http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cnn/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:17:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051242/posts If a reporter wanted to test the enthusiasm of College Republicans at a campus for John McCain, one might think that they would look up the officers of the chapter and arrange a few interviews. CNN apparently found that a little too difficult at USC yesterday, so they just stopped the first person who claimed to be a Republican. Andrew Malcolm reports on the aftermath: The president of the College Republicans at the University of Southern California is charging that CNN used a “fake College Republican” in its broadcast report today, claiming there was a lack of enthusiasm for the... hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051242/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:17:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050860/posts CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, reporting on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin on Thursday’s “The Situation Room,” expressed her shock that the European crowd didn’t seem to have the same mania for the Democrat that the media has: “I did ask some people as they were leaving what they thought. Everybody said good, good. But I was surprised that there wasn't this sort of euphoria afterwards, given how many people had come to listen and how much it had been anticipated.” She later stated in the segment that one unnamed political analyst talked about how “people [in Europe] want... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050860/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:45:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050828/posts Who do you think would do a better job at building stronger international ties? McCain Obama cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050828/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050766/posts "So there they were on CNN's "The Situation Room," talking about a new ad for John McCain, an ad "going after the mainstream media, which he says is in love with Barack Obama..." "CNN interrupts a discussion of whether the media are in the tank for Obama for a news bulletin that Obama's plane has landed safely..." WSJ's, BEST OF THE WEB TODAY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050766/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:02:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050073/posts To CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" host, we live in a world of absolutes - because the potential of a government bailout of two publicly traded government-sponsored enterprises condemns the entire concept of free market capitalism. On the July 22 broadcast of Dobbs' show, he attacked proponents of free-market capitalism because of the potential trouble of the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE). "Well the - it's a, it's quite a mess, quite a mess indeed," Dobbs said. "And I love the idea that all these free traders, free marketeers now got to have the government... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050073/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:44:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049750/posts Anderson Cooper Indicts Obama the Prophet! CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049750/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2049698/posts Just started watching Larry King for a lark. There are no larks on the show, but the harridan, Joy Behar, is hostessing. Her guests are three liberals and one supposed conservative, Ben Stein. First question: How did Obama do on his Tour of Iraq? The question goes to Ben Stein who falls all over himself praising Obama, gushing how wonderful and masterful he is, and ending up drooling over how Obama is the best he has ever seen in his lifetime. Naturally, the panel of libs agreed immediately and offered Stein free membership in the club. With conservatives like these... Larry King Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2049698/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048724/posts http://www.cnn.com/ CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048724/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:30:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047776/posts Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren is blasting Netroots Nation, which calls itself a "progressive political movement," for for labeling FNC "opinion media." But Van Susteren saved much of her blog ire for CNN. I know someone at CNN — and to protect that person's job won't identify — who said that when he/she files a story with an editor that has criticism of Senator Obama which he/she believes is factual and fair, the story criticism comes back watered down...this does not happen to the person's filed story when the criticism is of Senator Clinton or Senator McCain. This has... mediabistro.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047776/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047377/posts "This is not a record to be proud of, and I think the American people deserve better," Bush said. CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047377/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:58:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047126/posts You might call Jack Cafferty the Dennis Kucinich of the media. Actually, the CNN commentator would go the Dem congressman one better. Not content with mere impeachment, Cafferty has condemned Congress for not pursuing the possible prosecution of President Bush—to whom he sneeringly refers as "King George"—for war crimes. The CNN commentator put war-crime prosecution on the table during his Cafferty File segment on this afternoon's CNN "Situation Room." View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047126/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:24:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046099/posts BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Colombian military intelligence used the Red Cross emblem in a rescue operation in which leftist guerrillas were duped into handing over 15 hostages, according to unpublished photographs and video viewed by CNN. Photographs of the Colombian military intelligence-led team that spearheaded the rescue, shown to CNN by a confidential military source, show one man wearing a bib with the Red Cross symbol. The military source said the three photos were taken moments before the mission took off to persuade the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels to release the hostages to a supposed international aid group... