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Aidan Moorehouse | December 29, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. A new year is fast approaching, which means everyone and their grandmother is producing their own year in review, including CNN, whose special All the Best All the Worst 2022 aired Wednesday night with a mixed panel of CNN contributors and comedians. But amidst the levity typical of these sorts of recaps, there were two topics that drew unanimous disapproval…
Aidan Moorehouse | December 19, 2022
See the full article on Newsbusters.  When the January 6 Committee announced Monday afternoon that they were referring four criminal charges of Donald Trump to the DOJ, Former Acting FBI Director and current CNN analyst Andrew McCabe took a much more cautious tone than most media pundits, and accidentally hinted at how the blatantly partisan and theatrical presentation the Committee opted for…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 12, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. In an unexpected but not unwelcome act of journalism on Friday morning, CNN anchor and New Day co-host Brianna Keilar pushed back on White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s misleading answers about the Inflation Reduction Act.
Aidan Moorehouse | August 10, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. A strange intersection of narratives occurred on Wednesday morning’s At This Hour, when CNN host Kate Bolduan and new co-host of The View Alyssa Farah Griffin were bemused why so many conservatives had such a negative reaction to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, despite the news that the Bureau had foiled a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to assassinate…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 9, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. With news of Trump’s home of Mar-a-Lago begin raided by the FBI dominating the news, substitute host Dr. Jason Johnson brought on Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank on Monday night's ReidOut to spread fear that news of the raid would inspire a latter-day Timothy McVeigh to commit an act of terrorism comparable in scale to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 8, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters It’s one thing to have Dem-sympathetic media figures cheering the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act by the Senate, but it’s another thing entirely to try to trick your audience into thinking Republicans support the bill’s passage. But CNN tried just that on Monday afternoon’s Newsroom, where Rina Shah was described as a “Republican strategist”…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 5, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. Since she performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohioan rape victim, Indiana abortionist Dr. Caitlin Bernard has become something of an icon to the post-Roe pro-abortion movement. New Day co-host Brianna Keilar interviewed Bernard on Friday morning to voice her opposition to Indiana’s pending abortion bill, despite the bill containing exceptions for cases of…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 4, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. With Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaking at CPAC in Texas on Thursday, CNN ran a segment on Thursday morning’s New Day which took Orban’s recent controversial comments that “we do not want to become peoples of mixed race” and ran with them, heavily implying that Orban would unleash a second Holocaust on the world if Hungary’s economy slips into a…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 2, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters With Reality Check host John Avlon taking John Berman’s co-host slot for this week of CNN’s New Day, there was even less of a moderating voice at the table than normal to stop S.E. Cupp from ranting about the current state of the Republican Party. Less well known was Berman's apparent influence in avoiding deceptive editing, as Avlon apparently tried to pass…
Aidan Moorehouse | August 1, 2022
See the full article on NewsBusters. The networks were ecstatic when Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his support for the Inflation Reduction Act. So ecstatic, that they seemingly forgot their role as journalists, instead mindlessly parroting White House talking points about the bill despite the Joint Committee on Taxation saying it would increase taxes on people earning less than $400,000,…