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CNN Marvels at ‘Awesome,’ Buttigieg Speech with ‘Even Stephen’ Voice
March 2nd, 2020 5:07 PM
Being one of the liberal media’s more beloved candidates in the 2020 race, it made sense that CNN Newsroom was in awe of former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s speech announcing that he would quitting the race, calling it “awesome,” “presidential timber,” “well done,” and Obama-like in “oratory” with “that even-Stephen…

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CNN Panel Bashes 'Republican Justices,' Sees GOP Conspiracy Theory
June 27th, 2019 9:00 PM
On Thursday morning, CNN Newsroom dedicated nearly the entire hour to discussing two recent Supreme Court decisions on the census and on a gerrymandering case. The panel, hosted by CNN anchor Poppy Harlow, used that time to bash Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of the conservative majority.

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Watch Mary Katharine Ham Trigger CNN Panelists, Viewers on Collusion
March 28th, 2019 7:51 PM
During Thursday’s The Lead, CNN political commentator Mary Katherine Ham deflated more than a few balloons when pointing out that he’s “happy to talk about” Attorney General Bill Barr’s letter on the Mueller report “because...it’s very good news for America” that the President “did not collude with a hostile foreign government.”

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Acosta: ‘We Don’t Want to Navel Gaze Too Much’ on Anti-Trump Papers
August 16th, 2018 10:02 PM
Thursday’s nationwide collusion effort by about 350 newspapers didn’t do much of anything to convince skeptics that they’re not out to get President Trump. Rather, editorials denouncing Trump showed the arrogant yet thin-skinned nature of the media. And CNN’s Jim Acosta perfectly encapsulated that on The Situation Room. Filling in for Wolf Blitzer, Acosta had the show…

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CNN's Brownstein: Comey Hurts Trump With White College Grads
April 19th, 2018 9:15 AM
CNN's Monday Situation Room tortured its audience with an out-of-thin-air assessment by Ron Brownstein that James Comey's book and his public visibility would hurt President Donald Trump's standing with white, college-educated voters — because they "look like" him. This is what passes for "analysis" on the formerly serious cable news network.

Limbaugh Torpedoes Lemon Over His Supposed ‘Objective Journalism’
February 8th, 2018 11:26 PM
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh took on CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein and CNN Tonight host Don Lemon during his eponymous Thursday show, thrashing Brownstein for condemning criticism of the FBI and Lemon for being “totally blind to any opposing view.”

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CNN Pundits Back Liberal Fanaticism at Grammys, Blame Trump Instead
January 29th, 2018 12:23 PM
Talk about twisting yourself into a pretzel. On Monday morning’s CNN Newsroom, two CNN pundits determined that Hillary Clinton reading Fire and Fury at the Grammy Awards might not have been smart, but the far-left politicization of award shows shouldn’t be condemned and instead taken to heart due to the “damage” President Trump has caused to “the Republican brand.…

Press Draws Lame 2010 ObamaCare Parallel in Seeing Big 2018 GOP Losses
December 23rd, 2017 4:39 PM
During the past month, many establishment press pundits have pivoted from believing that Republicans will suffer major losses in the 2018 midterm elections because they haven't accomplished anything to predicting that Republicans will suffer major losses now that they have. They're now saying that the just-signed tax law, which they have declared is and will remain deeply unpopular (if so…

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CNN Worries Storm Relief Funding Will Get ‘Mired’ by GOP
August 29th, 2017 3:43 PM
On Tuesday’s CNN New Day, reporters were eager to scold Republicans for daring to demand fiscally responsible disaster relief funding and fretted that such concerns would cause federal aid for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey to become “mired” by congressional Republicans.

Journalists Attack McCain as Wanting to ‘Kill’ People With Senate Vote
July 25th, 2017 3:34 PM
The liberal media never help themselves, do they? Late Monday night, they showed just how shamelessly hypocritical they are when it comes to civility, trashing cancer-stricken Republican Senator John McCain (Ariz.) as someone who would send millions to their deaths by voting on the motion to proceed for repealing and replacing ObamaCare.

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‘Baloney’: Santorum Annihilates Media’s Narrative on GOP's Secrecy
June 19th, 2017 4:50 PM
Over the past few weeks, the Democrats/media have been pushing the narrative that evil Senate Republicans are hiding their non-existent health care bill from the public. CNN New Day host Chris Cuomo went as far as to say...

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CNN Analyst Compares Intel Heads to Tobacco Execs
June 12th, 2017 12:23 PM
Monday morning, CNN Senior Political Analyst Ron Brownstein suggested that when it came to withholding information in an open Senate hearing, there is no difference between private tobacco executives and the heads of the country’s intelligence agencies...

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CNN: White House in ‘Crisis,’ Trump ‘Abusing His Power’
May 15th, 2017 5:13 PM
During a dramatically one-sided panel discussion in the 8 a.m. ET hour of CNN’s New Day on Monday, political analyst David Gregory wailed that the firing of FBI Director James Comey was “a crisis the President has created by abusing his power, by creating an atmosphere in which we don’t know who we can trust in the White House...”

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CNN Ignores Guest Calling Bannon 'Anti-Semite'; Once Made Hitler Refs
April 12th, 2017 8:57 PM
As The Root's Jason Johnson appeared as a panel member on Wednesday's New Day on CNN, the race-obsessed political analyst was true to form as he took his latest opportunity to trash White House advisor Steve Bannon, this time calling him an "anti-Semite" and someone who "sympathizes with white terrorist organizations," as he received no pushback from CNN hosts Alisyn…