Immigration and the Shoddy Pretense of Journalism that is CNN
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
Sen. Bernie Sanders went on CNN today and knocked down questions that were nothing but thinly disguised Republican talking points by using facts, truth, and the history of Republican obstruction.
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
In a conversation with St. Louis news station KSDK 5 on Friday evening, Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson told the station that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will be immediately reinstated to the active duty if he is not indicted by the St. Louis County grand jury in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Republicans are even talking about embarrassing themselves with another lawsuit, like the one that worked so well with healthcare reform
CNN reported on Monday that gun sales in the St. Louis area, especially near Ferguson, have spiked as anxiety builds ahead of the announcement from the St. Louis County grand jury on Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s fate.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) busted John Boehner’s threats against Obama and did something that Republicans don’t want to hear. Sen. Sanders explained how Republicans have poisoned the well against the American people.
As we head into an extremely important midterm election that will decide who controls the Senate, CNN’s State of the Union decided that they would give an inordinate amount of airtime to the Republican Party.
CNN received an audio recording of comments Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made to an all-male Irish-Catholic organization in South Carolina earlier in the month. While speaking to the group at a private meeting, Graham stated that “white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.”
Late Tuesday evening, CNN reported that Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson is expected to step down from his position as part of a larger effort to reform the city’s embattled police department. Jackson may announce his resignation as early as next week.
Dozens of people were arrested and police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse a rioting crowd after a riot broke out in the aftermath of the Keene Pumpkin Festival in Keene, New Hampshire.
The man who shut down the government in an effort to stop funding to Obamacare/access to affordable healthcare is now confounded that government wasn’t entirely ready for action on Ebola.
For Republicans it’s that siren-call of fear, not only of a government run by a black man, but of a disease that kills only white people
What began as a day filled with severe rain storms and an opportunity for a number of Ferguson protesters to take a break from demonstrating ended with the Ferguson police department once again abusing the 1st Amendment in an effort to intimidate activists and protesters.
A tense standoff between protesters and local law enforcement occurred late Thursday evening in Ferguson after the town’s police chief Tom Jackson showed up at the scene and spoke to the crowd.
Former Speaker of the House and current conservative pundit Newt Gingrich took to Twitter Tuesday morning to whine about President Obama’s statement about the airstrikes against ISIS that took place in Syria Monday night and early Tuesday.
You may know Campbell Brown as a former anchorwoman who had regular gigs on CNN and NBC. Since then, she has kept herself busy writing critical op-eds about President Obama and Planned Parenthood and jumping into the education reform movement.
During an appearance Wednesday on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) told anchor Martha McCallum that it was absolutely necessary for America to commit combat troops to the Middle East to combat ISIS because the terrorist group is a “threat to mainland United States.”
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 aired video footage from a cellphone taken shortly after Micheal Brown was shot dead by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The footage shows two contractors, roughly 50 feet away from the scene, reacting in the immediate aftermath of Brown’s shooting.
Where does a strong economy get you when you’re a black president and outperform Reagan on job creation? It gets you to Benghazi.
With the 2014 midterm elections fast approaching and Republicans hoping to take over the Senate this November, Fox News has decided to once again focus its attentions on the right-wing’s favorite conspiracy — Benghazi.
Late Monday evening, CNN’s Don Lemon, still on the scene in Ferguson, provided breaking news regarding an alleged audio recording taken at the time 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
An article posted by the Huffington Post on Sunday evening reveals that Justin Cosma, a Ferguson police officer who arrested two reporters for sitting at a McDonald’s in Ferguson, is currently dealing with a civil rights lawsuit due to an incident where he hog-tied a 12-year-old boy.
On Thursday, shortly after news broke that a Malaysian airliner had crashed in Ukraine, apparently after being shot down by a missile, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made sure to get himself in front of a television camera.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released June’s jobs report on Thursday. The report was released a day earlier than normal due to Friday being a national holiday. The BLS showed that the economy added 288,000 jobs in the month of June.
After a two-week civil trial a U.S. District Chief Judge, Marcia Krieger, ruled the lawsuit lacked standing and dismissed it, and said the plaintiffs presented absolutely no evidence that limiting gun magazines to 15 rounds seriously diminished anyone’s ability to defend themselves.
On CNN’s New Day, President Obama made his strongest statement yet against Republicans who are calling for ground troops in Iraq. The president said, “There’s no amount of American firepower that’s going to be able to hold the country together.”
