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CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing March 15, 2025
Thomas Lifson
As always, the media is stepping in to help the Democrats, this time, taking narrative control to diminish Musk’s rescue of the stranded astronauts.
This 'demo' has flown May 22, 2024
Silvio Canto, Jr.
CNN is losing its audience in the youthful demographic brackets.
CNN reporter has dinner with Trump supporters, implies a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde dynamic May 8, 2024
Jack Hellner
On the surface, Trump supporters are “well-educated and successful” but underneath, we’re monsters…because we want to make America great again.
CNN pundit: Blacks resonated with OJ Simpson because he killed ‘two white people’ April 12, 2024
Olivia Murray
It’s too bad that Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman weren’t black because then maybe their families could have seen justice.
Smackdown: CNN's Zakaria tries to egg Finland's leader into blasting Trump, gets egg all over his face instead April 10, 2024
Richard McDonough
Must have been a bad surprise for the swampy establishment pundit to run into a calm, rational Finn who read correctly what Trump was doing.
CNN’s Abby Phillip promotes racist sophistry with Nikki Haley February 5, 2024
Richard McDonough
Dishonest demogoguery, and a heaping helping of ignorance about history.
CNN's claims about Gaza are loaded with canards October 15, 2023
Michael Berenhaus
Do they ever check the nonsense they repeat over and over?
CNN chyron actually says the Constitution is bad for democracy September 24, 2023
Eric Utter
They cite a few scholars who seem bad for democracy themselves.
Saturday Schadenfreude: CNN aired an amazing confrontation that devastated Randi Weingarten April 29, 2023
Thomas Lifson
As Fox News moves leftward, CNN, the sick man of cable news, just aired a segment that would hearten any alienated FNC viewers that happened to catch it. Is this a portent of things to come?
Dimwitted Democrats finally approaching science with reason — but just barely August 30, 2022
Olivia Murray
The idea of leftists being intellectuals is a farce.
Fake News? Progressive publication thinks CNN migrant crossing video was staged March 23, 2021
Monica Showalter
If so, seems that fake news is something CNN can't quit.
Five things CNN might have been thinking when they unexpectedly called out a sleazy Jon Ossoff lie January 1, 2021
Monica Showalter
What's gotten into CNN? Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff tells a sleazy lie, and CNN fact-checks him?
Guess who warned about Smartmatic’s Venezuela ties in 2006! November 23, 2020
Thomas Lifson
Perhaps the most dogmatic Trump-hating network of all was very concerned about Venezuela corrupting our elections via Smartmatic voting machines.
CNN beclowns itself, confusing Trump's interest in Gettysburg with a bid to 'shore up the Confederacy' August 11, 2020
Monica Showalter
And it was more than one of them.
CNN and Chris Cuomo stage an utterly fake event to dramatize a phony re-emergence from quarantine April 22, 2020
Thomas Lifson
Chris Cuomo is the Rosie Ruiz of network anchors and ought to be known by that title from now on.
CNN Columnist’s Smear of Bloomberg Has a Math Problem February 13, 2020
Richard Baehr
Attempting to go after Michael Bloomberg, Jill Filipovic puts out a series of distorted data on who's commiting murders in New York City.
Fredo Cuomo beclowns himself trying to Get Trump January 24, 2020
Monica Showalter
Concern-trolling for kids is a stupid thing coming from an anchor whose network shelled out millions to young Nick Sandmann.
CNN coughs up a record settlement of $76 million to pay off workers it cheated in union-busting dispute January 11, 2020
Thomas Lifson
CNN is a purveyor of not just fake news, but fake progressivism.
NYT, WaPo, CNN caught lying about homosexual rights icon Harvey Milk to falsely slur the US Navy December 28, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Why let the truth spoil an opportunity to vilify the United States military? And in their haste, these media outlets are also slurring Harvey Milk, a man whose courage as a Navy diver off North Korea's coast is undeniable. I guess he is just collateral damage.
