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CNN.com Plugs Same-Sex 'Marriage' Magazine 'Born of Frustration
August 12th, 2010 6:58 PM
CNN continued its promotion of homosexual "marriage" with an online article on Thursday highlighting a new magazine for same-sex couples planning their ceremonies. Writer Shaunte Dunston used glowing language to describe the experiences of "Equally Wed's" founders, as well as that of vendors who cater to the homosexual community.Dunston, a "media coordinator" for the cable network, began her CNN.…
CNN: 'Will Bush-bashing Help Democrats Win Over Weary Voters
August 6th, 2010 4:29 PM
On Friday, CNN prominently featured an article at the front page of its website with the headline,"Can Bush-bashing Help Sway Voters?" (pictured right).Click on that link, and the reader was treated to an even more inflammatory title: Will Bush-bashing Help Democrats Win Over Weary Voters?Not surprisingly, the article was just as defamatory to America's 43rd President:
More Unexpected Economic News, But Only If You’re an Economist in D
August 5th, 2010 5:30 PM
Bad economic news just keeps piling up. Today, the news about jobless claims from the AP:Initial requests for jobless benefits rose last week to their highest level since April, a sign that hiring remains weak and some companies are still cutting workers.The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 479,000. Analysts had…
John Avlon on CNN.com: Tea Party Wouldn't Support 'Civil' Reagan Today
July 27th, 2010 7:31 PM
The Daily Beast's John Avlon tried to sever the Tea Party movement from the conservative legacy of Ronald Reagan in a Tuesday column on CNN.com. Avlon, a Tea Party hater, opined that a "key difference between Reagan's rhetoric and [the tea party] is the comparative civility," and suggested that "Reagan...would have a hard time getting the GOP nomination today" for apparently not being…
CNN Money Covers for Democrat Obstructionists After Bashing GOP
July 27th, 2010 6:31 PM
If a congressional Democrat blocks economic relief efforts, and no one bothers to report it, does it really happen? The editors at CNNMoney.com are apparently on a quest to find the answer. After weeks of pounding Republicans for stalling unemployment benefits in the Senate, the site is suddenly disinterested in doing the same to Democrats. The political battle du jour? Republicans and moderate…
CNN.com Extols Europeans' Nudism versus 'Prudish' Americans
July 13th, 2010 7:07 PM
Travel writer and public television personality Rick Steves lauded Europeans's "more relaxed" attitude about nudity in public and on television while labeling Americans "overly prudish" by comparison in a Tuesday column on CNN.com: "I like a continent where the human body is considered a divine work of art worth admiring openly."Steves's ode to European nudity began six paragraphs into the column…
CNN and CNN.com Omit Firing of Middle East Senior Editor Nasr
July 8th, 2010 12:55 PM
[Update, 2:22 pm Eastern: CNN.com put up an article on Nasr's "leaving" at 12:31 pm Eastern on Thursday, just before this item went up. H/t: NewsBusters reader johnny dollar.]Both CNN and CNN.com have punted on the firing of Octavia Nasr, the network's senior editor of Middle East affairs, after she mourned the death of Islamist cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, "one of Hezbollah's giants…
AP Breaking: Supremes' Ruling 'Casts Doubt' on Chicago Handgun Ban
June 28th, 2010 10:54 AM
Lord have mercy, even when it hits him in the face, the Associated Press's Mark Sherman won't concede the obvious: "Cast doubt"? Is that what court rulings do now? A USA Today item has it right:
CNN Conducts Sympathetic Interview of Another Homosexual Teen Activist
June 22nd, 2010 4:43 PM
On Tuesday's Newsroom, CNN's Brooke Baldwin brought on another teenaged homosexual activist for a sympathetic interview to help promote their upcoming one-sided documentary, "Gary and Tony Have a Baby." Baldwin prompted Constance McMillen to give advice to "other teens who are suffering in silence." The anchor also didn't press McMillen on how she might have inconvenienced her classmates.Baldwin…
Zoinks! CNN, USA Today Shocked Kids Prefer Cartoon-Endorsed Products
June 22nd, 2010 12:03 PM
It didn't take Velma, Shaggy or Scooby to uncover this mystery. In a June 21 study published in the medical journal Pediatrics, researchers from Yale University "discovered" that food products with characters on them affect children's taste preferences, which may explain why food companies have been advertising with cartoons since at least the 1960's. CNN.com and USA Today used the study to…
CNN Fires the Associated Press
June 22nd, 2010 2:12 AM
CNN has announced that it will cease using all content from the Associated Press effective June 30, and from all appearances will take a run at becoming a credible wire service competitor. Although it would be easy to dismiss this as the blind leaving the blind, this development seems like it has the potential to alter the news landscape and temper some of the worst excesses of press bias and…
Obama Speaks At Lower Grade Level Than Bush, CNN Says He's 'Too Profes
June 17th, 2010 10:42 AM
You know why President Obama's Gulf Coast oil spill address from the Oval Office failed so miserably on Tuesday?It went over too many heads.At least that's what the folks at CNN.com believe.Maybe that's why the so-called geniuses at MSNBC didn't like it - it went over Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Howard Fineman's heads!Even more absurd in this piece by the CNN Wire Staff is that it…
James Carville Bashes Fareed Zakaria: 'I Wanted to Hit Him With a Foot
June 11th, 2010 12:43 AM
Democrat strategist James Carville Thursday had strong words for Fareed Zakaria who in an interview recently published at CNN.com defended President Obama's handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill."When I read that I wanted to hit him with a football bat," Carville told CNN's John King on the program bearing his name.For those not getting the joke, Carville was mocking Zakaria's reference to "…
CNN Blames White People For Obama's Slow Action On Oil Spill
June 9th, 2010 5:24 PM
UPDATE - 6/9, 5:45 PM | Lachlan Markay: One of CNN's primary sources for this piece has endorsed the notion that "Rev. Wright's anger about the domestic and foreign policies of the USA are well rooted – and documented – in the current reality of the USA." Details below the jump.The excuses keep rolling in to explain why President Obama is seemingly detached from the oil spill crisis in the Gulf…