On his Countdown program on 13 July 2009, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann twice called Jim Robinson, the founder of the conservative Internet forum FreeRepublic.com, "Jim Thompson."
CNN's Michael Ware bluntly stated during a report on the 9 July 2009 edition of Anderson Cooper 360 that "America cannot win the war in Afghanistan...with bombs and bullets," and offered that the only solution to the attacks on NATO troops was "cutting deals" with the Taliban and its leader, Mullah Omar.
On 10 July 2009, MSNBC labeled the propagation of photo of President Obama allegedly staring at a Brazilian teenager's posterior a 'right wing smear.' Both David Shuster and Tamron Hall condemned the conservative websites which posted the photo.
On 10 July 2009, MSNBC played an edited version of the video from the G-8 summit which shows the moment where President Obama was reportedly staring at the posterior of a Brazilian teenager. Good Morning America, on the other hand, played the full sequence. At the same time, Media Matters' Karl Frisch accused Free Republic.com of racism in its reaction to the photo.
CNN glowingly featured an report on July 2, 2009's American Morning about Wendell Potter, a former spokesman for the health insurance giant Cigna, and he attempted to discredit conservative TV spots against health “reform” proposals as “outright lies.” But reporter Jim Acosta left out his current ideological employment: a senior fellow on health care for the leftist Center for Media and Democracy.
On CNN's Newsroom on 23 June 2009, correspondent Carol Costello referred to the 1971 shootings at Kent State, and equivocated them to the murder of Iranian student Neda.
HBO's Bill Maher denied that President Obama is a liberal on the June 16, 2009 edition of CNN's Situation Room. He also defended David Letterman and his inappropriate joke about one of Sarah Palin's daughters, and thought that he didn't need to apologize.
All but one of the participants in panel on CNN's Campbell Brown program sided with David Letterman over his crude "jokes" about Sarah Palin and one of her daughters. CNN's Jeff Toobin, Air America's Sam Seder, and VH-1's Janell Snowden all sided with the CBS host. Only Republican Susan Molinari sided with Palin.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper conducted a live interview on 2 June 2009 of Diane Elder, who decided to not have a late-term abortion after her unborn daughter was diagnosed with severe genetic defects.
CNN anchor Kiran Chetry sympathized with an "abortion provider" in Alabama whose center was bombed by Eric Rudolph, and let her denigrate all pro-lifers who have ever demonstrated in front of such centers as potential murderers.