CNN’s pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson: Trump defenders ‘Should Be Laughed at, Ridiculed, and Scorned’ November 28, 2019
Thomas Lifson
When you consider the vast number of people forced to watch CNN as they waited at their gates for delayed airline flights on the busiest travel day of the year, one marked by weather delays in most of the country, this call for harsh derision could ruin a lot of Thanksgiving dinners today.
Hilarious: CNN's Brian Stelter worries that media aren't sufficiently anti-Trump November 27, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Remember: Stelter is the guy calling Trump supporters cultists who need deprogramming.
Devin Nunes filing lawsuit against CNN for another invented story November 23, 2019
Monica Showalter
Does CNN have any self-respect left at all as a journalism outfit?
Watching CNN in airports is a pretty skeezy experience November 16, 2019
Francis Isabel
Funny how it resembles the propaganda in some ways of the leaders of North Korea.
Project Veritas announces major undercover exposé of CNN next week October 13, 2019
Peter Barry Chowka
...and it may be a doozy.
Deep state FBI spokesman bribed with baseball tickets? October 8, 2019
Monica Showalter
More interesting would be some high-level sanction of James Comey...
Cuomo is the least of CNN’s problems August 15, 2019
Silvio Canto, Jr.
I don't think that this is going to help the network get out of the hole.
WaPo Trump-hater dismayed by CNN's embarrassing lack of professionalism and showmanship in debate coverage July 31, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Last night, CNN disgraced itself with unprofessional behavior by its moderators and just plain dumb decisions on staging the event.
Jew-hating tweets from two CNN staffers outed July 27, 2019
Thomas Lifson
As James Earl Jones sonorously intones on CNN's air so often, "THIS is CNN..."
It's your Saturday Schadenfreude! CNN ratings decline even more, and staff getting nervous about more layoffs July 13, 2019
Thomas Lifson
It couldn't happen to a more deserving network.
E. Jean Carroll loses more credibility ... and CNN tries to cover it up, twice June 25, 2019
Monica Showalter
Has CNN found itself a new Avenatti?
Even CNN is noticing Kamala Harris is an empty pantsuit April 24, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Beyond her enticing and exotic intersectional cred, she's got nothing to offer, and it is already painfully obvious.
Christiane Amanpour doing her best to prove Trump is right about CNN as 'enemy of the people' April 3, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Why does this woman still have jobs at both CNN and taxpayer-supported PBS?
The cost of the Russiagate hoax April 1, 2019
Thomas Lifson
The media that promoted the hoax originally generated by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party are in full denial mode.
CNN comes out looking hideous after federal charges about its 'analysts' Avenatti and Geragos March 26, 2019
Monica Showalter
They enabled and they enabled. And then they touted one of these now-accused extortionists for president.
Has Kamala Harris made one blunder too many? February 28, 2019
Monica Showalter
Lovey-dovey CNN has finally called Harris out on her lies about her record on deporting "unaccompanied minors" who are here illegally.
CNN announces that Trump is preparing a national emergency declaration and has identified $7 billion to use for border wall January 25, 2019
Thomas Lifson
Guess who's playing the leak game.
Fake news: CNN rejects local San Diego report on border wall because it doesn't support its 'narrative' January 11, 2019
Monica Showalter
The broadcasting big is shutting out a local report the network itself commissioned that found that walls work. Nothing like "fake news" for these guys.
Schadenfreude of the year: Der Spiegel December 24, 2018
Thomas Lifson
Three pillars of the global elite media establishment have egg on their faces in the scandal engulfing Germany's most prestigious news organization, Der Spiegel.
CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill after he calls for ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’ November 30, 2018
Thomas Lifson
The campaign portraying Hill as a vctim of an evil Jewish conspiracy is already beginning.
Fake bombs are not bombs. Fake news is fake news. October 26, 2018
Patricia McCarthy
Who sends bombs to people who do not open their own mail?
