On the 29 December 2009 edition of the Today Show, NBC's Jenna Wolfe singled out Sarah Palin and grouped her with "flabby thighs, cheap men, [and] rude people" as subjects some people chose to ritually "purge" in an annual event in New York City called "Good Riddance Day."
Senior political analyst David Gergen lamented the Senate's party line cloture vote seconds after it was made during CNN's special coverage during the early morning of 21 December 2009, and contrasted it with the 9-0 decision of the Supreme Court in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.
On the 15 December 2009 edition of Campbell Brown's program, CNN's Jeanne Moos gave examples of 'liberal rage' at Senator Joe Lieberman for his opposition to government-run health care.
On the 14 December 2009 edition of CNN's Larry King Live, host Larry King pressed conservative columnist S. E. Cupp, and likened opposition to further regulation of the banking industry to letting the mentally ill run their psych wards.
On the 10 December 2009 edition of CNN's American Morning, chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour lashed out at the criticism of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama.
On the 3 December 2009 edition of CNN's Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez interviewed photographer James Balog, a proponent of the theory of manmade climate change, and Mark Morano, a skeptic of the theory. Sanchez asked reasonable questions of both, and appeared to not to side with either.
CNN's Max Foster submitted a "report" which ran more like a promo for militantly atheist author Richard Dawkins on the 24 November 2009 edition of The Situation Room.
On the 23 November 2009 edition of The Situation Room, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux used the offensive 'teabagger' label to refer to opponents to ObamaCare in a question to Gloria Borger.
On the 16 November 2009 edition of American Morning, CNN's Jim Acosta rehashed a three-month-old report from the Southern Poverty Law Center about the apparent rise of militias.
CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley referred to supporters of New York Conservative Party congressional candidate Doug Hoffman as 'tea bag partyers' on the 2 November 2009 edition of The Situation Room.