[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 24 June 2015 edition of CNN's New Day, Chris Cuomo repeatedly tried to get Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to attack conservatives, as well as his competitors, on the Confederate flag controversy. Cuomo asked, "Isn't it a part of leadership saying to people who don't want to call what happened in this Charleston church a hate crime – calling them out on that, and showing them that that is not a time to play politics and say that race colors too much of the public discussion?"
The anchor also tried to get Carson to condemn the social conservatives who likened the rainbow LGBT flag as a symbol to how many see the Confederate flag: "Many people are equating what the Confederate flag stands for with the gay pride flag, and saying – hey, that flag should be taken down, too, because all it represents is hatred toward Christians and people who don't favor gay rights. Do you see an equation between those two symbols?"