift late-night comedians refuse to open.

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Ruhle Ties Celebrating Murder To Taking Daniel Penny To Army-Navy Game

December 14th, 2024 12:00 PM

By her own admission, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was making a bad analogy on Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour when she tried to compare the reaction to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the reaction to Daniel Penny’s acquittal of manslaughter after he subdued a threat to fellow New York City subway riders. However, Ruhle still tried to make the analogy work as she…

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PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'

December 14th, 2024 9:45 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v

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CNN Accused of Misleading Court on Discloser of Financial Documents

December 14th, 2024 12:15 AM

As NewsBusters previously reported back in September, Judge William Scott Henry ordered CNN to comply with financial discovery in the $1 billion defamation suit against them and turn over documents related to net worth and cash flow, among others. The order was further supported in October when he cleared the way for CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to be subpoenaed for…

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CNN Skeptical On Biden Admin 'Nothing to See Here' On Drones

December 13th, 2024 10:35 PM

CNN This Morning expressed considerable skepticism over the Biden administation dismissive attitude toward the drone sightings over New Jersey. Host Kasie Hunt led the skeptical charge. Thus, reacting to John Kirby saying many of supposed drones have turned out to be manned planes or helicopters: "So, basically, he says, don't believe your own eyes."