CNN’s laughable reason for shielding viewers from pictures of the invasion ‘caravan’ October 26, 2018
Thomas Lifson
The Democrats' exploding cigar has the propagandists so desperate that they are willing to look stupid.
When the puppets won't cooperate: CNN surprised by women's reaction to Kavanaugh case September 21, 2018
Monica Showalter
An ace team from CNN's Anderson Cooper show didn't quite get the answers on the Kavanaugh case from a group of women they were hoping to get.
The left's enforcers: CNN sues to reveal names and addresses of Manafort jurors August 18, 2018
Monica Showalter
It's a naked bid to jury-tamper in the name of transparency. Will CNN ask a leftist judge to reveal the names and addresses of voters and how they voted next?
Security clearances: The ultimate swamp perk August 18, 2018
Jack Hellner
Ex-officials are using these things as tools for influence-peddling. It's time to scrap this corruption.
CNN breaking news: imminent invasion of white supremacists August 11, 2018
Monty L. Donohew
It’s understandable that CNN, deprived of modern tools of reporting like Google, could mistake a single person as a growing movement
Misreporting the rise in homicides July 29, 2018
Thomas Lifson
A classic example of media dishonesty-by-omission / misdirection
Trump 'against reality' for not wanting to watch bottom-ranked CNN? July 25, 2018
Monica Showalter
And let's take a look at what Obama watched...
How low will CNN go? July 7, 2018
Thomas Lifson
Donald Trump has driven CNN mad. There can be no other conclusion.
CNN star Anthony Bourdain dead of suicide in France June 8, 2018
Thomas Lifson
Another successful and widely known figure has committed suicide, two days after fashion icon Kate Spade took her own life.
As good news cascades from North Korea, Dems betting against Trump (and America) April 21, 2018
Thomas Lifson
The GOP is in danger of losing its hold on the title of “The Stupid Party.”
Comey memos show Valerie Jarrett's CNN daughter a useful tool for Democrats April 21, 2018
Monica Showalter
The Comey memos are out, and the big takeaway is how useful a tool Valerie Jarrett's daughter, Laura Jarrett, could be for the Hillary Clinton campaign while she was employed at CNN.
CNN puffs up a story that may have a mundane explanation April 2, 2018
Thomas Lifson
At least CNN has something with which to entertain the captive audience at airport gates throughout the country.
The Democrats and their media allies have a big Farrakhan problem March 11, 2018
Thomas Lifson
The Democratic Party has become the party of Jew-haters and is quite comfortable accommodating them in its ranks.
CNN and Media Matters trying tag-team takedown on Sean Hannity November 20, 2017
Peter Barry Chowka
A new low point for the Cable News Network.
Media pearl-clutching over Trump's retweet of a Hillary joke September 18, 2017
Thomas Lifson
The Alinskyites don't like it when you use their tool of ridicule against them.
Long knives unsheathed for Sebastian Gorka now that Bannon is gone August 21, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Swamp-dwellers signaling their next target.
CNN ‘shuts up’ conservative August 15, 2017
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
This is a sad, yet comical metaphor for the left’s view about civility.
Jim Acosta and the MSM: Grasping at Straws in the Immigration Debate August 5, 2017
William Sullivan
What you get when there is no intellectually solid foundation upon which to stand in making the argument for unrestricted immigration.
CNN and Acosta hoisted on their own petard… and then some July 1, 2017
Thomas Lifson
I literally laughed out loud reading this brilliant skewering.
CNN Fake News, living up to its name June 27, 2017
Monica Showalter
Busted. CNN has been caught in the act again about its agenda-driven journalism.
Some accountability at CNN at last? June 27, 2017
Monica Showalter
CNN has seen the resignations of three journalists over a botched Russia story that proved fake. Maybe the network is starting to care about its reputation again.
Why CNN can't have nice things June 26, 2017
Monica Showalter
In an extraordinary move, CNN's staff, from social media to video to editorial to MoneyStream, has been told, "No Russia reporting for you" without adult supervision.
