Idiocy: CNN Promotes Acosta to Weekdays, Cancels ‘CNN This Morning’

February 5th, 2024 2:06 PM

On Monday morning, the seemingly constant shakeup of CNN’s fledgling, ratings-starved lineup continued as the network revealed the disastrous CNN This Morning will be axed as part of a new morning schedule that’ll include CNN’s pompous shill and former White House correspondent Jim Acosta being promoted to mid-morning weekdays after just over three years hosting late-afternoon weekend…

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CNN's Avlon: It's Not 'Reality' That Democrats Are Extreme on Abortion

November 11th, 2023 6:37 AM

On Friday's CNN This Morning, CNN's John Avlon presented a "Reality Check" segment in which he denied reality. Democrats, as a party, support abortion up until birth. The woman's "right to choose" is absolute. But when Republicans point this about "morally monstrous liberals" (as Avlon put it), they're somehow not being "real" because abortions late in pregnancy are "rare."

NewsBusters Podcast: Racial Hustlers Get Worse & Lemon Feels Squeezed

February 10th, 2023 10:46 PM

With Executive Editor Tim Graham off celebrating his birthday, Deputy Managing Editor Nick Fondacaro and I returned to hold down the fort and, even leaving aside the State of the Union, the world was our oyster with content. Of course, The View was a major topic with their cockamamie and erroneous claims that conservatives such as Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) want to ban the teaching…

CNN in Disarray: Lemon’s Sour Ratings, Licht Wants Barkley to Save CNN

February 10th, 2023 5:54 PM

Chris Licht’s CNN tenure has been nothing short of a disappointment. Having promised to tone down the laser focus on only a few stories a day, partisan sensationalism, and snark that dominated Jeffrey Zucker’s reign of terror, Licht implied wholesale changes were in order. Not only has he failed thus far, but the inmates remain in charge of the asylum (despite layoffs and the ushering out of…

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Flashback: Saluting Teenage Radical as “Person of the Year”

December 10th, 2022 12:45 PM

Three years ago, Time magazine’s editors made the ridiculous choice of making the radical activist Greta Thunberg their “Person of the Year” for 2019, when she was just 16 years old. The idea seemed frivolous then and seems even more preposterous now, as Thunberg has become even more extreme in her views.

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CNN Poll Maven: Biden Looks Like A Loser For Congressional Dems

October 25th, 2022 8:13 AM

On New Day, CNN polling maven Harry Enten, analyzing the relationship between a president's approval rating and the results of his party in midterm House elections, says that Biden "looks like the losers." 

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CNN Condemns Republicans For Trying To Win The Senate, Again

October 19th, 2022 3:26 PM

CNN’s Wednesday edition of New Day lamented that the GOP midterm strategy for winning the Senate involves trying to win elections even if that means putting “party over country” by supporting “dumpster fires.”

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What If CNN Reported On Abortion Laws From Babies' Perspective?

October 6th, 2022 11:04 PM

On New Day, CNN reports on the impact of state laws restricting abortions, and does so solely from the pro-abortion perspective, lamenting the absence of abortion clinics in some states, and the numbers of abortions in those states in previous years that now cannot take place. 

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Avlon: Pro-Lifers Are Using 'Muscle of Religion' To Be Anti-Freedom

October 5th, 2022 11:43 AM

CNN senior political analyst John Avlon wrapped up Wednesday’s New Day with one of his characteristically reality-free reality checks where he proclaimed that being pro-life is anti-freedom, anti-individualism, and just another way to push religion. Avlon tried to justify this partisan diatribe by citing conservative icon Barry Goldwater.

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October Surprise: Media Devotes 24 Minutes to Walker Claim in 8 Hours

October 4th, 2022 12:10 PM

Less than 12 hours after being posted on a liberal website, the ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN morning shows on Tuesday devoted 24 minutes and three seconds to Daily Beast claims that Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for an…

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'A Huge Drop': CNN Reports on Black Voters Running Away From Democrats

October 3rd, 2022 5:39 PM

Electoral conditions are getting so bad for the Democrat Party that on Monday morning, CNN’s New Day was forced to report on a new poll that shows African American voters are souring on the Democrat Party. While the party still wins a majority of black voters, the percentage that Republicans are projected to win is enough to make a difference in key states like Georgia, North Carolina…

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CNN Doesn't Reveal Teen Killed After Political Argument Was Republican

September 23rd, 2022 4:19 PM

In a New Day segment on a teenager in North Dakota run down and killed by a driver after what the driver admitted was a political argument in which he called the teenager an extremist Republican, CNN doesn't mention the Republican affiliation of the victim. 

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CNN Talks Past Abortion at Bottom of 'Most Important' Issues List

September 20th, 2022 12:55 PM

In a discussion on CNN's New Day, John Berman and Harry Enten ignore the fact that as per Gallup polling of the problems facing America, abortion comes in at the bottom of the list displayed at only 5%. Instead, Berman and Enten tout the fact that although the economy is the number one issue at 37%, that percentage is lower than it's been in other years. 

CNN Nukes Morning Show, Don Lemon Demoted to Sunrise Duty

September 15th, 2022 11:28 AM

CNN announced Thursday morning that, after a nine-year run, New Day would be cancelled this fall as new CNN boss Chris Licht and new parent company Discovery continue to remake the far-left, low-rated network and replaced with a yet-to-be-named newscast starring longtime CNNers Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow and chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins.