John Avlon
CNN Gives 23 Mins to Nurse’s Dubious Claims Trashing COVID Patients
November 23rd, 2020 5:53 PM
In the latest blow to CNN’s claim to be a news organization, National Review and Wired found last week that their much-heralded November 16 interview with South Dakota nurse Jodi Doering trashing her patients had more than a few holes. While Doering’s story drew widespread attention by over a half dozen CNNers, neither outlet find anyone to confirm Doering’s claims of…
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CNN's Avlon: Most Americans Support Liberal Policies
November 20th, 2020 6:16 PM
On Friday's New Day show on CNN, political analyst John Avlon tried to provide comfort food for liberal audience members as he devoted his "Reality Check" segment to portraying liberal policies as being popular in spite of the close election results.
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CNN's Stelter Slams Fox Over Caravan News, But CNN Misinformed Viewers
October 25th, 2020 6:40 AM
In a recent interview on PBS's The Open Mind, CNN media analyst Brian Stelter plugged his anti-Fox News book, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, by trying to portray CNN as a more accurate news source than Fox. Taking aim at Fox and Friends, he painted the morning show as misinforming viewers, citing its coverage of the…
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CNN's Avlon Slams Climate 'Denial': 'Need to Have Your Head Examined'
September 19th, 2020 8:59 PM
On Thursday's New Day on CNN, the show presented a pre-recorded "Reality Check" in which liberal analyst John Avlon excoriated President Donald Trump for being a global warming skeptic, and asserted that "you ought to have your head examined" if you disagree with the left's fearmongering and alarmism about climate change.
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Scott Jennings Upset CNN Libs by Raising Bidenites Bailing Out Rioters
September 5th, 2020 10:12 AM
On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, conservative analyst Scott Jennings was infuriating the liberals on set by raising the issue of Kamala Harris and the Biden campaign staff bailing rioters out of jail. Liberal analyst Bakari Sellers jumped all over Jennings, pretending he had no point, and that Democrats were bailing out peaceful protesters in the style of John Lewis.
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Blatant Hypocrisy: CNN Accuses Republicans of Housing Extremists
July 20th, 2020 11:30 PM
On Monday’s New Day, CNN co-host Alisyn Camerota played senior political analyst John Avlon’s newest “reality check” clip. The clip was far from a “reality check,” as Avlon hypocritically accused the Republican Party of promoting extremism and conspiracy theories through discussing the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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CNN Spreads Falsehoods in Outraged 'Reality Check' on Tucker Carlson
July 9th, 2020 6:35 AM
On Wednesday's New Day show, CNN analyst John Avlon delivered a "Reality Check" to allegedly fact check Fox News host Tucker Carlson. But the segment actually spread misinformation by replaying Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth's false claims about President Donald Trump's speech at Mt. Rushmore.
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Keilar Accuses 'Deliberately Negligent' Trump of 'Killing Americans'
June 27th, 2020 6:25 PM
During the 1:00 PM ET hour on CNN Thursday, host Brianna Keilar trashed President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to repeatedly accusing the President of “deliberate negligence,” Keilar went so far as to accuse him of “killing Americans.”
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Avlon Cites Pence's Climate Skepticism Against Him on Coronavirus
February 28th, 2020 8:47 PM
On Friday's New Day show, CNN's John Avlon presented a "Reality Check" segment in which he listed a number of alleged reasons that Vice President Mike Pence's past suggests that he will not be suitable for coordinating the federal government's efforts against the coronavirus. Avlon not only hinted that Vice President Pence's history of praying is "superstition,…
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STUDY: The Majority of CNN’s Coronavirus Coverage is Trump-Bashing
February 28th, 2020 12:31 PM
During national emergencies such as natural disasters or outbreaks of disease, the news media can serve as a valuable source of information for the public. Yet when it came to their coverage of the coronavirus on Thursday, CNN largely put their Trump-bashing agenda ahead of that important role.
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CNN's Avlon Mocks Pence: 'Prayer Didn't Work'
February 28th, 2020 6:53 AM
CNN's John Avlon joined At This Hour host Kate Bolduan on Thursday to condemn the selection of Vice President Pence to lead the federal government's response to the coronavirus. But, what was an attack on Pence morphed into an attack that implied that any social conservative or religious person would be unqualified to lead a public health task force in a time of crisis…
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CNN Hysteria: Memes Drive ‘Voter Suppression,’ Are All Russian Ops
February 23rd, 2020 1:58 PM
Though the segment blew up on Twitter because The Atlantic’s David Frum described President Trump as so “physically capable” that he couldn’t “pick up a ball,” the arguably more ridiculous part of that Sunday’s so-called “Reliable Sources” segment was when fill-in host John Avlon led the panel in a mini-freak-out about memes. Together, they…
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They LOVE Mitt Now, But HATED His Guts In 2012
February 6th, 2020 12:56 PM
Mitt Romney’s vote to convict President Donald Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power won him a bunch of new fans amongst the liberal press. CNN’s Jim Acosta and John Avlon swooned over the Utah Senator’s “Profile in Courage” in standing up against Trump and his fellow Republicans. This is a far cry from the treatment Romney received when he was the GOP…
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CNN's Avlon: Alexander Must Vote for Witnesses to 'Save Republic'
January 30th, 2020 10:32 AM
On New Day, angst-filled CNN political commentator John Avlon asks, "will the headline be: Lamar Alexander saves the republic, or saves the Republican party?" In other words, the republic will be lost if Alexander votes against witnesses.