CNN doesn’t want to deal with the undeniable connection between the GOP, Tea Party, Fox News, and elements of the Neo-Nazi movement.
On this week’s five Sunday news shows (CNN’s State of the Union, ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’ Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday) almost all of the guests that were brought on for interviews were white Republican males.
New research has shown that the average age of a viewer of The O’Reilly Factor is 72 years old. And yet, Fox News continues to ignore the political views of younger demographics.
Gingrich added another vignette to the story of his long, hackneyed career this week, with a truly remarkable piece of insincere sanctimony on Thursday’s edition of Crossfire.
The big House Benghazi investigation has turned into a full blown circus, as John Boehner has lost control over Darrell Issa, who has gone rogue, and is trashing Boehner’s big plans.
CNN boss Jeff Zucker has let it be known that his network won’t be bullied by Fox News into covering Benghazi and that CNN won’t be covering Benghazi unless it becomes legitimate news.
Well, I think we all knew this was coming, in one degree or another. Former half-term Governor of Alaska and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin decided to weigh in on the recent brouhaha surrounding Karl Rove’s comments on Hillary Clinton’s health.
CNN is reporting that Robert Copeland, a police commissioner in New Hampshire who unapologetically used a racial slur when referring to the President, has decided to resign from office.
Just when it looked like CNN couldn’t go any lower, they disgraced themselves even more by interviewing Donald Sterling’s pimp and calling it breaking news.
On Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart compared the recent insane statements by two men who have completely worn out their welcome — Donald Sterling and Karl Rove.
Donald Sterling crawled to CNN to make his big apology/give-me-my-life-back PR tour. It didn’t go so well.
Michele Bachmann tried to justify yet another Benghazi investigation by saying it’s what the people want, but Candy Crowley said the people want jobs.
On Real Time, Bill Maher tore apart CNN for their continuing and ghoulish coverage of Malaysia Flight 370.
Cliven Bundy is obliterating Sean Hannity and Fox News by claiming that they still support him, because they are right on, and they understand his racist views.
During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Abe of Japan, CNN embarrassed themselves with a biased question that President Obama dismantled with facts.
Rick Perry tried to explain the Republican Party’s Ted Nugent problem on CNN today by claiming that Bill Maher is just like the racist right wing former rock and roll star.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended Ted Nugent as a passionate fighter for Second Amendment rights
Bill Maher was on CNN today, and when asked who he would like to see run for president in 2016, he slammed Ted Cruz and Rand Paul by labeling them the insane clown posse.
On Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s Crossfire, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) stated that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is wrong in threatening to filibuster the clean debt ceiling bill that passed in the House on Tuesday.
CNN.com posted a story in their political section on Monday detailing a story that ran on a very conservative website on Sunday evening.
Compulsive liar Mitt Romney was on CNN today standing up for Chris Christie and telling the world that just like Jeep was moving to China, Christie is telling the truth.
During an interview on CNN, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) laid the groundwork for impeaching President Obama by claiming that the president is abusing his powers and violating the Constitution with executive orders.
It’s been difficult to ignore the Republican Party’s insistence, subsequent to its November 2012 shellacking at the national ballot box, that it offers modern appeal to female voters.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were arraigned this morning in federal court on 14 counts stemming from the acceptance of illegal gifts and obstruction.
On Tuesday, Jeff Davis declined CNN’s request to appear in an on-camera interview regarding Wendy Davis’ personal life story. Instead, he gave them an email response stating that he feels that Wendy Davis “would make a very capable governor.”
On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s Crossfire, former Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, called for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
Sen. Rand Paul disgraced himself on CNN today by mocking President Obama’s NSA speech in a way that proved that he never bothered to actually watch the speech itself.
CNN reported on Thursday evening that after Chris Christie was elected to his first term as Governor of New Jersey, he gave the Port Authority a directive to place his ‘good friend’ David Wildstein into an executive position.
The “new” CNN revealed their true colors today by running a hit piece on Melissa Harris-Perry that is designed to get her fired.
The Times has stated that al Qaeda was not behind the spontaneous” – not planned – Benghazi attack, setting right wing heads a-spinning
There are a bunch of Republicans besides McConnell who, when Bush was president, said they’d never, ever filibuster a nominee.
MSNBC host Martin Bashir went on the air on Monday and apologized for remarks he made about former half-term Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin during his show on Friday.
While being interviewed by CNN, Sarah Palin’s intellectual choo-choo derailed, as she skipped from discussing sexism to Chris Christie’s extreme weight.
