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CNN Casts Trump-Harvard Showdown As About Free Expression—It's Not
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casts the showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard and other universities over federal funding as being about free expression. It's not. Universities can teach whatever they want. But they can't have it both ways. If Harvard wants to have complete freedom of operation, it should make like Hillsdale College and reject any federal or state…
Cornish Surprisingly Praises Rubio's 'Common Sense' On Student Visas
On Friday's episode of CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish surprisingly praises Marco Rubio's take on revoking student visas as "common sense." But Cornish once again assembles an unbalanced panel, bereft of any Trump-supporting Republican.
Audie's 'Republican Group Chat'—Two Critics of Trump's Tariffs
On Wednesday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish calls two of her guests her "Republican chat group." The Republicans in question are Charlie Dent, a Never Trumper who says he is "very cynical" about Trump's tariffs, calling them a "bad rule," and Kristen Soltis Anderson, who has written a New York Times op-ed warning Republicans about the path they're going down. Anderson suggests there's…
NPR Alum Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR & PBS Forego Fed Funding
CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish, in an interview with Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT], suggests that NPR/PBS accept an end to its federal funding. Surprising, considering that Cornish is an NPR alum, having co-hosted All Things Considered.
CNN Liberals Roll Eyes at Pushing 'Abundance' As Democrat Victory Path
The panel on Monday's edition of CNN This Morning discusses "Abundance," the new book by liberal commentators Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The pair propose that liberals adopt a more relaxed approach to government regulation, which will in turn promote abundance for all. The panel is generally dubious. Host Audie Cornish points out that the energy in the Dem party is in the thousands turning…
Springtime At CNN? Cornish Has An Actual Conservative On Her Show!
Audie Cornish, the new host of CNN This Morning, has stocked her panels with left-leaning voices. But today, she had an actual conservative on the show in the person of Rob Bluey, the President and Executive Editor of The Daily Signal. Bluey is a former reporter at Cybercast News Service, where he broke the story of Dan Rather's fake typewriter font in the phony Bush draft-evasion story.
On CNN, Audie's All Anti-Trump Panel Assails Dept. of Education End
Keeping her habit alive of assembling conservative-free panels, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish's guests this morning were CNN's oh-so-serious Stephen Collinson, Washington Post reporter Sabrina Rodriguez, and Cari Champion, a CNN contributor who's also the host of the "Naked Sports" podcast. The target was Trump's moves to shut down the Department of Education, and after clips of a union…
Cornish On Deportations: Don't Wanna Say 'Constitutional Crisis', But!
On CNN This Morning, in a discussion of the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan gang members despite a judge's order purporting to prohibit it, host Audie Cornish engages in apophasis, saying: "This is one of those things that people end up talking about constitutional crisis. I will try not to kickoff Monday with that term, but . . . "
CNN's Audie Cornish Prefers Farmer Calling Tariffs A 'P---ing Match'
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish plays a clip of an Iowa soybean farmer calling tariffs a "pissing match." The p-word is muted but it is clear what he said. A bit later, when a panelist begins a factual description of the effects of tariffs, Cornish eventually cuts him off, saying: "the farmer gave us a very, like, people understand what tariffs are now. Yeah. Right?"
Cornish's Latest Republican: Stock Market Drop's 'Around Trump's Neck'
In her debut appearance on CNN This Morning, hosted by Audie Cornish, former George W. Bush official Ashley Davis says the stock market's recent dive is "around [Trump's] neck." An unfortunate metaphor in regard to someone who has suffered two recent assassination attempts.
Audie Cornish's 'CNN This Morning' Panels Almost Entirely GOP-Free
Since taking over from Kasie Hunt as host of CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish's panels--in contrast with Hunt's--have been almost entirely Trump-friendly Republican free.
CNN On Cuomo Comeback: 'Can You Be Masculine And A Decent Person?'
On CNN This Morning, in a segment on Andrew Cuomo's comeback, journalist Margaret Talev said: "The question is, can you be masculine and embrace your masculinity and also be a decent person at the same time?" The panel floated the notion that the Democrats' problem is a lack of "manly men" candidates, and that Cuomo is filling that lane.
Surprise! All Four CNN People-In-The-Street Criticize Trump On Economy
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish aired clips of interviews with four Americans. And--surprise!--all of them were critical of Trump's economic policies.
CNN Pushes Pool On How Long Rubio 'Will Last' As Secretary of State
On her first day as host of CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish assembles a panel consisting of Never Trumper Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch, and two New York Times journalists. The panel pushes a pool on how long Marco Rubio will last as Secretary of State, based on the notion that the views he is obliged to promote in the position are antithetical to his historical views.
