CNN anchor Rick Sanchez shocked his colleague Kyra Phillips on the 26 October 2009 edition of Newsroom when he stated that he agreed with a hotel owner in New Mexico who had asked his Latino employee to Anglicize his name. Phillips and Jane Velez-Mitchell from Headline News had slammed the owner earlier in the hour for his request.
CNN featured pro-illegal immigration activist Isabel Garcia during two programs on 21 October 2009. During both programs, she was asked about a 2008 protest where she participated in the decapitation of an effigy of Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and gave inconsistent answers about her actions at the protest.
On the 19 October 2009 edition of Newsroom, CNN's Rick Sanchez hinted that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, whom he was interviewing, was using 'Gestapo' tactics against illegal immigrants, and even compared him to the racist Bull Connor.
On the 14 October edition of his CNN program, anchor Anderson Cooper became the first on his network to acknowledge that some of the quotes used against Rush Limbaugh in his NFL bid were false.
On the 6 October 2009 edition of CNN's Situation Room, Democratic strategist Paul Begala again made light of Rush Limbaugh's past drug use as anchor Wolf Blitzer brought up the talk radio host's possible purchase of the St. Louis Rams. Begala cracked, 'Just don't put him in charge of the team's drug polciy. Don't give him access to that medicine cabinet.'
During a live interview on the 1 October 2009 edition of CNN's American Morning, former President Jimmy Carter tried to deny his remarks from September 2009, that the 'overwhelming animosity' towards President Barack Obama is due to his race.
On the 21 September 2009 edition on CNN's Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez blasted the Fox News Channel, singling out a report on 'pudgy-faced' Glenn Beck's program, where an off-camera producer prompted the crowd at the 12 September 2009 Tea Party in Washington, DC to cheer.
During an interview on the 16 September 2009 edition of The Situation Room, RNC Chairman Michael Steele refuted two claims made by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer about supposed racism at Tea Party rallies and inside the Republican Party.
Former ACORN employee Gregory Hall related his experience with what he called 'the most corrupt group in the country' on the 16 September 2009 edition of Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel.
On the 12 September 2009 edition of CNN's Newsroom, CNN journalist Jim Spellman did his best to try to portray the participants at the rallies organized by the Tea Party Express as 'extreme.'