On CNN, Parker Tags NRA 'Terrorist,' Host Tougher on Pro-Gun Guest

January 8th, 2016 1:08 PM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, host Costello again showed a blatant double standard in giving a softball interview to gun control activist Andy Parker, but then more aggressively debating a pro-gun guest in the next segment. After Parker called the NRA a "terrorist organization," Costello did not challenge the label, and then ended up inviting Parker to suggest questions for her…
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CNN Boosts Guest's Racial 'Double Standard' Claim About Oregon Protest

January 5th, 2016 6:43 PM
Tuesday's CNN Newsroom gave a platform to left-wing commentator David Love, who asserted in a Monday column for theGrio.com that "if Black Lives Matter protesters were to take over a federal building armed to the teeth with firepower — and they certainly would not do this — they would wind up dead or in prison for life on terrorism charges." Love criticized the handling of an armed occupation of…
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CNN Hypes 'Vanilla ISIS,' 'Yeehadist' Labels of Anti-Federal Protest

January 4th, 2016 3:07 PM
On Monday's CNN Newsroom, Deborah Feyerick touted how anonymous "critics" were likening Ammon Bundy's group that took over a wildlife refuge facility in Oregon to Islamist terrorists: "Everybody remembers Ruby Ridge...and the government certainly does not want something like that. But...critics are arguing that if this was another group...there are different hashtags out there now mocking this…
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CNN, MSNBC Rush to Excuse Cruz Cartoon; 'Dangerous' Girls Were in Ad

December 23rd, 2015 4:16 PM
After the Wednesday editions of CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today attempted to excuse the Washington Post cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as moneys, various hosts and guests throughout the day on CNN and MSNBC followed suit by chiding the “weird” and “controversial” Cruz for sending out fundraising e-mails related to the smear and “not reacting kindly” to cartoonist Ann Telnaes’s latest…
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CNN Panel Explodes When Conservative Brings Up Clinton Sex Scandals

December 22nd, 2015 6:13 PM
The lead segment in the 3:00 p.m. Eastern hour of Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom featured quite the display of verbal fireworks as conservative writer Kurt Schlichter angered fill-in host Don Lemon when he invoked the Clinton sex scandals of the 1990's with former President Clinton turning “his intern into a humidor” while discussing vulgar comments made by Donald Trump.

CNN's Costello Compares Muslim Shariah to 'My Own Faith' Catholicism

December 15th, 2015 2:12 PM
As the Reverend Franklin Graham appeared on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom to promote a national call to prayer, host Carol Costello raised charges that "heated rhetoric about Muslims" is "causing mosques to come under attack," and, after asking her guest if he thought Islam was "compatible with American values," fretted over his answer when he responded, "I don't think so." The CNN host followed up: "…

CNN Touts Satanists as Defenders of Religious, Civil, Gay Rights

December 12th, 2015 4:58 PM
It may sound like a parody, but CNN Newsroom on Friday actually ran a piece highlighting the plight of Satanists seeking greater acceptance of their beliefs in the predominantly Judeo-Christian U.S. as a preview of this Sunday's edition of This is Life on CNN. As This is Life host Lisa Ling appeared live at the end of the 2:00 p.m. hour of CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, Ling ended up…
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CNN Touts Twitter 'Thread Calling For...Impeachment' of Scalia

December 10th, 2015 4:32 PM
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Pamela Brown spotlighted how Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was "sparking controversy during a hearing of a high-profile affirmative action case." Brown noted that Scalia "seemed to suggest that some African-Americans might do better in lesser colleges," and pointed out how "some feel like he was using to it make his own argument. And Twitter ignited — no…
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Zakaria: US Goes to War Against the 'Other,' But Won't Register Guns

December 7th, 2015 1:31 AM
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow, CNN's Fareed Zakaria complained that Americans are willing to "invade two countries, spend hundreds of billions of dollars" to fight terrorism from "some threatening 'other'" who "looks, feels, sounds different," but "we won't ask for gun registration, we won't ask for background checks, we won't ask for simple, common sense stuff…

CNN Guest Andy Parker Accuses GOPers of Treason, Aiding Terrorists

December 5th, 2015 11:49 PM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, CNN host Carol Costello gave gun control activist Andy Parker his latest forum to aim over the top vitriol at opponents of gun control as he asserted that two Republican congressmen were behaving in a "treasonous" manner and are "aiding and abetting terrorists" by blocking new gun laws. Costello only mildly pushed back against Parker's incendiary statements, which…

CNN's Costello Badgers Pro-Gun Guest, But More Polite to Gun Critic

December 3rd, 2015 8:09 PM
CNN host Carol Costello showed a blatant double standard in her treatment of a pro-gun guest in contrast with a gun control advocate on Thursday's CNN Newsroom between two segments featuring gun expert John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center -- author of More Guns, Less Crime -- and Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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CNN Boosts NY Daily News's 'Provocative' Anti-Prayer Front Page

December 3rd, 2015 1:03 PM
Three CNN programs on Wednesday night and Thursday morning promoted the anti-prayer front page of the New York Daily News: "God Isn't Fixing This." Unsurprisingly, pro-gun control anchor Carol Costello quoted from the liberal newspaper's headline and sub-headline on Thursday's CNN Newsroom: "It's gotten a lot of buzz this morning...It reads, 'God Isn't Fixing This,' and slams [Ted] Cruz and other…
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CNN Anchor Tries to Make Black Pastor State Trump Is Not a Christian

December 2nd, 2015 5:05 PM
During an interview with Cable News Network anchor Carol Costello on Monday, American Baptist Bishop Paul Morton -- who declined an invitation to attend a pastors' meeting with Donald Trump in New York City -- refused to assert that the GOP front-runner in the 2016 presidential race is not a Christian. “As a Christian, as a kingdom representative, I care how you treat people,” the senior pastor…
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CNN's Houck: Chicago Should Impeach Rahm Emanuel, Elect GOP Mayor

December 2nd, 2015 12:52 AM
Appearing on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Harry Houck railed against Democratic management of the inner cities of Chicago. After declaring that "I am sick and tired of seeing small children, black children being killed," he tore into the city's mayor and former Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel for blaming the police superintendent for the city's problems,…