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CNN's Erin Burnett demonstrated how American television networks rush to interview enemies of America with great deference in the latest CNN interview with a spokesman for Iran's Islamic dictatorship.
On Friday in Dubuque, Joe Biden insisted to Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy that he never opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. That's at odds with what everyone said in 2011 and 2012, and what former Obama officials wrote in their memoirs. This is a test of the "independent fact-checkers." This is an open-and-shut case.
On Sunday's special edition of Meet the Press on the "weaponization of disinformation," host Chuck Todd found this was solely a right-wing problem. He lectured Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon that "accountability in the conservative ecosystem" was badly needed. What about the NBC/MSNBC ecosystem?
Chuck Todd asked a snide question to Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon. He claimed conservatives don't care about what the media report (because it suggests the news media are the guardians of "truth," as usual): "Well, you don't understand my life. So why should I care?"
CNN analysts Josh Rogin and Samantha Vinograd think it's completely ridiculous that the Republicans would like to call Hunter Biden as a witness in an impeachment trial. They sound very much like Biden volunteers.
CNN's Chris Cillizza surely upset Hillary Clinton backers by putting her on his "Naughty List" for 2019. She wasn't helping with Democrat "party building" by attacking Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders!
CNN claims Fox News and its fans are dwelling on unproven conspiracy theories, like, say, the Horowitz Report on FISA abuse. But CNN is always trafficking in Russiagate conspiracy theories, enabling the unproven notion that Vladimir Putin has "something" on President Trump and that he's blackmailing him. Anchor Brianna Keilar enabled Rep. Norma Torres to spread the fiction that Trump's Russia…
As part of their discussion of why evangelicals back President Trump on Friday's Cuomo Prime Time, CNN host Chris Cuomo slammed Christian radio host Eric Metaxas as "anti-choice" on abortion. Metaxas said he was "anti-murdering the unborn."
On Friday's Cuomo Prime Time, Christian radio host Eric Metaxas tried to explain to CNN's Chris Cuomo why an evangelical Christian or a Catholic would vote for Donald Trump and not somehow be a terrible Christian.
On Monday's Fox News at Night, Brit Hume told host Shannon Bream that "one of the wonders of modern media" is "this failure to see through this guy [Adam] Schiff."