CNN poobah Jeff Zucker bangs his spoon on his high chair June 22, 2017
John Dietrich
CNN chief Jeff Zucker has criticized President Trump's attacks on the press, calling them "unconscionable and dangerous." He's either full of chutzpah or pathological.
London terror attackers: CNN baffled on the motives June 4, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Even though the attackers yelled, “This is for Allah,” as they stabbed restaurant and pub patrons, no mention of the words "Islam," "Muslim," or "Allah."
CNN host calls President Trump a ‘piece of s**t’ June 4, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Will CNN treat this outrageous verbal assault as seriously as it treated Kathy Griffin’s outrageous visual assault on a sitting President of the United States?
When climate change warriors can’t keep their stories straight April 3, 2017
Brian C. Joondeph
Lies, built upon lies, eventually become so tangled that the truth may be forever lost down the rabbit hole.
Political jiu-jitsu outrages the left in the Age of Trump February 27, 2017
Thomas Lifson
Yesterday, another clueless media mandarin, CNN's "media critic" Brian Stelter, inadvertently revealed how badly the cultural (and therefore political) dominance of the left has been damaged by President Trump.
CNN breathlessly riding along with a bus of female protesters heading to DC January 21, 2017
Thomas Lifson
CNN shows signs of going full opposition to the Trump presidency, probably in hopes of capturing the loyal viewership of Trump haters.
Fake news? CNN claims its journalists 'objective' January 17, 2017
Thomas Lifson
It’s kind of touching that there is at least one person left who believes that CNN practices objective journalism.
Midnight meltdown as tipsy Trump-hater Don Lemon has mic cut off by CNN January 1, 2017
Thomas Lifson
CNN anchor Don Lemon has copped the honor of the first on-air Trump-hater meltdown of 2017, year one of the Trump presidency.
CNN actually defends misquoting Trump September 21, 2016
Thomas Lifson
Never mind what he said; we know what he meant. The new journalistic standard at CNN.
CNN busted again, quoting Trump using a highly charged word he never used September 20, 2016
Thomas Lifson
CNN, formally known as the “Cable News Network,” needs to rename itself CPN, the “Clinton Propaganda Network.”
CNN’s John King on Hillary SecState schedule secret until after election: ‘This is nuts’ August 29, 2016
Thomas Lifson
The public, and even the liberal media, are catching on that Hillary Clinton ran a sophisticated shakedown operation as Secretary of State, a pay-to-play racket with deniability
CNN previews the unbelievable pro-Hillary bias it will be pushing April 23, 2016
Thomas Lifson
Unintentional hilarity – and a remarkable display of a complete lack of self-awareness
How about some questions on the Federal Reserve at the CNN debate? September 14, 2015
Thomas Lifson
Among both the GOP and Democrat electorates, anti-establishment candidates have caught fire. There is nothing more establishment and insider than the Federal Reserve System.
Hillary speaks July 8, 2015
Thomas Lifson
There was a very important message in the subtext of Hillary Clinton’s widely heralded CNN interview with Brianna Keilar yesterday.
CNN anchor calls Dallas Police HQ attacker 'courageous and brave' June 14, 2015
Thomas Lifson
The atmosphere of hatred ginned up against police nationwide received a boost yesterday from a CNN anchor
The climate is ruined? January 15, 2015
Sierra Rayne
So says CNN...but maybe it's CNN that's ruined.
If CNN had reported on the Nuremberg Trials November 19, 2014
Jeff Lipkes
It would look very much like this.
Anderson Cooper: 'TWA Flight 800 Was Shot Down' July 22, 2014
Jack Cashill
Some truths CNN reveals only accidentally.
Winters in the United States Are Getting Colder May 9, 2014
Sierra Rayne
Maybe some climate patience is in order?
David Brock acknowledges Soros 'generosity' to Media Matters April 28, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Responding to charges made by former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson
Wow! Emails expose CNN's propaganda series on Rahm Emanuel April 25, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Does CNN stand for “Corrupt News Network”? It might as well, considering a blatant propaganda effort that has been uncovered by The Chicago Tribune.
