Matt Hadro

a News Analyst
Author Articles

CNN's Obnoxious Question: Will GOP Listen to McCain's Warning to Raise Debt Ceiling?

Although President Obama and the Democrats have stridently insisted that increased tax revenues be part of a debt ceiling deal, CNN is content to choose sides and paint only the conservative ...

CNN Again Uses David Brooks to Pressure GOP to Compromise on Debt Ceiling

Referencing the sweet reason of the New York Times's "conservative" David Brooks, CNN's Brooke Baldwin urged Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to listen to the voice of compromise in the debt ceiling debate.

Snarky Ali Velshi Batters Grover Norquist Over Debt Ceiling Pledge

On his Saturday show Your Money, CNN host Ali Velshi tried to pin the blame for the debt ceiling standoff on one man ' the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist. "Are you the ...

CNN Anchor Uses David Brooks to Press Jim DeMint on Debt Ceiling Standoff

CNN American Morning co-host Christine Romans used David Brooks' words to press Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Wednesday on the stubbornness of conservative Republicans in the debt ceiling debate. ...

Fareed Zakaria Praises Obama's Mideast Foreign Policy 'Restraint'

CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria ' who has recently had off-the-record conversations with President Obama on foreign issues ' noted the president's "restraint" in his dealing with the ...

CBS's Early Show Trumpets Past Spats Between Republican Candidates, Liberal Rockers

In the wake of liberal rock star Tom Petty telling GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to stop playing his music at campaign rallies, CBS reported past spats between liberal ...

Tea Party Congressman to CNN's Spitzer: Press Must Stop Protecting Obama

Conservative Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois twice called out the media for protecting President Obama on Thursday night's In the Arena, and told host Eliot Spitzer to his face that "you're ...

CNN's Warm Welcome to Bachmann's Candidacy: 'Firebrand,' Gaffe-Prone, 'Democrats' Favorite Candidate,' 'Fringe'

Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) declared her candidacy for president Monday, and CNN provided plenty of snarky commentary with which to welcome her. The network repeatedly took ...

CNN's Acosta Derides Conservative Debt Ceiling Pledge as 'Body-Slam and Pile-Driver' Extreme

Apparently, a pledge to reduce the deficit and cap spending long-term and vote for a strict balanced budget amendment is an extreme measure. CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, reporting on the ...

Eliot Spitzer Fawns Over Openly-Gay Fmr. New Jersey Governor's Take on NY Same-Sex Marriage Bill

One disgraced former governor hosted another disgraced former governor Monday night to praise New York's same-sex marriage bill. CNN's In the Arena host Eliot Spitzer brought on former New Jersey ...

CNN Presses Michele Bachmann: Did You Intend to Make False Statements?

On Tuesday's American Morning, co-host Kiran Chetry referenced Rep. Michele Bachmann's being "prone to misstatements" and posed this question to her: "Did you mean to make false statements ...

CNN Analysts Want Constitution Modernized; Bash Second Amendment Wording, Electoral College

Continuing his push to "modernize the Constitution for the 21st century" by talking about "a few revisions," CNN's Fareed Zakaria hosted legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin for a liberal gripe session on ...

CNN's Zakaria: Obama's Afghan Speech 'Remarkable Speech for an American President'

Fareed Zakaria, CNN's world affairs analyst, hailed President Obama's Afghanistan speech as a "remarkable speech for an American president" Wednesday and defended the president's decision to ...

CNN Gushes Over Obama-Appointed Attorney, 'New Sheriff of Wall Street'

We all know how the story ended for the first "Sheriff of Wall Street," Eliot Spitzer. CNN hailed attorney Preet Bharara as the "New Sheriff of Wall Street" in a puff-piece Thursday afternoon, and ...

Don's 'Debate': Openly Gay CNN Anchor Hosts Dem Strategist and 'Pro-Gay Marriage' Conservative

Is this CNN's idea of objectivity? To discuss a gay marriage bill in the New York state senate, openly-gay CNN anchor Don Lemon hosted a Democratic strategist and a pro-gay marriage conservative ...

Fareed Zakaria: Today's Conservative Movement Like 'the Old Marxists,' Too Much Rooted In Abstract Ideas

CNN's Fareed Zakaria regurgitated his conservative-bashing Time magazine piece on his Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS. He opened up his program with the same barrage against conservatives that he ...

Fareed Zakaria Rips Conservative Movement In Time Magazine Piece

CNN host Fareed Zakaria, also the editor-at-large for Time magazine, derides today's conservative movement as out-of-touch and too abstract in a scathing Time article "How Today's Conservatism ...

CNN Jumps on Mitt Romney's 'I'm Also Unemployed' Joke, But Barely Touched Obama's Joke About Lack of 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs

Both President Obama and leading Republican candidate Mitt Romney got into hot water for supposedly making insensitive comments about the economy this week. But CNN's response offers a textbook ...

CNN Anchor Questions If Gov't Should Really Be Limited Within Constitutional Powers

CNN's Ali Velshi apparently believes the idea of a federal government limited within Constitutional powers is a little far-fetched.

Barbara Walters Insists Weiner Should Stay and Be the Next Bill Clinton

If disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner needs a shoulder to cry on, he now has one in The View co-host Barbara Walters, who ABC Thursday proposed that Weiner should not resign. "He was a ...