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046099/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045577/posts Was just watching Anderson Cooper's CNN show, which focused on the New Yorker's satirical Obama cover. One of the panelists, an African American gentleman whose name I missed, approvingly repeated a quote (I think from Ossie Davis) that the New Yorker cover is "America attempting to raise its ugly racist head, and we must be prepared to cut it off"!I felt the rest of the panelists wince in shock, but they said nothing to condemn the remark. As you know, the New Yorker is a liberal magazine that was spoofing misconceptions about Obama, it is hardly a KKK periodical. Seemed... CNN Anderson Cooper Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045577/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:32:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045356/posts Obviously one of Tony's last appearances on CNN, he talks with Wolf Blitzer about the election and his health. God bless Tony and his family. CNN/youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045356/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043773/posts Thursday’s "Newsroom" program on CNN, in a report promoted to be about how "controversial comments are nothing new to Jesse Jackson," was actually a retrospective from two years ago that largely glowed about Jackson’s affiliation with Martin Luther King, Jr., and giving the man a platform to answer his critics. "Newsroom" co-anchor Don Lemon, who interviewed Jackson in the report, remarked of his career, "‘How far soon we forget’ could be theme of Jesse Jackson's last decade or so. After all, it was him, marching or sitting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in all those civil rights photographs." Lemon... newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043773/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:15:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041604/posts Setting the record straight on Bud Day, and CNN CNN's limited description of Col. Bud Day as a former member of the Swift Boat Veterans prompted Greyhawk to review the record. I knew from reading John McCain's Faith of My Fathers that McCain shared a cell with Col. Day during part of their captivity in North Vietnam. I also knew that McCain's experience with Col. Day forged a bond closer than blood. But I had forgotten just about everything else about Bud Day, including the fact that he is a recipient of the Medal of Honor and is America's most... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041604/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 23:18:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041171/posts ...It has been rumored that in one year [CNN] spent about 27 million dollars in advertising of Anderson Cooper...the President of CNN told me that Anderson Cooper has a staff of nearly 60. We beat them with our staff…of about 12. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041171/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:55:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts In a report on Monday’s "The Situation Room" purporting to clarify how Barack Obama "really voted on abortion" (as the graphic on-screen at right stated), CNN correspondent Carol Costello misconstrued the Democrat’s stance on legislation during his time in the Illinois state senate that would have protected infants that survived abortions.Besides the two votes specifically mentioned by Costello in the report, Obama also voted against it at the committee level, and when he was committee chair, denied a simple up or down vote on the legislation. The CNN correspondent also misrepresented the apparent pro-life stance of pro-abortion senators like... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039865/posts (Video) Here http://allthingscnn.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-king-dana-bash-married.html It had been taken down on YouTube earlier, but bless the world wide web, it's back, showing the two CNN power players saying "I do." Shenanigans/Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039865/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:27:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2039649/posts http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/lynching.investigation/index.html CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2039649/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:04:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038647/posts Academedia Bias by: Malcolm A. Kline, June 30, 2008 Too often we treat academic and media bias separately when their relationship is much more symbiotic. After all, not only are media elites trained in academia but they frequently return to school to teach and “give something back” to the educational system that spawned them. “I’m combining my journalism career with teaching because journalism is teaching,” George Washington University professor Frank Sesno told student journalist Amy D’Onofrio in an interview that was posted on June 13 in The GW Hatchet Online. “I’m enjoying working in the classroom, helping shape students going... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038647/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:13:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038289/posts The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038289/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:11:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037718/posts When prime-time cable news ratings for the second quarter of 2008 are officially released next week, they will show that Fox News reclaimed the top spot among viewers in their mid-20s through mid-50s, those of greatest interest to news advertisers, according to estimates from Nielsen Media Research. During the first three months of the year, by contrast, CNN drew so many viewers on big Democratic primary nights and for several presidential debates that it vaulted over Fox News for the first time in six years. New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037718/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:58:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037319/posts http://youtube.com/watch?v=60aIaNZA0h8 THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/16/wbr.00.html .... PHILLIPS: Viewers are speaking out on a segment we aired yesterday concerning the federal ban on assault weapons. The 1994 ban could expire in September 2004 if Congress doesn't extend it. Now here's a sampling of your viewer e-mail. From David in Calhoun, Georgia: "It's not the weapon which has the knockdown power, it's the ammo." From Andrei in Washington, D.C.: "You made no mention that many Americans legally own fully automatic weapons with a special permit." And from... CNN / NRA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037319/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:47:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037161/posts (CNN) -- The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. It's a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice, which was frozen last autumn, will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole, Serreze said. Serreze said it's "just another indicator of the disappearing Arctic sea ice cover" but that it is happening so soon is "just astounding to me." "Five years ago, to think that we'd even be talking about the possibility of the North... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037161/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:48:23 GMT