Tuesday’s election results included two big-city mayors and a Democrat displacing a wacky Republican in the Virginia governor’s office.
A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing global warming
President Clinton is calling out the psychological tactics that are being used by Fox News to polarize and divide the American people.
Republicans have officially voiced their disapproval of the Hilary Clinton documentaries. Democrats should pounce on this move.
It took Bill Clinton less than 60 seconds to destroy the latest Republican attempt to stop his wife Hillary from running for president.
Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe”? Thanks in part to Edward Snowden, Republicans love to think now that Romney might have been right.
Conservatives love to invent quotes to back up their positions and they hate it when somebody – including “communist” CNN – corrects them
CNN is doing their part to turn Edward Snowden into a joke by obsessively giving his every move the ‘poop cruise’ treatment.
Howard Kurtz read a statement this Sunday from Jonathan Karl, chief White House Correspondent for ABC News, that didn’t make Karl look any better, but in fact only raised more questions.
Why the Benghazi hearings? How many votes can you hold, after all, on overturning affordable healthcare, free cancer-screenings and kids lunches
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
The queen of the politics of emotion accuses President Obama of playing the politics of emotion
For ten years, Jon Stewart has been telling CNN what’s wrong with their network, and they have responding doing the very things that caused their downfall. Things like reviving Crossfire.
Graham and McCain already jumped the gun Saturday, calling the terrorist an enemy combatant and suggesting in that WMD way that he was connected to terrorist cells.
At 2:50 PM Eastern Time, late finishers of the Boston Marathon heard 2 bomb explosions near the finish line. Over 100 injured, 3 killed
After the brutal slayings of 20 precious Sandy Hook children, the son of Pastor Rick Warren shoots himself with an unregistered gun purchased on the Internet, and still the NRA doesn’t care.
Days after Ted Nugent threatened violence and launched a racist attack against the president, CNN rewarded him with an interview to discuss gun policy.
House Republicans are trying to divide and conquer the left by adopting the progressive attacks against President Obama’s budget as their own talking points.
The NRCC is accusing Democrats of voting to keep devastating Medicare cuts in place while at the same time accusing them of not voting for Paul Ryan’s budget. You know, the one that turns Medicare into a voucher system.
A prominent Senator, the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have sent the Senate an agreement on an low-skilled immigrant worker visa.
Piers was trying to have a sane discussion about gun safety measures when Dana Loesch exploded, ‘If you stab someone with a spoon it can be qualified as an assault weapon!’
Instead of apologizing or listening to the complaints that the network was soft on rapists due to their Steubenville rape convictions coverage, CNN is outraged and dismissive.
In an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper’s The Lead on CNN, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) replied to a question about the sequester by admitting that Obama ‘didn’t want the cuts.’
In this country when a 16-year old girl is brutally raped by promising football players, society mourns their ruined careers and finds myriad reasons to blame the victim.
O’Keefe has to pay a former ACORN employee $100,000 for secretly recording him and making a deceptive video. In light of this, will the media finally apologize for helping to destroy ACORN?
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
A long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.
Asked about the negative ads running against Ashley Judd in Kentucky, Rand Paul told CNN said she was attractive, articulate and and doesn’t represent Kentucky.
Soledad O’Brien challenged Rep Mulvaney (R-SC) by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position, since no one demanded that the costs be offset for disaster relief for his state.
John Boehner, back to the wall, has come out swinging a middle finger, offering an F-bomb to Harry Reid and to the victims of Hurricane Sandy
Grover Norquist tried to defend his pet congressmen and women while simultaneously branding President Obama as an enemy of liberty
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
Apparently Dana was unaware that working for a crazy conservative media outlet would naturally involve ‘indentured servitude in limbo.’
John Boehner gave a press conference that was so full of crap that even the ever clueless CNN was forced to fact check and call out his latest fiscal cliff BS.
In calling in a missing paper report I was surprised to learn that my small newspaper used an overseas call center to respond to my concerns
John McCain missed a classified briefing on Benghazi because he was giving TV interviews about his alleged questions about Benghazi.
Today, a relentless assault on Romney’s auto lies dominated on the Sunday shows, from Fox News to David Gregory.
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
Whether it’s Sununu or Palin, the hatred for our president will continue, and supporting today’s Republican Party only fans the flames of racism.
Jim Acosta reported that Mitt Romney refused to answer questions about his support for Richard Mourdock while campaigning in Ohio today.