CONNECT
Sign up for our NB Daily newsletter to receive the latest news.
Chris Cillizza
Cillizza Repeats Bad 2016 Prediction, Trump 'Rapidly Slipping Away'
June 9th, 2020 2:10 PM
If you boldly make an incredibly embarrassing prediction that turns out to be horribly wrong, wouldn't you prefer not to make that same mistake again? Most normal people would avoid repeating that error. However, CNN's Chris Cillizza revisited his 2016 electoral prediction and renewed it for 2020.
Liberal Media Suddenly Love Republican-Loathing George Will
June 4th, 2020 8:51 PM
Washington Post columnist George Will is just another pseudo-conservative pundit in the Bezos bubble, like Jennifer Rubin. Liberal outlets like CNN and NPR delighted in his column recommended Senate Republicans "must be routed" in November for their "Vichyite collaboration" with the apparent Nazi president of the United States. He also compared them to affection-starved dogs. What a…
Video
Chris Cillizza Displays Poor Timing on Amy Klobuchar Hype
May 22nd, 2020 7:34 PM
At 4:34 PM ET on Thursday, CNN's Chris Cillizza had his vice presidential rankings published. It is something Cillizza has done for the past few weeks in which the women that apparent Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden might pick are ranked as to their order of probability of being chosen. For the past few weeks, Senator Amy Kloburchar has settled in at second spot right behind Senator…
Humorless Scolds in Press Bash Ben Sasse's Commencement Speech
May 20th, 2020 10:14 AM
May is when most schools celebrate the end of an academic year by hosting commencement ceremonies featuring speeches made by guest speakers giving students advice on how to remain successful after graduation. However, the humorless scolds at The Washington Post and other outlets weren't happy with Ben Sasse's jokes during his speech.
Video
CNN, Trump Campaign Clash Over Ad with CNN Footage In It
May 8th, 2020 1:40 PM
A lawyer for CNN’s parent company Warner Media sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump re-election campaign claiming a new advertisement is misusing CNN news coverage in a way that's "false, misleading and deceptive." They didn't want Dr. Sanjay Gupta sounding in any way positive about President Trump. But CNN also thinks Trump should never "punch down" and complain about negative ads.
Bernie Blames Media for 2020 Loss; CNN's Cillizza Cries Foul
April 16th, 2020 11:18 AM
In an interview with CNN's Ryan Nobles, Bernie Sanders blamed an "anybody but Bernie" media elite for his failure to win the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2020. CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza wrote an article that basically said that was baloney. "The media is an easy scapegoat. But not always the right one."
President Trump Rips NYT and WashPost Apart, Press Go #PeakTriggered
Business
April 6th, 2020 3:01 PM
In his iconic style, President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday to rip into the liberal New York Times and The Washington Post. The president tweeted that “Advertising in the Failing New York Times is WAY down. Washington Post is not much better.” Trump continued: “I can’t say whether this is because they are Fake News sources of information, to a level that few can understand, or the Virus is…
Video
Coronavirus: Cillizza Avoids History to Claim Trump Rewrites History
April 3rd, 2020 11:30 AM
CNN's Chris Cillizza has a problem. In order for him to claim that President Donald Trump is "rewriting history" concerning his handling of the coronavirus outbreak, he has to avoid a major chunk of that history. The irony is that it turns out that Cillizza himself is the one that is rewriting history by failing to report on a important decision by Trump early in the outbreak that significantly…
Video
Daily Caller: CNN Bashed Trump for Saying What They're Now Reporting
April 1st, 2020 1:00 PM
Shelby Talcott at the Daily Caller has caught CNN in a bit of a sticky wicket. On Tuesday, CNN.com posted an article by Arman Azad with the good news that the death rate from coronavirus isn't as awful as assumed. But a month ago, CNN stars ganged up on Trump for "misinforming" the public by suggesting the death rate was under one percent.
Media Ignore Coronavirus Death Rates to Attack Governors
March 31st, 2020 4:07 PM
Even in this time of crisis and death, some in the news media launched partisan attacks on Republican governors regardless of actual data, including how many people have died. We see this in the media all the time: journalists often cherry-pick commentary and data to support the side they like and attack the other. Here we see an example on the left. Last week, CNN's "The Point with Chris…
CNN's Cillizza Raves, Andrew Cuomo's Leadership Is 'What We Need'
March 25th, 2020 1:37 PM
While new polls show the public’s record-high approval ratings of President Trump’s leadership during this coronavirus pandemic, the media is trying to direct attention onto the leadership of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with obnoxious sycophantic puff pieces. For example, take this adoring article on CNN’s website by Chris Cillizza entitled, “Everyone needs to see Andrew Cuomo's inspiring…
Video
CNN's Cillizza Puts Hillary Clinton On His 'Naughty List' for 2019
December 26th, 2019 9:39 PM
On New Day on Christmas morning, CNN’s Chris Cillizza dragged out his “Naughty or Nice List," for 2019, with predictable "naughty" verdict for Rudy Giuliani, and a more surprising "naughty" verdict for Hillary Clinton. Cillizza insisted "It's hard to argue that getting in a fight with Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard if you're Hillary Clinton is beneficial to helping Democrats win in 2020, which…
Video
FLASHBACK: Cillizza Lectured Trump on Being Wrong on Page FISA Warrant
December 17th, 2019 4:12 PM
There were many news outlets and people hyping the validity of the FISA warrant on Carter Page based on the now-officially-discredited Christopher Steele dossier. However, few defended that FISA warrant with more fervor than CNN's Chris Cillizza as he lectured President Donald Trump how wrong, wrong, WRONG he was for daring to cast aspersions on that FISA warrant.
Video
CNN's Cillizza Blames Bad Impeachment Polls on Thanksgiving, Christmas
November 27th, 2019 10:00 PM
With the public testimony portion of the House impeachment proceedings concluded, Democrats have discovered they have a problem: the public hearings did nothing to increase support for impeachment. On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, CNN politics reporter Chris Cillizza joined co-host Jim Sciutto to ponder why this is and concluded that it isn't because the lack of overwhelming evidence, but rather due to…
