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CNN's Toobin Makes 'Parallel' Between Interracial and Gay Marriage
June 30th, 2015 10:46 AM
On Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, Jeffrey Toobin maintained that the comparison between bans on interracial marriage and gay marriage is “exactly a parallel situation.” After Cooper asked whether officials, in a hypothetical situation, could deny licenses to interracial couples if they had a religious objection, Toobin asserted: “Ted Cruz was asked that exact question today by Savannah Guthrie on…
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Freudian Slip: CNN's Toobin Admits 'We' Celebrate Gay Rights Victories
June 28th, 2015 8:25 PM
It was obvious on Friday that CNN reporters and analysts were giddily celebrating the Supreme Court's liberal ruling bolstering same-sex marriage, but CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was perhaps the only one who inadvertently admitted that "we celebrate" the trend toward gay rights victories before immediately catching his faux pas with laughter and walking it back to "many people celebrate" as…
CNN's Toobin Dubs Scalia 'Get Off My Lawn' Justice, Claims 'Bigotry'
June 26th, 2015 7:42 PM
During CNN's live coverage of the Supreme Court ruling mandating the nationwide legality of same-sex marriage, CNN's senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, repeatedly made cracks about Antonin Scalia, dubbing the conservative Supreme Court Justice as the "'get off my lawn' justice," and asserting that there was "outward bigotry" in a dissenting opinion Justice Scalia gave back in 2003 on a gay…
CNN's Toobin: Obama Will Be Blamed If Obamacare's Overturned
May 21st, 2015 11:12 PM
Via Instapundit, we learned CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has a piece in The New Yorker called “Obama’s Game of Chicken with the Supreme Court.” He imagines who will suffer if the Supreme Court rules against the Obama Administration in the Obamacare subsidy case, King v. Burwell. If individuals in more conservative states without state health exchanges lose their subsidies, Toobin says the…
New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin Slams 'Fox News Justice' Scalia
April 29th, 2015 3:22 PM
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin blasted Antonin Scalia in a Tuesday column for The New Yorker, after the conservative Supreme Court justice cracked a joke during the oral arguments regarding the same-sex "marriage" cases. Toobin asserted that Justice Scalia's "rather refreshing" line in reaction to a pro-traditional marriage activist's disruption during the hearing was a "shocking, ugly moment…
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Toobin Rips Arkansas Governor's 'Double-Speak' on Religious Liberty
April 1st, 2015 3:30 PM
Liberal CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin attacked Governor Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday's At This Hour, after the Arkansas Republican asked the state legislature to bring a proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act closer to the original 1993 federal law: "This was political double-talk....The idea that you can compromise and find some language that allows people to not do business with gay…
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Toobin: Refusing to Serve Gay Weddings & Jim Crow 'Precisely Parallel'
March 31st, 2015 1:22 PM
Jeffrey Toobin likened social conservative Christian business owners who refuse to participate in same-sex "marriages" to advocates of racial segregation during a Monday special on CNN: "This is...precisely parallel to the people in the '50s and '60s, who thought there was a religious obligation to keep the races separate – and they really believed that." Toobin continued by underlining that "we…
Jeffrey Toobin: Giuliani an ‘Embarrassment’ With a ‘Paranoid Style’
February 22nd, 2015 1:40 PM
Toobin, of the New Yorker and CNN, argues that while Giuliani’s “I do not believe that the President loves America” comments were “simply incorrect,” it was more important to understand that they were “not principally meant as assertions of fact.” Rather, they were “meant to tap into a deep wellspring of American political thought, one defined by the Columbia historian Richard Hofstadter five…
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CNN's Toobin: Immigration Stay is a 'Very, Very Bad Ruling' for Obama
February 18th, 2015 2:07 PM
On Tuesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin hyped that a federal judge's stay on President's Obama's executive action granting amnesty for scores of illegal immigrants is a "very, very bad ruling for the President and his administration." Toobin underlined that the judge is "a known conservative judge, who...[has] been hostile to the President on immigration reform."
Lefty Writer John Judis: Ferguson Grand Jury ‘Did the Right Thing’
December 2nd, 2014 9:44 PM
John Judis of the New Republic and Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker believe that young black men often get a raw deal from police, but aren’t convinced that Wilson’s fatal shooting of Michael Brown fits into that paradigm.
CNN's Toobin Lets Obama Claim His Judges Are 'Very Much Centrist'
October 20th, 2014 10:36 PM
The New Yorker magazine was a fierce opponent of President Bush (starting with Jane Mayer’s attacks on Bush anti-terrorist policies) and is now a enthusiastic supporter of President Obama. The latest proof comes in an article on Obama’s judicial legacy by New Yorker writer (and CNN legal analyst) Jeffrey Toobin.
Like many a liberal journalist, Toobin wants to help the president pretend that…
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CNN Guest Likens 'Hurtful & Harmful' Spanking to 'Segregated Schools'
September 16th, 2014 3:57 PM
Areva Martin brought in the specter of Jim Crow on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, as she commented on the child abuse case against NFL player Adrian Peterson. Martin contended that "corporal punishment, in any form, is abusive," and emphasized, "We used to not wear helmets when we rode bikes. Women used to smoke when they were pregnant. We used to send our kids to segregated schools. So,…
Media Defenders of the Liberal Faith Claim Objectivity As They Knock R
August 16th, 2014 9:23 AM
Within the space of a week, the Public Editor of The New York Times, Margaret Sullivan, and Sarah Durand, a senior editor of publisher Simon & Schuster subsidiary Atria Books, have vividly illustrated how the game of liberal media bias works.
Let’s start with the Times.
CNN Plays Up 'Tough Year' For Obama White House in Wake of Supreme Cou
June 30th, 2014 4:14 PM
On Monday's This Hour, CNN's John Berman underlined that the Supreme Court's ruling against the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate was "another setback to the administration, in what has been a difficult year for this White House." Berman later asserted that "this has to be very frustrating for them. They feel blocked politically, legally, foreign policy-wise. Pretty much, everywhere…