CNN reporter ignites firestorm overseas April 22, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Take a reporter outside of her zone of PC awareness, and the inherent attitudes disguised at home come shining through.
The poster boy for liberal hypocrisy ignored by national media, but outrages San Francisco April 2, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Leland Yee is such an amusing piñata of liberal hypocrisy that even his home town liberal newspaper is joining in the mockery
A deep sickness on race on MSNBC and CNN (updated - apology issued) December 31, 2013
Thomas Lifson
It used to be unacceptable for national news shows to broadcast race hatred as commentary.
CNN signs up for Obamacare propaganda barrage December 30, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Pay no attention to those people whining about losing their insurance; all is well with Obamacare. That is the essence of the propaganda campaign just launched with the help of CNN
Tech execs disappointed in their meeting with Obama December 18, 2013
Thomas Lifson
As his presidency sinks in popularity faster than George W. Bush's, Barack Obama is discovering that key constituencies are disappointed with him
Barbara Walters on Obama: 'We Thought He was Going to be the Next Messiah' December 18, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Has the cult of Obama seen its first media apostate?
More bad polling news for Obama November 25, 2013
Thomas Lifson
"Trust is like virginity: once you lose it it's hard to get it back."
MSM covering for Obama's Syria disaster September 16, 2013
Thomas Lifson
It's desperation time for MSMers committed to President Obama. That's the only explanation for some of the credibility-sacrificing moves
CNN Answers No Questions August 7, 2013
Bill Schanefelt
A disgraceful missed opportunity. Benghazigate is still in that dark room.
Raising More Benghazigate Questions August 6, 2013
Bill Schanefelt
CNN airing a special tonight. MSM outlet goes where the Obama administration wishes it wouldn't/
Tapper Peeks into Benghazigate August 4, 2013
Bill Schanefelt
Just who were the intruders into the Benghazi compound?
Rachel Jeantel's makeover July 16, 2013
Thomas Lifson
When she appeared on CNN last night with Piers Morgan to explain the difference between ni**a and Ni**er, Rachel Jeantel was sporting a serious makeover. I just can't help wondering how that happened.
In his own words: Amb. Stevens diary revealed June 26, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Out of the media black hole comes the document CNN discovered.
CNN Edits Out Comparison of TWA 800 and Benghazi June 26, 2013
Jack Cashill
The legacy media, doing what it does best.
Zimmerman Prosecutors Go for the Big Lie June 24, 2013
Jack Cashill
Prosecutor showed how shaky and insubstantial the case against Zimmerman is
Obama's Loss of Trust and Credibility June 18, 2013
Janice Shaw Crouse
President Obama's approval ratings are in free fall like a hot air balloon with the fire extinguished
CNN joins Fox in covering Benghazi revelations May 3, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Fox News is no longer alone in uncovering revelations about the Benghazi attack the Obama administration wanted nobody to hear about.
Dancing on the graves of 'old media' April 18, 2013
Thomas Lifson
The mainstream media have once again eroded their own credibility in reporting the Boston bombing, and they know it.
Lynching Ben Carson as a 'homophobe' March 31, 2013
Thomas Lifson
So is the Wise Latina a "homophobe" too?
Liberal CNN Panelists Defend Murderer Dorner February 18, 2013
Selwyn Duke
We can only imagine what Dorner might have done had he been allowed to remain on the LAPD. And had he engaged in police brutality, the same leftists now impugning the LAPD in his defense would be doing so in his condemnation.
Rubio's 'Watergate' triumph? February 15, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Marco Rubio's handling of the media overkill on his awkward sip of water during his response to the State of the Union address is emerging as a net plus for him, and an embarrassment for the media which became hysterical
How Much of a Set-Up Was Crowley's Libya Question? October 19, 2012
Jack Cashill
To save whatever credibility it has, CNN needs to question Candy Crowley regarding her role in Tuesday's debate intervention.